Dress For Success

Season 3, Episode 1, Aired

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Wanda wears a skirt to work and notices that Brent is acting differently; but is it the clothes, or something else? Oscar and Hank play at investing in the stock markets; Emma lends a helping hand to Lacey and later regrets it; Karen and Davis try to manipulate each other.moreless
  • Season three premiere episode.

    9.2
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    The third season starts off with a bang, with Wanda wearing a dress and throwing both her own life and Brent's into turmoil. Elsewhere in Dog River, Oscar and Hank are betting imaginary fortunes on the stockmarket, and Lacey manages to upset Emma.

    The least of the three stories was probably the Emma/Lacey one - yet one more way in which Lacey just doesn't fit in and manages to upset everyone with everything that she does. While these story lines can provide some humour, it is becoming a bit of an old joke, and it would be nice to see Lacey do something right for once. At least she got to fix the problem in the end, and end her quarrel with Emma.

    Oscar and Hank are always funny, and get good lines in whatever story line they're involved in, and when they get paired up, as they were this week, the result is great fun. The two of them should have more story lines together.

    Wanda and Brent's story line was good if only for the shock value of seeing Wanda in a skirt, and practising her feminine wiles on Brent. That alone was good for a laugh, particularly given Brent's reaction to her change in behaviour.

    Overall, this was a good start to the season, and the kind of episode that keeps me coming back for more.moreless
  • The season starts with a "pull my finger joke", and it can only get better.

    8.0
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    If you live in Canada and watch CTV, a lot of people in other words, you saw commercials for this premier episode. I am glad to say that those few scenes you kept seeing over and over again get taken care of very quickly.

    I loved how the commercials made you think that they were talking about the increase in gas prices. That would have been amazing, but it was actually the price of a stock that Hank picked. No worries though, it is still funny.

    The "pull my finger joke" is funny, but after seeing it twelve times in the week preceding the episode kind of kills it a bit. As with the other jokes in the commercial, they present them quickly so that we get the feeling that there is only new stuff left.

    Although no where as funny a Tax Man, this one will be remembered for quite some time. The only issue being how did Hank get so "smart" at stocks, and why is he not rich? But then, I just remind myself it is a comedy. It's not supposed to make 100% sense.

    As per Brett Butt's wishes, most of the characters (Hank excepted as noted above) stay true to the form they created over the previous two seasons. Lacy still knows how to put her foot in it. Emma still gets her nose out of joint, although she does introduce us to her stomach. I had not idea a person could eat a whole pie like that. Brett's still a well, you get the idea.

    Stay tuned for the next episode that is supposed to make this one look boring. Or just try to catch it on a rerun and laugh some more.moreless
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    • Lacey: I was just washing dishes the old-fashioned way, with elbow grease. Customer: You're washing dishes with grease?

    • Brent: Isn't a skirt a little too la-di-da for a gas station? Wanda: I'm not the one in the powder blue blouse. Brent: It's not a blouse. And it's not powder blue. It's sky blue. Like the sky, where there's jet fighters, and lightning.

    • Emma: If you're just going to stand there, you might as well help me with these dishes. Brent: Gee, I better not stand here then.

    • Brent: How do I go about lending you fake money? Oscar:Just pretend to give it to me. Reach up and take 10,000 dollars off the fictional money tree and hand it to me. Brent:But why can't you do that yourself? Did some fictional hooligans steal your make-believe ladder? Oscar: It's against the rules; we can each take ten grand. That's it, that's the rules. Without rules, nothing makes sense. Brent: With rules this makes no sense.

    • Lacey: Hi Emma, I just stopped by to say sorry for before. And to make it up to you, I brought you a peace pie. Emma: A piece of pie? Lacey: No a peace pie - a pie to make peace. Emma: Well thank you. I guess I did over-react a bit. Mm, sure looks good. Lacey (nodding slowly): Uh-huh. Emma: What? Lacey: Oh, it's nothing. Well, it's just kind of interesting you'll accept this pie from me, which is a $1.50 a piece, or $12 for the whole pie, but you wouldn't accept $20 for helping me with the dishes. Emma: Oh, I see, you're trying to make a point...this isn't a peace pie, it's a point pie. A patronizing point pie.

    • Oscar: It's not cheating! It's a legal loophole....that's capitalism; that's how it works! If you don't like it, go back to Cuba, ya Commie!

    • Hank: Is that one of those little electric cars? Brent: Yeah, the guy stopped for free air for his tires, real nice. Oscar: Tiny little thing. Brent: I know, I've got cousins bigger than that thing. That car could wear my cousin's pants.

    • Customer: There's some dirt at the top of my glass. Lacey: That's why I didn't fill it up all the way.

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    • Wanda (to Brent): And it's not a dress, Mr. Gucci, it's a skirt. Wanda is sarcastically calling Brent "Mr. Gucci" and referring to the Gucci designer clothing line, founded by Guccio Gucci (1881-1953).

    • Oscar: Electric cars are a fad. I've seen 'em all come and go. Cars that float. Cars that run on manure. Heli-cars. Brent: Heli-cars? What are you, a Bond villain? James Bond is a popular novel hero, created by Ian Flemming in the '60s; many of the books were made into movies as well. James Bond was a spy for the British Government, and always had the latest and sometimes futuristic gadgetry, such as cars that could fly, as Oscar is suggesting.

    • Brent (to Hank): Yeah, well, if nobody buys gas in the future, then I won't have any cash. Then who ya gonna borrow money from, George Jetson? George Jetson is the patriarch of the The Jetsons, a futuristic cartoon show from the 1960s.

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