The Worst Idea Of All Time - AJLT S02E04

Episode Date: August 30, 2023

After the disappointment of a middling third episode, the boys are back and more importantly, so is the momentum of And Just Like That. Steve is back, Harry can't cum, and Miranda bails out of a threesome. Bitsy von Muffling - a character given to us in an act of great generosity by Mattress Pikelet King swans through the episode with insane energy and a storyline altering dick pic.Cameos by Candice Bergen and Gloria Steinem add an impressive gravitas and the show goes meta in its analysis of ageism.See the video episodes, bonus content and support the boiz here: twioat.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh brother. Oh boy, your boys are back again. The boys are back in town with the gals. And the gals are with some fellas. And everyone's having an interesting time in this, the fourth episode of the second season of And Just Like That. Now you might remember both of us were a little down on the show after the third episode, but if I was to provide voiceover for my relationship to the show at this point,

I would say, And Just Like That, guy was back on board. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. It wasn't, and there was a lot going on. Okay, let's cover the main points. Miranda got in a threesome briefly and then got a cramp and had to get the fuck out of there. She didn't get a cramp. She got a charley horse.

Oh. What, like someone grabbed her by her... I think it's like a dead leg. This is essentially a cramp. No, no, no. A cramp comes from within. A charley horse comes from outside. It's my understanding. A charley horse comes from outside. It's my understanding.

A charley horse to me, and I can't do it properly, but it's when someone goes like that. So it's weird that she got that. But I just thought she was using it wrong. No, I thought that there was a vigorous movement between Lyle and Shay and someone's elbow or knee. She copped a stray. So this is almost like a funny bone,

like someone hitting a weird joint or something. The funny bone does feel terrible yeah how would you it's yuck eh how would you describe that feeling yuck

no no you used to like describe the actual it's like a dull electrocution that's nice for me it feels like you know when you used

to watch like TV and you'd get the ant marathon channel yeah okay which is like just static yeah that's what it feels like it's happening You know when you used to watch TV and you'd get the Ant Marathon channel? Okay, yeah. Which is just static. That's what it feels like is happening. Like a pulsing static is inside of my elbow. Yeah, yuck.

I just want to say, before we even get into recapping the events, first of all, it's good to be back with you. It is. And speaking of being back. Yeah. Who's back? This is part of the episode, actually. So maybe you want to be back with you. It is. And speaking of being back. Yeah. Who's back? Oh, this is part of the episode, actually. So maybe you want to say some other things.

Well, I just, because we were setting up and the credits were. Steve! Yeah, Steve's back. That felt good. And I just want to know, honestly, independent of, you know, knowing that I like it and being contrary. Yeah. How are you enjoying the show and how did you enjoy that episode? I want you to answer honestly.

I did enjoy that episode. There you go. There were some bits where I would rather have not been watching that show. Yeah. But there were lots of bits I enjoyed. There's an entire storyline about Harry's inability to produce semen

Like to expel semen in this And to be fair A full arc They handle it pretty well I guess if you're going to tell that story And you take that as a given Yeah They have

Charlotte and Harry have sex And she's like The kids are at camp He can't come on my tits. The kids are at camp. He can't come on her tits. Well, he comes, but he doesn't produce anything. And then they go to the doctor. Yeah. And throw a mouthful of like a power bar.

The doctor's like. It's like a cliff bar. Yeah. It's like you've got a, you've had a retrograde ejaculation. Yeah. It's funny. It is funny. You laughed.

Yeah, it's a funny term. I was logging your laughs. You were laughing, man. You it's a funny term I was logging your laughs you were laughing man you're logging my laughs I'm logging your laughs you're laughing along I can't stand to watch a show with you that I think we both enjoy

yeah and then you get on the mic and you shit on it do you think that happens no I just think I just want you to experience it like I do yeah I understand

just with an open mind and heart Gloria Steinem's in this episode big cameo from gloria steinem um i say do you know what i say it's about damn gloria yeah yeah okay almost okay i'll give you that yeah i mean they get who's is it candace bushnell is that the actor yeah i think that's her name or is that candace burgeon and candace bushnell's maybe the woman who wrote the books originally? Oh man, they're so similar. Yeah, I think the last thing you said is right.

Candice Burgin is who we saw, the actor. Murphy Brown, also famous from Boston Legal. And then something else more recently. Maybe this. No, maybe what? First season of this. No, it was The Sex and the City. It was one of the movies

It's hail I think it was in the Oh it really is What's going on here Well Tim You know We're just having a bit of weather From now until

We sure are From now until the time we die Good God From time to time You're going to come across A bit of weather It is Okay

It's just out of nowhere started hailing quite hard arguably unprofessional to observe on mic but also undeniably intense it's really coming down out there yeah at any rate so i mean this is this episode felt so overstuffed and i think that it started with the wexleys and charlotte and the storyline i think i like the best that was the closest thing we had to just like sit down and watch a sitcom episode yeah which is here's a couple that are finally there their kids have given them you know a bit of leeway they're out of the house a bit the yeah the kids have gone to camp i can't believe it's hailing right now it's nuts and so they've they've decided

in their infinite wisdom that they're going to a special guest this episode the hail yeah truly tony hail um so they're gonna work they're just gonna like catch up on all their their projects and lisa's gotta do some new cuts of her film because she got accepted into the tribe becker film festival but it's also their 20th wedding anniversary. So they're having a big... These are fancy people. They're having a big fancy dinner. What's the fella's name?

Herbert. Herbert, nice. He has been charged with getting the invitations out, which is fine. And so then they're at the big fancy dinner waiting for everyone to arrive. No one's arriving. Oh man, it's so awkward because now we're in a situation

where we've got Lisa's dad who was a playwright, a writer, a theatre maker and a guy who founded the Newark Theatre. If I remember correctly. Who's historically butted heads with Herbert's mum who we are familiar with as being that old bitch yeah yeah that old goat

and not with a capital G-O-A-T the animal and well actually there's one other guest worth mentioning which is going to rekindle a storyline that I'm forecasting will last for the entire second half of the season. It's Sydney's handler from Alias.

Yeah, and the law professor from Legally Blonde. You know him. You love him. Do you know his name? No. Who does? But he's playing a guy called Mark, I think, from memory. And he's a gallerist.

He's a high-powered gallerist. Charlotte gets excited when she sees him walk in the door. And then he's like gallerist he's a high-powered gallerist charlotte gets excited when she sees him walk in the door and then a rekind he's like i respect your taste and they're sitting together at dinner he says are you the person are you the young lady who discovered such and such and such it was me yeah i did that yeah and he said that's phenomenal and she said i can't believe you remember that and he says i never forget a memorable person which is a funny line do you funny like like stupid yeah because there were also there were funny lines there were funny moments yeah like independent of like observing from a distance or ironically uh harry slash

runkle got given a lot to do in this episode and i thought he really brought it he was great at the dinner we've got this guy from alias legally blonde like we've got the wexleys we've got the two parents fucking steve's back and harry and miranda are all doing family therapy together to try and navigate through what's happening in the house which i i'm glad they did that scene because i did not have good clarity on what the sitch was. But apparently they're all still living together. Miranda's just been like flying over to LA to hang out with Shay. They're not really living together. I think Miranda's been...

They're all under one roof though. What's the deal? Yeah, but the setup is clearly temporary. Miranda's been living with Shay. This episode opens on Miranda in bed and we can just hear this rhythm. Oh, wasn't it? No.

Well, it's's pretty early scene no I'd say this is this is how stuffed these episodes are this is how much is happening that you don't even

remember how this episode opens this episode opens with Bobby Lee shitting himself in a cafe oh yeah that's right

because he got um Holland Days Before Noon and then Candice yeah which is Holland Days Before Noon you'll be in the toilet soon

Holland Days Afternoon it's gonna be a boon well it's gonna be a bride so bobby lee shits himself and then candace bergen walks into frame yeah anyway that's by the by yeah in the world of the show who is the vogue, now we recently find out, former Vogue editor that Gary used to work with. Condé Nast gave her the flick. She even says Condé Nast. Yeah. I like it when real world shit gets brought up. It felt real.

It's got oof. Yeah. There's a, I mean, we're bouncing all over the place. That's fine. So is this show. No. It's reflective. It's not.

The show is clear. I just wanted to say this. I wanted to describe a funny moment because I was championing Harry slash Runkle. They're at the dinner. Herbert We. It's not. The show is clear. I just wanted to say this. I wanted to describe a funny moment because I was championing Harry slash Runkle. They're at the dinner. Herbert Wexley's forgotten to send out the invites. So we've got this guy from Alias and Legally Blonde. We've got the Wexleys.

We've got the mum and the dad who don't get along. We've got Charlotte and Harry. And Charlotte banishes Harry to go sit next to the the mom at the very end of the table it's like a table set for 30 people there's only six of them and we literally lobsters yeah we watched them carrying around like one of the beats played for comedy in this episode is like oh no there's too much delicious and expensive food for six guests yeah and then they just have the servant the servers walking around with the food. You can turn that evening into something.

Like go to a shelter and make some people's night. Bring them lobster. Yeah. And I guess- Phenomenal. Yeah. But so Harry's down there

and at one point we're like, you know, we've been away doing something else and we come back to the dinner and there's a shot of Harry sitting next to this woman and he's portraying like exhausted. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's not hiding it from her or anyone at the table he's doing such a good job of it he is he brings

the heat we both laughed yeah harry's really good in this um it was so good to see steve well the reveal for steve is that miranda's in bed and you just hear this rhythmic thump she's not well she's not in bed. Isn't she? Oh, she's getting up. She's sleeping on the couch. Oh, a version of bed. No, no, no, no.

She's asleep on the couch. Well, maybe you take this there. In the world of the show, it's important she's sleeping on the couch. And this is what you were getting at. It is unresolved, but it's very clear to me that Miranda's just up sticks and left because Brady was on holiday. So she sort of felt no obligation to be tethered to her family she was exploring this new

part of her life with shay who i just feel convinced the show has to wind up portraying as a villain but i don't know that they will so miranda's back they kind of uh yeah flirting with that line right now as a character yeah anyway but so miranda's back in brooklyn lying on the couch um brady's come home from his he's been heartbroken obviously and we hear this rhythmic thumping as you describe and we think oh brady's on the speed bag and well i thought brady was fucking originally i was like this is how brady fucks holy smokes you know i have had sex before. I've never heard the rhythm that was being maintained.

And it's just a shirtless Steve ripping the speed. Steve spent his time away getting a swab. He looks good. He looks so good. He's put his heartbreak into his body. Fuck, he looks good. And the dude is in absurd shape. He hasn't aged a day.

Not visually. His voice has aged. And I think either he or the actor is hard of hearing, which I feel is somewhat interwoven, or maybe it's just information I'm bringing to the show. He's still got that Steve Rasp, but he's got a slightly more aged touch to his voice now. But you wouldn't know it looking at the man with the shirt off.

Physically, he is in indomitable indomitable shape. So Steve spent the time getting swole. He's like a snowman. You can't take him down. Yeah. Miranda walks past him and says we're about to go to therapy and Steve just you know ignores it. As is his want and right.

He's up. He's good to go. Yeah. Jump in the shower for six minutes. She opens Brady's door. He's lying with's good to go Jump in the shower for six minutes She opens Brady's door He's lying with his Apple The Apple The noise cancelling headphones And those are really I've tried those on

They're really heavy They're really heavy They're really expensive Sometimes when you try Like a heavy piece of technology It almost convinces you That it's quality Yeah yeah totally

But I think It's got a premium feel You mean it's too heavy They're too heavy It's too heavy dude They made them too heavy. Do you know Beats used to put weights in the headphones for that? So that they'd feel like quality.

It makes me think of Boris the Blade in the movie Snatch, one of the old Guy Ritchie films, where he's pitching a gun to someone. And he goes, heavy is good. It means reliable. And whenever I hear heavy technology, I always think that. Anyway, it feels like the show is going to play it for sympathy towards Miranda. And I am a Miranda acolyte.

Through the movies, Miranda was my gal. But in this world, even though I'm happy for her to be out here getting hers, I could not stomach the idea of her courting or preening for sympathy from either her family or other characters in the world of the show i was like i will this this you better not fucking mope i will say this in defense of almost literally the whole show but particularly this episode miranda has a brief conversation with carrie where she lays out the situation i thought that is what's happening in a good read and well articulated which is listen we all know the subtext of what's happening.

I broke up the family, so I have to take up as little room as possible and I can't complain. I was like, that is what we're seeing play out. That is a like understandable, human, awkward scenario. Like that felt real and good. And I was like, that one, i'm cool with that one that one's good that one's good yeah and miranda miranda is sort of harry uh dry jizzing i could take a leave as a storyline yeah you you were running hot and cold on the sex stuff because this is this i mean

not just this episode this season is um seriously horny and it's funny actually i'm good with that this is the thing is they've cased they've cased ageism which is a criticism i think would be leveled at this season for spotlighting the sexuality of these characters who are older by hollywood standards are very old yeah you know like as as traditionally portrayed in media. And so we're watching probably the horniest season, not treating the HBO show that was originally featured as non-canon, which it is, it's not part of this. This is the horniest I think I've seen either the movies or the season of the show.

Yeah, yeah, totally. And inside of it, through Enid slash Candice Bergen, they've inserted the concept of ageism and given Carrie is almost performing as an audience surrogate and reflecting a certain amount of ageism through the show. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's kind of interesting.

It actually, I agree. It is reasonably deftly tackled. And as we've sort of sauntered past or glided over, so Shay returns to New York in this. They've driven cross-country with their... Lyle. Still husband, Lyle. Yeah.

We spend a while with Lyle. Carrie walks Miranda over to Shay's new apartment and Shay and Lyle are assembling IKEA furniture and Shay's... I mean, I understand that they're horny, but I would also describe them as being rude, just starts hooking up with, you know, like basically ignores Carrie.

Yeah, and Lyle. Yeah, which, you know, it's whatever. But then Lyle's mixing drinks, everyone's sort of getting their drink on. Miranda's not, she's an alcoholic, which you- Which I forgot. Clean forgot, and it's-

She's drinking from a red cup. Yeah, but we can see We can see her pouring Sand pally into it And so we're watching this And Tim says Is this going to happen? And I say

Is Miranda going to have a drink? And you go Oh no I was thinking about A foursome Because Carrie's still there And it feels like That's where the show's taking us

Carrie withdraws And then Lyle passes out There's only one bed Passes out drunk on the bed Lyle passes out. There's only one bed. Passed out drunk on the bed. Lyle passes out drunk on the bed and then Shay and Miranda sort of have to, they don't do the normal thing, which would,

and it's hard to know how much of this is constructed by Shay to serve their own nefarious purposes, but they don't do the normal thing, which would be just to carry Lyle to the couch. Well, the couch is broken. But Shay pointedly says, this guy's a great sleeper you know yeah and that guy's not waking up he's taking up half the bed shea and miranda curl into the other part and then shea starts initiating a bit of hanky-panky yes and miranda's sort of like is this happening and then miranda's going along

with it and we're watching and we're waiting because the shot is from the side of the bed. It's like Jaws. We're waiting for the shark to emerge from under the water. We're waiting for Lyle's hand to come over the precipice. In the battlefield, is it a precipice?

Yeah. I mean, the trench, I don't know, the precipice once more into the... No, there's a specific word for it. I can't remember. It's something like precipice

where they poke their head over the thing waiting for that hand to come over. There's a specific word for it I can't remember It's something like Precipite Where they like Poke their head Over the thing Waiting for that hand To come over Shay's got their hand Down Miranda's pants We're just seeing them

But you know Behind Shay's body We have And you just see Lyle's head Emerging over the left shoulder Just

There he is Hung over his foot My man That feeling When you've been asleep For about an hour and 45 minutes after too many drinks and you wake up in a bed

and you're like, yeah, not good. He plays it pretty straight. And we've also, in their conversation as a four, Lyle's talking about how Shea pushed the boundaries of their relationship

and sort of forced his hand, to an extent it sounds like, to open it up. Yeah. Sorry I keep yawning. No, that's it up. Yeah, sorry I kept yawning. No, that's all right. I woke up at five this morning. Don't sweat it, man.

And so basically Lyle gets involved. Miranda hits the brakes. It's like, I'm not sure about this. And then suddenly it's like, do you know what? I need to be open to this. Let's go with this. Which is cool. The feeling is, yes, Miranda.

And then the camera stays for a while. It stays for a bit. And then, Tim, I think you say, I'm happy for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't need to be here for this. I certainly don't need to be here for this. We're going to spend a while with Lyle. And then that leads us into the Charlie horse and the sort of fallout.

Yeah, yeah. So Miranda sustains some sort of either um external internal injury do you think is can it is hitting your funny bone different from um pins and needles is the feeling the same well pins and needles is a lack of like blood circulation right the feeling similar yeah i know what you mean though yeah yeah it's something to do with nerves right i woke up this morning I've been sleeping on my arm My arm was totally dead I used to do that every night

I would wake up and have to Shunt my body forward with my torso And swing it around to get blood going I haven't done it in a while But that used to be every morning for me I kind of like the sensation It's an interesting way to wake up It's actually quite way to wake up.

It is. It's actually quite difficult. Like, it would take me a half a minute to get the blood enough in my arm to move it again. It can't be good for you, right? Cutting off your blood circulation. I guess if you didn't wake up, it wouldn't be good. Do you reckon if we were big, strong boys, that wouldn't happen? Like, if we had big guns? Do you reckon guys with big guns don't have that problem no i think like yeah they get lots of more

blood pumping through i think it's harder if your arm's too muscly because it's harder to like you know like sometimes i'll get the arm up around the face like you know like i'll do weird sleeping posies i think you do that one where you'll reach your hand right over 270 degrees you know how i like to go to sleep don't you you know how i rest i don't sleep like this the whole night through but often sleeping posse flat back legs crossed i have seen you like that actually in hotels and stuff what do you think about fucking bizarre you look like a dracula no jackie doesn't sleep with their legs crossed well you're weirder than dracula no because dracula talks like this by the way okay so there's a character who's in the last episode at the nail salon with carrie

and she's back and i i am ecstatic that she's back she is vaudeville personified it's like a paul f tompkins improv character come to life. It's better than that. Do you know what her name is? What? It's like Muffin McClay or something. Bitsy Von Mufflin. Okay, I don't know.

Is Kerry McCleary international or is it more of a New Zealand? It's from New Zealand, but it's pretty big. Okay, so there are two characters. This is a series of children New Zealand? It's from New Zealand, but it's pretty big. Okay. So there are two characters. This is a series of children's books about dogs with silly names. Yeah. That all live in the same neighborhood. The star dog is Harry McCleary from Donaldson's Dairy. Who was it they were written by?

Lindley Dodd. Yeah. We've got Schnitzel von Kram. With a very low tub. What was the name again? Bitsy von Muffling. And Muffin McClay. So it feels like someone's just read the book, joined

two dog names together. And also there's a Blitz and Maloney. Blitz and Maloney. All skinny and bony. Which it feels like, I guess the Bitsy and the Von, you know, because when you get a V in it, not always, but when you get a V in a name, it feels kind of exciting. Yeah.

Probably not, because there's Vanessas and stuff. When you get an X in a name That feels exciting Xavier Zandy Those aren't even really X's Wexley Has an X

Yeah Xavier It's got an X Sounds like a Z Okay This woman Dax Yeah Dax is a name isn't it

That exists Yeah There's one guy There's one Doing a lot of the A lot of the carrying for Dax's. She's so cool, man. She's so cool. She's trying to see it carry up with her ex-boyfriend,

who it transpires is... No, I think she's still screwing around with him. Oh, right. Because isn't it also Enid's current boyfriend? Yeah, so it's... So is this guy fucking everyone? so marlin i feel is a bit of a dirty dog marlin i would estimate is about 70 but see got a classic car keeps haranguing with pictures of him and leaning on his car with sunny's like a yellow joe biden style yellow

cashmere sweater you want to go for a drive and she's like wrong number dude i don't know what this is and then and she's like wrong number wrong number and then he texts and she's like wrong number dude i don't know what this is and then and she's like wrong number wrong number and then he texts and he's like carrie bradshaw she's like i guess it's not a wrong number he's like let me take you out sometime yeah and she's like who the fuck is this guy how do you get my number so here's the this is the great thing about bitsy von muffling so bitsy von muffling her husband has also died uh and she's more and she's the way she's and she says this her theory is to get over someone you've got to get on someone and she's more and she's the way she's and she says this her theory is to get over someone you've got to get over someone and she's under this guy

Marlon yeah and according to her and her other maybe bereaved friends who are fucking this guy they call him the tripod

yeah he's got a big hog why? he's got a big hog he's got a big hog he's got a third leg down there yeah I like that she has to explain it

yeah she says to Carrie they call him the human tripod because it's like he has three legs. Like, you can leave the second foot out. No, no, no. Get it. And so she's,

I think she's having a good time with this guy. She knows it's not serious and is willing to share the love because she saw Carrie so sad at the nail salon. I think she's got a very clear understanding of what her relationship to this guy is. They fuck. Yeah.

Whereas Edith slash Candice Bergen. Eden. Eden. Enid. Enid. Enid. Okay. Is Edith and Enid the same name?

No. Okay. Because some names are the same. You know that, eh? E-N-I-D. Enid. Edith. E-D-I-T-H-h oh i know the spelling's different

okay i see what you're saying we have had this conversation they're different you're in the neighborhood but they're different fair enough anyway i think she believes she's on exclusive terms with this guy yeah it's a pretty it is a pretty funny reveal so bitsy von muffling's like no i'm trying to set you up with this guy. He fucks good. And Carrie's like, I don't know if I want to fuck this guy. And then Gloria Steinem is at the same event

and she starts talking. And then Bitsy Von Muffling, who's just got no respect for anything. She's just out for a good time. At one point- I want you to do an impression of her because I can't. I don't think I've got it in me.

I think we're going to be seeing more of her. Maybe in the next episode we'll get one but she's at one point she sort of cements the surrogate turned up yeah there's a little bit of

and she's also talking about how good she comes with this guy but she's like but it's not as good as my dead husband used to make me come

yeah and then Kara's like wasn't your husband gay and she's like yeah that's why he tried so hard. It's kind of fucking awesome. But then tags it with, yeah,

I guess I've got some unresolved data issues. It's like, you rock. You just want to spend a lot of time with this woman. And so Gloria Steinem gets up to speak at this event, which is fundraising for- Enid's new newsletter? Does she need a million dollars to start a newsletter? Yeah, she needs a million dollars to start a newsletter yeah she needs a million dollars

to start a newsletter Vivant which is for retired women yeah and um Gloria Steinem's talking and then Bitsy Von Muffling just sends

a profile dick pic of this guy to Carrie and she opens it and she's like woof you don't see it for long it's a pretty good hog

I think if if you truly respect Gloria Steinem the way that we are led to believe Carrie does, even if you get a text while she's talking. Yeah. And she sees it's from Bitsy as well. Yeah, you don't open it.

She sees it. She's like, her eyes are agog and then she shuts it down. The day continues. She's trying to get Enid to pump up her new book that she's just released in her newsletter

Carriers we're talking about Carriers got me looking up because it's going to get a lot of eyes on it Enid is resistance Enid's kind of playing Carrie like a fiddle yeah

but that's how you get to be the top of Vogue I suppose so but yeah she's been burned by Condé Nast and she's going to treat others like Condé Nast treated her yeah

anyway we're at the end Carrie introduced herself to Gloria Steinem Gloria gets a bit of. Karen introduced herself to Gloria Steinem. Gloria gets a bit of, you know, if you get Gloria Steinem on camera, you're going to give her some lines. I mean, this...

She actually did really well, I thought. This is stuffed. Yeah, yeah. You think that Tony Danza in the last episode. This fucking show is just pumping through the cameos. Yeah, it's true. We got Steve back. We know we've got Samantha to look forward to at some point.

She's coming at some point. I do want to see Steve have sex in this show. Anyway. Steve and Samantha, will it finally happen? You were so excited about the possibility. Dead a dream. There's nothing that's been set up to lead us to believe that that's even on the table. Maybe not by the show.

But I think by our own reckonings over the years. Fuck, man, it'd be so sweet. Boys can dream. Anyhow. And it'd kind of be perfect because Steve's sort of been left on the outside of the circle. And Samantha has left the circle. That it's like, let's get these two exiles together. They'd be so powerful. The triumphant.

They sort of, they suggest that there's going to be, I mean, Brady. They've got a few pots on the boil on this show. Name them. Charlotte's going to get back into the art world. Todd and Lisa's relationship is about to blow up

because she stuck up for him while they were both under fire from their parents being like, Herbert? Herbert, yeah. Todd. Oh, her name's Lisa Todd Wexley, sorry. Oh, right, right. Lisa is in Herbert's relationship is about it.

She's just put him forward for a job that he was only considering. No, he took himself out of running. Do you remember? Yeah. He said, Hey, I was considering going for control.

I'm not going to do it. It's going to be too much work and it's too stressful. And then you and the kids went under siege from combined parents. She's like, he's going to do this. Yeah. That's a storyline on the boil. Crazy.

Uh, we've got, I'm glad we don't have to deal with harry not coming anymore that's wrapped up that was very neat they did that in an episode but yeah harry does some kegels by the end of he's coming again by the way so if you haven't if you're having retrograde retrograde ejaculations just hit those kegels yeah but uh then we've got Miranda and Shay's relationship. Brady, Steve and Miranda's relationship. That's all to be dealt with. We've got Carrie's sort of attempts to move on through grief from Big. She seems fine to me. I've got to be honest.

I know. Carrie's kind of got nothing going on, eh? Yeah. Which is kind of interesting because obviously the show and she still centers herself. But what's Carrie's got on the line? What's she got on the line right now? Well, she's got such a lack of things that just quickly, this is where the Enid storyline ends.

So Carrie and her have been doing a dance through this episode where Carrie's like, look, I'd really appreciate it if you, I sent you my book so you could do a blurb. You didn't do that. I would really appreciate it if you gave it a shout out on your newsletter She's like honey I'm not doing that If I did that for you I'd have to do it for everyone

By the way I respected the whole conversation I respected Carrie asking I respected the very direct response I thought it was great It was good It was well handled It actually was Everyone put their cards on the table

And it was a good thing So then Enid invites her to this event which is the launch of vivant it's a fundraiser it is and carrie's like okay so she's also this is the ageism carrie's like i'm not that old yeah yeah this is the youngest person in the room i don't need to be that this isn't for me and she shows up thinking that it's all about how she people think she's old i'm getting to it yeah so carrie is well, maybe I'm not getting to that, actually. So Carrie is the... I'm just bolstering my own ageism sort of theory

inside of the... Sure. No, it is. It's a big through line in this. A big tentpole of the story. Carrie is at the event, she believes, because Enid wants her to write for the newsletter. And she's like, well...

She's been talking to Lisa. Lisa's like, honey, listen, this is a transactional relationship. She's your old boss. She's a colleague, not a friend. If you're writing for that newsletter, you get her to do a review of your book and put in the newsletter to pump up those numbers. Then at the very end of the episode, it transpires.

So this is after a very funny thing happens where a photo is taken of Carrie and Gloria Steinem and Enid together. Enid wants to check that the photo is okay because she's been burned in the past. Swiping around on the phone and whose massive hog comes up? Thanks to Bitsy Von Muffling, we see Marlon's hog reveals. And then, so Enid's like, why is my boyfriend's hog on your phone? Are you guys fucking? She's like, I would never fuck anyone that old.

It's just like, so you think I'm old? And actually, maybe this is moments after it's been revealed that Carrie Bradshaw is actually at the event because Big died. She inherited a boatload of money and Ina's just trying to shake her down for money. So like $100,000. Carrie's like um i've been

thinking about this has been an amazing event i met gloria steinem i will write for your newsletter just like i don't want you to write i want a hundred thousand dollars which also rules yeah right and the way she said it was actually my shining light she's like i don't i don't want you to write you she's like you got me here because i've got deep pockets. And she's like, yes, due to tragic circumstances, your pockets just got deeper. So, yes. Enid rocks. She's a fun character. She always is.

She was great in Boston Legal. She's great in Murphy Brown. She's great in this. Candice Bergen-Rules. Yeah. If that's her name. Pretty sure it is. What's your shining light?

We're just about out of time. Oh, man. It was that moment, I think. But, yeah. No, fuck it. I'm locking that in. Okay. I'm just going to run through a few other high, you know, I'm annotating these.

Sure. Good on you, vociferous note taker. Yeah, I just, I'm feeling it this time. Yeah, boy. Yeah. So, we get Enid, woman our age is SJP, which we talked about, because I remember from Sex and the City 2,

when they go to Abu Dhabi, Samantha's talking about woman our age. Yes. And Carrie says, woman our age shouldn't talk about women who are not our age or whatever. So I like that they're bringing that back in. Oh, well, just for the listeners, I feel like you went through that very quickly.

So Enid says to Carrie in conversation, woman our age, as if they're bringing that back in. Oh, well, just for the listeners, I feel like you went through that very quickly. So Enid says to Carrie in conversation, woman our age, as if they're the same age. That's what I meant by woman our age is her. It's like... Enid is... 70. Carrie is 55? Five, yeah.

15 years. That's a big enough gap. Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. You'd be like, not me. Carrie is back in the bad hat game reminds me of the hades underworld veil she wears to the big gay wedding she's got a hat with three corners on and you know for a long time i was trying to do a bit about my hat it has three corners the song and no one knew what it was and i saw that hat and i was like you don't know it no

my hat it has three corners three corners has my hat If it did not have three corners It would not be my hat Give up on the bit My It has three corners It's like one of those This is like bingo But for this dumb

For the hat Tri-cornered hat Well I think We've already got bingo We don't need Anyway Carrie's bringing that bit back By wearing this three-cornered hat

It's a fucking bad hat When Charlotte tells everyone that Harry's not firing anything out of his cock, she's like, you came and it was like a ghost cum. Carrie says, Casper the friendly cum. Yes. That's a genuine, that's good gear. Conversationally, on the fly, if someone slipped that in,

you'd be like, that's good gear. Do you know what I liked in that convo as well is when that got brought up uh charlotte immediately turned to um anthony anthony and said don't you call him that and it wasn't even him who came up with it don't look at me i didn't come up with it yeah and then actually you were quite into anthony's feature in that because at another point he called someone rachel maddow yeah oh you didn't look down my last yeah they're gonna laugh at me I thought that was pretty good Steve is still running oh no do you know what that was it was because Charlotte goes oh Miranda maybe um Anthony is the only uh ejaculator at the table can you enlighten us as well Rachel

Maddow that's pretty good that's good yeah uh is still running Scout The bar The bar's on the scene Did not know that He says When they're talking about Who's got to move house He's like I'll move I'll find a place To the bar

You called Lyle Kmart Aiden Lyle Shay's husband We spent a lot of time with him You said this guy's Kmart Aiden He's Kaden I think you're not listening

You listen to everything You're like a little Alexa I'm fucking thinking about this stuff Carrie walks out of a foursome Miranda walks out of a threesome

shout out to Herbert Wexley's no Lisa Todd Wexley's dad who's toasting at this bizarre sort of six person and a 30 person table

20th anniversary dinner I'm going to change my shining light to that there you go you can do the light what Ith anniversary dinner. I'm going to change my shining light to that. There you go. You can, you can do the light. Cause what I need to figure out, this is going to be so annoying to traipse through the mental pathways to get here.

And I need your help. Okay. Okay. So there is a cartoon show about teenagers going through puberty and that is called. Big Mouth. Big Mouth. And Big Mouth and season one, especially Duke Ellington.ke ellington yeah so

my i put to you guy alexander halifax montgomery that he all his line deliveries uh as duke ellington yeah and he reads the exact same this is his toast at his oh you're gonna let me do it his daughter and son's 20th anniversary oh shit i just realized i'm not black so i'm not gonna do the voice i'd like to give a toast do you want I'm not black, so I'm not going to do the voice. I'd like to give a toast. Do you want to put some stank on it? Do you want to do this? Because he puts interesting emphasis on... I'd like to give a toast to my beautiful daughter, Lisa,

and her fantastic film, which I've just been told is at the Tribeca Film Festival. It's worth watching just for that. And they also do a very neat bit of sort of film comedy, a visual gag, where there is just a half-second pause where he says, enter her beautiful or fantastic whatever, and it cuts to, what's his name again?

Herbert. So you think he's about to say husband because it's the anniversary dinner. Nah, film. That's right. Good shit. This is Tim. This is a quote from Tim.

As we watch the threesome start to take seed. Good on Miranda. Good on Miranda. I don't need to watch the whole thing though. And then about five seconds later, oh, we're going to be here a while. See you in an episode. And just like that,

it's the worst idea of all time. And just like that, they're at it again and they're having such a gay old time. And just like that, they're back Got Montgomery and Timothy back And just like that, it's the worst idea of all time