Network: CBS
Time: Mondays, 8:30-9:00pm
Cast: Jenna Elfman, Jon Foster, Ashley Jensen, Lennon Parham, Nicolas Wright
Summary: Billie manipulates Zack into setting up the nursery. Meanwhile, Davis gets a job working at a gay bar.
Review: Dear CBS Network Executives, please please please please please don't cancel Accidentally on Purpose. It's a really funny show, and I think you'd be doing it a disservice if you don't give it more time to develop.
As a said in my very first review of AoP, I went into this show expecting the worst and was more than pleasantly surprised. And with every episode I fall a little more in love with this show and it's wonderful characters.
While this episode's main focus was the fledgling Billie/Zack relationship, it was Davis who stole the show. Davis got a job at a gay bar after lying to them and telling them he was gay (being, as Davis is, quite unaware that you don't actually have to be gay to work at a gay bar). And he really got into his new job, listening and offering relationship advice as a good bartender does... right up until the point when one of the men asked him out. And, of course, instead of being honest, Davis said he had a boyfriend---Zack.
Everyone knows a Zack and Davis. They're completely realistic 22-year-olds. Sometimes they obsessed with getting the right girl (and often, Davis, failing), and sometimes they're just two guys hanging around doing guy stuff that us girls don't even understand. So when Davis asks Zack for help getting out of his pants, Zack barely bats an eye, even if the ensuing scene is hysterical for the audience. Showing Zack behaving like a normal 22-year-old guy with Davis is great, because he tends to act fairly mature when he's with Billie. Sure, he has his goofy moments with her, moments where he's clueless or stupid, but he's stepped up pretty well in light of this whole baby thing. But seeing him with Davis reminds everyone that he's still just a kid sometimes.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the episode, Billie is getting relationship advice from her sister (who is probably more than a little insane, but that's okay). Abby's suggestions? Manipulate Zack into fixing up the nursery so the box with the crib in it won't be sitting in the living room anymore.
And it works. She does manage to get Zack to put the crib together. But it backfires a little. I'm going to leave the details out for those who haven't seen it. This entire story is telling though. Billie and Zack fell into a very serious relationship. They've been having fun together, and they're both serious about taking care of the baby, but they never muddled through the weird parts of an early relationship, like how to take two separate lives and merge them together under one roof. There are bound to be growing pains, and I'm glad this show gave us some of them. If everything's too perfect in a television relationship, we complain. If it's too awkward, we complain. Accidentally on Purpose is one of the few shows with just the right amount of awkwardness that's balanced by the right amount of sweetness and genuine love between them.
There was a third story in this episode. Abby was looking for a gay man to help her go from "drabby" to "fabby." It had worked for Olivia, and now she was hoping it would help her. There's not much to say about this one, except that Lennon Parham is awesome, and she makes me laugh every single time she opens her mouth.
CBS is moving this to Wednesdays soon (in March, I believe), and I hope that's not the first movement toward the door because I really think this show has the potential to be as highly rated as HIMYM or Big Bang Theory (which, by the way, was not a ratings-winner for its first several seasons either). I hope CBS gives it that shot.
Favorite lines:
Abby: It's like killing someone with carbon monoxide. Smile, smile, smile, dead.
Abby: Manipulation is one of the greatest tools in a woman's toolbox. That and the vagina.
Davis (comforting a gay bar patron): There isn't a man here who would want a piece of that.
Jerome: There isn't?
Davis: No.
Jerome: So... what time do you get off?
Davis: 2am
[beat]
Davis: Ohhhh....
Rating:
[5] Excellent
[4] Good
[3] Average
[2] OK
[1] Bad
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