Danny: This episode picks up where the first left off, with Eric having eaten Cookie’s Fairy Godmother. Then he tries to bite her. But that’s not the best part of this scene. Which is hilarious. Won me over immediately.
Rafael: Ain’t that the truth?
Danny: After drinking that fairy blood, he begins pinching Cookie’s ass at superspeed and teasing her into chasing him.
Rafael: I’m suspecting the writers might read our reviews, because we get entire minutes of playful, goofy Eric, a.k.a. the most entertaining character on the show. I also liked the glimmers of old Eric, like when she chastises him and he responds “I know what I am.” Alexander Skarsgard could do so much more if he wanted to.
Danny: He’s pretty much acting like most dangerous drunk teen on Earth.
Rafael: “I wrapped my dad’s Hearse around a cross!”
Rafael: Yeah Joe Mangione, father of Chuck.
Danny: They eventually find him in broad daylight, playing in a lake, teasing crocodiles.
Rafael: And that led to one of my favorite scenes — two dudes with any excuse to take off their shirts doing so.
Danny: That was great, watching two sets of abs scowling at one another.
Danny: This episode has to have the biggest ab to shirt ratio.
Rafael: I wish they had snake-slapped, like in that one episode of Archer, but I’ll take the blatant homoeroticism any way I can get it.
Danny: I’m loving this rambunctious Eric, especially when he gets back home and tries to get Cookie to kiss him. And she’s actually a little… flattered?
Rafael: Absolutely. In a post-Russell Edgington world, it’s great to see a vampire that’s more entertaining than consumed with his own importance. And man, I was wrong — I thought that Eric flirting with Spooky would be groan-worthy, but the two actors pull it off quite well. It’s a side of Eric you’d never expect to see! Everyone else on this show walks around like they have a stake up their ass, but not Eric Northman!
Danny: Especially with Cookie, who for once isn’t like WUT DA FUCK, ERIC. Now it’s closer to WANNA FUCK ERIC.
Rafael: She wants to get fang-banged a little bit, boyee!
Rafael: The thought has crossed my mind, but you’re right- that story had run its course, and if it got dragged any further Jason’s balls might have exploded like so many vampires. And it was awesome to see him not fuck up something. It’s like what you talked about in The Green Hornet, you wanna see this schlub redeem himself fully at least once, and Jason did just that.
Danny: Plus, he gets to kill a panther-man with a sharpened stick. He just dives down from a tree with a sharpened stick, 300-style.
Rafael: Man. That was so rad! It was such a supreme payoff, especially because Panther Man was despicable.
Danny: This subplot also gives us some new and exciting incest nomenclature. Daughter-niece, for example.
Rafael: I used to have an uncle-brother once. Then I killed him for being an abhorration unto Grodd. Jay kay, no I didn’t.
Danny: And they call themselves that!
Rafael: They embrace the terminology so well!
Danny: It did not ring true at all, but was totally wonderful.
Rafael: My favorite was “brother-hubby,” I think.
Danny: It’s like the writer of this episode was having a ton of fun writing these ridiculous hicks.
Rafael: It’s perfectly trashy, too — they know they’re making light of these backwater-ass people. “Tell Uncle-Daddy Felton all about it.” I need two showers, now.
Rafael: They should have called this show All in the Family. “Edith, you vex me so!”
Danny: Besides looking around for Eric, Bill hangs out with Andy Bellefleur’s grandma, and they shake the family tree a bit. They do not like what falls out. That, too, was hilarious.
Rafael: Good ol’ Man Crazy Mona (Katherine Helmond herself) shows up to look at pictures and do grandmother stuff, because, yeah?
Danny: Because she’s incredibly old and Bill is only slightly younger than her (probably), so she has someone to relate to. Then there’s Andy.
Rafael: Oh yeah, jonesing for V in front of his family. This episode was “The Drunk Teenager Episode.” They should have called this show True Life.
Danny: And Andy’s forced to sit with them the whole time and be polite. And every time he opens his mouth, Man Crazy Mona just tells him that’s not “proper sitting room talk.”
Rafael: Yeah, people really don’t respect Andy. No wonder he seeks chemicals. V never forgets your birthday, or insists that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Danny: He could never get any respect — not here, not the docks, nowhere.
Rafael: Children of Earth: Life got you down? Drugs: A Family Activity.
Rafael: (GROANS AUDIBLY)
Danny: I dunno, I’m liking the witch subplot, albeit ironically.
Rafael:I can’t stand it. It’s the same scene every episode. LaFayette says something, Boyfriend talks to Witch, Witch is tired or unable, Tara makes a remark about vampires. Then Witch sits down enervated, taking my patience with her. It just feels like a plot from an entirely different show, one I wouldn’t watch.
Danny: They should put that subplot into its own spinoff so we don’t have to watch it. Maybe some webisodes?
Rafael: And they should call that show Who’s the Boss?
Danny: To me, the saving graces are Crazy Marnie (not to be confused with Man Crazy Mona) saying witchy spell things constantly and Lafayette just being himself in this situation. Even his prayer to the sprites is like “Save my fucking ass.” But even this subplot goes somewhere in this episode, with the gang making Nan Flanagan’s flesh peel off. That was dope.
Rafael: Okay. I will acquiesce that the face melting was “rad.” As was the IRL LOLZ of the fire in Marnie’s eyes.
Rafael: And you know what? I don’t want to know what happens next!
Danny: Every time Crazy Marnie talks, I look forward to her exploding or getting murder in some awesome way. It’s like an investment. The return will be SPLAT. And we will be happy again.
Rafael: At least this episode she’s been doing stuff. Instead of just being powerful weak. And man, LOL IRL again at that CGI fire.
Rafael: That was a sweet moment, granted.
Danny: Merlotte, upon seeing a child to deal with, starts channeling Sam Rockwell in talking to her. I feel like that will make him more hapless. And Jason Stackhouse is our hapless hero.
Rafael: But if we’re talking about kids in True Blood, there’s only one plot point worth addressing: Terry and Arlene.
Rafael: Man, they should just have an entire episode of Terry and Arlene and their baby.
Danny: The family’s asleep on the couch, and Terry leaves for two seconds to find that the baby has written BABY NOT YOURS on the wall with a marker. Terry, of course, freaks the fuck out.
Rafael: And Arlene and her daughter fucking lose it. It’s undercut with another heartfelt moment of Terry talking to his son, reassuring him that he’ll love him all the same.
Danny: Even if his son is a demon or something.
Rafael: Terry is the best dude. They should make a show about him and Eric Northman being goofs. And call it The Good Guys
