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The L Word: recaps: Episode 2.05 "Labyrinth" (page 12)
by Scribe Grrrl

Bette being consoled by Jenny Dana's mother makes a toat at the bachelorette party

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We are saved by a knock at the door: it's Bette, wanting some sympathy and not knowing where else to turn. She wants to see Shane, but Jenny will do. Actually, Jenny does quite nicely: she's sympathetic and supportive as she realizes that Bette didn't know about Tina's pregnancy.

Jenny: "Oh my god, how did you not know?"
Bette: "Because I'm just the biggest fuckin' asshole in the universe, I guess that's how. Because I'm just some kind of huge cosmological joke, is what I am."
Jenny: "No, you're not. Okay?"

I want to laugh, but then Bette says that Tina must hate her, and that kinda kills me. It's funny how circumstances have brought Jenny and Bette together; they make sense as friends, in an odd way. After a bit more soothing from Jenny, Bette makes me grin when she says "You cut your hair!" Yeah, who's not observant?

Unfortunately, the adolescent perverts are watching the whole thing. Gomey has convinced Mark to install hidden cameras in the house. Does anybody mind if I don't recap these parts? I didn't think so.

The bachelorette party — Sharon (Dana's mom) and Dottie (Tonya's mom) watch the strippers — the former in horror, and the latter with a pure sense of fun. Dottie, you're hilarious.

Kit — who seems to be wearing a dress from the Far From Heaven wardrobe — tells Sharon that it's time to make her toast. Sharon gives a moving, sincere toast. Alice — looking a bit Claudette Colbert-ish — walks in while Sharon is talking, and gives Dana a look that says, "That could have been for us."

Shane sees Alice react to the whole thing, and also sees her start to walk out the door, and stops her. She says, "You did it, didn't you? You and Dana." Alice denies it at first, but then gives in. Poor Alice.

Carmen spins that great song "Get On" by The Dirtmitts, as Bette and Jenny arrive. Okay, there's obviously a theme here: everyone sort of has a '50s housewife vibe going on.

Shane tells Jenny to go talk to Carmen. Jenny is nervous, but takes Shane's advice that it's "always a good idea to bring the DJ a drink." Jenny says "oh faaahk" in that rather great way that she has.

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