Franklin & Bash - 2.07 (Summer Girls)

[vic_amy_z]

So, I was late in getting to see this one because the Interwebs just decided to hate me for no good reason. And now I'm even later in getting around to my review of it because I have had a busy weekend of busyness (there will be more on that later). So for now, thoughts...

Things I loved:

~ Peter and Jared throwing a party - in any location - will never get old. (Also, "Karpal Tunnel" LOL!)
~ Peter and Jared having no clue about naval terminology but acknowledging that the lady sailors were totally badass - awesome!
~ Damien getting all flustered about recognising a stripper - guess he wasn't lying about those chicken wings.
~ Peter and Jared both reaching for the same book and Jared needing a ladder - [loves] And a canonical dorm!
~ An Officer & A Gentleman? I knew it - they totally watch chick flicks, all the time!
~ Guns! Peter and Jared shooting guns! A lot!! I have no idea why this does it for me as I'm an avid supporter of gun control, it just does... [fans self]
~ Damn, those lady sailors really *are* badass - and Peter and Jared look a tiny bit scared of them!
~ Wow, Damien having sex in a car was something that I just wasn't prepared for... [fans self more]
~ Jared's confused face at being made to continually stand up and sit down.
~ Sixteen Candles?! I say again - Chick flicks. All. The. Time!
~ Pindar getting pulled over by the police and basically ceasing to function as a human being.
~ The fact that Peter and Jared were the ones behind a stripper getting a summer internship at the firm - it kinda had to be, really.
~ I do love it when the Stanton Infeld show comes to court!
~ Aww, there was a cute little almost-bonding moment between Peter, Jared and Damien. I much prefer it when they all get along.
~ Peter and Jared inviting Hanna to the diner - and guilting her into deleting the file on them (even if we know that she could just restore it from the recycle bin again...)

Things I was less happy about:

~ I honestly can't decide if this episode was insulting to women in some way. I kind of feel like it might have been - I just can't say why!
~ There were guns being casually fired all around Jared, and he didn't get even a tiny bit shot? Really?! Come on, people...
~ Woah, risky defence strategy there, boys. We knew they'd win because, y'know, it's Franklin & Bash, but I don't think the level of trust that their clients put in them was terribly realistic.
~ Hanna and her document of doom - no, Hanna! Peter and Jared were acting like friendly puppies around her. Why do I get the feeling that she's approaching them with a dog treat in one hand and a shock collar behind her back?

Here, have ALL THE QUOTES:

JARED: After you. Hop to it - left, right, up - I'm dyslexic...

JARED: I feel like we're back in Weldon Hall, cramming for the Ad Law finals.
PETER: Didn't you get a C minus on that?
JARED: If that's how you remember it, I'll stick to that.

JARED: We're military lawyers now...
PETER: Warriors.
JARED: Your fancy firm ways wouldn't fly on the front lines, 'cause there you gotta think fast or you're dead.
HANNA: You're going fifteen miles outside Malibu, not Kandahar!

JARED: [driving on the military base] We should have brought my car.
PETER: Why?
JARED: 'Cause my car's a truck.
PETER: It's a '75 Bronco, it wouldn't even make it here.

JUDGE: Let the record reflect that the members are not present.
PETER: [to Jared] I think he means the jury.
COMMANDER: Yes he does.
JARED: Thank you, Commander... suck it.

COMMANDER: Why doesn't Ms Linden just ask for the Area 51 documents, so long as she's on a fishing expedition.
JARED: [to Peter] I told you Area 51 was real!

COMMANDER: There's no probable cause besides Counsel's vague insinuation that this is relevant.
PETER: And that's more than the JAG Off... icer had when he ordered a search of our client's computers.

JARED: Look at that! That was so Jack Ryan.
PETER: Oh yeah. Molly Ringwald's boyfriend in 'Sixteen Candles'.
JARED: That's Jake Ryan. Jack Ryan - Harrison Ford.
PETER: Harrison Ford was in 'Sixteen Candles'?
JARED: [looks at Peter]

PETER: Maybe she goes both ways?
JARED: [looks at Peter]
PETER: That's not what I meant...

STANTON: Pindar.
PINDAR: I was in a cell.
STANTON: Nasty places, I've been...
PINDAR: The toilet was in the middle of the room. I saw things.

HANNA:... We still need a motive.
PETER: That, and some evidence would be nice. Something hard.
JARED: I'll give you a full salute if you can dig up some dirt on our CO.

PETER: What if George Washington had never questioned authority? That flag would be a Union Jack, I'd be wearing a wig right now and we'd all have weird Monopoly-looking currency!

STANTON: [knock on the office window to get their attention]
PETER: Uh-oh.
JARED: What'd we do?
STANTON: Gentleman! Thank you so very much.
PETER: For what?
STANTON: [flicks open the knife] The gift.
JARED: Where did you get...?
STANTON: The presentation was original, I mean, you could have had it wrapped... Oh and by the way, how did you know that I love knives?
JARED: Well sir, you... killed a man with one once.
STANTON: Yes, I forgot.
JARED: We didn't...
PETER: Enjoy!

Overall, it was probably another filler-ish episode (basically an episode of JAG, just with a few more jokes thrown in) but I can't bring myself to overly-criticise something that provides so much in the way of gun porn!