Kevin Can F**k Himself
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Kevins in full nonsense mode and stops Allison as shes about to make her exit for a movie.
She leaves anyways (growth!)
and Kevins already a little spooked.
Over at Pattys salon, shes turning everything upside down looking for her keys.
And Tammy knew where the keys were the whole time?
Observation or just deduction?
Allison and Patty meet on the street.
Theyre on their way to the mortuary, where Billy PI greets them, snottily, at the door.
Why are they there?
Billy PI tells them to go into the basement and ditches them.
And I thought the new you couldnt get any sadder!
Au contraire, Patty Allison has been very sad before!
She focuses on a run in her tights.
Allison says, quietly, that its nothing, and Just glad youre here.
In the basement, Allison and Patty find the sad, creepy room of unclaimed bodies.
Its death thats sadder than regular death, Allison says.
Allison appears a little bit jealous, or moody, to say the least.
Her name was Gertrude Fronch, a 40-something.
They banter a little to the laugh track and her mom chides her about how she planned the wake.
Her late husband is in a suit.
(But its Gooci, a knockoff!)
Allisons just like her dad: lofty ideas, terrible followthrough.
She scoffs at Allisons dreams of college and leaves the room.
Alone, sad, and angry in the lighting of Bleak World, Allison rips up her tights.
I think what hurts the shows effect is that theres never quite enough commitment to the deconstruction of form.
(Often, Sitcom World is kind of fun, you know?
Lofty ideas, terrible followthrough is notnota fair critique of this show in some ways.
After finding Gertrude, Patty is hankering to leave, but Allison is insisting on more searching.
She wants a better name.
A potentially better life!
Of course shes tetchy.
Allison and Patty split up.
Bleak World, 2005.
Allison and Patty first meet at the bar.
Allison puts her hand on Pattys arm.
They shake hands, goofily, as Patty walks off, stealing a passing glance back at Allison.
A spark was there, huh?
A cat yowls, and Allison stumbles, backwards into an open grave.
The camera looks down at her, framed in the dirt.
Its creepy and frightening.
And now were in Sitcom World 2005.
Kevin is at the bar with Neil and another dude friend.
at her because she knows shes lying.
Kevin and Allison are all goony-eyed at each other.
Patty finds Allison in the open grave.
She pulls her out.
She went there because she knew Allison would get lost, that she needed the support.
(After all, she almost got buried alive.)
Allison says, clipped, that it wasnt the worst day of her life because of the wake.
(We know why.)
Neil, Kevin, and Pete share a blanket, watching a scary movie in Sitcom World.
Tammy sits in the chair, rolling her eyes.
Neils sleep issues are why shes there he called for support.
Previously, Neil thought that Pete was an intruder, and he and Kevin joke we almost shot him.
After that joke, the door rattles and scrapes.
Scared, Kevin does a dropkick at the door so that protect Neil, hurting Allison in the process.
I pop you in the face with a door one time.
How many times do I have to say Im sorry?
Once would be nice, Allison shoots back.
In Bleak World, Allison is holding the frozen peas to her face, looking in the bathroom mirror.
Annie Murphys face is a roadmap of a ton of emotion.
And heres where it gets weird, right?
Because shes an abused wife.
Thats a brutal injury.
But were shown it in this harmless seeming Sitcom World, and its just part of the laugh track.
Its hard to square the two ideas.
Sitcom World seems to be serving as a metaphor for narcissistic abuse, through a genial, stupid lens.
Does that give her injury less dramatic power, overall?
Pattys eyes go wide, she says nothing but Good luck.
It was more of a warning.
And back in the present, Pattys behind Allison, supporting her.
She tells her that Gertrude is her best option.
Allisons ready for it.
Starbucks?!
Over Dunkies???
How do you feel about Detective Tammy Ridgeway?
And her sister is also kind of a tough nut, guess it runs in the family.
Do you want to know how to fake your own death?
Kevin bon mot: You have to be ready to haul ass at any moment.
[From] bouncers, Yankees fans, nocturnal animals.
Or maybe the answer is all of the above?
