Recap: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Episode 7 – I’m So Happy That Josh Is So Happy!

Recap: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Episode 7: “I’m So Happy That Josh Is So Happy!” – The CW, original airdate Mon. 11/23/15
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In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Episode 7, Dr. Phil makes a cameo appearance, Rebecca has a sexy French depression, Josh moves in with Valencia, and Paula entertains a new client.

Josh and Valencia have lived up to their promise from last week’s episode, and are moving in together. (Rebecca and Paula sit outside and watch. When Greg texts Rebecca, Paula is annoyed, noting “It’s like he’s a stalker. No one likes a stalker,” and pulls out some binoculars.) Valencia, who’s being a real b*tch, tells “Joshie” they need some new furniture, and is upset that he forgot to buy sage — she needs it to cleanse the house because ghosts are obsessed with her. Rebecca dabbles with the idea of giving Josh the rice cooker she bought for a housewarming gift and tries to call him but — and here’s where her downward spiral begins — he hits ignore when he sees she’s calling.

She can’t stop thinking about this in the office, and despite her attempts to focus on the new client, Calvin Young, whose socks she’s supposed to knock off, she can’t get Josh off her mind. She assures Darryl that she “won’t press ignore … on this case,” much to his confusion, and tries to work on the presentation. In an attempt to calm down, she pulls out a bottle of vodka, and as she drinks some out of her pen cup, Dr. Phil shows up on her laptop, talking about panic attack symptoms (all of which she have). Karen comes in to announce that Calvin is in the office. He walks in, and everyone in the office swoons. He’s quite taken with Paula, telling that her perfume is delightful. “Thank you. I rubbed a magazine on myself this morning,” she tells him. Darryl, Paula (especially Paula), and the team are making a great impression on Calvin, but Rebecca’s off in Josh-land. On Darryl’s second prompt to take it away, she takes a swig from her pen cup — the ink turns her teeth Smurf blue! She’s just not on her game, so Darryl sends her home (she’s not off the case – phew!). He asks her to come back as the happy Rebecca they all know and love.

At home, she tells Paula she’s working hard on the presentation, but she’s splayed out on the couch. As she flips through the channels, she sees a French movie and notes how sexy they make depression look. This prompts Rebecca’s Sexy French Depression song. This song’s going to stick in my head all week. “This grout needs to be redone … I’m in a sexy French depression.”

Dr. Phil shows up — Rebecca’s mind invited him in. He lectures her on getting a hold of her depression and notes that her place is a dump. He watches her go through her kitchen looking for prescription meds in a drawer, and lectures her on seeing a doctor for anxiety and depression.

Rebecca goes to see a psychiatrist on imaginary Dr. Phil’s advice, but she wants to delve into Rebecca’s childhood, and isn’t keen on the idea of just writing a prescription. Rebecca heads to her restroom (note the white rabbits all over the wall – nice touch!) and finds a little pink pill on the floor. It’s ADD medication, and when she heads home with it, Dr. Phil implores her not to take it, and to realize Josh is rejecting her and doesn’t want her. But she takes the pill, and the upper effects kick in right away.

Paula, Darryl and Calvin have their client dinner at Paula’s place (who has a client dinner at home?) and it’s obvious that Paula is into Calvin, who she sees as a very sophisticated man. He also happens to be a widower (who’s taking life and grabbing it). Darryl seems to catch on that the two have some chemistry, because he heads out and leaves them to their own devices. Calvin asks her out for the next day (well, her and her husband) – “Would you and your husband like to join me for some smooth licks” (at the jazz club) he asks. She notes that her husband is busy and “isn’t much of a licker.” HAHAHAHA. 😂

The next day, Rebecca shows imaginary Dr. Phil all that she’s done — and it doesn’t involve the presentation. She has, however, put up Christmas lights, and a fish. She calls next-door-neighbor Heather for some downers. They smoke some weed together, and it definitely works to bring Rebecca down — and cracks her up.

Throughout all of this, Josh and his friends (Greg, White Josh, and some other dude) have been putting a table together for Valencia — one she didn’t pick out. They’re all exhausted, and at one point have sort of an intervention, where they compare Valencia to the table. “There’s still time to bail … on the table,” Greg says. “We were friends with you before we even met this table.” They tell him they don’t like the table — in fact, they hate the table — “and you’re going to ruin your life if you stick with this table.” “Bros before … tables,” says White Josh. (Hector thinks it’s nice and tells a nice story that is unintentionally full of double-entendres — we’ll just say it could be about butt stuff and leave it at that.)

Rebecca and Heather eat some burritos and head to the shrink’s office. She’s not there, but her prescription pad is. They reason she wouldn’t have left it by the window if she didn’t want someone to take it — it’s like a wizard test. Rebecca tries to fit through the doggy door (because she says she’s tiny) to break in, but it turns out the doctor is in, after all.

Meanwhile, Calvin and Paula go on their jazz club date. “I love jazz,” she says. “I mean, the Charlie Brown theme song, come on!” They share some drinks, and Paula sings a sexy, jazzy song about Calvin, who she sees as very worldly. “Fine hotels are where he stays, the kind with grand breakfast buffets, and a chef who can make omelets in a variety of ways.” They decide they don’t want the date to end, and head to a hotel. (Oh no! I knew Paula was unhappy with her husband, but I didn’t expect this!)

The psychiatrist tells Rebecca and Heather that she could have them arrested for breaking and entering, and, in a way that nobody IRL would do (but yay, it’s TV), tells Rebecca as long as she makes an appointment and get help, she won’t press charges. Rebecca agrees and goes outside, and lies down in the grass. (How stoned is she?!) She calls Paula to tell her that she can’t do the presentation for Calvin, and asks if she can have Darryl tell him, but (dun dun dunnnnnn), Paula is with Calvin. In a hotel. “Hotel? Why are you at a hotel? Is that Anita Baker playing in the background?” She realizes what’s happening, and heads over to the hotel to save Paula just as she and Calvin are about to do it.

Josh and friends are done with the table, and bring Valencia in to look at the table. Wow, she’s a b*tch. She’s just not … excited … at all. The guys, minus Josh, seem to know she won’t like it, but he’s crushed when he finds out she doesn’t like it. “You could take it apart and give it back,” she tells him in a condescending-masked-as-loving basic b*tch voice. “She scares me so bad,” Greg says, as she leaves.

Rebecca intervenes in Paula and Calvin’s affair, and tells her that this is just a band-aid. Her marriage is dead, and Paula needs to feel her feelings and face it. This is just a temporary fix, Rebecca says, like a pill you found on the bathroom floor. (“Who would take a pill they found on the floor?” Calvin asks.) Rebecca has realized that she numbs herself and has to feel her own feelings. Paula feels her feelings at that point (it’s been 10 years since she made love without the TV on and 5 since someone held her hand) and then Calvin feels his feelings (“I miss my dead wife”). As the three cry together, Heather munches on a snack. “Literally the most entertaining day of my life.”

Calvin has had a change of heart on the affair, and tells Paula how great she is, but how important marriage is — and how he’d like to hold his dead wife again. (“Is this alpaca?” he asks about her sweater as the two hug. “My dead white wife loved alpaca.”) Rebecca’s speech has wowed Calvin; she doesn’t need to worry about his presentation. She’s won his business for the firm and has become the office hero. (Hooray!)

Rebecca’s also going to finally work on facing her feelings, she tells the psychiatrist … but (text from Josh comes in) she’s feeling better already. She ditches the doc to meet Josh for some boba, where he apologizes for not calling her back, and shows her a picture of the table he made for Valencia. With no context or knowledge of what went down, she tells him it’s a perfect table (awww, they’re so meant to be).

She gives him the rice cooker, and he invites her over to check out the house soon (they can dance around like in Risky Business), and Dr. Phil shows up — for real this time. “Good luck to you, buddy,” he tells Josh, after seeing some of Rebecca’s crazy (ex-girlfriend) ramblings.

Everything seemed to wrap up, with a tidy bow, at the end of this episode, which is apropos, because it looks like next week is the Christmas episode — and the winter finale. Can’t wait! 😍

 

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend airs Monday nights at 8/7c on The CW.

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