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