Bunheads, episode 10. In which tension is high, the Ringer is being super-creepy, Michelle is interfering in everybody's business, romance is running havoc, chaos is fast impeding, and Sutton Foster gets to sing.
The show starts with Michelle and Fanny walking in the garden, en route to the studio, where Fanny is about to see the evil rat -mice - dance that Michelle choreographed for the Nutcracker. In the studio, a fantastic Evil Rat Dance awaits, complete with Sasha, who is standing in for Clara, Sasha clearly having decided to return to ballet following the conversation with Michelle at the end of the last episode. Madame Fanny applauds the dance, and silently agrees to let Sasha back as Clara, a choice in which we all approve. But as we are all thanking our lucky stars the Fanny has a Clara at last, in walks - or dances - the talented, nameless, ballet machine otherwise known as "The Ringer'" whose services as Clara Fanny has employed in Sasha's absence. The trouble is, now that Sasha is back, they no longer need the Ringer. Common sense would tell anybody to just go up to the Ringer and ask her to leave, but clearly Fanny is hesitant about that. And I can see why; the Ringer kinda freaks me out to. Although I'm sure that I can dance better then she can. And I'm much prettier then her. Anyway, when she realizes that somebody needs to break the news to the Ringer, Michelle hightails it upstairs, accidentally stumbling into what seems to be the front line of a battle zone, where the Bunheads are maintaining a stoney silence. Curious, michelle asks whats going on, finally getting a straight answer from Sasha, who is bored to death of the whole thing. It turns out that the problem is, of course, boys, more specifically, Charlie. Who Ginny likes, but Melanie doesn't want her to date, even though Boo now likes Carl. And Sasha? She wishes they were all lesbians. But Sasha, then they'd all be fighting about girls, not boys, and it wouldn't really be that different. Michelle manages to set up a deal between the Bunheads that allows Ginny to date Charlie as long as she never talks about him with Melanie, and everybody sops making fun of the Hobbit. Otherwise known as Carl. Sasha, curious as to the robot dancing nonstop, heads downstairs to confront Fanny. Fanny happily delegates the task of kicking out the Ringer to Sasha, who tries to make it clear who's Clara. Th Ringer, unfortunately, is not going to go quietly. Or at all, really. She pokes fun at Sasha for cheerleading - Did Sasha really have to tell her that? - and announces that she will be Clara.
At the Oyster bar, the fundraiser which Michelle put together is going quite smoothly, and everybody is in costume and looking quite insane. Especially Ginny and Melanie, who are trying to be 'nice' to Carl. Carl, rightly, is freaked out. Enter Charlie, who Melanie is not pleased to see, but who takes Ginny away for a 'change of scenery.' Michelle, pleased with the success of the evening, wanders over to Fanny and Michael, and does some serious compliment-fishing. After getting teased by Michael, michelle goes and gives some advice to Boo, who is mooning over Carl. Honestly, I think Carl - although he can't dance well - deserves somebody way, way better then Boo, who is really annoying, and who was horrible to him in the last episode. Taking Michelle's advice a bit farther then Michelle intended, Boo publicly apologizes to Carl, begging for forgiveness, and completely humiliating herself - well, somebody has to. Carl, in a moment of idiocy, forgives her, and they dance together. However, things aren't looking so good on Fanny's end. Michael has just announced his plans to build a house in Montana. Plans which have nothing to do with her, breaking her fantasy of the two of them together in a cosy cabin. Fanny tells Michelle that he doesn't know about her plans yet, prompting Michelle to ask her why she doesn't tell him. Fanny thinks that is a bad, bad, idea.
Melanie, fed up with Charlie's idiot friend, announces that she's leaving; which prompts Ginny to really mess up her first kiss with Charlie. Well, not really a kiss, because she whacks him in the mouth with her head, at which Charlie gets rightly annoyed. Michelle, once again trying to help, (But messing things up hugely) goes over to Michael, and tells him all of Fanny's plans, and how disappointed she is that his plans doesn't include her. Michael, who is not taking the news well, leaves to 'Make A Call.' Who knows if he's ever coming back. Wow, nice going, Michelle. Sasha, on the other hand, is having more luck tonight in the romance department. While hiding from the Ringer - who is stalking her, just waiting for some tragic accident so that she can play Clara - behind a dirty-dish carrier, she meets Tyler. She and Tyler - a basketball player who works at the Oyster Bar - talk, and we sense romance in the air, before Tyler pushes the cart back in front of her, and leaves us hoping for more. Meanwhile, Michelle is kissing Godot, who is ready to cut to the chase before leaving for Australia. He is way to young for her. WE WANT CONOR BACK!
Back at the Studio, Fanny is in a very bad mood because Michael has left, (No surprise there) and is tormenting a couple of dancers, while the Ringer torments Sasha. Ginny is unloading the Charlie-situation on Matisse, who is getting annoyed. Finally, she interrupts Ginny in the middle of her 'Prom Night Sex Plan' to tell her that she is only twelves, and therefor the whole conversation is inappropriate. (And probably really dumb.) Ginny, however, is shut up on her own when she sees Charlie drive up with another girl. We always knew Charlie was a dolt, but thats just crazy.
Backstage at the Nutcracker, chaos reigns supreme, and the air conditioning is broken. Michelle fixes Fanny's eyelashes, diving into her infamous Zombie Apocalypse Vegas Slut Bag to do so, rifling through tampons, chocolate, makeup, a toilet, the empire state building, Idina Menzel, and a bottle of Mace. Meanwhile, Ginny and Melanie are starting another cold war over Charlie, eve though he is no longer part of the picture, and the Ringer is being very annoying. The dance starts, and due to the broken air conditioner, everyone is hot and sweating. Michelle, trying to liven things up, pulls out a bottle from her ZAVSB, and.......MACES THE ENTIRE CAST! Yup, thats right, and everybody is going nuts, not least of all Michelle, who has also maced herself. ?????? The Ringer, who has typically escaped the lethal chemicals, steals Sasha's hair-bow and steps over her on the way to the stage, while everybody else is bumping into each other in crazy game of Marco Polo. Unfortunately, the show cannot be saved, and everybody heads to the ER.
At the Paradise Hospital, Michelle is trying to take attendance with limited vision, and ends up yelling at a cardboard cutout of a nurse, which is really funny. On the girls end of things, Ginny and Melanie are making up, and Sasha has run into Mr. Huge Coincident. Otherwise known as the basketball player Tyler, who has an alter-ego named Roman, which seems to impress Sasha as much as it does us. While all that boy-drama is going on, Michelle innocently tells Fanny that she basically ruined her relationship with Darling Michael. Fanny, naturally, is furious, and screams that Michelle is has ruined her whole life, and causes trouble everywhere. We can't help but agree with that, because Michelle does have a habit of absolutely messing things up everywhere.
We return to Michelle's well-worn audition dream, but this time, its different. Michelle does an amazing rendition of Maybe This Time, and does a wonderful dance that we had to watch twice to absorb the insane level of awesomeness! But when she looks to the back of the theatre, the guy in the director chair isn't a director.....Its Hubble! Darling Hubble, who is now dead. (Another thing Fanny blames Michelle for.) Hubble reassures Michelle, telling her that he wanted her to shake up the town like she shook up him. She says that she was trying to help the girls; she didn't want them to end up like her. Then we get a glimpse of Michelle, who has broken Fanny's four green frogs. Hubble mentions that Fanny always wanted a girl, and then he leaves, as Michelle questions whether she would have stayed.
Back at the Hospital, Michelle wakes up to hear the parents clamoring for her blood. Upset, she turns to leave, but not before the Bunheads pay their respects. Started by Sasha (Yay Sasha!!!!!!) they all climb on their chairs to re-enact a scene from the Dead Poets Society. Michelle is touched, but reminds them that the man leaves anyway. And leaves, prehapes forever.
So now, we wait. For episode two to pull us out of our misery.
Rebecca
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