Tongue Tied 3x3

Tongue Tied

 

Manny and Dom are watching what I think is female wrestling while Amanda is asking Busy personal questions for a magazine quiz called Are You Normal Or Not? The men are discussing boobs and liken Busy's to a surfboard.

 

 

The girls are staying at Amanda's father's apartment for the weekend. Unbeknownst to them, Leonard also has a friend from France and his two sons also staying over.

 

 

Leonard suggests the kids go over to his gym. While in the dressing room, Amanda lets Busy have first dibs on which guy she wants. Not knowing any better, Busy chooses the less cute one. Amanda thinks "something might happen" in the 24 hours the boys are there. 

 

 

Francois and Jerome have a discussion aided by subtitles which are somewhat hindered by the network logo bouncing across the screen, but it seems that Jerome (the one Busy likes) is insecure about his body odor. The show was starting to steal plot lines from itself at this point. Danny had a breath problem not too long ago and if I remember correctly this issue will come up again. Speaking of Danny, he apparently doesn't exist in this episode.

 

 

Francois calls Amanda "jolie" and she laughs and says yes, she can be very jolly. Busy wants to exercise on a certain machine and Jerome tells her in French that her arms are too small, and that another lady's arms are large. Weird thing to say, but oh well. In French "arm" is "bra," so Busy gets a sad look on her face. This is dumb. I'm from Texas and I understand French better than Busy and Amanda do. Of course, that's only because of the subtitles, but still.

 

 

Busy wants to know what Amanda's magazine says about breast size, but when it comes time for her to be measured, she snarls at Amanda, "like I'd let you touch me." Lay it on as thick as you want, writers, but we can still see the gay. It turns out that Busy is two inches smaller than normal. Amanda's father wants Busy and Amanda to entertain the boys for the evening and gives them $30 to eat at the mall. Amanda decides to buy French food and eat at the house instead. Busy is still glum about Jerome's comments, though. Busy is a little out of character here. She normally wouldn't care what some random stranger has to say about her bra size.

 

 

The kids go to the mall, still at a loss for a way to make conversation. Busy purposely wears a baggy shirt and Amanda wears her purse crossed over her chest to make herself appear larger since this episode calls for it. Busy freaks out when Jerome points at a mustard stain on her shirt.

 

 

With the boys still squabbling over Jerome's supposed smell, Amanda takes Busy to buy a bra because she will need it for something that happens later in the episode. (You can't stuff a bra if you aren't wearing one, and Busy was braless until this episode.) I actually think this scene is just a time filler, because we could have imagined that Busy bought her first bra off screen without any fanfare. A montage set to an instrumental version of the Ready Or Not theme of the outside of Busy's changing stall ensues.

 

 

Amanda and the boys sit down to a lunch meat and Cheetos dinner (they ran out of money buying Busy's bra). Amanda comments that Jerome takes lots of "douches" (baths). Then Busy comes in with her bra stuffed and I think we are all glad for her that she wasn't naturally well-endowed. That just looks...wrong.

 

 

Francois hatches a plan to be alone with Amanda. He gets Jerome to agree to go outside with Busy. Busy, for her part, is thrilled that her bra stuffing plan seems to have worked.

 

 

Once Busy and Jerome are outside, Francois asks to sing for Amanda. His song of choice is Alouette, only he sings "Amanda" in place of Alouette. The song is supposed to be about plucking the feathers from a bird, so it must sound really stupid if you understand French. Scenes of Busy and Jerome sitting in a car (I'm not sure why) making stabs at conversation are looped together with scenes of Amanda looking none too pleased at Francois's singing. Also a little out of character.

 

 

Busy adjusts her tissue when Jerome isn't looking, causing it to stick out noticeably. Amanda emerges from the house with Francois at this time and tries to subtly alert her to the problem.

 

 

Busy is depressed about humiliating herself in front of Jerome. Amanda tries to give her a pep talk, but it doesn't seem to do any good.

 

 

Jerome comes in and wants to take a picture with Busy. She initially refuses, but he calls her tres jolie (she suddenly can understand a little French). The episode ends in a freeze frame instead of the actors improvising.

 

I think this is one of the worst episodes of the series because it's a total cringefest and, as stated, everyone was a little out of character.

 

Next episode: Busy starts acting more like her band mates.