Cute couple of the week Tracy and Skip wants to be just like Barbie and Ken so that they can dedicate themselves to a life of commitment without the burden of “ownership and exclusivity” that comes with a sexual relationship – so nipple removal is the odd surgery on the docket. After all, Barbie and Ken stayed married for 50 years. I mean, I guess this makes sense – for Nip/Tuck, that is.
Creepy delivery girl gives a box to Sean, but it turns out that she’s a run-of-the-mill strippergram sent by Christian to help Sean get his head in the game. Of course, his 2:00 appointment arrives in the middle of the lap dance, and things go downhill. Nurse Linda gets in her frown-of-the-week., and Christian confesses that she wasn’t a stripper – “she’s a hooker.” Sean bemoans his relationship woes, but Christian’s his classic nonchalant self, even when Kimber asks if she’s gained weight.
Liz brings her chubby friend Lola Wlodkowski to the office; turns out she and Lola met up at a nudist colony, and Liz got concerned about Lola’s moles. Christian turns it into a discussion about additional liposuction, Liz gets offended, but Lola declines the offer, instead inviting Christian to the nudist colony. Ten to one he hops into bed with her.
Via a cute montage set to the tango music I love on this show, Sean starts to learn from his patient that life isn’t all about sex, while Lola keeps trying to seduce Christian, who admits that he’s only interested in shallow and superficial girls. Cut to a shot of Christian having sex with Lola; apparently he’s never heard of medical ethics or conflicts of interest. The surgery goes through, and Christian realizes that his superficiality didn’t get to Lola. Liz lets him know that Kimber is expecting a “monogamous Ken and Barbie sunset.”
After Christian confesses the Lola affair to Kimber, she says she’s going to let herself go; Christian has a vision of what fat Kimber would be like, and he’s certainly not pleased. While operating on Surgical Patient Tracy, Sean has a less than ideal black-and-white vision of a TV Land version of what a sexless life would be like – sleeping in separate beds like Lucy and Desi, and all that. Christian tells Lola that, despite their indiscretion, he’s happy being shallow, but Lola admits that sometimes she’s not always happy being herself. She asks what kind of surgeries she’d need.
Sean and Tracy have a heart-to-heart in which Sean accuses Tracy of denying intimacy in order to make life easy. Tracy lunges in for a kiss. Here’s a thought – a Nip/Tuck drinking game: take a shot every time one of the doctors does something unethical. And Liz accuses Christian of breaking Lola’s will and walks out of the surgical suite just as several fat men walk into the office – totally starkers – to rescue Lola from losing her identity.
Lola’s biopsy comes back positive for skin cancer, but Christian tells her that she can come back – “I did.” Lola plasters a smile on and jokes about losing weight from the chemo, but Christian gets serious and tells her not to have self-esteem problems. Meanwhile, Kimber’s busy being bulimic, which Christian finds “pathetic.” Indignant, Christian tells her he won’t stand for it, but Kimber confesses she hates herself almost as much as Christian hates her, which “feels right.” The most dysfunctional couple on television, it turns out, hate themselves and each other; is it too much to hope for a happy ending for these two?
Sean makes nice with his previous 2:00, but Skip drops by to say that he’s actually happy with the whole Sean/Tracy affair – since it helped him admit that he’s gay. He introduces his boyfriend G.I. Joe (I’m not joking, folks). Sean brings a date (the strippergram) back to his place, only to find Kimber and Tracy strutting around in their knickers; to no surprise, Christian is responsible for all of this – “two Barbies are better than one.” Another normal day in the life of Nip/Tuck.
Verdict? A pretty solid episode this week, thanks in part to some strong characterization between Sean and Christian. What I love about these two is they’re not as different as they pretend they are, and it’s episodes like this that really bring that out. Juggling quirky humor with personal drama successfully, this episode was a nice change of pace from the Matt drama the past few weeks, although I confess that handling cliffhangers like the one from “Alexis Stone II” aren’t Nip/Tuck’s strong suit (nary a mention of Matt this week). As we wind down the series, it’s feeling like Nip/Tuck is going to finish strong.
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