Franklin & Bash - 2.08 (Last Dance)

[vic_amy_z]

This week the Interwebs decided to play ball again and gave me my Franklin & Bash in a timely fashion. However, having discovered on Tuesday that my husband spent most of the day watching the first 7 episodes of Season 2 (he claims it was so he knew what gingerpig and I were babbling about, given that we do it loudly, often and right outside his office) I then discovered that he saw this episode before I did! Considering how much time he spent with us all during Breckfest, I think he might be a closet Breckin fan... ;o)

Things I loved:

~ Nekkid Stanton! I was probably way more excited about this than I should have been. Shut up, it's my inappropriate crush...
~ Peter flailing about dead bodies! Again! I do love it when the F&B writers remember to have some kind of continuity. And Jared calming Peter down will never get old.
~ Peter's "Woah!" before he realised the bodies were real, was pure Bill & Ted and made me grin like an idiot.
~ Jared spinning a basketball is adorable, but throwing it to Peter without looking - and Peter catching it - just proves that they practically share a brain.
~ I love that Jared never misses an opportunity to have a dig at Janie. And that some of his best legal knowledge comes from People magazine!
~ Peter and Jared totally have a man crush on Nolan... Sexy sketch artist? Really, Jared? And your "mmm-mmm" wasn't much better, Peter!
~ Peter and Jared's pouty, 'I can't believe we just lost the case' faces - OMG you're killing me here!
~ Peter and Jared acknowledging the wolf whistle from another guy while Hanna ignored it was awesome, but the fact that the guy didn't even look as though he'd actually whistled at her in the first place just made it perfect!
~ Damien attempting to be all covert and undercover, while Carmen was all, "Really? We're doing this?"
~ BEAR!!! SQUEE!!! Honestly, could Jared have looked any prouder when he walked Bear into the court room?! It's like they secretly confirmed ALL of our back story theories about Bear, without actually showing any of it on screen so as not to freak out the mundanes!
~ OMG - THEY LINKED ARMS WITH BEAR!! I CANNOT COPE...
~ Jared remembering that Peter wanted to be eaten by lions. Like they don't have a hundred different plans for what happens when they die. Which they will do together, of course.
~ Nice Kubrick reference...

Things I was less happy about:

~ What's going on with Damien's characterisation this season? One minute he's an asshole who's trying to get Peter and Jared fired, then he's all awkward and flustered about gay best friends and strippers, then he's a loveable dork who'd do anything to protect his uncle - consistency, people - you're doing it wrong!
~ Could we not have had at least one scene with Nolan standing next to Jared? The height difference would have been epic!
~ If Damien is supposed to be this uptight dick, I feel slightly offended that he likes Wilson Phillips (I love that album...)!
~ Dear writers, please remember that Jared has already had sex in kelp (and would do anything to help Peter fulfil his Bucket List)!

Here, have ALL THE QUOTES:

PETER: Wow! Oh man, that's so cool. Woah... So real...
INTERN: That's because they are.
JARED: [makes cutting motions to shut the intern up]
INTERN: All of our models were once human bodies.
PETER: [horrified gasp]
JARED: [grabbing hold of Peter] Alright, you're okay buddy, right? Eyes on me.
INTERN: Is he okay?
JARED: Yeah, he's fine. You're fine, 'kay? 'Cos they're - they're just plastic people. They're mannequins in a store window, right?
PETER: A store in hell!
JARED: No, it's a happy store.

PINDAR: Having sex with a corpse used to be legal in California? Not any more though...
JARED: Peter - you better knock it off with Janie!

HANNA: I am not snobby - I'm experienced. Guys, in this situation? They're insecure.
JARED: The ebony statue that just asked you out in front of the two of us? He's insecure? Okay...
PETER: Great.
JARED: Sex Luthor over there? Are you kidding me? Look at him...

MARTHA: We once made love on a mound of kelp as the sun rose.
PETER: Going on the Bucket List.
JARED: That's all you, pal...

NOLAN: Art must make people feel.
PETER: Okay. We'd like to show you something.
JUDGE: If a corpse comes through that door, gentlemen, so help me...

STANTON: We heard you won.
JARED: That's right. Miss Strauss is on her way to Nantucket right now with her giant Ken doll.
PETER: It's true love.
JARED: Yep. What do you want to have happen to your body when you die, sir?
STANTON: Well, you assume I'm going to die.
PETER: [considers that for a moment] I'm going to be cremated.
JARED: Really? Not eaten by lions?
PETER: Changed my mind? We could do it together? Franklin and Ash.
JARED: No way. No, I'm going to be shot into space.
STANTON: Don't you have to be cremated first?
JARED: Really?
PETER: Yeah, what did you your body'd just be floating around in space for eternity, 2001 style?
JARED: Hell yes!
STANTON: Oh, I love that director!
JARED: [to Damien] What about you, chuckles?
DAMIEN: Just kill me...

Basically, they could have made this the most boring episode ever and I still would have loved it because they gave us Bear. BEAR! After all our months of waiting, speculating and creating increasingly complex back-story for Bear and Jared (that involved mental health issues, alcohol abuse, colour blindness, and sandwiches!) we finally got Bear and it was sort of perfect, so this episode will be forgiven anything...

Comments

[merlins-sister.livejournal.com]

BEAR!

Sorry. I know I'm technically not part of this fandom, but so glad Bear has arrived in timely fashion.

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

I know!! We were so worried that we might not get Bear, and suddenly there he was and it was all kinds of perfect! We are a happy fandom...

(And I think you could be considered to be dancing along the peripheries of this fandom, even if you're not fully immersed - we have crossovers!)

[fobmarwi.livejournal.com]

After all our months of waiting, speculating and creating increasingly complex back-story for Bear and Jared (that involved mental health issues, alcohol abuse, colour blindness, and sandwiches!)

And seagulls! I remember we talk about Bear having a pet seagull and Pindar being freak out about it...And also Bear tying Jared to the bed and Peter walking in on them, but I don't remember where that came from...

I'm sooo happy Peter loves Bear too, they should totally put him near the jacuzzi and say he's the lifeguard...

[vic-amy-z.livejournal.com]

How could I forget Bear's pet seagull? And the very disturbing concept of Jared and Bear engaging in a rather kinky sexual relationship?! The Powers That Be will never understand how integral Bear became to fandom, based solely on one picture!

I really would love to see Bear become a permanent fixture in the Man Cave. They could totally have "borrowed" him from court. Like they "borrowed" the pool table from Infeld Daniels and also Peter's Gladiator outfit and Jared's Judge's robes!!