Pink Flamingos (Wonderfalls)
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| “Pink Flamingos” | |
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| Wonderfalls episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 2 |
| Guest stars | Kari Matchett Chelan Simmons Neil Grayston |
| Written by | Aaron Harberts Gretchen J. Berg |
| Directed by | Todd Holland |
| Production no. | 1AHM01 |
| Original airdate | April 1, 2004 |
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"Pink Flamingos" is the second episode of the television show Wonderfalls, although it was the fourth to be aired.
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[edit] Plot Synopsis
Still trying to ignore the talking inanimate animals, Jaye accidentally runs over her father with his car, breaking his leg. Feeling guilty about her father, Jaye listens to the stuffed fish that tells her to help an annoying high school classmate, Gretchen, plan her high-school reunion. In helping Gretchen with the reunion, Jaye becomes aware of her struggles with her distant husband. When a rooster hair clip tells her to "destroy Gretchen," Jaye defies the chicken and tries to help her, inadvertently causing her husband to have a car accident. Giving into the voice, Jaye "destroys Gretchen" by pouring a drink on her in front of everyone at the reunion, which leads to her having a talk with an admirer from high school in the bathroom. That conversation leads to her realizing that she doesn't love her husband and Gretchen leaves the reunion intending to divorce him and feeling more empowered. Gretchen's husband finds a romantic interest in the woman from the towing company. Meanwhile, Sharon gets stuck taking care of Darrin and his leg, and she slips him some sleeping pills so that she can have a date with Beth. Much to Sharon's surprise, Beth reveals that she isn't a lesbian -- she's bisexual. Sharon isn't quite sure how she feels how that fact. Darrin returns to the hospital for a follow-up visit where he learns that they found a blood clot in his leg that might have killed him.
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[edit] Quotes
- "Your sister's not a cold-blooded murderer. She's never been a planner." (Karen)
- "I'm sort of a Christmas and Easter Jew." (Gretchen Speck)
- "Eric can't talk right now because he's servicing me sexually." (Jaye)
- "I changed religions for God's sake! I'm not going to heaven now. What more does he want?" (Gretchen Speck)
- "That is not the Janet I wanna be." (Mahandra)
[edit] Trivia
- Chelan Simmons previously worked with co-creator Bryan Fuller on Dead Like Me.
- Gretchen and Robert's address is listed on their couples card as 146 Bonny Meadow Road, New Rochelle, New York, which is a reference to the "The Dick Van Dyke Show". Rob and Laura Petrie lived at 148 Bonny Meadow Road; Millie and Jerry lived at Gretchen's address.
- The song playing in The Barrel when Jaye and Mahandra arrive to help with the reunion, during the transition between the phone call between Sharon and Beth and Gretchen's pre-party, and at the reunion just before Jaye and Eric chat in the storeroom is "We Used to Be Friends" by The Dandy Warhols, the theme to the television series Veronica Mars.
- Darrin is reading Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics by Michael Lind in bed.
- Robert's cell phone number has a Manhattan area code.
[edit] External Links
- Television Without Pity Recap
