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Good plan.

Impressions:

It really wouldn’t take much to turn this into a horror show. A lone girl is forced to take refuge because of a storm, then a sullen boy drapes his clothes over her, looks her in the eyes, slowly unhinges his jaw, and cackles in a mechanical monotone. Except in this case, it turns into years of blushing and insecurity over her ovaries instead of him swallowing her head. Words cannot express how much I would have preferred the latter. That would have brought something new to the table.

Yet another in the romantic subgenre of “socially awkward insecure girl overnarrates everything while falling for the bad boy and learning that she is a special butterfly once she believes in herself.” Even the ‘twist’ is just “I decided to be less girly because I’m afraid of peer pressure.” So she keeps her purse messy. It’s the usual cheap and corny affair. There’s even an insert song as they sit there staring at each other, narrating their inner thoughts and waiting for the wind blowing effects and camera spinning to end. It was at its insultingly worst during the little fight with a lunch lady at the end. The one she paid was literally two feet away, but somehow in a pocket dimension where nobody but the designated penis-haver could interact with her.

I feel like I’ve seen this episode a dozen times before and I can’t think of a single thing it did to stand out from any of the countless others of its ilk. There’s no random card game, the insecurity doesn’t manifest in any special way, even the guy doesn’t have any unusual characteristic that gives it some even minor form of hook. There’s just “peer pressure exists” and they don’t even do a convincing job of that. 

Next Episode:

See that girl acting like a girl? Screw her. What a bitch.