September 14, 2006: Furniture Hooker
After the premiere last week, one of the first comments I got was that we should be expecting more than just sex jokes from our shows. I think we are clearly getting the picture that
'Til Death will not be that show.
I really hope this isn't the way the future goes. I'm not married yet, but the scenarios in this show somehow actually seem plausible to me. The newlywed Steph likes to buy furniture sight unseen, and, in return for Jeff's turning a blind eye to his girly house, he gets sex. Who's going to argue with sex, right? But then there's Joy, who learns of this technique and tries it on Eddie, who must research everything before buying, and he actually turns the sex down. Who's going to argue with manly patio furniture, right? OK, so maybe this isn't so plausible after all.
Joy's actually offering Eddie "daytime sex" was funny. How many ways can Eddie put down his wife here? "You realize it's light out; I'll be able to see you," he says. Or after really giving it some thought, given the choice between having sex like they did in Mexico or unseen chairs, he simply says, "Pass!" I really hope I never say to my future wife, "I've had sex with you, I know what it's about." (I always find things like this funny on TV because it's Joely Fisher we're talking about here. She is pretty damn hot. Turning down sex with your wife is much more believable when she's not looking like Joy.)
I think I might have kicked Eddie's butt if he called my new wife a "furniture hooker," but that seemed OK with Jeff. Sooner or later maybe Eddie will turn him into a man.
In the end, Joy buys the patio furniture anyway and withdraws the sex offer. So, like any good man should, he turns it all back around on the woman and makes her feel guilty. (Whoa now, I'm just kidding.) In the end, Joy offers to get him 25 lbs. of mail-order beef if she can keep her furniture. Who's going to argue with bacon-wrapped beef?
