You’re the Worst: Zero Eggplants and Gretchen’s degrading mental health
You’re the Worst continues to explore the destructive lengths Gretchen and Jimmy will go to in order to stay with one another.
Ultimately, You’re the Worst perpetually proves neither Jimmy nor Gretchen are sane enough to be with anyone else. They’re imperfectly perfect for one another and no one else. While talking about their future, Jimmy’s florist BJ lingers overhead.
Believing they are talking randomly, Jimmy mentions cremation upon death. He also approves of Gretchen remarrying as long as it’s someone less sexy. Or Mark Ruffalo. Gretchen, however, mentions her beef with Ron Howard before rebuffing Jimmy’s intimacy.
Desperate to make things right, Jimmy randomly mentions he could perform fellatio. He figures it’s like leave a penny, take a penny. Zero sum. Much to his surprise, she’s game. Any fan of You’re the Worst is less than shocked.
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While tasting cake flavors and insulting the cake maker’s pairing of pistachio and kiwi flavors, J&G meet a hilarious new couple. Rachel is an exotic, olive-skinned beauty who carries a nonchalant self-confidence. Quinn looks like an aging hipster, with scruffy facial hair and a man-bun.
They’re already married, but tasting anyway in order to thumb their nose at the wedding industry. An immediate match for our favorite couple.
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It also turns out she’s a shoplifter, and he’s a recovering alcoholic whose micro-aggressions make seltzer water tolerable. Gretchen notes the similarities while Jimmy drinks from a flask. Their offer is simple: to help Jimmy and Gretchen scam the wedding system.
Noting the shared lack of morals, Gretchen immediately agrees and invites them to the apartment for wine, despite Jimmy’s “hardest of passes.” As it turns out, Rachel and Quinn have a wedding book color-coordinated based on which places are easiest to scam. Also, Gretchen already told the couple about Jimmy getting a BJ. Harboring his dark past, Quinn says, “Never stop drinking, Jimmy. It’s horrible.”
Post-couples-date, Gretchen gushes like a school girl about Rachel. Jimmy leans in for a hug, gets rejected, and suffers a thousand verbal daggers from Gretchen, who is obviously in need of a medication adjustment based on her screaming, shaking, and near-crying.
He notices, but her only reply is his zero-sum BJ requirement. His jaw hits the floor, and it’s a look he may need to get used to if he wants to make her happy.
Taking friendship to a new level
Long story short, Gretchen really wants this thing to work. Desperately. Which is why she feels so horrible revealing her clinical depression and unlikely maternal skills.
It’s clear she’s trying too hard to impress a new friend. Seemingly what Gretchen needs, she’s caught trying to steal from Rachel’s house and told once she’s in she’s in, regardless of transgressions.
Meanwhile, Jimmy and Quinn talk about equalizing relationships. Quinn suggests going through with the ultimatum. Incredulity washes over Jimmy’s face until he starts making duck lips for a homosexual dating app profile.
Not long thereafter, the guys pull up to a stranger’s house to, as Jimmy puts it, “S a D.” Unfortunately, Jimmy’s loquaciousness spoils the mood and the discount Joseph Gordon-Levitt waiting on the couch disinvites him.
Making Gretchen happy
Jimmy realizes he can’t do it because he lacks a certain comfort level. Quinn won’t let him give up. After a quick moment of reflection, they both awkwardly, nonverbally come to the same realization.
Later that night, Jimmy says, “I did it. The thing you told me to do. I did it.” Somehow he’s smiling. Completely shocked, Gretchen replies, “What the actual f**k?!” She screams into a pillow, and one would think that would be Jimmy’s reaction.
All four are at dinner the next night, and the topic of discussion is obvious. Jimmy realizes all his favorite writers S’d a D. A toast to “friends for life,” triggers something in Gretchen.
Obviously harboring massive commitment issues, she goes apoplectic and pretends she knew nothing of the BJ. It’s a complete social explosion and the others believe Jimmy concocted the scenario so he could S a D.
After the outburst and new friend departure, Gretchen suggests a secondary BJ, because everything is fine now. The next morning she reaches into what appears to be Edgar’s medicine cabinet, which looks like a post-apocalyptic pharmacy, and after swallowing the meds she smiles. It’s a fake smile, an unconvincing smile, and she closes the door to the small mirror. The larger, outside mirror exposes Gretchen’s realization behind the thin veneer of sanity.
You’re the Worst airs Wednesdays on FXX.