Cougar town - Episode 2.08 - Little girl blues - recap

It's okay to watch a show called Cougar Town.

After a short break, we are now back at our regular scheduled lunacy, when Travis brings home his 23 year old grad student girlfriend, Kirsten (or whatever her name was).
As we first meet her, she had managed to slip on a marble (it's like a round, glass, toy thing, kids), breaking Jules' vase, grabbing Jules' shirt and ripping it while punching Jules in the face. I assume.
Jules doubts that Kirsten really slipped on a marble, because they can't find it. It must have got lost in the time loop and sent back to 1949.

Kirsten explains that this has happened because she is nervous as hell, and afraid she wouldn't live to the expectations of the woman who sits next to Travis' bed (Jules, obviously). And she is right to be scared.

As part of Jules cunning wether or not to destroy Kirsten, the gang takes over Grayson's pad. At first he doesn't mind, and when Ellie tries to tell him that they are all human bed bugs, and won't ever leave his place, he goes all Ellie on her and pretends he isn't listening. But the prophecy will soon enough come true. Grayson will try in all sorts of ways, like braking all of his coffee mugs so they won't be able to drink anything, or locking his downstairs doors and windows, to get them out, but nothing will help. He will soon be forced to come back to Ellie, asking very nicely if she will help. And she does. Not out of good heart, as she doesn't have one, but because she is afraid that the human bugs will take over her house as well (although technically, one of them have). Grayson then finds a skunk that already appeared in the first act (spreading his smells into Peeping Tom's house), and carries him, crying, into his place to scare everyone away. It works.

Meanwhile, we find out where Laurie's illuminating, blinding lipsticks come from: Poppy, the transgender make up consultant.

Back to the parent meeting, Jules is jealous of Kirsten. It doesn't help much either that Ellie and Laurie wind her up about how at any moment now, a woman is going to come and steal him away from her forever. What really freaks her out though, is Kirsten telling her that she is taking Travis from her at thanksgiving.
Laurie, who was put in charge as a Cobb stopper, is supposed to stop Jules from saying crazy things she will regret (practically mission impossible), and fails already at the first trial when Jules makes Travis choose between her and Kirsten during dinner time, takes the heat when Jules transforms to evil, and insults her hair and chickens.
However, this doesn't stop Laurie from protecting both Jules and her victim, and she barges into the bathroom while Kirsten showers, in a very fitting psycho reference, and tries to teach her to fight back, and stand up to Jules.

This sort of works, because when Jules tells Kristen that the only way she is getting him for thanksgiving is if she cuts him out of her arms, Kristen moves toward drinking the wine she brought Jules. Jules says she wouldn't dare, cue a very powerful lighting effect from Ellie, but she does dare. And also learns that wine doesn't go very well with tooth paste (unless you are Jules, then it goes with everything). This is when the marble emerges from the time loop to prove to Jules that Kirsten was right, but as always, someone has to pay a price, and that's Big Joe. The only thing that Jules like to talk sweet words to, cuddle, and make out with, more than Grayson – her huge wine jug. It dies. All very dramatic and sad. If it wasn't an inanimate object, of course.

Unaware of his mother craziness, Travis is busy being scared of having sex again with Kirsten and disappointing her. He seeks help from his father who brings the whole gang of men. Though they only makes him more nervous by saying how fabulous they are in bed. Though eventually they all admit to having cold feet (or bottoms) in bed.

Eventually, Kirsten can't take it anymore, and gets mad at Travis for not being there for her at all. This is when Jules does the right thing, and talks to both of them, helping them out and explaining her craziness as a good thing.

Perhaps the greatest moment, however, was in Big Joe's funeral. This was the moment when Big Carl was born. Bless. In every end, there's a beginning, blah blah blah..