La Petite Mort

Season 2, Episode 12, Aired

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    • When Hank visits Damien at the fast food restaurant, Damien is looking down as he asks to take Hank's order. When the shot turns to Hank, Damien is looking straight at him, but when the camera turns back to Damien, he looks up for the first time as if just noticing Hank.
    • This episode closes with the song "California Dreamin'", which was playing in the opening scene of the first episode of the season. In the first episode, the original version by The Mamas & The Papas was playing, but this episode contains the remake by Shaw Blades.
    • "La petite mort" is french for "the little death" and refers to the male orgasm.
    • This is the first episode where surfer girl's name is revealed to be Michelle.
    • Featured Music: "Keep Me in Your Heart" by Warren Zevon (Opening scene) "It's My Life" by The Animals (Hank arrives at the graveyard) "Rewind" by Andy McCutcheon (Played at the bar) "Raj Mirage" by Extreme Music "Lost Verses" by Sun Kil Moon "High on Desire" by Sky Parol "Keep Me in Your Heart" by Jorge Calderon (Karen leaves) "California Dreamin'" by Shaw Blades (Closing scene)

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    • Hank: (after seeing Sonja's baby) BOOYA!! The baby is black! Karen, dammit, the baby is black! You see that shit? God dammit, I didn't knock her up!
    • Daisy: I had sex with Gus. Charlie: What? Daisy: I got confused. Charlie: You got confused? What the fuck does that mean? Daisy: Well, I've never done a scene like that before, and we got to the kissing part and I got all confused. My autopilot kicked in and I kissed him for real, and the next thing you know, he was inside me. Charlie: That sounds like rape! Daisy: No, not really. Unless he wants to press charges.
    • Damien: (to Becca) I got you something. (He gives her a mp3 player) I put a playlist on there, our playlist, the one we made out to. All 17 songs. Hank: What! Seventeen songs? That's a lot of making out.
    • Karen: Oh, I just need a manny. Hank: Oh, I have excellent references. Karen: Plus my vagina's become really attached to you. Hank: Not your heart? Just your vag? Karen: Well it's tough if you know the heart and vag are not on the same page. But you know what? In this instance they are. Hank: Well, that's terrific 'cause I'm all about improving heart-vag relations. It's my thing.
    • Karen: (talking about sex with Hank) I can't live without this. Hank: Um. I thought maybe it was because you wanted to make a black baby with me.
    • Hank: (to Karen) I'm not entirely convinced it's mine. You know I never came inside her. I don't think I did, unless when she broncoed me I spasmed out a little dogwater, you know.
    • Karen: (talking about Sonja's baby) I'm not talking about your writing or lack thereof, okay? I was talking about the impending arrival of your latest mistake. Did you forget? Hank: Ah, Sir Francis Drake said he was totally down with raising the little bastard as his own.
    • Lew: You got yourself a little ritual there. Hank: Yep, every time I finish a book, Whisky, weed and Warren Zevon. It's the little things.
    • Hank: I like it here, it's nice. The sun is chirping, the birds are shining, the water is wet. Life is good, sweetheart! Life is good.
    • Hank: I'm not scared of you. You're very diminutive and I know ju-jitsu. Becca: I can still kick your ass. Hank: Yeah, at Guitar Hero maybe.

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    • Sonja: (referring to her baby's father) I forgot about that fuckin' barista, he was so hot. He looked like Lenny Kravitz. Lenny Kravitz is a musician who has won numerous awards, including four Grammys for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. Kravitz is famous for using a variety of musical styles in his songs.
    • Hank: (to Karen, referring to Julian) Sir Francis Drake said he was totally down with raising the little bastard as his own. Sir Francis Drake was an English sea captain who lived in the 1500s. He was popular to the English people, but was considered a pirate by other nations. Drake was granted knighthood by Queen Elizabeth I in 1581.
    • Charlie: (referring to Daisy) She's taking some Groundlings classes. She's really quite funny. Hank: I'm sure she's a deep-throating Lucille Ball. Lucille Ball was an actress and comedian who is best known for her role on her comedy series I Love Lucy that ran from 1951 to 1957.
    • Charlie: (to Hank, referring to the car salesmen) These fuckin' guys, they all think they're the only one who ever saw Glengarry Glen Ross. Glengarry Glen Ross is a Broadway play about a group of real estate agents in Chicago who use any means necessary to sell unpopular real estate. The play was written by David Mamet in 1982, and a movie adaptation of the play was released ten years later.
    • Hank: So, Michelle, huh? That's...that's interesting. Surfer Girl: You're disappointed, aren't you? Hank: Well, you know, I did kinda like not knowing. It was...it was cool in a Last Tango in Paris kind of way. Last Tango in Paris was a 1972 Italian movie about a middle-aged man, played by Marlon Brando, who has an anonymous relationship with a young French woman who is engaged to be married.
    • Hank: I'm still holding out the hope that she bagged some dude in the P F Chang's parking lot while she was looking for Mr. Goodbar. Looking for Mr. Goodbar refers to the 1977 movie staring Diane Keaton as a schoolteacher who spends her nights cruising bars looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.

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