Weeds

Lude Awakening

Season 1, Episode 5, Aired 9/5/05

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Nancy gets a reality check about what a life of crime can entail. Andy acts like a fool and gets arrested. Celia tries alternative methods to deal with her breast cancer. She also steps out of her box and bonds with children. Shane gets in trouble at school. Again.moreless

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Romany Malco

Conrad Shepard
Mary-Louise Parker

Nancy Botwin
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The cool kid: A Celia Hodes Story

9.0

"Superb"

By Neksmater, Aug 28, 2010 Report Abuse

As Nancy moves forward with her new bakery almost finished Andy wishes to get into business for himself by buying an ounce off of Haylia and gets carted off to jail. As Nancy picks up her Range Rover again a drive by shooter does on run on the house and leaves her pondering her own mortality. Celia, after discovering that she has cancer displays an awesome "couldn't care less" attitude. She give Shane advice about letting his freak flag fly. Of course Andy was going to get caught but the cop was pretty funny looking on his cute little bike.moreless

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Bits of everything occur in this episode, including some deep and meaningfuls from Celia to Shane, Nancy sudden becoming self aware of her own mortality and Andy gets busted.

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By captainbritain, Jun 09, 2008 Report Abuse

Nancy bonds with Celia especially over the aspect of Celias breast cancer, Celia accepts the fact fo this and decides that if she is going to lose them, then she is going to make sure that she enjoys them whilst she can, this includes getting a tattoo on one of them. A Drunk Celia later asks Silas if he thought her boobs were nice. Nancy comes out with a real nice line of, I don't care that you've got breast cancer, just dont get them out in front of my kid.

Celia does provide Shane with some good words of wisdom, Shane had been feeling a weirdo and a freak at school, an outcast as such, but Celia just tells him as it is and says that he should not care what other people think of him.

Andy gets himself busted on the way back from visiting the weed dealer, after he also learns that Nancy goes there frequently, as he is asked if he can drop Nancys other half of her order off to her - wow, that was one big order for sure. He plays it cocky and gets busted by a cop on a mountain bike, leading to Nancy having to go down to see his lawyer, and gets some good legal tips.

There were lots of real good one liners, especially when there was the drive-by shooting at the dealers, which leads Nancy to realise her own mortality, that she is not indestructable and obviously she has to plan things for her children.moreless

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Andy gets in trouble with the law

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By expatriot, Sep 21, 2007 Report Abuse

An average episode in my opinion with one scene that stood out.

I think the way Silas treated Megan was awful, a typical teenager who doesn't care about anyone other besides himself.

Andy clearly is an idiot and not as family-minded as he says he is. Trying to compete with your own widowed sister-in-law is pretty low and not what you would expect.

Nancy had to face the fact that drugs dealer may get shot at and that thought apparently hadn't occurred to her before.

The scene with Celia and Shance stole the show for me. Both oddballs in their own way, Celia tells it honestly to Shane. Very moving scene...moreless

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By SupremeNemesis, Sep 11, 2005 Report Abuse

Another classic episode of Weeds with a bit of everything.

Shane is in trouble at school again. He feels that he is a weirdo and an outcast, but Celia (with her new outlook) sets him right and reinforces the notion that he shoulkdn't what other people think - which is just what she has realised.

Andy acts like a jerk when a bicycle cop pulls him over and ends up going to jail for possession of weed.Nancy gets some helpful advice for her business with Andy's lawyer.

Nancy also bonds with Celia to help her through her brest cancer. Nancy is one person that Celia can be a real person without any "fronts" unlike the PTA ladies.

Good episode, hopefully it will continue this way.moreless

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Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

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Trivia
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- After the drive-by shooting, Conrad is seen sweeping the floor but his broom isn't touching the floor, which is visible under the table. Edit
- This isn't the first time that Mary-Louise Parker and Allison Janney have appeared on the same series. They have also both appeared on the political drama The West Wing. Edit
Notes
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- Original International Air Dates: Germany: May 2, 2007 on ProSieben Edit
- Music Featured In The Episode: "The Laws Have Changed" by The New Pornographers "Wacky Tabacky" by NRBQ "If I Ever Leave the World Alive" by Flogging Molly Edit
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- Celia: Everyone thinks I've lost my mind. Shane: Everyone thinks I'm weird. Celia: Well, I can see how you might give that impression. Shane: I really don't care what they think. Celia: Good for you. Let your freak flag fly. Shane: Really? Celia: Really. I've recently stopped giving a shit what anyone thinks, and I gotta tell you, I feel great. Shane: But you have cancer. Celia: And you have a dead father. Both of us make people really uncomfortable. There's no way around it. So either we can feel all self-concious and pretend that everything's normal, or we can just be our strange selves. Shane: Thanks, Mrs. Hodes. Celia: For what? Shane: For telling me the truth. Celia: You're welcome. It's a bitch though, ain't it? Edit
- Nancy: Andy, today it was brought to my attention that the downside of this business is death. So right now, I'm not thinking about the bakery. I'm thinking about enrolling in dental hygiene school so that my children aren't orphans. Andy: If anything happens to you, I will raise Silas and Shane as my own. Nancy: Now I pledge never to die. Edit
- Andy: This is my moment. I was born to cook drugs. Edit
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- Conrad: This is my special home brand. I called it Clark Kent. Just sniff it right here. Smell good huh! You smoke this shit and you just want to rip your clothes off in a phone booth and fight crimes. Clark Kent is a comic book hero who wears glasses and has the trademark of taking off his normal street clothes in a phone booth to reveal his superman suit and cape before going off to fight crimes. Edit
- Episode Title: "Lude Awakening" The episode title refers to the movie Rude Awakening. In the film, that was directed by David Greenwalt and Aaron Russo, two hippies disappear into the jungle in the 1960s and come back out in the 1980s. They find that their hippie friends have been overtaken by yuppie greed. The movie had many scenes in which the characters were smoking weed. Edit