has anyone mentioned how fucking crazy it is that when thinking of key ingredients for a good, mindblowing, award-winning chili, brennan brought up POTATOES AND ZUCCHINI?????????
time to complain again but! if your fic characters are not americans and the city they live in and work in is in canada you can’t describe the temperature in fahrenheit!!!!
it is not, has never been, and never will be in the “high 70s” in Edmonton, Alberta. omg this might be my 13th reason 😂😂😂
I was reading a very non-fictional wordy book before bed because I liked it but find books like that easy to disengage with when needed, but I cursed myself and now every time I try to read it I get so eepy 😡
When Jonah runs across the street, you really get a sense of how ill-fitting his clothes are (and also how freakish they make him look as a result). His pants are at least two sizes too big.
Amy back in a skirt suit very reminiscent of her S2 outfits.
Love the behind-the-scenes quality of the scene in the Veep’s office, with Selina getting fitted while her staffers work on the speech.
Sue: Ma’am, it's Amy. She sounds uncomfortable. Like she's with a member of the public.
And now Amy in a beautifully tailored purple dress! This is not my personal favorite shade of purple (I would have preferred something a few shades darker…this is a bit too “crayola” purple for me) but the dress is super cute and it looks wonderful on Anna Chlumsky and fits her like a glove. I adore the peplum detail on the skirt and the little sleeve flaps.
Selina in another black and red outfit, in yet another episode where she wrestles with what she can say publicly versus what she actually believes. Definitely a consistent fashion theme of S3 so far.
Gary: It's like SNL is going back in time and abusing a child.
Love the ongoing balloon bit in this episode.
Kent: We need to rewrite the speech!
Dan: I can’t rewrite the rewrite, Kent. I'm still writing it!
Kent: That’s the reality, Dan. If you don't like the reality, go live in Oregon and make quilts with my mother. She could use the help.
Dan/Amy parent!watch
Amy: Do…do I take her hand?
Alicia: Yes, hold Miss Amy's hand.
Mike: Amy was born to be with kids
Amy: …Peeing is fun…!
Amy: Okay…great pee.
Dan: I wanna know who's responsible for that sketch, you cock…*sees Amy and Halo*…tail napkin. Yeah, you heard me!
Doyle: Dan. Amy.
Dan: Shit, I gotta go.
Amy: Senator Doyle.
Doyle: I have a meeting scheduled with the Vice President right now and it is "right now” right now.
Amy: Dan, you take this…right now.
Dan: What?!
I always thought this little tussle, as well as Dan and Amy’s very brief interactions with Halo, indicate that while parenting would have represented a chaotic (and comedic) learning curve for both of them…it’s not like they don’t grasp the basic reality of what it means to be responsible for another human being. Both of them willingly hold Halo’s hand. Dan cuts himself off in the middle of cursing out the SNL guy, Amy doesn’t really know what to say to a little girl but she still tries to make her feel comfortable…these are small things, but there’s an awareness, however limited, of what it means to manage small kids. Yes, Dan and Amy are dramatic and completely obsessed with their work and have limited emotional intelligence. But they are also technically functional adults who have a base level of propriety and social awareness. In contrast, during S7, Mandel’s attitude toward the idea of Dan and Amy as parents seemed to be that they would be practically criminally negligent, monstrous in their grotesque selfishness and sociopathy. Which, like, sure, I wouldn’t want Sex-Psychopath Dan anywhere near my daughter. But it doesn’t track with the earlier seasons of the show.
Ben: Because then they sound like they're the result of war.
Kent: It’s the curse of the unintended narrative.
Dan: Okay, but you still want military first?
Selina: Yes!
Dan: *grumbling* Yeah…I’ll just say them simultaneously.
The show never gets into it much, in either era—and it seems like BKD was always tragically doomed to be nothing more than a plot device—but there was always a little spark with Ben, Kent, and Dan’s dynamic. It’s not hard to imagine that the three of them, together, could have grown a very successful business in DC (…I have imagined it). Dan always works best around people who stomp on his ego and boss him around, which Ben and Kent certainly have no qualms about, but he’s also active and ambitious in a way that they aren’t, so they actually make a decent team. Also, Dan views Ben and Kent as men in a way he doesn't with Mike and Gary, which affects how he interacts with them.
Doyle is a real dick in this episode. His presumption. It is so infuriating. It reminds me of all the male senators during the Kavanaugh hearings.
Selina: Seniors are the easy vote. Child care is a principle.
Ben: Ma’am, you have plenty of principles…you just gotta pick another one.
Dan: I don’t do offended…but I am affronted that you’d even think that.
A classic Dan line.
Selina: I'll tell you what happens. They get bullied when they're little at school, and then they perpetuate the cycle by bullying me.
JLD’s face when she sees Catherine’s dress…masterful.
Amy sends Gary a great “oh shit here it comes” look right after Selina starts to blow up at Catherine.
Also JLD’s fake laughing reaction to Doyle’s “L’il Selina” line. Brilliant.
Selina: So…I’m supposed to let a bunch of dead-eyed white guys shit all over absolutely everything that I stand for?
An iconic line that is sadly even more applicable in 2020 than it was in 2014.
Selina, in a rage: I have DECIDED that I'm going to LET them dictate to me. Because that is MY decision. Do you understand that? I am LETTING them do that! Get it?
Ben: Yes, ma’am.
Selina: Right! But they do NOT own me!
Ben: They really don't, ma’am.
Selina: No, they don't! No, they don’t! *flings herself into the armchair*
Gary doesn’t do much in this episode, but he gets in some great little physical comedy bits, like trying to sneak Selina something to drink and then shying away.
Mike calling Dee a “stupid cow” opens up such a dark crack into the normally sunny Mike. Matt Walsh really nails it, though, his own horror at his words…you really feel for him, even though it is a truly awful thing to say. I wonder if it’s a line they would have given to such a sympathetic character (for Veep, comparatively) in a post Me-Too world. Like, the audience just watched Mike get married! To Kathy Najimy!
Catherine: Amy, what the fuck is happening?! Is Mike on crank?!
Amy: That’s actually the least of my worries right now. Your mom has gone quiet.
Ben to Mike: You gotta go lower! You gotta go lower than the lowest lowlife. You gotta dig and dig and dig until you get to the point where you wish you were dead. Okay? And that's base camp.
Dan: Is there any way to snap her out of this Diving Bell and Butterfly shit? She should be rehearsing my speech right now.
I mean…I am just impressed that Dan “only watches movies with Owen Wilson” Egan knows about The Diving Bell and Butterfly.
Catherine: Your entire life has been leading up to this moment. And as a result of that, my entire life has been awful.
Sarah Sutherland’s delivery of this particular line is extra great…that little waver she puts on ‘awful.’ This whole monologue is so funny and spunky!
All of the Selina/Dan interactions and miscommunications re: the speech and SNL once again foreshadow that their partnership is going to be a disaster. I appreciate how subtle the foreshadowing has been…while also undeniably consistent.
I like that after an episode of being totally shit on by Doyle, Selina manages to get a win over him at the end, manipulating him in front of Alicia and Halo because of course he can’t say no in front of potential voters. Of course, she’s also manipulating them, but it’s a nice instance where Selina’s public machinations actually pay off for her.
Why must I weave in the ends? Is it not enough that I sat here for hours crocheted the thing in the first place? I took up crocheting specifically so I wouldn’t have to saw, and now you come into my house and say I need to learn how to use a needle and thread?
