Lost 1:11, "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"

[cleolinda]

So I'm two days late on this, which is the latest I've ever been. (In the meantime, yuki_onna wrote her own, which I'm going to go read as soon as I finish this one, so head over there if you haven't already.) Since I fell asleep trying to watch the show a second time on tape, I'm going to reconstruct my memory of it from the Lost Media gallery in the interest of getting it done with, so... it's gonna be a little looser and less accurate than usual.



Previously on Lost: ETHAN BAAAAAD.

Commie Sharefest of Cavetown. We pick up with Hurley freaking out that Ethan wasn't on the manifest and Captain Hero Jack remembers that Claire stormed out and Charlie ran after her and he magically puts together that Ethan x (Charlie + Claire) = BAAAAD, even though Ethan could have traveled under a different name or just not appeared on the manifest due to a paperwork error, or, for that matter, might easily be out menacing people whose names do not appear in the opening credits, but the show needs Jack to come to this conclusion, so he does. Everyone panics.

Cut to: Locke and Captain Hero Jack out racing through the jungle to... somewhere. I guess towards the beach, since that's where Claire was headed. Jack starts bellowing "CHARLIE! CLAIRE!" and Locke is like, "SHUT UP, FOOL!" I kind of missed what happened here, but I think Locke says he's going back to Cavetown to round up a posse, and Jack's like, "OMG I AM COMING TOO," and Locke's like, "Hello. Only registered doctor on the island." Jack points out that he is also a registered hero, so Locke gives up and tells him to keep going towards the beach in search of clues. Jack agrees and flails off into the wild. Really, I hope that if I ever decide to do something dastardly, Jack is on my trail.

Operating Room, Jackstralia. This is another Jack flashback episode, in case you haven't heard. My mom didn't catch this initially, but Jack and his father are operating on this girl, and while I don't remember the exact procedure or the problem involved, the girl dies on the table, and Jack's father is like, "Call it, Jack." And Jack keeps trying to resuscitate her while all the nurses are backing away and pretending to be invisible, and Jack's father is like, "CALL IT," and I've seen three reruns of ER in my entire life and even I know that means SHE'S DEAD, JACK. And Jack's all emo and "YOU CALL IT" and so the father does and all the nurses leave and Jack is pouting at his father soulfully.

Cavetown. Kate volunteers to go with Locke, and Locke's like, "Yeah, I thought you would. Savor your first knife from the Creepy O'Scar Collection, baby." Boone decides he wants to go, too, and Snicker Bitch is all like NOOO DUN GO U R MY BROTHER!, and Boone is reasonably confused by this, because I thought they "truly, deeply hated" each other, but I guess it's one of those love-hate incest things. And then Mercutio wants to go, and Locke's like, "Uh... no." Mercutio will hold them back...? Excuse me, but I don't think he'll "hold them back" anymore than Brighteyes McBabyface over there will. And even when Mercutio won't back down, Locke's like, "Well, you gather up a posse and go south, then." And Walt's all like, "You should listen to Mr. Locke," and Mercutio's like, "SHUT IT, PUNK."

The jungle. Jack is flailing through a meadow like a muppet. I think Jack has problems. Jack goes into another Flashjack, which... not exactly the problem I was thinking of, but okay. Jack and his father are still in the OR (O, R they?) "discussing" the dead girl. Jack insists that his father was drunk and shaky and "incapacitated," and... really, his father seems pretty steady, but we didn't really see him operating, either. Apparently Dad was called in from a three-martini lunch to come operate on this girl, and he's all like, "If you're so fabulous, why'd they call for me?," and Jack's all like, "Because a nurse called me to take over for YOUR DRUNK ASS, POPS," and they glower meaningfully at each other. P.S.: Jack is the surgeon of record on this one.

Commie Posse of Cavetown. Locke, with Kate and Boone in tow, finds Jack, noting that Jack's thrashing around in circles made it pretty easy. Heh.

Back at Cavetown-on-Dead Pool, Mercutio's all like, *grumble grumble 'go south' son of a bitch grumble* and his kid is pontificating on the glory that is Locke, the "mighty hunter." I am serious, I remember Walt actually saying something like, "Mr. Locke, he's a mighty hunter." Hurley: "Where I come from, I was considered a mighty hunter." Of what, the wild Cheeto? Bless.

The jungle. I think this is where Locke and Boone are marking the trail with strips torn from a red shirt, which leads to Boone being like, "Ha! 'Red shirt'! You know, like on Star Trek, where Kirk takes his crew down to some planet and the guy in the red shirt always gets killed," and Locke says something snarky like, "There's a captain who sucks," but I didn't catch the exact phrasing because I was laughing too hard. Meanwhile, Jack is berating himself to Kate because he didn't believe Babymama's claim that someone was trying to hurt her baby. And then Jack just happens to see... one of Charlie's finger-tapes in the grass, or hanging from a branch, or something, and we flash back to Charlie inking various letters onto each finger (this week's episode is brought to you by the word LATE). And the posse is all like, "Did it just fall off or something?," and Locke intones sagely, "No, not idly do the leaves of Driveshaft fall." So clearly Charlie is leaving them a trail. Tally ho!

I think there is a commercial at this point. ABC persistently runs Flight of the Phoenix previews (goofily introduced by Dennis Quaid and Giovanni Ribisi) at the beginning of each break. In the movie itself, Ribisi's hair is bleached Nazi blond and he's stuck with dorkomatic glasses (I guess to show that he's the puss brains of the operation). It's really disturbing. Also: Miranda Otto can be glimpsed a few times in the background, but is given no face time. And here I thought they had engineered the perfect preview for that particular spot on the Venn diagram where "People who like LOTR actors" and "People who like disaster shows" overlap.

The jungle. Kate and Locke start arguing over which way to go, because on one hand, Locke is Prince Humperdincking* that clearly there was a great battle is a second trail moving away from the Leaves of Driveshaft, while Kate's all like, "We have to follow the trail Charlie left!" and Locke's all like, "But how do we know that they didn't leave that as a distraction?" and Kate's like, "How do we know they didn't split up to make us THINK it was a distraction?" and OY, PEOPLE. Also, Kate is apparently quite the tracker herself, so Locke's like, "Look, Natty Bumppo, why won't you and your sweet love Jack go follow the other trail, then?," so they split up. (I can't promise that that was a direct quote. I can't remember who thought which trail was what, after all.) So Boone and Locke set off in the other direction.

The outskirts of El Waltador. Sawyer is getting "the six o'clock news from a six-year-old" (Walt: "I'M TEN"), which is how he finds out that Charlie and the Babymama have been hijacked and that Cavetown posses have been sent after them and that... Sayid is back. The look on Sawyer's face when he finds this out is priceless.

The Locke Lomond-Luxemboone Alliance. Boone reveals that his mom is "the Martha Stewart of weddings." So... she's Martha Stewart? And what does Boone do in her empire? "I RUN A DODGE BUSINESS!" Locke's just like, "Son, have you gone simple?"

The Katebabwe-Jackstralia Border. Kate and Jack discuss something. I can't remember what.

Oh, wait! I think they talk about how Kate's father was a big Army and/or Marine guy and she used to track deer with him or something, and that's how she knows how to follow trails. I really wanted her to just be like, "Dude, I saw The Two Towers like everyone else. I know what I'm doing."

Flashjack. Jack is standing in his father's office in his doctor's coat and I have to say, I've never really had a thing for doctors, but Matthew Fox looks pretty good here. Dad has some waiver or legal statement or something that he wants Jack, Captain Hero Surgeon of Record, to sign basically saying that the woman died because, to use the technical expression, "Shit happens." Jack holds out on Dad for a really, really long time. Dad's all like, "This is my life. Look at all the good I've done. I was hard on you because that's how you temper steel. If you don't sign this, I'm going to have to fly to Australia and drink myself to death in an alley," or somesuch shit. Jack is just not saying anything. Dad gets up and squeezes Jack's shoulder. I don't know why, but the gesture comes off as extremely inappropriate. I think it's because the actors do a good job here of showing how false and alien the gesture is on Dad's part, and how unused to it Jack is. Except that I also caught a slightly incestuous whiff off it for no good reason. I don't know. I think the fumes from the Boone-Shannon chemistry are starting to mess with my head. Anyway, Jack is so squicked out touched by his father's gesture that he bends over to sign the whatever. I was totally waiting for the pen not to work, but it does.

The Diplomatic Embassy of Sayidistan, Cavetown. Sayid's attractively sprawled out in his blood and his bandages when--uh-oh!--here comes Sawyer. Sawyer's "fresh out of sweet forgiveness," if I'm quoting that correctly. Sayid is totally screwed. Sawyer finds what looks like either a pair of nail clippers or a very tiny pair of pliers left by some Keebler elves and makes snip-snip gestures. NOOOO! NOT A MANICURE! SAWYER, YOU MONSTER! Sayid tells Sawyer that he did leave the camp because he felt so very, very terrible about what he did to Sawyer (whose lip is still faintly split--nice job, makeup and continuity folks). Sawyer's like, "So, yeah, where were you for a whole week, anyway?" And now Sayid gets to lay the big news on him: "I was held captive by the French woman." Sawyer: "Jigga whaaaat?" So: French woman, still alive, may be other people on the island, Sayid isn't sure what to believe. And then they have makeup sex. What? Don't lie, you know they did.

The beaches of Hurleguay. Walt is kicking Hurley's ass at backgammon. I don't know jackshit about backgammon, but someone who does needs to tell me whether Walt's playing "light or dark," as Locke put it in the pilot. By the way: Walt is seemingly able to roll whatever number he wants. Given that he also had a polar bear in his comic book and got Mercutio to promise to look for Vincent the Yellow Doomrador once the rain stopped (RAIN: *stops*), I find this interesting. Also, he mentions that his dad was the luckiest guy ever. Not Mercutio--his other dad. Silence. Hurley sits there like, "Awkward." Then Walt kicks his ass again, and Hurley decides he has to leave, because he has "a meeting." Heh.

The Locke Lomond-Luxemboone Alliance. I forget exactly what Locke and Boone discuss, but it may or may not have something to do with Locke telling Boone that it's going to rain in one minute ("Did you predict the weather back at the box company?"), so he should turn back and go to camp, but Boone would rather sack up and keep going, so good for him. And then it rains on them.

The Katebabwe-Jackstralia Border. Jack and Kate stumble around in the insta-mud. I think they find another leaf of Driveshaft here, so Jack goes leaping up a muddy hill while Kate's desperately trying to climb up vines and roots and crap, and so Jack's alone when he gets attacked by (DUN DUN DUN!) ETHAN. Ethan, by the way, is really scary. I think he must have taken some ass-kicking-on-film lessons from Cousin Tom, because he basically picks Jack up by the ankle and whacks him back and forth against the rocks like Bam-Bam or something. "IF YOU DON'T STOP FOLLOWING US," says Ethan, "I WILL KILL ONE OF THEM." In reply, Jack bleeds on the mud.

Unconscious Bleeding Flashjack: A nurse points out the dead girl's husband to Jack; he's speaking with Jack's father, who also gives Dead Girl's Husband the Inappropriate Squeeze. Dead Girl's Husband is extremely broken up about it and may sue. About the dead girl, not the squeeze, I mean. Although he might should sue over the squeeze, too.

Kate revives Jack, who may or may not have imagined Ethan, I guess ("You slipped and hit your head!" she says), but Jack says something like "Not again!" or "I'm not losing another one!," and keeps climbing up that hill.

Flashjack. Jack's father is smarming at some kind of legal and/or board meeting that sometimes people die, shit happens, Jack can vouch for him, etc. Basically we watch Jack look guilty for several minutes while the hospital officials question his father and clap him on the back and say, "Yeah, true dat." And then one of the officials makes a passing reference to the fact that the dead girl was in the early stages of pregnancy, and Jack's all like, "I WOULD LIKE TO REVISE MY STATEMENT PLEASE." And he spills everything: His father was drunk, he severed "the apatic hepatic artery," it was all his fault, etc. Jack's father just looks at him, like, "Drunk in Australia it is, then."

Suddenly, in the present, Jack and Kate stumble upon a blindfolded Charlie hanging from a tree. This is seriously one of the most disturbing things I've seen on TV. It's not the episode of Six Feet Under where [most recent season spoiler] we had to watch David's carjacking for a full, uninterrupted forty minutes, but it packs a pretty nightmarish punch for the amount of time it does run (I think it reminded me of some of the Abu Ghraib imagery, for some reason). Jack runs to Charlie and tries to lift him up and support Charlie's crotch with his face, which... I mean, hey, you're the doctor, man. Kate climbs up the tree and tries to cut the vine he's hanging by but she can't reach it and we spend like three minutes watching her flail at it with Locke's knife (convenient!) while Charlie hangs there limp as a rag. So finally they cut Charlie down and Kate cries and Captain Hero Dr. Jack performs CPR on him for another five minutes. It doesn't work. Charlie just lies there. Then Jack starts whacking Charlie in the chest, which I thought was Jack having a nervous breakdown, but my stepfather told me at this point that this is something they really do in some cases of cardiac arrest. So... okay. It doesn't work. Jack keeps beating Charlie. And now Kate decides that it's time for her to step up in the Losing of the Shit sweepstakes and go for the Long Distance event; she proceeds to stagger around in circles and weep and whimper at Jack to stop and then wheel around again and cry in the arms of a sympathetic palm tree while Captain Hero Jack tenderizes poor Charlie's carcass for approximately twelve minutes. The judges give her an 8.359 and an Emmy nomination. And then Jack sits up in the rain and the violins start in and the camera pulls back and Charlie just lies there and he is dead. Totally dead. Stone cold dead. An ex-Charlie. Joined the rock band invisible. The internets burst into flame and JJ Abrams' inbox crashes under the weight of the death threats. And then Jack gives Charlie three or four more savage punches to the sternum while Kate wails. Seriously, this is what "beating a dead horse" looks like, in case you've ever wondered, except that OMG CHARLIE'S NOT DEAD! CHARLIE IS BREATHING! and the scene swings back from "the ballsiest move in the history of genre television" to "criminally manipulative." Kate and Jack cry and hug and cradle him and smile and hobbit makes three.

And if you listen very carefully, you can hear Charlie gasping, "Shattered... sternum! Internal... bleeding! Ack...!"

Cavetown-on-Dead Pool, night. Kate drapes a blanket over Charlie, who is brooding broodfully by the fire. Charlie has apparently had his death sentence commuted to "hanged by the neck until sexy." Jack swears they'll start looking for Claire again the moment the sun comes back up, but in the meantime, can Charlie remember anything? Anything? And Charlie robots, "No. I remember nothing. NOTHING." Now, the way he says this... I can't tell if either the trauma or the brief lack of oxygen to his brain has made him unable to remember, or if Charlie is afraid to tell what he knows because Ethan has threatened to kill Claire if they try to rescue her or something. Then he adds that they totally just wanted Claire the whole time, that's all they were after. To which I can only say: this is what I have been saying all along. The polar bear gods are still hungry, man, and that baby sauce ain't gonna make itself.

Meanwhile, out in the jungle: Boone decides to turn back, so Locke tosses him his flashlight, which Boone doesn't catch, and it falls on--thunk!--something metal. DUN DUN DUN.


Next on Lost: We don't know, because they're just gonna show reruns for the next couple of weeks.



*Y'all totally came up with the Princess Bride reference in the comments here; I can't take credit for that.



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Comments

[kohler.livejournal.com]

your recaps > everything ever

[vaguely.livejournal.com]

Your icon > sex.

[honerbright.livejournal.com]

The polar bear gods are still hungry, man, and that baby sauce ain't gonna make itself.

lmfao, you recaps rule

King of the Cannibal Islands

[(Anonymous)]

Cleolinda, you've done it again. Don't know if you're aware of the song "King of the Cannibal Islands" by the pirate acapella group The Corsairs, but the second verse starts out:

Woman pie and _baby sauce_,
and little-boy pudding for the second course...

Yeah. Thanks muchly for another great recap.

~silverleaf

[rpp.livejournal.com]

Recap, yay! So funny.

Did you notice Sawyer's fingertips were still bandaged, too? Nice touch, that.

[sweetle.livejournal.com]

hanged by the neck until sexy

So, what, that'd take about 0.6 seconds, then? (http://www.livejournal.com/users/patsie/158233.html)

[angel-kathryn.livejournal.com]

Good call :) :p

[maggiesox.livejournal.com]

HOwling. I AM HOWLING.

[frodosgoosegirl.livejournal.com]

Heee. That was wonderful. And I think you should do them on Thursdays more often because I don't get to watch the episodes til then anyway and so I don't feel like I do when EVERYONE GETS THE ROTK EE before me. Right. And I also get to be on the first page of comments. Heh. That was a totally selfish comment I just realized, and I apologize.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Jack points out that he is also a registered hero

Heeeee.

I think Sawyer was playing with one of those folding cut throat razors but, like, upside down or something so you only saw the bit you push with your thumb to flick it open. No idea where they got that unless the smugglers struck again or Aussie detectors are reeeeaaaaal lazy.

And that one long shot of Charlie in the mud with Jack kneeling next to him and it's all off centre? Great. Charlie coming back to life? You bastards!

[veetvoojagig.livejournal.com]

Actually, Jack pulls it out of a little bag in episode one or two, I can't remember which. When he's going through the luggage for meds.

[noneofthis.livejournal.com]

omg, these recaps own my soul, damn you. Not that I was using it, anyway.

[noneofthis.livejournal.com]

This would be aralinde, sigh.

[malhablada.livejournal.com]

"An ex-Charlie."

AAAAANNNNNND that's where I officially lost it, although I came close at: "In reply, Jack bleeds on the mud."

Your recaps are the best reason to watch the show, other than the sweet sweet Sayid eyecandy.

[scarletsherlock.livejournal.com]

And then they have makeup sex. What? Don't lie, you know they did.

LMAO.

you are so dead-on with this every week, I didn't mind waiting a couple of days. Still great.

So, does Ethan=Alex? or is that way too obvious?

[lilgoala.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but I don't think so. Assuming Danielle gave birth on the island, Alex shouldn't be any older than 16, and Ethan is at least twice that age.

The only way it would work is if Alex was in his teens when they went to the island on that science expedition, but why would Danielle and Robert bring their kid on a trip like that?

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

the scene swings back from "the ballsiest move in the history of genre television" to "criminally manipulative."

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

I was also righteously pissed off that it's okay to kill patients by cutting their hepatic arteries as long as they aren't pregnant.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, hepatic I was like, what, it's just an artery that really, really doesn't care?

[orange852.livejournal.com]

Ethan, by the way, is really scary. I think he must have taken some ass-kicking-on-film lessons from Cousin Tom, because he basically picks Jack up by the ankle and whacks him back and forth against the rocks like Bam-Bam or something.

That's the one that slew me. Loved the whole thing, but the Mysterious Ethan's whack turn in the woods put me on the floor.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen any actual episodes of Lost due to crap TV issues, but your recaps make me want to. Brilliant as ever.

[prncssaurora.livejournal.com]

Okay, first.

The Lost recaps are probably the greatest thing ever. And the funny thing is that I don't even watch the show, because I'm never around when it's on and I'm too poor to have a VCR. But I love the synopses!

Secondly, I just got back from seeing the Phantom movie (I'm doing a study abroad in London, leaving for home on Tuesday, and wanted to see it before I went home since it doesn't come out in the States until the 22nd). I'd just like to take this opportunity to say WOW.

Question, though. You read the book in the original French, right? Do you think it would lose much in the translation? Because I'm interested in reading it... I've seen the musical three times, and now the movie, but never read the book.

Anyway, I'm spent.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Actually, I read the book in English, not in French (I don't have a French copy yet--someone sent it to me in PDF format, though). How well do you speak/read French? Because it's a pretty short book, and I suspect I personally will have found it helpful to have read it in English first.

[seriouslyso.livejournal.com]

O, R they?

HAH. It's tiny things like this that make me look forward to your recaps as much as I do the show.

(I'm a semi-new reader,btw. sort of. followed m15m for a bit and then Lost happened and.. here I am. Hello.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hi!

[ammepyre.livejournal.com]

The internets burst into flame and JJ Abrams' inbox crashes under the weight of the death threats.

Love it.

I think I'm going to have to come up with a dead charlie icon or two cause I'm strange like that. *grin*

[newbia.livejournal.com]

the scene swings back from "the ballsiest move in the history of genre television" to "criminally manipulative."

So true! It's a good thing they were "killing" off one of the most well loved characters, because if it had been someone else JJ would *die* for pulling a trick like that.

even though Ethan could have traveled under a different name or just not appeared on the manifest due to a paperwork error, or, for that matter, might easily be out menacing people whose names do not appear in the opening credits

Well, I think that Hurley talked to *everyone* on the island and all the names clicked, but Ethan was not only off the manifest, having him there made there be more people on the plane than was listed. If Hurley saw "Sawyer, Hurley, and Claire" on the manifest, talked to them, and then noticed Jack, he would be all,"Who is Jack?"

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

For some reason, the whole "Charlie's dead" scene seemed almost Christ-like in its imagery. With the Claire-as-Madonna-(Of-The-Antichrist) implications and Locke in the shaman role, the religious subtext of this show is astounding.

[ammepyre.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. Especially after seeing this picture (http://www.lost-media.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=115&pos=915). If that isn't a (vine/rope) halo around his head than it's the next best thing to one.

[charapita.livejournal.com]

that totally cheered up my absolute crap day. i always look forward to your amazingly fabulous recaps.

he basically picks Jack up by the ankle and whacks him back and forth against the rocks like Bam-Bam or something

that really made me laugh for some reason. ;)

[brenah.livejournal.com]

'And now Kate decides that it's time for her to step up in the Losing of the Shit sweepstakes and go for the Long Distance event; she proceeds to stagger around in circles and weep and whimper at Jack to stop and then wheel around again and cry in the arms of a sympathetic palm tree while Captain Hero Jack tenderizes poor Charlie's carcass for approximately twelve minutes. The judges give her an 8.359 and an Emmy nomination.'


Bwhahahahahahahahahhahah! You are gonna *kill me* one of these days, Cleo!!

[deesarrachi.livejournal.com]

LOVE. So, so much love. Thank you for making me realize I wasn't the only person to think that he Sawyer/Sayid scene had sexual tension so thick you could cut it with a knife.

"This is my life. Look at all the good I've done. I was hard on you because that's how you temper steel. If you don't sign this, I'm going to have to fly to Australia and drink myself to death in an alley,"

*dies of teh funneh* Yes. A world of yes.

And flashjacks? That's finding its way into my day-to-day vocabulary somehow. I'll find a way to say it, you'll see.

[goddess-raven.livejournal.com]

So brilliant!! I adore your recaps! Is it said that I've been known to quote some of the funnier lines you say? hehe So far "I can't math" ranks on #1.

Also, good luck with your book!!

[riney.livejournal.com]

such a great recap! you captured all the best parts.

and following some of your links to previous recaps - i LOVE how we were presented with Ethan pretty much like the people on the island were. we're watching an episode and all of a sudden there are new characters with DIALOGUE! and i was instantly like "who the heck is he?" but i also just accepted it. crazy.

oh, and just to help you make sense of some of the "mysteries" of the island, Walt's "other" dad had told him that he (ie Walt) was the luckiest person he ever met.

and as for hurley .. sometimes i really want to know his backstory. and sometimes i couldn't care less. and if people back home really think of him as a "mighty hunter," i want to see these people.

[elbales]

The Bam-Bam bit? I wanna see pictures of that. Dude.

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

It reminded me of the part in Gothika where the ghost girl (can't remember her name, too lazy to go check) was throwing Miranda (Halle Barry) back in forth against the walls in the cell.

[meghatron.livejournal.com]

Back at Cavetown-on-Dead Pool, Mercutio's all like, *grumble grumble 'go south' son of a bitch grumble* and his kid is pontificating on the glory that is Locke, the "mighty hunter." I am serious, I remember Walt actually saying something like, "Mr. Locke, he's a mighty hunter." Hurley: "Where I come from, I was considered a mighty hunter." Of what, the wild Cheeto? Bless.

Walt said "warrior." And our first thought about Hurley's remark was that he was known as a warrior in RPG circles, either online or tabletop. The fact that he apparently competes in backgammon tournaments only helped the imagery -- I see the crowds at GenCon parting in his wake.

Boone reveals that his mom is "the Martha Stewart of weddings." So... she's Martha Stewart?

OMG I said the same thing, word for word to husband when we were watching it on Wednesday.

[methodicmadness.livejournal.com]

I misheard and thought he said that his mother *was* Martha Stewart at first, and I was all o.O