Me Tard You Tard Retard Nation

After concluding week's courtroom gut-wrencher, even the kids' struggle to keep hold of the firm felt like a bit of a step back in Shameless land this week. How'd our scrappy gang do? Permit'southward dig in.

Cousin Patrick scatters Aunt Ginger's ashes on the street corner she used to piece of work. [intermission for laughs] Frank (William H. Macy), past way of a eulogy, calls her a "legendary pole-smoker - could unhinge her jaw like a Burmese python!" We should all be so lucky as to be remembered and then fondly. As he dumps her remains, Patrick points out, "Even a mean old bitch deserves a sendoff."

Fiona (Emmy Rossum) confronts Patrick well-nigh his stealing the firm and faking the volition, but he ain't budging.

Over at V and Kev's, V'southward mom, Ballad (Vanessa Bell Calloway), pop over for an impromptu procreation session, and this time she's all done upwards. Uh-oh. She tells Kev (Steve Howey) she pretends she'southward having sex with Denzel - and if she accidentally opens her eyes, with Johnny Depp. 5 (Shanola Hampton) seems to exist regretting this programme for the commencement time.

Dorsum at the Gallagher house, the kids consider their options for dealing with Patrick and keeping the firm. Frank points out that "he out-Gallaghered the states." Lip (Jeremy Allen White) thinks he may exist able to challenge the will (which they know is imitation). Upstairs, Jimmy (Justin Chatwin) tells Fiona that together they can brand this work.

Downward the hall, Ian (Cameron Monaghan) interrupts Lip's hummer from Mandy (Emma Greenwell) to tell him that Karen (Laura Slade Wiggins) is outside. Uh-oh. She tells him it was nice to hear from him, even if his voicemail told her to go f*ck herself. She tells him that she was with a guy that promised to have her to Paris (so she got a tattoo of the Eiffel Tower), and then he tried to sell her to a sheik. She says she wants Lip to be happy, even if it's with Mandy. Am I incorrect to not trust her any further than I could throw her and her new Ke$ha hairdo?

Sheila (Joan Cusack) tells Karen that they should attend a Down syndrome support group to better sympathise Himey's needs. Sheila also kicks Frank out - no baby, no nanny.

Debs (Emma Kenney) comes down for her outset day of middle school wearing an outfit she borrowed from Mandy - and it shows. Fiona sends her right back upstairs to change, and V calls Mandy a "skank" while Mandy is in the bathroom - and she overhears. Poor affair! Five decides it would be wise to leave.

Patrick shows up with his sons to survey the place, which they will be renovating one time they return all their cousins homeless.

At the Down's syndrome meeting, a guy named Jerry wants to reclaim the word "retard". Some of the other attendees are non so gung ho almost information technology, but in that location's a spirited fence most who is allowed to use the discussion and who is not ("normies", mostly). Jeremy calls Jody (Zach McGowan) "Fabio" and begins a chant, "Me tard, you tard, retard nation." I'm pretty sure I'grand going to hell for but transcribing that.

Fiona gets a call almost a gig with the cleanup crew and she brings Jimmy along to a abattoir that has had some sort of spill. It'south just as disgusting as it sounds - and Fiona's supervisor asks her, "Is your girlfriend gonna be okay?" Turns out he's not - an increasingly green-tinged Jimmy freaks and leaves.

Frank - who is notwithstanding attending courtroom-ordered AA meetings - meets a jolly guy named Christopher, who asks Frank to be his sponsor. Frank isn't feeling it until he realizes that Christopher might be a roof and a meal ticket, then he agrees. He too grabs 1 of Sheila's "I'm A Retard and Proud" t-shirts, which she will exist selling at a table exterior the marketplace. Oh this woman.

Ballad shows up for more baby-making and tells Kev that she wants a "warm-up" - V says she draws the line at that. Fiona walks in on the three of them doing their thing, and is appropriately scarred for life.

Jimmy, meanwhile, gets a task at the Java Beanery - and while working his shift he runs into a old med schoolhouse classmate who invites him out to dinner with a few other residents.

Back at the business firm, the kids determine to unleash Mandy's feral brothers on Patrick (for $200). Mickey (Noel Fisher) and ane of his brothers deadfall Patrick in his garage, but then his married woman, Ellen, pulls a shotgun on them. Whoops. Lip comforts Fiona, telling her that this isn't all on her. Patrick uninstalls the toilet, and leaves information technology in the living room. It goes surprisingly well with the existing decor.

V tells Kev that she thinks her mom is too into the babe sessions - it'southward like she thinks they're dating or something. She asks what he thinks and he says, "My task is non to think." At least someone around here is excelling at work! They then cut to Jimmy working at the coffee bar. SUBTLE.

Fiona and Lip, meanwhile, telescopic out a possible new domicile - a trashed rental that is currently occupied by crackheads and has the front door kicked in. Yeesh.

Back at home, Patrick pukes in the street next to his truck - and Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) reveals to V that he put rat poisonous substance in Patrick'south sandwich. OH CRAP. But can you arraign the kid? It LOOKED Simply LIKE SKINNY & SWEET!!

Sheila is trying to push her "I Am a Retard" shirts outside the market, but the owner kicks her out, telling her that she's promoting detest speech.

Frank gets to know Christopher - who, it turns out, is Not an alcoholic, but rather a very solitary man with a taxidermy hobby. Uh-oh. He dotes on Frank and Frank is fine with that.

The kids are at the probate hearing, wondering if Patrick is withal live or if Carl killed him - and they tin't decide which result is worse. Patrick shows up. Hate to say I was hoping Carl had gone full-darksided and offed the brute.

Karen talks to Mandy at school, and Mandy confronts Lip. Lip snaps that he never asked Mandy to motility in and be so squeamish to him, and she rightfully responds that she doesn't deserve to be treated like this. I can't believe that I'thou really feeling for this girl in all this. Fiona apologizes to Debs for losing the house, and Debs says that she was getting sick of the place anyway.

Carol comes by with wine, candles and D'Angelo. D'Angel-uh-oh is more similar it! Kev and Carol do information technology and it'due south a fleck likewise romantic for V to handle, so she stops them right before the big finish.

Lip visits Karen and calls her out on sabotaging his relationship with Mandy in her like five seconds of being dwelling house. They then instantly accept sexual practice while Sheila deals with Mrs. Wong downstairs, who is threatening not to let Himey come back considering of Sheila's ridiculous "Retard" t-shirts. She also accidentally reveals that she has spoken to Karen...

And Frank - who is wearing one of the t-shirts - gets punched in the basics by a woman with Down Syndrome. Afterwards, at the Alibi, Frank tells the crowd almost Christopher, and Kev points out that the guy is clearly a serial killer: "You're gonna wake upwards dead with your d*ck in a Ziplock in his freezer." Seriously, Kev? Any gay carnivorous serial killer worth his organic sea common salt knows that you NEVER freeze d*ck. It gets chewy!

Jimmy goes to his fancy dinner, and meanwhile Fiona gets a visit from Tony - hey, Tony! Where yous been?! - who brings eviction papers from Patrick. Fiona is about to give up when Debs comes in talking about how Patrick loves her and touched her in "her nice places" and said it was their secret. Fiona is shocked merely too clearly impressed. As well, simply for reference, the expression on Emmy Rossum's face up in the higher up pic is the look on mine pretty much every time I watch this show. I even keep a stack of eviction papers handy to consummate the tableaux.

They get Patrick to concord to hire the house to them for l years at $500/calendar month. Okay, non bad - merely however $500 more they used to have to shell out. Although does this mean he'll take to kick in rut and hot h2o?

Christopher chases downwardly Frank - who is hiding out with hobos at a bonfire under a bridge - and offers to be his sponsor, which manifestly involves getting Frank drunk and cooking him meals. Wait, can I get a sponsor? Christopher says that he'southward not out to rape or kill Frank, but that if Frank insisted on having sex activity with him he'd probably manage. Ohhhhhhhkay...

The episode ends with the two of them in bed together, with matching sleep masks.

Meanwhile, Sheila confronts Karen about being the one who called the Wongs and told them to take Himey abroad. Karen, Karen, Karen - didn't anyone e'er tell you that two Wongs won't brand it correct? I certainly hope not. Carl finds a dead rat in the crawlspace and is OVER THE MOON that he did, in fact, murder something. Debs explains to Jimmy what happened ("I was molested, it all worked out!"), Liam uses the big-boy potty for the beginning time (it's unfortunately in the living room when it happens), and Kev gets a booty-call text from Carol at 1:30 in the forenoon, and lies to V about information technology.

D'Angel-uh-oh.

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Whew. Oddly, despite the fact that a lot went on and the big cliffhanger about the business firm was resolved, this felt like a pretty subdued episode. Jimmy's pulling abroad actually doesn't bother me that much - Fiona seems more than occupied with everything else going on, and he doesn't seem nigh equally invested in her or the kids as he used to. Are we moving towards another breakup - this fourth dimension maybe for good? Ian hasn't been given much to do since existence beaten nearly to expiry (something that has been oddly underaddressed - wouldn't Mandy at least notice his and Mickey'south matching shiners?) and the Karen-Lip-Mandy triangle is more depressing than interesting. The "Retard Nation" subplot made me legitimately uncomfortable (um... congrats?), and I'm not enjoying the prolonged babymaking factory down the street as much equally I probably should be (is it only me, or has that been dragging on a bit too long?).

And yet, a mediocre Shameless is still better than most. I'd give information technology seven out of ten Former Styles.

And I cannot WAIT to see what the flying Frank is going on in next week'due south ep with "the face of the gay rights move".

Source: https://www.logotv.com/news/sc4al9/shameless-308-recap-my-job-is-not-to-think

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