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We're Getting Nowhere: "The L Word" 5.9

No, you don't need to adjust your monitors. Dara did not show up for We're Getting Nowhere sporting a new perm and some specs this week. In fact, she had to take care of some business and our pal Maile Flanagan was kind enough to fill in for her. You probably know Maile from her role as Geri in the hit web series 3Way, though you may not have recognized her without her outrageously large member. And by "member" I mean Geri's prosthetic finger. What did you think I meant?

This week on WGN we discussed what we call the "sex montage" episode of The L Word. Yes, everyone got lucky this time around. Shane and Molly finally got some relief for that sexual tension, Tina and Bette found love in an elevator, and Max may have even found Mr. Right.

We also talked about ass tattoos, trans sex and leather products. Just keeping it clean as usual.

Finally, we had more fun with sock puppets this week when recreating the big lesbian "family" sit down orchestrated by Dawn Denbo and her lover Cindi. Please ignore the fact that sock puppets can't actually "sit," as that is really just a tedious technicality.

We're Getting Nowhere: The L Word Episode 5.9

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  • talkingguineapig's picture

    Chicken hawk

    I think the chicken hawk guy is called Henery Hawk :D

    I loved this weeks vlog! I think i may have pulled a muscle laughing so much though :P

    I missed Dara, i was hoping to see another max impersonation but Maile was a good guest :P 

    1charlie's picture

    Awesome Vlog!

    Yay! Maile rules, i can't wait to see 3way now! :D

    hehehe. loved the sock puppet mafia reenactment :)
    Jill was in her own 3way with Cindi and Jenny, kinda weird but hot :P

    I prefer grease 2 over the original grease. :)
    And 'Drop Dead gorgeous' is hysterical. my favorite line is by Kirsten Dunst when she speaks to Mindy Sterling and says " Well this isn't an American Teen Princess Pageant! This is... This is... This is Nazi Germany!

    Henery Hawk :P

     

    Phantom's picture

    :3

    How come that every Wednesday the AE site crashes... I wonderrr :3
    Ania_PL's picture

    haha

    Hahaha ....so true ...it took me 15 minutes to enter afterellen ...

    but it was worth it as usual ..great episode ...!! ;]

    I'm 18 ...and I think Grease is waaay better than Grease 2 !

    Phantom's picture

    (Heheh also the strangely

    (Heheh also the strangely glitched layout earlier today was quite amusing :D )

    Grease > Grease 2
    all the way! :D

    chloe121212's picture

    Tell me about it

     it took me forever and I had just got off a midnight shift so every 5 minutes I'd wake up and try to refresh the page and think it was something wrong with me.  Now I'm forced to sit here and watch it at school with people staring at my fits of laughter.

    "I don't kiss girls who wear doilies"

     

    carolinagrrrl's picture

    finally!

    I have been waiting all week!

    And though I will miss Dara's dry wit in this episode... I must say that Maile is a welcomed substitute. :)

     

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    sublime493's picture

    YEAAAH!

    So excited for a new episode of WGN...gonna watch now.

    ps--I totally gave WGN a shoutout when I called into the Diana Cage show on Sirius and spoke w/ Jane Lynch! :-D I told her she needs a dating vlog for ladies who have lost their mojo...but only if she hosts it as "Joyce Wishnia" with the requisite tongue-click!

    silent_alarm's picture

    Been waiting all day!

    At last!! I really liked this episode of The L Word (something I don't say often) can't wait to see what you guys say about it. 
    imthey's picture

    Oh Oh Trouble...

    I'll be posting more later I'm sure, because once I saw that Maile was today's guestbian, I thought oh oh we're in trouble.  I have a feeling my sides will be aching from so much laughter.  Plus after seeing the last 3Way behind the scenes, I'll be curious to see if Jill gets to be funny today, since Maile is usually the funniest one in the group when the whole gang is together (hey, I'm just paraphrasing you Jill).
     
    OK, now that I've seen the whole vlog: 
     
    While I love Dara and missed her not being there, I think the 3 of you did quite nicely. 
     
    Frankly after watching this vlog... I'd like to get "familiar" with the 3 of you. I am now sufficiently overheated myself, especially with the ending shot of Jill posing in front of the camera (I'll leave the dirty thoughts running through my head to your imagination).
     
    I'm right there with you Jill... Michelle Pfeiffer straddling the ladder and singing Cool Rider.  When I worked at Blockbuster Video many years ago, whenever my co-worker and I got to choose the film to watch we put Grease 2 on the overheads and sang right along all while swooning over the hotness that was (and still is) Michelle Pfeiffer.  I'm also with all of you ladies about Jessica Lange in Tootsie!  
     
    The heat in the room must have gotten to you 3, as I swear there was a whole lot of salacious talk going around...
     
    regarding Tina Fey: Jill ..."by it I mean her vagina"  (wow, Jill telling it like it is)
     
    regarding 3Way makeout scenes: Maile  "it was like being molested for 4 days" (ha ha)
     
    Karman calling Maile "a giant Dyke"  I was ROTFLMAO, because Maile agreed and totally took it in the spirit in which it was meant.
     
    I think this vlog has a ton of moments that need to be used in some kind of video montage...
     
    I look forward to next weeks vlog.  I'll leave it at that, except to say "Many Happy Endings" to you all!
     
     
     
     

     

    "Think Sideways"

        I M THEY

    Amylin's picture

    Giant Dyke, that was

    Giant Dyke, that was awesome!

    I'd be familiar with all three too, this is definitely one of the best euphemism i've heard in my life so far ;-)

    onemorehour's picture

    grease 2!!

    i, too, saw grease 2 before grease 1. its way better than the original. more ketchup! i heart stephanie zinone.
    jabrocks79's picture

    grease 2

    i saw grease 2 before grease 1.... gotta love judy garland's daughter, Lorna Luft, as Paulette.  REPRODUCTION!!!!
    JHB's picture

    grease 2

    I never knew they made a sequal to that movie, I know about the original and of course the musical. But never  the sequal.
    clockwork's picture

    girl for all seasons

    i still know the words to most of those songs. it's definitely the best grease ever made. ever. sing-along anyone?
    IfOnly's picture

    Re:

    "I'll be your's in winter, when the (laaa la la la laaa la)" Oh yes. Best song. And the last one. And c.o.o.l. // r.i.d.e.r. Ok, all of them.

    onemorehour's picture

    ..

    behind my.....charades...

    that was probably the worst song, but it is constantly stuck in my head! i could probably recite that whole movie word for word.

    i'm thinking about investing in a cycle.
    chloe121212's picture

    Yep YEp

     I saw Grease 1 first but I always liked the second one better.   Come on, Cool Rider was awesome

    "I don't kiss girls who wear doilies"

     

    Chief Vitalstatistix's picture

    No Dara :(

    No Dara: Boo!

    Special Guestbian is Maile Flanagan: Yay!!

    AllegraEcho's picture

    Please tell me that after

    Please tell me that after The L Word ends we're still going to get our weekly dose of We're Getting Nowhere! Dara, Karman, and Jill could read the phone book and I'd still watch.

    Another great vlog, but I really missed Dara! :(

    jabrocks79's picture

    MAX--->no soul patch

    Well, you can look at it this way.... the first whole technically means he's straight and if it was the second he know identifies as a gay man...... but since he never got the operations....he's kinda straight.
    7Up's picture

    ROFLOL

    :-)
    Phantom's picture

    ^^

    I missed Dara... *pout*

    but really enjoyed Maile's presence. :D
    And Karman's hilarious when her thinking's heat-impaired. :3
    How odd that being 10+ years younger, I totally got both the Tootsie and Grease referrences... O.o

    And it's so f-ing scandalous that not only did never a female director win an Oscar, but overall there were only 3 nominated...

    Cartoon character you'd most like tattoo on your buttcheek:
    Dory. (obviously)



    Awesome vlog ladies! 

    A Muse's picture

    awesome

    and superlong. thanks ladies.

    Maile is hilarious. love love LOVE HER! :D

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    rockgirl01970's picture

    I say...

    Entry one...
    kiss_hester's picture

    Wow, great episode! Love

    Wow, great episode! Love Maile! No one can really replace Dara, but Maile is definitely getting close! Had a great time watching this. That reanactment was hilarious!

    Really don't like that film you're talking about. Don't like Brittany and don't like Kirsten, so I have to disagree with you on that one. But Tootsie totally rocks!!! I wasn't even born then, but my mum loved it so much I must've seen it about 10 times now, haha! What a classic.

    And I totally thought it was entry 2. It just seemed that way:p

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    aerisstrife's picture

    I thought it was entry 1,

    I thought it was entry 1, just because I'd figure there would need to be more...erm..."preparation" for entry 2, instead of just slippin' on the condom and going to town.
    forsakenidentity's picture

    Actually, that's what I

    Actually, that's what I thought.. They got going rather quick and rough and I really hope, for Max' sake, it wasn't entry 2 they used.
    lunakiss's picture

    WGN

    I can't comment too much. I haven't seen the episode. Miss Dara, I know she would've add more witt to Maile's comic ones . Nice surprise! Jill, watch your T, spillin' it womyn. It's all over my screen. Someone give her blow-up doll of Michelle P or someone.  Karman, you're such a soft stud, ha !

    Now, I gotta see the TLW episode.

    Tara21's picture

    max and tom

    I think it was entry II, since Max identifies as a man and probably wouldn't want tu "use" entry I.

    Cybill wasn't on the set during the love scene between Molly and Shane, they cut that together. IC was talking about that in her own vlog podcast.

    Maile, I heart you! Great Vlog :-)

    no_one80's picture

    Michelle Pfeiffer...

    Jill, I'm right there with you about Michelle Pfeiffer in "Grease 2".  Damn, she looked good (she still does) in the movie and who wouldn't want to be that ladder?!? 

    I, too, love "Drop Dead Gorgeous".  Good thing that I own the DVD because I have the urge to watch it tonight.

    Once again, great vlog.  Maile, you were a great substitute for Dara.  You're hilarious.

     

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    bluebl00d's picture

    #2

    If I were to get a Cartoon character tattooed on my butt (I wouldn't) it would be Tweety Bird and his famous saying "I thought I saw a pussycat!"

    I firmly believe Max and Tom were having some old fashion #2 entrance sex :) and the thought of vaginal sex didn't even entered my mind to be honest.

    Awesome vlog and Maile's presence is always welcomed, the woman is so funny :)

    marilyne's picture

    the Hot Vlog

    Excellent podcast, for an excellent L word episod, i did miss Dara, but Maile is Hilarious :-)

    On the poll for Max, i was thinking 2 aswell. I see Jill's point from Tom's point of view, but from Max's one it's got to be 2...

    Just a few episods to go, i hope they'll all be that good!

    nancydrew's picture

    wrist-cuffy

    awesomeness!
    Susi's picture

    Totally agree on Michelle Pfeiffer

    The first Grease is better but Michelle Pfeiffer makes the second one way hotter.

    Anyway, the vlog was awesome as usual and Maile was hilarious. Thanks for lighting up my day.

     OMG, coinsidence, I just finished writing this post and then I turn my eyes to my TV and I see Maile on Grey's Anantomy, cool.

    ikke's picture

    same here

    I was like hey! maile on grey's anatomy!  i guess you are from sweden to?

    Great vlog as usual.  =)  

    Susi's picture

    Yes, I'm swedish

    Cool, that I wasn't the only one.
    Tara21's picture

    hey, same here :D but I'm

    hey, same here :D

    but I'm german...

    Amylin's picture

    Oh my...

    Maile!!! :D We love you Maile, you're awesome.

    I aslo loved this episode... one of the best sex montage ever on TLW.

    Randomly :
    - Jill's line about Jodie being deaf ? I totally died laughing,
    - I wanna F*** Tina Fey too,
    - "Love hurts" t-shirt? Hell yeah. I want a "F no", a "it's on" and a "piece of snot" shirt too!
    - I'm glad Jill talked a lot about the podcast scene because actually i did not listen to a single word they were saying and had to rewind. I'm not an english-native speaker and i'm telling you, i was just pissed at "Tchane" for moving the camera so much. I couldn't focus and i felt terrible for Max and transgender people in general...
    - Grease 2: well Michelle Pfeiffer is enough to make you love that movie...
    - Max sex scene? Entry 2! (didn't even think about entry 1)
    - Re-enactement? Maile's making Bette puppet say "that's hot", totally out of nowhere was hillarious!
    - Sleep with a straight girl? Tchane is in trouble... i felt sorry for her, what Molly said was tough, but she's cute so :D

    Love ya!!! Every wednesday, it's so fucking on on AE thanks to you!

    starbuck1979's picture

    better than the real thing

    I should really stop watching this vlog at work. Unexplained bursts of laughter while pretending to watch important work media files are a wee bit hard to explain, or so I've just discovered.

     

     Which is my way to say you guys rock.  

     

    Have to go with Jill on the 'which hole' Q – if only for the lack of 'second-hole-first-time-grimace'. I mean, a certain amount of 'ouch' is expected, No?   

     

    Oh, and a small shout-out to all you creative crafts-women: since Jill is so kind to offer close-ups of cool products, don't you think you owe us her an opportunity to show off different kinds of goods? Like, say, hand-made bras maybe? Just saying..

    nette's picture

    yah watching at work

    and explaining the cough wich is to cover the laughter is going to catch up sooner or later...and how about hand made LEATHER bras in various colors like black, red, white some with flags of countries perhaps?
    chloe121212's picture

    "And by it I mean...."

    Great as usual.  Maile as a substitute, Awesome.  Though I still miss you Dara.  Just a few things:

    I'm thinking everytime you guys do a vlog you should totally crank up the heat. Woo.  Sidenote: How funny was it when Jill spilled her own drink? (sorry Jill)

    I'm also glad someone else liked that whole Denbo scene.  It was f-cking hilarious and your guys' reenactment of it was completely hilarious.  Especially Maile forgetting everything and proclaiming as JB "I'm hot".

    I have to say Entry 2.  I was leaning towards entry 1, (Jill's powers of persuasion), but remembered Max identifies as a man and although he never went through surgery, he never took his shirt off.  Also it kind of look like it hurt when Max grabs Tom's back.

    That whole Alice apology scene and Shane's obvious stupidity was well... for me kinda of funny.  Okay before all the bad posts come my way... let me explain.  It was supposed to be a serious apology, I get that but as Maile said the L Word has at times become such a PSA itself, that it was somewhat of a relief that they didn't do it that way.  (Plus it kind of summed up MAx's time on the L Word, so marginalized)  I'm not saying that wasn't a serious issue.  It so is.  It's just I don't think Shane (why would they give her a camera) was very interested (and judging from some posts, a good number of people might feel the same ) and I suspect the writers were trying to portray just that.  The division among the LGBT community even when the oppurtunity presents itself to help rectify the situation. Just like I suspect that a lot of the PSAs they do tend to go in one ear and out the other with some people (especially if it doesn't pertain to them).   It doesn't make them transphobic just ill advised(?), unconcerned(?), or self involved(?).  I'm not really sure I worded that right maybe it's making sense in my head.  Sorry.

    Okay I so want a t shirt made of Karmen saying "Check Please"

    "I don't kiss girls who wear doilies"

     

    Kerry Anne's picture

    This vlog of course

    Great to see Maile.  Loving the funny they have going on.  I use the word 'familiar', although I am not sure I can use it again in quite the same context, note to self, must be careful how I reference that word in future.  Jill, it is so annoying when you spill the drink yourself especially when others see you do it, people are like "and she tells us to be careful".  Anyway, great vlog.  For a while I thought we might not see it today due to the website being inaccessible earlier.  By the way, I love the leather, I have been trying to keep a look out for such accessories, great, I think I will check out that website you mentioned.  I can't remember the website, oh well, I guess I will just have to watch the vlog again.
    CyberWoolf's picture

    For Jill

    I'm so with you on the J Beals with her bodybuilder pose!  How can you not have a little panty splash after those images...

    I came to watch TLW for TiBette but this season completely rocks my socks off.  I love Mia this season and Keener is soo awesome.  This is one of my fave eps of the entire series.

    Im voting on entry #2 because I think he identifies as a HE and Tom is gay so why would he go anywhere else?

    I was also annoyed at the half apology and bad camera work.  I would have found Shanes camera work amusing IF it was during a regular vlogpodcast and not one that was fairly important.  Transphobia isnt new in the gay community, its annoying and wrong. 

    Can I make out with Maile too??

    Ms. Junior's picture

    Transphobia and The L Word

    Obviously The L Word's portrayal of a trans character is extremely flawed. In addition, the rest of the characters are extremely transphobic. What bugs me even more than that, though, is people's assumptions that because someone is trans, they can make ridiculous assumptions and ask ridiculous questions about their body parts, who they're attracted to, and how they have sex. You wouldn't ask a cisgendered (not transgendered) person those questions. Furthermore, sex, gender identity, and sexuality are different. Sex is biology. Gender is socially constructed. Gender identity is how you view yourself- as a man, woman, both, neither, something else, or all of the above. Sexuality is who you're attracted to, and that isn't based on our sex, or our gender, but those things certainly contribute to the labels people put on us and we put on ourselves. If someone identifies as a man, then he's a man. Do not call him a she (as other people have done on this website). His body parts have nothing to do with who he's attracted to. So jill, who posted this comment earlier:

    "Well, you can look at it this way.... the first whole technically means he's straight and if it was the second he know identifies as a gay man...... but since he never got the operations....he's kinda straight."

    Which ever "hole" (because that is how you spell that word) Tom "put the condom in" has nothing to do with Max's identity or his sexuality. Operations have nothing to do with it.

    sapphist's picture

    Nothing to do with his identity?

    I don't understand how you can say that.  I dated a ftm guy (not saying he is representative of all transmen), and he didn't want sex to involve "entry 1" at all.  After we broke up, he dated a few guys, and they had sex like any other gay men would.  And he didn't have any surgery at all, not even top surgery.  He was taking testosterone, though. 

    I also dated a mtf woman who hadn't had surgery yet (she has since).  She was kind of like Lisa in how she wanted to have sex.  Definitely no typical "boy/girl" sex.

    I think that Max would want to go with entry 2, but my guess it that Mama Chaiken got that wrong just like she gets so many other things wrong.  I bet we have a pregnancy scare in the next episode.

    boywithmoonandstars's picture

    Pregnancy scare!

    Ooooooh, that would be interesting. Not good, since I'm sure it would be handled in the worst possible way as all (meaning the very few) of Maxs' storyline are. But interesting. I hadn't thought of that.
    susanna_uk's picture

    SO WELL SAID! CLAP CLAP!!! :O))

    CLAP CLAP CLAP! I Totally Endorse everything you had to say there Ms Junior! Nice to see someone with a clear and comprehensive grasp of reality for a change!!! 

     Have a look at my comment to Fish later on this thread:

    How about an MtF on the L Word?

    Susanna
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    If you think you have figured it out... Think Again!

    MadRobyn27's picture

    Drop Dead Gorgeous!

    That is SOO cool that you like Drop Dead Gorgeous! It's so quotable! I swear my family references it on a daily basis! You guys rock!

    Personally, I thought it was entry 1, only because of how quickly it happened. Which confused me since Max identifies as male. Whatever floats..

    I couldn't decide between Captain Caveman and Hung Kung Phooey for my ass tattoo, but it would definitely be one of those.

    Lastly, I'm 25 so I also saw Grease 2 before Grease 1 and had a HUGE crush on Michelle Pfiffer (which is strange because I almost always pick a brunette) because of the "cool rider" scene. As if I needed another reason to want to "familiarize" myself with Jill. I too want a rider that's cool ;)

    Kerry Anne's picture

    I forgot to mention

    I agree with everything you said about Tootsie, Jessica Lange, Grease, Michelle Pfeiffer and Olivia Newton John.  Although I rated the first Grease higher than the second one.  Watched the second one because of Michelle Pfeiffer (who BTW is NOTHING compared to Jill Bennett).  This vlog certainly made me think back to when I was a kid, when I was not telling my parents why exactly I was watching these films over and over, mind you I did not know what was going on at the time myself!  Sure do now.


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