Bored to Death 102: Colonics are Funny

Could you probably make a joke about how "colonics" basically rhymes with ebonics?  Yeah, probably.  You racist.  Let's get to the show before the Klan shows up at your house to recruit you.

Jonathan gets a call to take on his second case from a woman named Jennifer who wants to know if her boyfriend Gary is cheating on her. Jonathan follows him to the store and then to the gym, where he talks to Gary for a bit before Gary gets uncomfortable with how crudely Jonathan talks about women (he said something to the effect of "I can almost see why Muslims insist they be kept separate." Yikes.) and leaves.

Jonathan then follows him to a church and finds out that Gary is friends with Suzanne, Jonathan's ex-girlfriend. He then follows the couple to a restaurant and confronts them when his jealousy gets the best of him. The best line of the show occurs here, when Jonathan calls Gary a well-endowed Metamucil addict (based on the few minutes he followed Gary at the store).

Meanwhile, Jonathan also has obligations to Ray and George. Ray has Jonathan come with him to get his first colonic, which his wife Leah believes will help him get into a better mood. The doctor twice implies that they are lovers, and both of the mildly awkward only-friends-not-lovers-eww moments are pretty dumb. Later, however, when they are trying to decide who would be on top in their hypothetical relationship, the dialogue returns to hilarity.

The sub-plot involving George really should be expressed in as few words as possible, and so here is my impression of Ernest Hemingway (terrible writer) summarizing it: George has herpes. Has Jonathan punch him to hide it. It doesn't work.

Episode 2 of How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory are already finished downloading, so the Lazy Pirate Summary of those will be up tomorrow.  Argh!  (That's bubonics...yikes?  I tried to tie it in to the beginning thing with "colonics" and "ebonics".) 

-Dave