Fi’s spent too many years dealing with a drunken father coming home and doing exactly that. To be fair, he made the biggest mistake of walking to her house drunk in the afternoon (after wallowing some more about Gay Dad) and then whining about his problems. In the first, Fiona and the rest of the Gallagher crew decide to start digging in the backyard too because Frank is useless, but her dismissal of Jimmy’s woes reaches a breaking point. There’s some other drama this week, like V-Kev accepting that if they want a child they’ll need a surrogate and Ian robbing Jimmy’s dad’s house/divorcing wife for him, but it really all boils down to two big, final scenes. He’ll spend two seasons pining for psycho Karen but can’t accept a girl like Mandy actually caring about him? I’d hit Lip, but he’d probably be grateful. Kev teases him at their weed-selling ice cream truck that he’s “ghetto married” (she stays over four nights a week and cooks and cleans for him), but because Lip never wants to be happy, he curses her out and tells her to go home. Lip just will not let a girl being nice to him go. He then rolls up his sleeves, stands up on his two feet and GOES TO KEV’S BAR TO ASK FOR HELP (he tells them they’re looking for jewelry instead of evidence of a felony). He of course ends up drinking more beer than he does digging holes until he is lectured that hiding a body and stealing for over a decade from the federal government would send him up the river for life. You see, Frank is like Popeye and PBR is his spinach.
So before heading to work, Fi helpfully gives Frank the task of finding the bag of bones and an 8AM bottle of beer. Digging up the backyard means they may find Aunt Ginger’s body (as mentioned in Season 1, Frank buried Ginger there 15 years ago and has been cashing her social securities checks ever since). But stabbing thumbtacks in the cash register is nothing compared to the stabbing notice from the city. Instead of reporting him last week, they’re just taking their anger out on Fi. At work, she has become the supermarket punching bag because she’s the only one who won’t tend to Bobby’s beef. Lip is also perplexed as to why Mandy is hanging around his every breath like he’s some prince charming who drove across state lines to rescue her abandoned transgender half-sibling…oh right.įiona’s problems just keep mounting the rest of the episode. It doesn’t help when Molly thinks she’s a girl and young Carl is getting all confused by these boy/girl gender labels, especially since he’s like the last one to pick up on Ian being Gay. Fi doesn’t have time to worry about Jimmy’s daddy issues, because she still has to find Molly a home so that she and Mandy don’t become permanent members of the Gallagher house. But as this show’s plotting is as dense as a slice of pizza on Wacker Drive, I had to gloss over a few things like, oh, Mandy’s orphaned half-sister, Molly, actually being a boy who thinks (s)he has “a girl penis.” As Fiona says, it’s just a small reaction from a “meth ravaged junkie who hates men.” Anyway, Jimmy’s world is so rocked that he can’t even focus on Fiona’s spectacularly (and gratuitously) nude body while he wonders who else from his childhood onwards his closeted father was taking to the wardrobe. A few, like the whole Gallagher family finding out Jimmy’s dad is Gay when he tried to slip into Ian’s bed and accidentally put it in Lip, I was able to properly cover. For these primarily Irish-Catholic Chicagoans, only mistakes lay ahead.įirst is the immediate reaction of last week’s revelations. “The Sins of My Caretaker” is the ominous title of the episode and sins of the past, present and future is the name of its game.
Realizing they’ll soon be clearing all the yard’s shit, he decides to leave the biggest piece in it right where he is when he paints the orange x over Frank’s face. He’s been ordered to come by the Gallagher house and inform its denizens that because of a pipe leak, they’ll be back in a few days to tear up the yard and clean the crap bubbling within. However, it’s more likely from the worker’s paint can. The bright aura could be due to it being 7AM and therefore far too early for sobriety for the slob savant. Instead of seeing the disapproving city worker standing above him, all he sees is a blurry mess of a man with an orange glow. Frank’s vision fails him when he opens his eyes.