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+title: The Love Boat s2e11
+date: 2023-01-30
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+
+Season 2, Episode 11
+
+This was the worst one yet.
+
+
+## Mona of the Movies
+
+Mona Maxwell (1940's Awooga-Babe Rhonda Fleming)
+is met by a bumbling fan (frequent Johnny Carson guest Orson Bean).
+For some reason,
+she agrees to have dinner with him.
+Then she cancels because she already agreed to have dinner with the captain,
+which makes him mad.
+She dances with him after dinner,
+and they hit it off,
+but she can't go to his cabin,
+which makes him mad.
+
+I can't keep up with this plot,
+but toward the end,
+I heard some of the coolest jazz fusion I've ever heard on a TV show.
+Sounds almost like Spyro Gyra.
+
+
+## Heads Or Tails
+
+Two dudes won't stop harassing Julie,
+who puts up with it good-naturedly.
+I'd really like to see how the writers handle the men staff getting harassed.
+Maybe one episode I'll get to see it.
+
+Anyway, she agrees to have dinner with one of them and go dancing with the other,
+demonstrating to the television audience how to talk to women.
+
+They keep up with the harassment,
+and Julie tries to teach them how to stop.
+
+One of them convinces Julie he's hurt,
+and she walks him to his room,
+where he upgrades to full physical assault,
+grabbing her and throwing her to the bed.
+
+Gopher tells her "it was a harmless little joke",
+and tries to convince her to give them yet another chance.
+There's a scene where Julie actually stops putting up with everybody's crap,
+and I was really rooting for her.
+But next scene she's back to being a pawn, sigh.
+
+At the end of the episode,
+she takes them both out to dinner on land.
+What the heck?
+
+
+## The Little People
+
+Oh boy.
+Based on what I've heard about how Tattoo was written in Fantasy Island,
+I'm expecting a lot of cringe from this.
+
+Noodles MacIntosh (UHF)
+and Lumpy (Star Wars Holiday Special)
+show up with their son.
+Every time anyone (including himself) says "little" or "small",
+Noodles comments on it. Eugh.
+The son immediately meets 
+Rhoda "Serial Killer Jr" Penmark (The Bad Seed),
+who he recognizes from the elevator.
+They're immediately smitten with each other.
+
+Aaand that's the comic shtick, folks.
+Noodles pointing out every time anybody says "short" or "little" or "small".
+
+Rhoda finally sees mom and dad,
+and appears to have some pretty serious prejudices.
+The son can't handle it,
+and breaks it off with her.
+Then she runs into mom and dad in the bar,
+and they inadvertently help her understand why being a jerk was off-putting.
+Then everybody realizes who everybody else is.
+
+They decide to get married,
+and she says it's okay if their children are small,
+concluding the 16-minute story arc.