franklin_bash | Episode Discussion

I am slightly late, because I am RUBBISH. But I'm willing to bet it is still Monday in some peoples' world. So it's almost like winning \o/.

108 - The Bangover

TV Rage - "A judge puts Franklin and Bash on house arrest due to their courtroom shenanigans. Meanwhile, a visit by Infeld's niece goes up in smoke when she's busted for marijuana possession by a judge; the arrival of Carmen's boyfriend has legal consequences."

Do you hate temps? Do you hate Lily? How much do you miss Hanna? How cute is Jared with police? Would you show Jared what you do in bed? (it would be platonic!) Are you more fascinated by Peter's love life than Damien is? How beautiful is Pindar in court? Also Peter in no clothes. Also Jared in all his clothes? Do you always refer to yourself in the third person? This is one of my least favourite episodes, but there are still lots of bits I love about it.

109 - Bachelor Party

TV Rage - "Janie's fiancé enlists Peter to help him dodge a legal quagmire in the wake of his bachelor party. Meanwhile, Jared revisits his high school when a teacher is accused of having lusty encounters with her student."

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I think I just love every bit of this one! I love Janie, and Nathan, and Jared being jealous and beautiful, and Peter being beautiful and only a little bit torn, and I love the bar tender and the school teacher, and Jared's school, and Rudi, and Quantum Leap. I love that Jared runs away after sex to have pudding with Peter. I love that they hug, I love EVERYTHING ABOUT BRECKIN MEYER'S FACE.

Tell me everything you think.

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And I'm replying to my own post because I keep scrolling past that .gif and OH MY GOD I HAVE ALL THE ~FEELINGS.

I love everything about it, I love that they gave it to us - I am so judgey sometimes on tv for pandering to fandom, like sometimes I think they do it at the expense of their show (and I'm just an incredibly judgey person, sorry, I think a lot of the best slash is written when the writers are not purposefully writing slash, they might be purposefully writing a really intense, loving relationship, but not a tongue in cheek, oh well, this will keep the fangirls happy kind of slash). But I find nothing to judge here, because they've sold me entirely on Peter and Jared having the kind of relationship where they might easily hug in a diner just to cheer themselves up. It's just so *RIGHT*. And Jared refusing it at first and then being like 'NO! Obviously I will hug you now.' And Peter having just hugged Dawson and feeling all 'MUST TOUCH JARED'. I love his slight smile like it's a joke, but how QUICKLY he is okay with it not being a joke.

And most of all OH MY GOD BRECKIN MEYER'S WRIST HELLO. HOW DID YOU EVER GROW SO BEAUTIFUL? DUDE.

I love that Peter is going to hug him with both of his arms on the outside, sort of like just *holding* him, but Jared stops him and sneaks his (beautiful insanely beautiful) arm over Peter's shoulder, and then he HUGS HIM SO WELL and like Peter kind of does a manly patting thing, but Jared just SQUEEZES HIM TIGHT and I just love them. I love that they hugged. I love Jared's face afterwards. I have literally NO IDEA what Peter does after their hug because even when I try to look I just look at Jared being THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING ON THE PLANET.

Sorry. I will go away and attempt sleep. I'm not very good at sleep.

No sleeping! Sleep is for the weak! RAWR! >:D

Also, your squeeing makes me happy in lots and lots of ways it is okay! :)

OH MY GOD BRECKIN MEYER'S WRIST HELLO. HOW DID YOU EVER GROW SO BEAUTIFUL? DUDE.

*giggles* That makes me want to pet it slightly...

Also, this is how I feel when all the GMT peeps are in bed and all the North & South Americans are busy with lives instead of distracting me from life...

I seriously have a hard time understanding why this didn't get a bigger fandom... like these guys make the Winchester brothers seem cold towards each other....

Maybe the fandom thing is because it's on cable? Network tv automatically gets more viewers, so... idk.

I don't think anyone thought this show would be anything but a bit shit, you know? Like, you hear it described and you think 'oh, that's show sounds terrible.', but it's secretly awesome. And only we know it's secret.

I'm sad that Reed Diamond didn't pull more Dollhouse fans in. And perhaps we've vastly overestimated how many people love Breckin Meyer. (because I thought it was everyone) Maybe Raising the Bar fans couldn't take seeing Mark-Paul fail at being a lawyer again. It's really unexplainable.

Maybe Raising the Bar fans couldn't take seeing Mark-Paul fail at being a lawyer again. It's really unexplainable.
HE DIDN'T FAIL, THE WRITERS MAY HAVE, BUT MPG DOES NOT FAIL AT ANYTHING!!! Ohh ok,sorry for the outburst! I was a Dollhouse fan but I didn't know Reed was on F&B until I started watch it,so that doesn't count,right?

About The Bangover, the thing that was weird to me was that when the guys realized Carmen got laid, they're all like 0_o WTF, what did you do?? instead of just being happy she got lucky, like they assume the only person Carmen's ever gonna sleep with is Dante.
Unless they know her so well they can recognized her after sex with Dante face, in that case, never mind me...

HE DIDN'T FAIL, THE WRITERS MAY HAVE, BUT MPG DOES NOT FAIL AT ANYTHING!!!

Lol. ::pets you:: I LOVE HIM SO MUCH.

The way I read it I didn't think they were really weird about Carmen having sex, I think Jared has a slight smile and they're kind of being teasing about it more than anything. Then she says it was Dante nearly immediately and they're more wtf about it.

I honestly had no idea who Breckin Meyer was pre-FnB. I recognized his name from the Robot Chicken credits, but that was it. I figured MPG would be the bigger draw here, like from the Saved By the Bell days or the NYPD Blue days? I followed him from Raising the Bar, because I eat TnT law shows like candy over the summer, but Raising the Bar, I don't think ever got a huge following.

I understand the cable aspect of it, but these heterosexual life mates are practically crawling all over each other more than JD and Turk and I was SURE the slash buzzers would go off in fangirls around the world...

Sometimes shows just seem to slip by fandom. Did you see Crusoe a few years back? It was Crusoe and Friday on an island LOVING EACH OTHER MORE THAN WAS REALLY POSSIBLE, and fandom just didn't bat an eyelid in its direction. It's really sad when shows get skipped over.

I'd never heard of Breckin Meyer either. Or Mark-Paul Gosselaar. And I thought it just looked rubbish. Downloading it anyway was the best thing I ever did.

I did do some sleep. Weakly.

It's kind of bizarre that it doesn't have a bigger fandom, on account of it being amazing. But then it's bizarre that it's amazing, so maybe people didn't notice it was going to be. Like dannygirl says, it's just secretly awesome.

I know what you mean. (and I don't think you're too judgey) There's a surprising lack of 'no homo' type stuff on this show. I don't feel like I (as a fan) am getting laughed at when I think that the boys have an awesome, deep relationship. (please, writers, don't screw it up in s2)

I like to think that Breckin and Mark-Paul hug each other like that at random times on set, just for funzies. (and maybe Mark-Paul casually wraps an arm around Breckin and calls him 'little buddy'... erm, they've got a skipper and gilligan thing going on in my head. *flails hand*)

There's a surprising lack of 'no homo' type stuff on this show. I don't feel like I (as a fan) am getting laughed at when I think that the boys have an awesome, deep relationship.

Yes! It's really really amazing of them. I hope like hell they keep it going into season 2. I think they must have been doing it purposefully, I hope they were doing it purposefully, I love it.

I like to think that Breckin and Mark-Paul hug each other like that at random times on set, just for funzies

ALSO YES. JUST YES.

The "no homo" thing, in general, just weirds me out and confuses me. I hang around hardcore, deep Southern Baptist/other strong Christian 20something boys, and if I had to hazard a guess, I would assume that those would be the ones most likely to be all homophobic and "no homo" after everything....but some of them are the most ironically touchy-feely guy-on-guys I've ever met... (Ex: Guy 1- "I'm going to be sad when Guy 2 leaves. Then I'll have no one to spoon with." Me- "...what?" Guy 1- "Spoon. You heard me. *proceeds to crawl all over Guy 2*")

I think platonic friendships are super, super awesome and fun when written out well. :) Not to harsh on the slash squee or anything, but super deep friendships without sex are really, really cool to see too. Sometimes people just bond really, really well. :)

I think it's less prevelant in RL. *nods* It's like tv execs (and movie ones too) take such pains not to "offend" anyone (middle america?) that they go over the top on everything.

I love platonic love! :D (honestly, for me, I love that this fandom is a bit on the fluffy side with all the cuddles and where lots of stuff can be read as both 'yes they're having sex' and 'they have an awesomely close and fantastic friendship') And I think if those execs would stop assuming that the majority of their audiance are hate mongers and let some gay relationships casually slip through (without it being a special event/stereotypical) they'd be less of a need to slash all the things. ^_^

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