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Now that the brunette has finally come to terms with his gayness, the blond is randomly calling their cute make-out session an \"indiscretion\" and advising that the brunette get back with his ex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/what-is-wrong-with-you-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/what-is-wrong-with-you-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/rooting-for-you.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/rooting-for-you.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"242\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brunette is just as outraged as me and Tyra Banks, and walks out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things aren't going so well over at the palace either. When Victoria declares herself #TeamOpenTheWindow, Albert throws a tantrum that even Lil Vicki, who's a toddler, looks at and thinks, \u003cem>Wow, you're doing too much.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/tantrum-freakout.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/tantrum-freakout.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He threatens to run to the side of his bromance bestie, Prime Minister Peele, to support him as he advocates for the poor at Parliament. Victoria calmly reminds him of the separation between the monarchy and government. Albert responds by saying, \u003cem>Mooooom! You're ruining my life!\u003c/em>, before storming out. Victoria wonders aloud why he's being so \"objectionable.\" That's a good word for him. A few more words that also work: annoying, insufferable know-it-all brat that gives Veruca Salt a run for her money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/lXlOWw.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/lXlOWw.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surprising no one, his presence at Parliament is not received well and is used by Peele's opponents to discredit the appeal to care about poor people. Albert takes responsibility for his actions and vows to be less impulsive in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LOL, just kidding, he punches a wall because, like I said, he's a brat!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/veruca_badegg.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101991\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/veruca_badegg.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He storms home and proceeds to yell in Victoria's face about all of the following things:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>his conspiracy theory that Lehzen -- or as he likes to call her \"that woman\" -- has bewitched Victoria.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>his conspiracy theory that \"that woman\" poisoned Victoria against her mother.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>his conspiracy theory that \"that woman\" is trying to poison Victoria against him.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>his belief that Victoria is too willful and stubborn, and exaggerates all the time.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>his ultimatum that either Lehzen goes or he goes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As \u003cem>RuPaul's Drag Race\u003c/em> winner and great philosopher Bianca del Rio once said: \"Need help packing? Beat it, queen!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLp_7kTqjxE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, Blond Most Definitely Gay is crafting a letter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dear Brunette Most Definitely Gay, \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sorry about all that internalized homophobia I threw around at our dinner date. Join me for oysters and third base, but for real this time? XOXO\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of romance, Ernst and Widow Bestie finally get to play a quick round of tonsil hockey... until Uncle/Daddy Leopold does what he does best:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-1020x830.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-1020x830.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-800x651.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-768x625.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-1200x977.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-1180x960.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-960x781.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-240x195.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-375x305.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-520x423.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again.jpg 1327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Victoria and Albert agree to forget all about the legitimate issues that exist between them 'cause Lil Vicki catches a fever and almost dies. Good for them, I guess, but they should probably go to couples' therapy at some point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Parliament, Peele successfully passes his \u003cem>Hey Guys Let's Stop Being Pricks and Let Poor People Have Food\u003c/em> bill. He asks Brunette Most Definitely Gay if he wants a ride home, and BMDG responds: \"Thank you, sir, but I have an engagement.\" You see what he did there? Unlike his sham marital engagement, his love for Blonde Most Definitely Gay is the real deal! Let's get this oyster party started!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/oysters-dancing-cartoon-gif-1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/oysters-dancing-cartoon-gif-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A moment later, an assassin who doesn't want to stop being a prick and let poor people have food tries to shoot Peele! Because the show writers insist on perpetuating the \u003ca href=\"http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BuryYourGays\">bury your gays trope\u003c/a>, Brunette Most Definitely Gay takes the bullet and dies in the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cry-push-computer-bad-girls-club.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cry-push-computer-bad-girls-club.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"269\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told y'all they would do this. I understand that a happy ending for the Most Definitely Gays is not exactly realistic in the 1840s, but the show has taken creative license with so many other things. Why not this? Killing off a gay character just feels so lazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/disappointed.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101997\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/disappointed.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"234\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blond Most Definitely Gay waits at the oyster restaurant for his date, but he doesn't show BECAUSE HE'S DEAD. The next day, the Duchess takes him aside, gives him her flask, breaks the news to him, and reminds him to a.) breathe and b.) stay in the closet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/deal-with-it-sad-mad-men-drunk.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/deal-with-it-sad-mad-men-drunk.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cut to Hot Italian Chef and Babyface Maid flirting in a rowboat, eating strawberry tarts, and making out. This immediate juxtaposition of gay tragedy and straight harmony is just rubbing salt in the wound. Do better, \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em> writers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/youre-a-disgrace.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/youre-a-disgrace.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the palace, Victoria fires Lehzen so Albert will stop throwing jealous tantrums. Yeah... good luck with that. When Lehzen leaves after 20 years of service, the only person who sees her off is the mean butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/giphy-10.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38267\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/giphy-10.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Prime Minister Peele fires himself because, like me, he's just over all of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Ernst almost proposes to Widow Bestie, but finds another rash and decides to spare her a case of syphilis. Which would be sad if the next scene wasn't Brunette Most Definitely Gay's funeral. His fiancé tells Blond Most Definitely Gay that Brunette always talked about him. All Blond can manage to say through his tears is that they \"shared some bad habits.\" Ughhhhh. I'm going to need more of the Duchess' flask pronto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/bethenny-cry-bottle-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/bethenny-cry-bottle-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/drinking-sad-blender-tequila-booze.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-102000\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/drinking-sad-blender-tequila-booze.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/amy-schumer-drinking-wine-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/amy-schumer-drinking-wine-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/jujubee-eyelash-crying.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-102001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/jujubee-eyelash-crying.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>End scene!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it’s only right to reward characters who’ve impressed and diss the ones that haven’t, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL: Albert. \u003c/strong>Grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ANOTHER PIECE OF COAL: The Show Writers. \u003c/strong>Killing off a gay character. How groundbreaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION: Prime Minister Peele. \u003c/strong>Shout out to him for realizing that people should be able to afford food. I will always remember him as he was when we first met him in Season 1: his face smack dab in the middle of a train's exhaust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-1020x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-1020x565.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-800x443.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-768x426.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-1180x654.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-960x532.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-672x372.jpg 672w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-240x133.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-375x208.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-520x288.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM.jpg 1207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRONZE: The Duchess.\u003c/strong> That flask assist was expertly timed, but more than that, it was kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SILVER: Lehzen. \u003c/strong>Unceremoniously kicked to the curb because of a man baby. Please tell me Lehzen gets her \u003cem>Kill Bill\u003c/em> revenge next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GOLD: Brunette Most Definitely Gay. \u003c/strong>He deserved better than this. We'll always have the waterfall scene. 😭\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week! If you miss my thoughts on \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em> or pop culture in general, follow me on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty\">@xcusemybeauty\u003c/a>, listen to my podcast \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">\u003cem>The Cooler\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, or read all my other \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/victoria/\">\u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em>\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/poldark/\">\u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em>\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/downton-abbey/\">\u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/recaps/\">recaps\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>More recaps:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108303/victoria-season-3-finale-recap-matchmaker-matchmaker\">'Victoria' Season 3 Finale Recap: Matchmaker, Matchmaker\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108301/victoria-season-3-episode-7-recap-california-love\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 7 Recap: California Love\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108299/victoria-season-3-episode-6-recap-love-on-the-brain\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 6 Recap: Love on the Brain\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108293/victoria-season-3-episode-5-recap-on-the-road-again\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 5 Recap: On The Road Again\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108291/victoria-season-3-episode-4-recap-ill-be-missing-you\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 4 Recap: I'll Be Missing You\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108289/victoria-season-3-episode-3-recap-la-isla-bonita\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 3 Recap: La Isla Bonita\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108287/victoria-season-3-episode-2-recap-the-guns-of-brixton\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 2 Recap: The Guns of Brixton\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108284/victoria-season-3-premiere-recap-god-save-the-queen\">'Victoria' Season 3 Premiere Recap: God Save The Queen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97779/victoria-season-2-finale-recap-its-a-hard-knock-life\">'Victoria' Season 2 Finale Recap: It's a Hard-Knock Life\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97777/victoria-season-2-episode-6-recap-somewhere-over-the-rainbow\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 6 Recap: Somewhere Over The Rainbow\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97775/victoria-season-2-episode-5-recap-lost-and-found\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: Lost and Found\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97773/victoria-season-2-episode-4-recap-people-are-people\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 4 Recap: People Are People\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97771/victoria-season-2-episode-3-recap-daddy-issues\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 3 Recap: Daddy Issues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97769/victoria-season-2-episode-2-recap-puppy-love\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 2 Recap: Puppy Love\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97767/victoria-season-2-premiere-recap-baby-its-cold-outside\">'Victoria' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Baby It's Cold Outside\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/56546/victoria-season-1-finale-recap-bye-bye-baby-blues\">'Victoria' Season 1 Finale Recap: Bye Bye Baby Blues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/19/victoria-season-1-episode-6-recap-cmon-ride-the-train/\">'Victoria' Season 1, Episode 6 Recap: C'mon Ride the Train\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/12/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-5-recap-ill-make-love-to-you/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: I’ll Make Love to You\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/05/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-4-recap-wedding-bell-blues/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Wedding Bell Blues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/29/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-3-recap-youre-so-vain/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: You’re So Vain\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/22/victoria-season-1-episode-2-recap-all-the-single-ladies/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap: All The Single Ladies\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/15/victoria-season-1-premiere-recap-bow-down/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1 Premiere Recap: Bow Down\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/02/11/victoria-season-2-episode-5-recap-lost-and-found/\">the previous episode of \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the Queen almost got assassinated, and then almost died from exposure or dysentery or something else awful after getting lost in Scotland, while everyone else hooked up. Will Albert's new hobby this episode be inventing an impenetrable Pope Mobile to protect the Queen? Will Victoria publish a coffee table book on her newfound love of sock darning? Will the show writers resist the urge to kill one of the Most Definitely Gays and allow them to have a happy ending? Will the Duchess' niece snitch on them? Only one way to find out! On with the show!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that their oldest child has grown out of looking like a frog, Victoria is open to spending some quality time with her, while Albert plays the piano for them. But the cozy family vibe is quickly spoiled by an unexpected visitor. It's Uncle/Daddy Leopold, who hasn't seen Albert since he revealed, \u003cem>Oh, hey, sorry your dad's dead. But no need to be too sad about that 'cause I slept with your mom A TON and have been your real dad this whole time. Surprise!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting is as uncomfortable as you'd expect. Victoria deals with all the awkwardness by standing very still and making this face:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/uncomfortable-awkward-britney.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/uncomfortable-awkward-britney.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"407\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To break the ice, Uncle/Daddy Leopold gives Albert a birthday present. That's a nice gesture, right? Not so much. It turns out to be... a selfie?! What do you get for someone who hates your face? A picture of it, of course!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/my-bad-locket-victoria-leopold.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101974\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/my-bad-locket-victoria-leopold-1020x830.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/my-bad-locket-victoria-leopold-1020x830.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/my-bad-locket-victoria-leopold-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/my-bad-locket-victoria-leopold-800x651.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/my-bad-locket-victoria-leopold-768x625.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/my-bad-locket-victoria-leopold-1200x977.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/my-bad-locket-victoria-leopold-1180x960.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/my-bad-locket-victoria-leopold-960x781.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/my-bad-locket-victoria-leopold-240x195.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/my-bad-locket-victoria-leopold-375x305.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/my-bad-locket-victoria-leopold-520x423.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/my-bad-locket-victoria-leopold.jpg 1327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Parliament, old rich white dudes are busy debating what they've debated for hundreds of years: whether to give up a few coins to ensure that poor people don't starve to death, or keep said coins and watch them suffer while munching on caviar. All of Prime Minister Peele's friends take Marie Antoinette's words to the next level: \u003cem>Let them eat... nothing! \u003c/em>That nice doctor dude from the Irish Potato Famine episode is rolling in his grave, screaming:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/oh-come-on-jim-carrey-liar-liar.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101975\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/oh-come-on-jim-carrey-liar-liar.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"379\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the palace, another war is brewing between Albert and Governess Dictator (whom I'm going to start calling by her real name, Lehzen, 'cause she has really chilled out since the first season). Last episode, Albert accused her of making his daughter fat. This episode, he's accusing her of trying to murder his children by opening the windows and letting fresh air in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you #TeamCloseTheWindow?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/shut-window-bart-simpson.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/shut-window-bart-simpson.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or #TeamOpenTheWindow?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/open-window-spider-man.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/open-window-spider-man.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"363\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[polldaddy poll=9941466]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a pond, Ernst takes a break from exposing himself to mercury to sneak up on Victoria's Widow Bestie, and uses this pickup line: \"You look like Narcissus.\" Translation: you look like a self-absorbed dude. Widow Bestie finds this charming for some reason and goes in for a kiss... which is promptly disrupted by Leopold. Hope he thought ahead and engraved a selfie locket apology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cb.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101981\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cb-1020x830.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cb-1020x830.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cb-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cb-800x651.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cb-768x625.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cb-1200x977.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cb-1180x960.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cb-960x781.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cb-240x195.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cb-375x305.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cb-520x423.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cb.jpg 1327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, the Duchess' niece runs into Blond Most Definitely Gay in a hallway and, instead of blackmailing him, gabs all about how \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_and_Jonathan\">David and Jonathan\u003c/a> were totally gay for each other in the Bible so it must be okay. Way to go! She's basically a Gay Straight Alliance president. Or Honey Boo Boo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/a-little-gay-lil-boo-boo.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101983\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/a-little-gay-lil-boo-boo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/everybodys-a-little-gay.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101984\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/everybodys-a-little-gay.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evening, the Most Definitely Gays meet for dinner and immediately order oysters and champagne. I'm not great at math, but by my calculations: an aphrodisiac appetizer + inhibition-killing juice = third base at least!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/come-on-you-got-this-.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101986\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/come-on-you-got-this-.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"448\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chances of this actually happening rise exponentially when the brunette announces that he's broken his engagement off. Once you go gay in Scotland, you never go back to pretending to like ladies. Here's some found footage of their breakup:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/sorry-im-gay.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101987\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/sorry-im-gay.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"276\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huzzah! Now nothing is standing in their way (other than homosexuality being illegal, but who's counting?). But wait. Now that the brunette has finally come to terms with his gayness, the blond is randomly calling their cute make-out session an \"indiscretion\" and advising that the brunette get back with his ex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/what-is-wrong-with-you-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101989\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/what-is-wrong-with-you-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/rooting-for-you.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101988\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/rooting-for-you.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"242\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brunette is just as outraged as me and Tyra Banks, and walks out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things aren't going so well over at the palace either. When Victoria declares herself #TeamOpenTheWindow, Albert throws a tantrum that even Lil Vicki, who's a toddler, looks at and thinks, \u003cem>Wow, you're doing too much.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/tantrum-freakout.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/tantrum-freakout.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He threatens to run to the side of his bromance bestie, Prime Minister Peele, to support him as he advocates for the poor at Parliament. Victoria calmly reminds him of the separation between the monarchy and government. Albert responds by saying, \u003cem>Mooooom! You're ruining my life!\u003c/em>, before storming out. Victoria wonders aloud why he's being so \"objectionable.\" That's a good word for him. A few more words that also work: annoying, insufferable know-it-all brat that gives Veruca Salt a run for her money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/lXlOWw.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/01/lXlOWw.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surprising no one, his presence at Parliament is not received well and is used by Peele's opponents to discredit the appeal to care about poor people. Albert takes responsibility for his actions and vows to be less impulsive in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LOL, just kidding, he punches a wall because, like I said, he's a brat!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/veruca_badegg.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101991\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/veruca_badegg.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He storms home and proceeds to yell in Victoria's face about all of the following things:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>his conspiracy theory that Lehzen -- or as he likes to call her \"that woman\" -- has bewitched Victoria.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>his conspiracy theory that \"that woman\" poisoned Victoria against her mother.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>his conspiracy theory that \"that woman\" is trying to poison Victoria against him.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>his belief that Victoria is too willful and stubborn, and exaggerates all the time.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>his ultimatum that either Lehzen goes or he goes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As \u003cem>RuPaul's Drag Race\u003c/em> winner and great philosopher Bianca del Rio once said: \"Need help packing? Beat it, queen!\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/xLp_7kTqjxE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/xLp_7kTqjxE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Elsewhere, Blond Most Definitely Gay is crafting a letter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dear Brunette Most Definitely Gay, \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sorry about all that internalized homophobia I threw around at our dinner date. Join me for oysters and third base, but for real this time? XOXO\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of romance, Ernst and Widow Bestie finally get to play a quick round of tonsil hockey... until Uncle/Daddy Leopold does what he does best:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-1020x830.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-1020x830.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-800x651.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-768x625.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-1200x977.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-1180x960.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-960x781.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-240x195.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-375x305.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again-520x423.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cockblock-again.jpg 1327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Victoria and Albert agree to forget all about the legitimate issues that exist between them 'cause Lil Vicki catches a fever and almost dies. Good for them, I guess, but they should probably go to couples' therapy at some point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Parliament, Peele successfully passes his \u003cem>Hey Guys Let's Stop Being Pricks and Let Poor People Have Food\u003c/em> bill. He asks Brunette Most Definitely Gay if he wants a ride home, and BMDG responds: \"Thank you, sir, but I have an engagement.\" You see what he did there? Unlike his sham marital engagement, his love for Blonde Most Definitely Gay is the real deal! Let's get this oyster party started!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/oysters-dancing-cartoon-gif-1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/oysters-dancing-cartoon-gif-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A moment later, an assassin who doesn't want to stop being a prick and let poor people have food tries to shoot Peele! Because the show writers insist on perpetuating the \u003ca href=\"http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BuryYourGays\">bury your gays trope\u003c/a>, Brunette Most Definitely Gay takes the bullet and dies in the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cry-push-computer-bad-girls-club.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/cry-push-computer-bad-girls-club.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"269\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told y'all they would do this. I understand that a happy ending for the Most Definitely Gays is not exactly realistic in the 1840s, but the show has taken creative license with so many other things. Why not this? Killing off a gay character just feels so lazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/disappointed.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101997\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/disappointed.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"234\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blond Most Definitely Gay waits at the oyster restaurant for his date, but he doesn't show BECAUSE HE'S DEAD. The next day, the Duchess takes him aside, gives him her flask, breaks the news to him, and reminds him to a.) breathe and b.) stay in the closet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/deal-with-it-sad-mad-men-drunk.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/deal-with-it-sad-mad-men-drunk.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cut to Hot Italian Chef and Babyface Maid flirting in a rowboat, eating strawberry tarts, and making out. This immediate juxtaposition of gay tragedy and straight harmony is just rubbing salt in the wound. Do better, \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em> writers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/youre-a-disgrace.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/youre-a-disgrace.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the palace, Victoria fires Lehzen so Albert will stop throwing jealous tantrums. Yeah... good luck with that. When Lehzen leaves after 20 years of service, the only person who sees her off is the mean butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/giphy-10.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38267\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/giphy-10.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Prime Minister Peele fires himself because, like me, he's just over all of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Ernst almost proposes to Widow Bestie, but finds another rash and decides to spare her a case of syphilis. Which would be sad if the next scene wasn't Brunette Most Definitely Gay's funeral. His fiancé tells Blond Most Definitely Gay that Brunette always talked about him. All Blond can manage to say through his tears is that they \"shared some bad habits.\" Ughhhhh. I'm going to need more of the Duchess' flask pronto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/bethenny-cry-bottle-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/bethenny-cry-bottle-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/drinking-sad-blender-tequila-booze.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-102000\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/drinking-sad-blender-tequila-booze.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/amy-schumer-drinking-wine-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/amy-schumer-drinking-wine-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/jujubee-eyelash-crying.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-102001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/jujubee-eyelash-crying.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>End scene!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it’s only right to reward characters who’ve impressed and diss the ones that haven’t, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL: Albert. \u003c/strong>Grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ANOTHER PIECE OF COAL: The Show Writers. \u003c/strong>Killing off a gay character. How groundbreaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION: Prime Minister Peele. \u003c/strong>Shout out to him for realizing that people should be able to afford food. I will always remember him as he was when we first met him in Season 1: his face smack dab in the middle of a train's exhaust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-1020x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-1020x565.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-800x443.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-768x426.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-1180x654.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-960x532.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-672x372.jpg 672w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-240x133.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-375x208.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM-520x288.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-19-at-1.47.31-PM.jpg 1207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRONZE: The Duchess.\u003c/strong> That flask assist was expertly timed, but more than that, it was kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SILVER: Lehzen. \u003c/strong>Unceremoniously kicked to the curb because of a man baby. Please tell me Lehzen gets her \u003cem>Kill Bill\u003c/em> revenge next season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GOLD: Brunette Most Definitely Gay. \u003c/strong>He deserved better than this. We'll always have the waterfall scene. 😭\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week! If you miss my thoughts on \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em> or pop culture in general, follow me on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty\">@xcusemybeauty\u003c/a>, listen to my podcast \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">\u003cem>The Cooler\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, or read all my other \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/victoria/\">\u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em>\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/poldark/\">\u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em>\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/downton-abbey/\">\u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/recaps/\">recaps\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>More recaps:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108303/victoria-season-3-finale-recap-matchmaker-matchmaker\">'Victoria' Season 3 Finale Recap: Matchmaker, Matchmaker\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108301/victoria-season-3-episode-7-recap-california-love\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 7 Recap: California Love\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108299/victoria-season-3-episode-6-recap-love-on-the-brain\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 6 Recap: Love on the Brain\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108293/victoria-season-3-episode-5-recap-on-the-road-again\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 5 Recap: On The Road Again\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108291/victoria-season-3-episode-4-recap-ill-be-missing-you\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 4 Recap: I'll Be Missing You\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108289/victoria-season-3-episode-3-recap-la-isla-bonita\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 3 Recap: La Isla Bonita\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108287/victoria-season-3-episode-2-recap-the-guns-of-brixton\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 2 Recap: The Guns of Brixton\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108284/victoria-season-3-premiere-recap-god-save-the-queen\">'Victoria' Season 3 Premiere Recap: God Save The Queen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97779/victoria-season-2-finale-recap-its-a-hard-knock-life\">'Victoria' Season 2 Finale Recap: It's a Hard-Knock Life\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97777/victoria-season-2-episode-6-recap-somewhere-over-the-rainbow\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 6 Recap: Somewhere Over The Rainbow\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97775/victoria-season-2-episode-5-recap-lost-and-found\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: Lost and Found\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97773/victoria-season-2-episode-4-recap-people-are-people\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 4 Recap: People Are People\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97771/victoria-season-2-episode-3-recap-daddy-issues\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 3 Recap: Daddy Issues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97769/victoria-season-2-episode-2-recap-puppy-love\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 2 Recap: Puppy Love\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97767/victoria-season-2-premiere-recap-baby-its-cold-outside\">'Victoria' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Baby It's Cold Outside\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/56546/victoria-season-1-finale-recap-bye-bye-baby-blues\">'Victoria' Season 1 Finale Recap: Bye Bye Baby Blues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/19/victoria-season-1-episode-6-recap-cmon-ride-the-train/\">'Victoria' Season 1, Episode 6 Recap: C'mon Ride the Train\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/12/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-5-recap-ill-make-love-to-you/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: I’ll Make Love to You\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/05/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-4-recap-wedding-bell-blues/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Wedding Bell Blues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/29/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-3-recap-youre-so-vain/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: You’re So Vain\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/22/victoria-season-1-episode-2-recap-all-the-single-ladies/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap: All The Single Ladies\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a story that has stayed so relentlessly in the public eye over so many years that even E! Online has called it \u003ca href=\"http://www.eonline.com/news/884533/a-timeline-of-sarah-jessica-parker-and-kim-cattrall-s-never-ending-sex-and-the-city-feud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“never-ending.”\u003c/a> The last we heard of it was in the fall of 2017, when Sarah Jessica Parker announced that there definitely wouldn’t be a third \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em> movie, and Kim Cattrall told Piers Morgan that SJP “could have been nicer. I don’t know what her issue is. I never have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, once again, the internet is alive with a Parker v. Cattrall hate-fest after \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/04/us/chris-cattrall-dies-brother-of-kim/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the unexpected death of Cattrall’s brother\u003c/a>. The actress took to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kimcattrall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram\u003c/a> on Feb. 6 to express her gratitude for the support she had received following his death. “I would like to thank my fans, friends, and my #SexandtheCity colleagues for the outpouring of support for myself and family over the past 72 hours,” Cattrall wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Be3nS4QAMTU/?taken-by=kimcattrall\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, things turned decidedly sour. Under an Instagram image that simply read: “I don’t need your love or support at this tragic time @sarahjessicaparker,” Cattrall wrote: “My Mom asked me today ‘When will that @sarahjessicaparker, that hypocrite, leave you alone?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cattrall continued: “Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now. Let me make this VERY clear. (If I haven’t already) You are not my family. You are not my friend. So I’m writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your ‘nice girl’ persona.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BfBIPebAmFX/?taken-by=kimcattrall\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The diss was immediately pounced on and spread all over the world. Every news and/or entertainment website in the U.S. (from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/02/10/kim-cattrall-rejects-sarah-jessica-parkers-condolences-stop-exploiting-our-tragedy/?utm_term=.3df17db3ea97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.justjared.com/2018/02/10/kim-cattrall-calls-out-her-sex-the-city-co-star-sarah-jessica-parker-i-dont-need-your-love/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Just Jared\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> and everything in between) covered the story. In the U.K., daily newspapers from the highbrow \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/feb/11/you-are-not-my-friend-kim-cattrall-lashes-out-at-sarah-jessica-parker-over-brothers-deaht\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to the tabloid \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/5548024/inside-toxic-decade-long-feud-sex-and-the-city-stars-sarah-jessica-parker-kim-cattrall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Sun\u003c/em>\u003c/a> had a take on it (the latter calling the women “Famous Frenemies”). Even the \u003cem>South China Morning Post\u003c/em> talked about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2132890/long-running-catfight-between-sex-and-city-stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“long-running catfight.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other celebrities were quickly dragged in for comment. \u003ca href=\"https://pagesix.com/2018/02/12/andy-cohen-defends-sjp-amid-kim-cattrall-feud/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andy Cohen rushed to defend\u003c/a> his friend, Parker. Molly Shannon \u003ca href=\"http://www.etonline.com/molly-shannon-praises-kind-sarah-jessica-parker-after-kim-cattrall-comments-exclusive-96195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kind of did the same\u003c/a>, even though she hadn’t even seen Cattrall’s posts at the time she was asked about it. \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935921/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dean Winters\u003c/a>—one-time \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em> actor and Parker’s current co-star in HBO’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4304864/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Divorce\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—was forced to tell \u003ca href=\"https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/sex-and-the-city-alum-on-kim-cattrall-sarah-jessica-parkers-feud/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>US Magazine\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that he tries “to stay out of that bullshit, you know what I mean?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point in time, it has been, even by conservative estimates, at least 10 years since we first had to hear that Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall didn’t really like each other. Both actresses worked hard to dispel the rumors at first, Parker telling \u003ca href=\"http://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a10624/sarah-jessica-parker-384710/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Elle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2009: “I don’t think anybody wants to believe that I love Kim. I adore her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2010, Cattrall backed up SJP’s sentiments to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1238271/Kim-Cattrall-Im-insecure-pick-man-startling-revelations.html#ixzz4uSt4wFeb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Daily Mail\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: “I think Sarah is fantastic. She is a born leader and she guides the crew and the cast in such a strong but gentle way. She and I are sick of this. It’s exhausting talking about it, and a real bore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159206/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em>\u003c/a> was immediately hailed as feminist when it hit TV screens in 1998, because Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda individually represented powerful, independent women, and, together, represented female solidarity and the importance of sisterhood. Female viewers both identified with and felt empowered by these characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em> represented a generation of women who were liberated, in part, by their support for one another, the Parker-Cattrall so-called feud pushes the old stereotype that women are natural-born competitors who just cannot help tearing each other down. It tells women around the world: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If\u003cem> Sex and the City\u003c/em> was designed to raise us up, the coverage of Parker and Cattrall is often tailor-made to bring us back down to Earth with a thud. It tells women over and over that it wasn’t just the clothes in that show that were a fantasy—but successful friendships between strong women were too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cattrall’s lashing out at Parker, in the midst of what must be unbearable grief, speaks more to the amount of pain Cattrall is currently in than how much she actually hates Sarah Jessica Parker. It’s abundantly clear now that, yes, Parker and Cattrall don’t get along. But it’s also pretty obvious that if they weren’t both women, this story wouldn’t attract such a dizzying array of reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it in perspective, did you know about Jamie Foxx and LL Cool J’s feud? The longstanding one that even caused a fight to break out on the set of Oliver Stone’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146838/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Any Given Sunday\u003c/em>\u003c/a>? No? Well, cops were called and everything, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.mtv.com/news/1535881/jamie-foxx-says-ll-cool-j-feud-is-behind-him-were-grown-now/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">few people have since questioned their friendship\u003c/a>, even when they occasionally work together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her Instagram post directed at Sarah Jessica Parker, Cattrall also left a link to a \u003cem>New York Post\u003c/em> piece from last year, titled \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2017/10/07/inside-the-mean-girls-culture-that-destroyed-sex-and-the-city/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Inside the mean-girls culture that destroyed ‘Sex and the City.’\u003c/em>\u003c/a> That headline is telling. “Mean girls”, both in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the movie\u003c/a> of the same name and \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Bees-Wannabes-3rd-Realities/dp/1101903058/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518472160&sr=8-1&keywords=Queen+Bees+and+Wannabes&dpID=51yGFnV9JFL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the book it was based on\u003c/a>, is a reference to a specific kind of teenage girl. Applying it to successful, middle-aged career women is belittling, at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a twisted pleasure embedded in our culture that comes with seeing two women hate on each other. It’s the reason brawls are such an important part of female-centric reality shows (see: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Housewives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Real Housewives\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/little-women-la/season-6/episode-32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Little Women\u003c/em>\u003c/a>). It’s the reason the Katy Perry-Taylor Swift rift has been dissected far more thoroughly than rapper beefs between men. (Even \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-10-wildest-rap-beefs-of-all-time-20130815\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drake v. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Days later, things turned decidedly sour. Under an Instagram image that simply read: “I don’t need your love or support at this tragic time @sarahjessicaparker,” Cattrall wrote: “My Mom asked me today ‘When will that @sarahjessicaparker, that hypocrite, leave you alone?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cattrall continued: “Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now. Let me make this VERY clear. (If I haven’t already) You are not my family. You are not my friend. So I’m writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your ‘nice girl’ persona.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The diss was immediately pounced on and spread all over the world. Every news and/or entertainment website in the U.S. (from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/02/10/kim-cattrall-rejects-sarah-jessica-parkers-condolences-stop-exploiting-our-tragedy/?utm_term=.3df17db3ea97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.justjared.com/2018/02/10/kim-cattrall-calls-out-her-sex-the-city-co-star-sarah-jessica-parker-i-dont-need-your-love/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Just Jared\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> and everything in between) covered the story. In the U.K., daily newspapers from the highbrow \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/feb/11/you-are-not-my-friend-kim-cattrall-lashes-out-at-sarah-jessica-parker-over-brothers-deaht\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to the tabloid \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/5548024/inside-toxic-decade-long-feud-sex-and-the-city-stars-sarah-jessica-parker-kim-cattrall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Sun\u003c/em>\u003c/a> had a take on it (the latter calling the women “Famous Frenemies”). Even the \u003cem>South China Morning Post\u003c/em> talked about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2132890/long-running-catfight-between-sex-and-city-stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“long-running catfight.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other celebrities were quickly dragged in for comment. \u003ca href=\"https://pagesix.com/2018/02/12/andy-cohen-defends-sjp-amid-kim-cattrall-feud/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andy Cohen rushed to defend\u003c/a> his friend, Parker. Molly Shannon \u003ca href=\"http://www.etonline.com/molly-shannon-praises-kind-sarah-jessica-parker-after-kim-cattrall-comments-exclusive-96195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kind of did the same\u003c/a>, even though she hadn’t even seen Cattrall’s posts at the time she was asked about it. \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935921/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dean Winters\u003c/a>—one-time \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em> actor and Parker’s current co-star in HBO’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4304864/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Divorce\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—was forced to tell \u003ca href=\"https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/sex-and-the-city-alum-on-kim-cattrall-sarah-jessica-parkers-feud/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>US Magazine\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that he tries “to stay out of that bullshit, you know what I mean?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point in time, it has been, even by conservative estimates, at least 10 years since we first had to hear that Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall didn’t really like each other. Both actresses worked hard to dispel the rumors at first, Parker telling \u003ca href=\"http://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a10624/sarah-jessica-parker-384710/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Elle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2009: “I don’t think anybody wants to believe that I love Kim. I adore her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2010, Cattrall backed up SJP’s sentiments to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1238271/Kim-Cattrall-Im-insecure-pick-man-startling-revelations.html#ixzz4uSt4wFeb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Daily Mail\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: “I think Sarah is fantastic. She is a born leader and she guides the crew and the cast in such a strong but gentle way. She and I are sick of this. It’s exhausting talking about it, and a real bore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159206/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em>\u003c/a> was immediately hailed as feminist when it hit TV screens in 1998, because Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda individually represented powerful, independent women, and, together, represented female solidarity and the importance of sisterhood. Female viewers both identified with and felt empowered by these characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em> represented a generation of women who were liberated, in part, by their support for one another, the Parker-Cattrall so-called feud pushes the old stereotype that women are natural-born competitors who just cannot help tearing each other down. It tells women around the world: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If\u003cem> Sex and the City\u003c/em> was designed to raise us up, the coverage of Parker and Cattrall is often tailor-made to bring us back down to Earth with a thud. It tells women over and over that it wasn’t just the clothes in that show that were a fantasy—but successful friendships between strong women were too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cattrall’s lashing out at Parker, in the midst of what must be unbearable grief, speaks more to the amount of pain Cattrall is currently in than how much she actually hates Sarah Jessica Parker. It’s abundantly clear now that, yes, Parker and Cattrall don’t get along. But it’s also pretty obvious that if they weren’t both women, this story wouldn’t attract such a dizzying array of reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it in perspective, did you know about Jamie Foxx and LL Cool J’s feud? The longstanding one that even caused a fight to break out on the set of Oliver Stone’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146838/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Any Given Sunday\u003c/em>\u003c/a>? No? Well, cops were called and everything, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.mtv.com/news/1535881/jamie-foxx-says-ll-cool-j-feud-is-behind-him-were-grown-now/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">few people have since questioned their friendship\u003c/a>, even when they occasionally work together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her Instagram post directed at Sarah Jessica Parker, Cattrall also left a link to a \u003cem>New York Post\u003c/em> piece from last year, titled \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2017/10/07/inside-the-mean-girls-culture-that-destroyed-sex-and-the-city/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Inside the mean-girls culture that destroyed ‘Sex and the City.’\u003c/em>\u003c/a> That headline is telling. “Mean girls”, both in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the movie\u003c/a> of the same name and \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Bees-Wannabes-3rd-Realities/dp/1101903058/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518472160&sr=8-1&keywords=Queen+Bees+and+Wannabes&dpID=51yGFnV9JFL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the book it was based on\u003c/a>, is a reference to a specific kind of teenage girl. Applying it to successful, middle-aged career women is belittling, at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a twisted pleasure embedded in our culture that comes with seeing two women hate on each other. It’s the reason brawls are such an important part of female-centric reality shows (see: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Housewives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Real Housewives\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/little-women-la/season-6/episode-32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Little Women\u003c/em>\u003c/a>). It’s the reason the Katy Perry-Taylor Swift rift has been dissected far more thoroughly than rapper beefs between men. (Even \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-10-wildest-rap-beefs-of-all-time-20130815\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drake v. Meek Mill\u003c/a>!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/02/04/victoria-season-2-episode-4-recap-people-are-people/\">the previous episode of \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, practically everyone shrugged their shoulders as a million Irish people starved to death, Ernst attempted to cure his syphilis by poisoning himself with mercury, and the Most Likely Gays stopped heart-eyeing each other because the brunette got engaged to a woman and also was rooting for the Irish potato famine. Will the callous people who didn't lift a finger to help the Irish be forever haunted by ghost versions of Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head? Will Ernst go on a time traveling quest into the future to find penicillin for his STD, temporarily get distracted by the shorter skirts, but eventually cure himself and swing back to the 1840s to bump uglies with Victoria's widowed bestie? 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Who knows?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I do know for sure though is that Season 2 assassin has nothing on Season 1 assassin. Remember him? The one that has probably already been reincarnated and won a season of \u003cem>Project Runway\u003c/em>? Just look at how he draped the fabric on his regicide-themed dress form!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-1020x596.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-1020x596.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-800x467.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-768x448.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-960x561.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-240x140.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-375x219.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-520x304.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the palace, Victoria finds out they didn't manage to catch Season 2 Assassin, so she comes up with an ingenious plan: go back outside and wait for him to try shooting her in the face again! What could possibly go wrong?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albert vehemently opposes the plan, until the Prime Minister explains the merits of \"flushing out\" the perpetrator. Albert immediately changes his tune because he loves flushing of all kinds after taking up toilets as a hobby last episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/i-love-toilet-time-elmo-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/i-love-toilet-time-elmo-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"343\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since bulletproof Escalades with those rims that keep spinning after the car has stopped haven't been invented yet, Victoria settles for another ride in her open-air carriage, armed with a chainmail umbrella. Not the safest, but pretty bad ass, I must say. I hope she starts carrying a walking stick that doubles as one of those spiked-ball-on-a-chain thingies. 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They didn't even need to flush twice to get rid of that piece of poo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flush-diving-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flush-diving-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"358\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that plot point all wrapped up in under three minutes, Victoria and the show's writers quickly realize that life without the threat of having one's head shot off is kind of boring. So Victoria yells \u003cem>Smell ya later, babies and infants I never hang out with!\u003c/em> in the direction of the nursery and heads off on a road trip to Scotland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/lets-go-girls-britney-crossroads.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101794\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/lets-go-girls-britney-crossroads.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the way, Brunette Most Likely Gay starts yapping about his lady fiancé in front of his almost boyfriend again. WE GET IT! YOU'RE ENGAGED! NO HOMO ETC. GET SOME NEW MATERIAL!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/arnold-shut-up-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101795\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/arnold-shut-up-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When everyone arrives at the Scottish castle, they get a sneak peek of Season 1 Assassin's \u003cem>Project Runway\u003c/em> finale collection:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-1020x571.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-1020x571.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-800x448.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-768x430.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-1200x672.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-1920x1075.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-1180x661.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-960x537.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-240x134.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-375x210.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-520x291.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of fashion, Victoria is trying out a new look:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-520x293.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'll let the professionals judge this one:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/heidi-project-runway.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/heidi-project-runway.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/hideous.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/hideous.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/tim-gunn-6.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/tim-gunn-6.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/busy-and-tacky-michael-kors.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101803 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/busy-and-tacky-michael-kors.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long fishing scene in which nothing happens other than Victoria looking across the river, seeing two random girls, and thinking\u003cem> I wish I could be poor and regular too\u003c/em>, everyone decides to head back to the castle. Because Victoria seems to have a death wish this episode, she decides to go off into the wilderness with just Albert, who might know a lot about toilets, but not a thing about the geography of Scotland. Waze isn't going to get them out of this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure enough they immediately get lost and a search party is dispatched. The Most Likely Gays decide to team up and look for them together. When they look over a cliff and don't see Victoria and Albert's mangled bodies on the rocks below, they decide they've looked hard enough and that it's time to talk about how Achilles and Patroclus were totally gay for each other. This is a good start. Now go find a waterfall and skinny dip again! The viewers (mainly me) demand a sequel!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-gay-waterfall.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-gay-waterfall.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, Albert has gone from \u003cem>I have the best sense of direction!\u003c/em> to \u003cem>OMG we're going to die out here\u003c/em>. Who needs an assassin when your overconfident husband can get you killed, bullet-free? Albert makes Victoria ford a river and she almost falls off her horse. What's next? One of them dies of dysentery? (Shout out to all of us who played \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(video_game)\">\u003cem>Oregon Trail\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in grade school!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Oregon-Trail.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Oregon-Trail.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, they find a house and get invited in. The owner obviously doesn't subscribe to \u003cem>US Weekly\u003c/em> because he doesn't recognize them. When Victoria busts in without saying hi and takes a seat by the fire, Scottish Dude says, \u003cem>Umm, excuse you! That's my chair!\u003c/em> I like this humbling moment for Victoria and Albert. Make them do chores!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're a regular reader of this recap series, you know that I despise unnecessary \"downstairs\" plot lines. But there's finally one I deeply care about. Some babe in a kilt starts flirting with Babyface Maid, and then promptly makes out with her! If the Most Likely Gays refuse to tongue wrestle, I'll settle for this. Get it, girl!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/gross-kiss.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/gross-kiss.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"321\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Scottish Dude's place, Victoria and Albert are forced to do chores for the first time in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/chores-nicole-richie.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/chores-nicole-richie.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High off of learning how to dry dishes, darn socks, and drink plebeian booze, Victoria tells Albert she kind of doesn't want to be found. Back in the nursery, her three children have a message for their mom:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/excuse-me-what-about-me-nicki-minaj.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/excuse-me-what-about-me-nicki-minaj.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they don't have to worry. The search party finds them and Victoria's hosts are like, \u003cem>Ohhhh, so that's why she was acting so entitled!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Scottish castle, Blond Most Likely Gay excitedly shares the news of Victoria and Albert being found with Brunette Most Likely Gay. They celebrate by embracing for a long time!!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/enchanted-excited-amy-adams.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101814\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/enchanted-excited-amy-adams.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"269\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then they pull apart and look at each other like they're about to explore the insides of each other's mouths!!!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/excited.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/excited.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they don't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/god-i-want-a-donut-mindy-kaling.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/god-i-want-a-donut-mindy-kaling.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Victoria and Albert are brought back to the castle and applauded for surviving a few hours without being catered to by servants, Victoria debuts a new look to appease the \u003cem>Project Runway\u003c/em> judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-1020x573.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-1020x573.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-768x432.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-1200x674.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-1920x1079.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-1180x663.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-520x292.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/heidi-project-runway-clap.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101820 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/heidi-project-runway-clap.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"278\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/nina-like-it-project-runway.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/nina-like-it-project-runway.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/tim-gunn-excited.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/tim-gunn-excited.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/michael-kors-project-runway.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101819\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/michael-kors-project-runway.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, the Most Likely Gays decide that hanging out with the servants will be one zillion times more fun than worshipping the Queen all evening, so they sneak away and twerk with the locals at a rave in the woods. The Duchess' niece watches from afar. I swear, little girl, don't you dare interrupt their love like you did back in episode 2. I will make more of these anti-you posters if I must.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-1020x707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-768x532.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-1200x832.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-1920x1331.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-1180x818.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-960x665.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-375x260.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-1020x1114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-1020x1114.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-160x175.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-800x873.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-768x838.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-1099x1200.jpg 1099w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-1920x2096.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-1180x1288.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-960x1048.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-240x262.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-375x409.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-520x568.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, she keeps her distance and just stares at them like a weirdo. The boys dance with each other, and laugh, and talk about how wonderful midsummer evenings are, and then stand in front of a body of water, which reminds them of that time at the waterfall, and then THEY TOTALLY MAKE OUT!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/yas-queen-broad-city.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/yas-queen-broad-city.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"469\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/its-so-beautiful.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/its-so-beautiful.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/yas-excited-crying-happy-tears-antm.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/yas-excited-crying-happy-tears-antm.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/colbert-crying.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/colbert-crying.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, back at the forest rave, Babyface Maid has let her hair down (literally) and is having her own sexy time with Kilt Babe. But, when he asks if he may write erotic letters to her, she declines because she almost dated Hot Italian Chef approximately one thousand years ago. Um, Babyface Maid, Victoria has had like 13 kids since then. Live your life!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the castle, Victoria's widowed bestie finally holds hands with Ernst because, if everyone else is hooking up, she might as well too. Who knew Scotland was such an aphrodisiac? Viagra who?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because sexy times must eventually come to an end, everyone returns to the dreariness of London. Albert mopes around, wishing he could be anonymous and poor again. Victoria is like, \u003cem>I know, me too! But we'll just have to take one for the team and live in a palace for free and get everything we want. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every actual poor person living at the time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/lc-eyeroll-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/lc-eyeroll-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"271\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, after opening Parliament, Victoria comes home, throws her cape, sash, and fancy gloves on the ground in the middle of the hallway (don't worry, someone else will pick it all up) and meets Albert by the fire, where they role play as their poor Scottish hosts. They grill fish in the fireplace and darn socks and giggle at how fun not wearing garments one time only and actually having to repair them is. Poverty is so cozy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, every actual poor person:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/Liz-Lemon-Eye-Roll.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/Liz-Lemon-Eye-Roll.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>End scene!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it’s only right to reward characters who’ve impressed and diss the ones that haven’t, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL: Season 2 Assassin. \u003c/strong>At least the last guy had a knack for designing women's wear. Downgrade!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION: Kilt Babe. \u003c/strong>He's hot. Sometimes, that's enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRONZE: The Duchess of Buccleuch. \u003c/strong>For startling everyone by forcefully pronouncing the first syllable of cock-a-leekie soup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SILVER: The Scotland Tourism Bureau. \u003c/strong>Congrats on convincing all of us to visit. See y'all at the sock darning workshop!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GOLD: The Most Likely Gays.\u003c/strong> I didn't think they ever would get to second base. I'm glad I was wrong! But let's be real: the writers are probably going to kill one of them off because LGBT people usually don't get to enjoy happy endings in TV and movies, so let's celebrate them while we can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week! If you miss my thoughts on \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em> or pop culture in general, follow me on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty\">@xcusemybeauty\u003c/a>, listen to my podcast \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">\u003cem>The Cooler\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, or read all my other \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/victoria/\">\u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em>\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/poldark/\">\u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em>\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/downton-abbey/\">\u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/recaps/\">recaps\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>More recaps:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108303/victoria-season-3-finale-recap-matchmaker-matchmaker\">'Victoria' Season 3 Finale Recap: Matchmaker, Matchmaker\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108301/victoria-season-3-episode-7-recap-california-love\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 7 Recap: California Love\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108299/victoria-season-3-episode-6-recap-love-on-the-brain\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 6 Recap: Love on the Brain\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108293/victoria-season-3-episode-5-recap-on-the-road-again\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 5 Recap: On The Road Again\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108291/victoria-season-3-episode-4-recap-ill-be-missing-you\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 4 Recap: I'll Be Missing You\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108289/victoria-season-3-episode-3-recap-la-isla-bonita\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 3 Recap: La Isla Bonita\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108287/victoria-season-3-episode-2-recap-the-guns-of-brixton\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 2 Recap: The Guns of Brixton\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108284/victoria-season-3-premiere-recap-god-save-the-queen\">'Victoria' Season 3 Premiere Recap: God Save The Queen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97779/victoria-season-2-finale-recap-its-a-hard-knock-life\">'Victoria' Season 2 Finale Recap: It's a Hard-Knock Life\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97777/victoria-season-2-episode-6-recap-somewhere-over-the-rainbow\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 6 Recap: Somewhere Over The Rainbow\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97775/victoria-season-2-episode-5-recap-lost-and-found\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: Lost and Found\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97773/victoria-season-2-episode-4-recap-people-are-people\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 4 Recap: People Are People\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97771/victoria-season-2-episode-3-recap-daddy-issues\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 3 Recap: Daddy Issues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97769/victoria-season-2-episode-2-recap-puppy-love\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 2 Recap: Puppy Love\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97767/victoria-season-2-premiere-recap-baby-its-cold-outside\">'Victoria' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Baby It's Cold Outside\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/56546/victoria-season-1-finale-recap-bye-bye-baby-blues\">'Victoria' Season 1 Finale Recap: Bye Bye Baby Blues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/19/victoria-season-1-episode-6-recap-cmon-ride-the-train/\">'Victoria' Season 1, Episode 6 Recap: C'mon Ride the Train\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/12/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-5-recap-ill-make-love-to-you/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: I’ll Make Love to You\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/05/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-4-recap-wedding-bell-blues/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Wedding Bell Blues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/29/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-3-recap-youre-so-vain/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: You’re So Vain\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/22/victoria-season-1-episode-2-recap-all-the-single-ladies/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap: All The Single Ladies\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/15/victoria-season-1-premiere-recap-bow-down/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1 Premiere Recap: Bow Down\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/02/04/victoria-season-2-episode-4-recap-people-are-people/\">the previous episode of \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, practically everyone shrugged their shoulders as a million Irish people starved to death, Ernst attempted to cure his syphilis by poisoning himself with mercury, and the Most Likely Gays stopped heart-eyeing each other because the brunette got engaged to a woman and also was rooting for the Irish potato famine. Will the callous people who didn't lift a finger to help the Irish be forever haunted by ghost versions of Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head? Will Ernst go on a time traveling quest into the future to find penicillin for his STD, temporarily get distracted by the shorter skirts, but eventually cure himself and swing back to the 1840s to bump uglies with Victoria's widowed bestie? Will the non-problematic Most Likely Gay use the same time machine to travel to the winter Olympics in PyeongChang and go on a hot date with\u003ca href=\"http://instinctmagazine.com/sites/instinctmagazine.com/files/images/blog_posts/Karim%20Shah/2017/11/09/Screen%20Shot%202017-11-09%20at%205.59.01%20PM.png\"> not-engaged-to-a-woman, out-and-proud skier Gus Kenworthy\u003c/a>? Only one way to find out! On with the show!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria and Albert are out and about in London at the same time as someone who's having difficulty walking. This someone promptly takes out a pistol and tries to shoot Victoria! Wow, so we're not wasting any time this week, I see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why did he do it? Maybe he's pissed about how the government let all those Irish people die. Or maybe he's disabled and peeved that there is no healthcare. Or maybe he tried to walk after his leg fell asleep and took out his aggravation over the clumsy pain of that on Victoria cause she was right there. Who knows?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I do know for sure though is that Season 2 assassin has nothing on Season 1 assassin. Remember him? The one that has probably already been reincarnated and won a season of \u003cem>Project Runway\u003c/em>? Just look at how he draped the fabric on his regicide-themed dress form!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-1020x596.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-1020x596.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-800x467.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-768x448.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-960x561.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-240x140.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-375x219.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2017-03-04-at-9.46.50-PM-1180x689-copy-520x304.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the palace, Victoria finds out they didn't manage to catch Season 2 Assassin, so she comes up with an ingenious plan: go back outside and wait for him to try shooting her in the face again! What could possibly go wrong?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albert vehemently opposes the plan, until the Prime Minister explains the merits of \"flushing out\" the perpetrator. Albert immediately changes his tune because he loves flushing of all kinds after taking up toilets as a hobby last episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/i-love-toilet-time-elmo-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/i-love-toilet-time-elmo-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"343\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since bulletproof Escalades with those rims that keep spinning after the car has stopped haven't been invented yet, Victoria settles for another ride in her open-air carriage, armed with a chainmail umbrella. Not the safest, but pretty bad ass, I must say. I hope she starts carrying a walking stick that doubles as one of those spiked-ball-on-a-chain thingies. (Turns out those thingies are called \"flails.\" Cue \u003ca href=\"https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-02/1/20/enhanced/webdr08/enhanced-32005-1422840611-40.jpg?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto\">the More You Know star\u003c/a>!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flail.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101792 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flail-1020x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flail-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flail-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flail-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flail-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flail-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flail-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flail-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flail-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flail-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flail-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flail-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within moments, Season 2 Assassin reemerges (does he live in the park or something? ), tries to murder Victoria again, and is quickly apprehended. They didn't even need to flush twice to get rid of that piece of poo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flush-diving-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/flush-diving-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"358\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that plot point all wrapped up in under three minutes, Victoria and the show's writers quickly realize that life without the threat of having one's head shot off is kind of boring. So Victoria yells \u003cem>Smell ya later, babies and infants I never hang out with!\u003c/em> in the direction of the nursery and heads off on a road trip to Scotland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/lets-go-girls-britney-crossroads.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101794\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/lets-go-girls-britney-crossroads.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the way, Brunette Most Likely Gay starts yapping about his lady fiancé in front of his almost boyfriend again. WE GET IT! YOU'RE ENGAGED! NO HOMO ETC. GET SOME NEW MATERIAL!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/arnold-shut-up-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101795\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/arnold-shut-up-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When everyone arrives at the Scottish castle, they get a sneak peek of Season 1 Assassin's \u003cem>Project Runway\u003c/em> finale collection:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-1020x571.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-1020x571.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-800x448.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-768x430.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-1200x672.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-1920x1075.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-1180x661.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-960x537.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-240x134.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-375x210.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/scotland-victoria-520x291.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of fashion, Victoria is trying out a new look:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat-520x293.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-hat.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'll let the professionals judge this one:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/heidi-project-runway.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/heidi-project-runway.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/hideous.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/hideous.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/tim-gunn-6.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/tim-gunn-6.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/busy-and-tacky-michael-kors.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101803 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/busy-and-tacky-michael-kors.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long fishing scene in which nothing happens other than Victoria looking across the river, seeing two random girls, and thinking\u003cem> I wish I could be poor and regular too\u003c/em>, everyone decides to head back to the castle. Because Victoria seems to have a death wish this episode, she decides to go off into the wilderness with just Albert, who might know a lot about toilets, but not a thing about the geography of Scotland. Waze isn't going to get them out of this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure enough they immediately get lost and a search party is dispatched. The Most Likely Gays decide to team up and look for them together. When they look over a cliff and don't see Victoria and Albert's mangled bodies on the rocks below, they decide they've looked hard enough and that it's time to talk about how Achilles and Patroclus were totally gay for each other. This is a good start. Now go find a waterfall and skinny dip again! The viewers (mainly me) demand a sequel!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-gay-waterfall.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/victoria-gay-waterfall.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, Albert has gone from \u003cem>I have the best sense of direction!\u003c/em> to \u003cem>OMG we're going to die out here\u003c/em>. Who needs an assassin when your overconfident husband can get you killed, bullet-free? Albert makes Victoria ford a river and she almost falls off her horse. What's next? One of them dies of dysentery? (Shout out to all of us who played \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(video_game)\">\u003cem>Oregon Trail\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in grade school!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Oregon-Trail.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Oregon-Trail.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, they find a house and get invited in. The owner obviously doesn't subscribe to \u003cem>US Weekly\u003c/em> because he doesn't recognize them. When Victoria busts in without saying hi and takes a seat by the fire, Scottish Dude says, \u003cem>Umm, excuse you! That's my chair!\u003c/em> I like this humbling moment for Victoria and Albert. Make them do chores!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're a regular reader of this recap series, you know that I despise unnecessary \"downstairs\" plot lines. But there's finally one I deeply care about. Some babe in a kilt starts flirting with Babyface Maid, and then promptly makes out with her! If the Most Likely Gays refuse to tongue wrestle, I'll settle for this. Get it, girl!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/gross-kiss.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/gross-kiss.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"321\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Scottish Dude's place, Victoria and Albert are forced to do chores for the first time in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/chores-nicole-richie.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/chores-nicole-richie.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High off of learning how to dry dishes, darn socks, and drink plebeian booze, Victoria tells Albert she kind of doesn't want to be found. Back in the nursery, her three children have a message for their mom:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/excuse-me-what-about-me-nicki-minaj.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/excuse-me-what-about-me-nicki-minaj.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they don't have to worry. The search party finds them and Victoria's hosts are like, \u003cem>Ohhhh, so that's why she was acting so entitled!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Scottish castle, Blond Most Likely Gay excitedly shares the news of Victoria and Albert being found with Brunette Most Likely Gay. They celebrate by embracing for a long time!!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/enchanted-excited-amy-adams.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101814\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/enchanted-excited-amy-adams.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"269\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then they pull apart and look at each other like they're about to explore the insides of each other's mouths!!!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/excited.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101826\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/excited.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they don't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/god-i-want-a-donut-mindy-kaling.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/god-i-want-a-donut-mindy-kaling.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Victoria and Albert are brought back to the castle and applauded for surviving a few hours without being catered to by servants, Victoria debuts a new look to appease the \u003cem>Project Runway\u003c/em> judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-1020x573.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-1020x573.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-768x432.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-1200x674.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-1920x1079.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-1180x663.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-11-at-12.30.21-PM-520x292.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/heidi-project-runway-clap.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101820 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/heidi-project-runway-clap.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"278\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/nina-like-it-project-runway.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/nina-like-it-project-runway.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/tim-gunn-excited.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/tim-gunn-excited.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/michael-kors-project-runway.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101819\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/michael-kors-project-runway.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, the Most Likely Gays decide that hanging out with the servants will be one zillion times more fun than worshipping the Queen all evening, so they sneak away and twerk with the locals at a rave in the woods. The Duchess' niece watches from afar. I swear, little girl, don't you dare interrupt their love like you did back in episode 2. I will make more of these anti-you posters if I must.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98597\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-1020x707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-768x532.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-1200x832.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-1920x1331.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-1180x818.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-960x665.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-375x260.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-1020x1114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-1020x1114.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-160x175.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-800x873.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-768x838.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-1099x1200.jpg 1099w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-1920x2096.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-1180x1288.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-960x1048.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-240x262.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-375x409.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/get-out-2-520x568.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, she keeps her distance and just stares at them like a weirdo. The boys dance with each other, and laugh, and talk about how wonderful midsummer evenings are, and then stand in front of a body of water, which reminds them of that time at the waterfall, and then THEY TOTALLY MAKE OUT!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/yas-queen-broad-city.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/yas-queen-broad-city.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"469\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/its-so-beautiful.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/its-so-beautiful.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/yas-excited-crying-happy-tears-antm.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/yas-excited-crying-happy-tears-antm.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/colbert-crying.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/colbert-crying.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, back at the forest rave, Babyface Maid has let her hair down (literally) and is having her own sexy time with Kilt Babe. But, when he asks if he may write erotic letters to her, she declines because she almost dated Hot Italian Chef approximately one thousand years ago. Um, Babyface Maid, Victoria has had like 13 kids since then. Live your life!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the castle, Victoria's widowed bestie finally holds hands with Ernst because, if everyone else is hooking up, she might as well too. Who knew Scotland was such an aphrodisiac? Viagra who?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because sexy times must eventually come to an end, everyone returns to the dreariness of London. Albert mopes around, wishing he could be anonymous and poor again. Victoria is like, \u003cem>I know, me too! But we'll just have to take one for the team and live in a palace for free and get everything we want. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every actual poor person living at the time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/lc-eyeroll-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/lc-eyeroll-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"271\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, after opening Parliament, Victoria comes home, throws her cape, sash, and fancy gloves on the ground in the middle of the hallway (don't worry, someone else will pick it all up) and meets Albert by the fire, where they role play as their poor Scottish hosts. They grill fish in the fireplace and darn socks and giggle at how fun not wearing garments one time only and actually having to repair them is. 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"content": "\u003cp>Just over a year ago, Netflix announced that \u003cem>Queer Eye for the Straight Guy\u003c/em>, the Bravo network phenomenon of a makeover show that launched in 2003 before fizzling out in 2007, was coming back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reaction to this news varied. Some welcomed the idea. Some didn't. And some \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/01/26/511607790/seven-pieces-of-unsolicited-advice-for-those-rebooting-queer-eye\">self-appointed know-it-alls who didn't want to see the show come back went so far as to offer unsolicited advice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they were worried about, chiefly, was that the show's return engagement would proceed as if the intervening decade hadn't happened, blithely ignoring the seismic cultural shifts the country has undergone, with respect to the LGBT community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight episodes of the subtly but significantly revamped series drops Wednesday, featuring an all-new cast and a more earnest, more engaged sensibility. The worst-case scenario — that the show would emerge from its ten year cryogenic beauty nap only to launch immediately into its business of zhoozhing the sleeves of a nation of hapless, schlubby man-boys — has happily not come to pass. 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This time out, however — and this is inextricably linked to that aforementioned earnestness of tone — the producers seem bound and determined that no episode should end without first wringing a predetermined number of fluid ounces of salty, salty tears from its subjects, and the Fab Five, and the viewing audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101754\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-101754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/qeye_sg_104_00098_wide-909bbd58628384d776102c7288c3882af6284b51-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/qeye_sg_104_00098_wide-909bbd58628384d776102c7288c3882af6284b51-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/qeye_sg_104_00098_wide-909bbd58628384d776102c7288c3882af6284b51-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/qeye_sg_104_00098_wide-909bbd58628384d776102c7288c3882af6284b51-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/qeye_sg_104_00098_wide-909bbd58628384d776102c7288c3882af6284b51-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/qeye_sg_104_00098_wide-909bbd58628384d776102c7288c3882af6284b51-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/qeye_sg_104_00098_wide-909bbd58628384d776102c7288c3882af6284b51-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/qeye_sg_104_00098_wide-909bbd58628384d776102c7288c3882af6284b51-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/qeye_sg_104_00098_wide-909bbd58628384d776102c7288c3882af6284b51-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/qeye_sg_104_00098_wide-909bbd58628384d776102c7288c3882af6284b51-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/qeye_sg_104_00098_wide-909bbd58628384d776102c7288c3882af6284b51-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/qeye_sg_104_00098_wide-909bbd58628384d776102c7288c3882af6284b51-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Antoni Porowsky, Tan France, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown and Jonathan Van Ness, eyeing queerly. (Netflix)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That newfound urge to leave no waterworks un-cued is a by-product of the show's willingness to engage with — or at least, not completely ignore — the current cultural landscape. This season, the Fab Five are based in Atlanta, and the subjects of the makeovers are residents of that city and its environs. Among them are a firefighter, the devoutly religious head of a large family, and a Trump-supporting, NASCAR-loving police officer. The new Fab Five are quick to pick up on any discomfort these men evince, and the show is perfectly willing to devote a few minutes of screen time to some uncomfortable conversations about police brutality, internalized homophobia and religious intolerance. 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"content": "\u003cp>Over the weekend, Tide launched a new, attention-grabbing ad campaign that centered simply around linking the detergent brand to clean clothes. The twist was that it put a rugged man front and center, actively taking the audience's understanding of advertising semiotics and gleefully flipping it on its head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gGXnE1Dbh0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/02/04/the-five-best-super-bowl-commercials-from-tide-to-tide/?utm_term=.d346f237a9b4\">nationwide joy\u003c/a> that greeted the Tide ads was an indication of just how much America is ready to leave the tired, lady-at-the-washing-machine trope in the past. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1092086/?ref_=tt_cl_t2\">David Harbour\u003c/a>-starring spots weren't just refreshing, they were incredibly overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detergent advertising has been stuck in one of the longest ruts in TV history. It all started after women spent World War II actively engaged in manufacturing and industrial work. When the male workforce came home, America suddenly had to figure out how to get a nation of Rosie the Riveters back off the payroll and into the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twin forces of capitalism and advertising were immediately employed to convince women that household chores were just as appealing as saving America had been. The messaging seeped into commercials, both on television and in print, and applied to anything and everything home-related.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s, one angle employed to encourage housewifery was to convince women that there was glamor to be found in drudgery. In this Ivory Snow commercial from the period, the home was a \"castle,\" the housewife was a \"storybook princess,\" and the laundry was \"her trousseau\" (which, according to dictionary.com, means \"the clothes, household linen, and other belongings collected by a bride for her marriage\").\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChaRHzB2EpQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, for the women who weren't buying the princess angle, laundry was presented as a complex and scientific task, well-suited to glasses-wearing, pointer-wielding smartypants who knew all about \"cycletron programming\" and \"complete agitation.\" These Tide and Westinghouse commercials were transparently geared towards women who had ambitions beyond staying at home, to try and make it seem like doing so was actually a challenging, interesting, and science-y endeavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMICBp4k-Z0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u2BTjLte0k\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the 1960s, detergent commercials somehow got even worse, proudly and loudly plunging headfirst into the realms of mansplaining. Watch in horror as omnipotent man voices tell these grown women what to do with their skivvies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGZMvm6_gHo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPrSpihatgM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point in the middle of the '60s, some genius at Bold figured out that talking about laundry was as interminably boring as doing it, and figured some music might liven things up. It absolutely did not, thanks to the fact that no one could be bothered to make up a song with a perceivable hook. Just check out Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Jones sing-speaking at each other like two malfunctioning \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073747/?ref_=nv_sr_2\">Stepford Wives.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD72ovIah1o\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fab managed to come up with a catchier jingle to accompany the 1968 ad below, while making it abundantly clear that fun in fields was the realm of boys, men, and \"Jenny,\" who was \"just as bad as the boys,\" and inside not-fun was for responsible ladies in clean dresses. The marked line between this sensible housewife and the rest of her fun family ends up being rather depressing. A matter made worse by the fact that, in 2010, the borax they're all so gleefully singing about was listed as a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borax\">Substance of Very High Concern\u003c/a> in Europe, due to the fact that it can cause infertility. 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Tide went into a deep denial and hammered home the message that things were just the same as they'd always been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm7AWmp60vc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most other companies, including Bonus, continued to present itself as a source of happiness for generations of women who were most fulfilled by staying at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVo-xsjkSrI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That very specific idea of women passing down laundry to the next generation of girls continued well into the '80s (and beyond). This Bold ad featured three generations of women. Not a man in sight!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1fqdsWSZaM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To give you some idea of how little sexist messaging changed in detergent commercials over the decades, here's one from the '80s, that is almost identical -- down to the borax jingle -- to the Fab commercial from 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqVzxhHo3Yw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the '90s, the idea that laundry was the exclusive domain of women was so ingrained in our culture -- as well as ad agencies' ideas of what would sell products -- that laundry commercials simply continued to run with the idea that professional work was for men and housework was for women. To put it in some context, this Gain commercial came out the same year that Netscape Navigator went on the market. So, at the same time the internet was becoming a viable at-home option, women in chore-related commercials were still eternally trapped there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR4m2R7zo5A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the land of detergent, the most women could ask for was a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25943326\">New Man\u003c/a> who appreciated their efforts, as seen in this Dash commercial from 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJYFcHk8SI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as 2007, Clorox told us in no uncertain terms that laundry was, and always has been a woman's job, adding that \"maybe even a man or two\" had done it at some point. Even if Clorox wished to cling to the idea that where there is a woman, there is a laundry-do-er, who did Clorox think had been washing the clothes of millions of single men, gay men, and male college students all that time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZeQUxSjHwU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, Clorox attempted to make up for that last one with a commercial featuring dads chatting on a playground and taking care of babies. Tellingly, we never actually see them interact with a washing machine though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCuyMbyFE_U\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013 -- 2013! -- Tide was still telling us that women were the ones to quit work \"to be with the kids,\" and also that caring about laundry was something inherently passed down to women from their grandmothers. The messaging was 40-years old, and absurdly out of touch, yet apparently \u003cem>still\u003c/em> no one could think of a better way to sell detergent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0cAK9ouRXU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even just last year, Tide's Super Bowl ad \"twist\" consisted of NFL player Rob Gronkowski wearing pigtails and smelling bad -- but it was still a mom washing everyone's clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRnI7pX-2vY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detergent isn't the only product whose advertising is woefully sexist, but it is a product that has historically ignored the fact that every gender and sexuality needs, buys, and uses it. Based on these ads, one would think that the only people using laundry detergent are heterosexual white women -- and from a selling point, that's just counter-productive. Here's hoping the Tide just turned.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"l9N3FI3K0vd1X18rdMBt45JcTZRvD0tR\"]In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/01/28/victoria-season-2-episode-3-recap-daddy-issues/\">the previous episode of \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Albert had a meltdown about everyone being a whore and wearing too much makeup, Victoria got knocked up for what feels like the 19th time, and the Most Likely Gays finally saw each other naked. Will Albert's next pet project be inventing makeup remover wipes? Will Victoria hate her new baby for looking like an amphibian again, or will she find a different reason? Will the Most Likely Gays join a nudist colony so they can hang out naked all the time without homophobes sending them to jail? Only one way to find out! On with the show!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While people in Ireland drop like flies due to famine, Victoria and Albert are feeling a bit full from breakfast as they listen to a sermon about plagues in Egypt circa Moses. Did they manage to glean anything from this Biblical tale that might help those who are starving to death? NOPE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Ugh, why does the priest have to be such a downer!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Albert:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>What's there to be down about? Peasants and plague are part of God's will. Not our problem!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wow. Nice knowing ya, Irish people!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That afternoon, while on a walk, Victoria and Albert run into Ernst. \"Could it really be you?!\" Yes, Victoria. It's really him. He literally shows up in every single episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernst has been spending time in Baden-Baden, a German spa town, on the recommendation of his doctors. \"I enjoyed myself perhaps a little too much in Paris.\" Oooo, you know what that means! Gimme an S, gimme a Y, gimme a P, H, I, L, I, S!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/at-least-not-herpes-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101631\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/at-least-not-herpes-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, while putting away Ernst's belongings, a servant accidentally spills a bunch of white powder from his suitcase. Turns out it's mercury chloride, a poison that people back in the day decided was a remedy for syphilis. Spoiler: it wasn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/poison-bottle-winking.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101630\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/poison-bottle-winking.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ireland, a bunch of important men meet to discuss what they should do about the potato famine. The quick consensus is: absolutely nothing! A man named Dr. Traill dissents: \u003cem>Um, letting millions die just 'cause they're poor and Catholic is kinda evil. Maybe we shouldn't do that?\u003c/em> Everyone laughs at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you dying to know what Prince Albert's new pet project for this episode is going to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*crickets*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I'll tell you anyway!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants to ..... *drumroll* ..... modernize the palace sewer system!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/yay1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/yay1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Already-Bored.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Already-Bored.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another tedious storyline no one asked for, a random American woman tries to convince Hot Italian Chef to release a cookbook. How did we go from last week's exciting naked waterfall action to this mundanity? If we can't get more skinny dipping, at least give us a scene starring Dash's ghost. Throw us a bone, \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em> writers! (Pun absolutely intended.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without his poison... I mean, medicine, Ernst's syphilis is raging. He seeks out a new doctor, who has an even better remedy than mercury chloride powder. A steam room full of mercury vapor!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It does not go well:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/steam-room-simpsons.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dear \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em> writers, sorry to bug y'all again, but if I was part of creating this scene, I would have included a cameo of a young, futuristic-speedo-wearing, slightly unhinged Sting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/steam-room-sting.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/steam-room-sting.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"242\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And / or the aforementioned ghost of Dash:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/steam-room-dog.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101636\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/steam-room-dog.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have plenty more ideas where these came from. Call me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Ireland, things are getting worse and Dr. Traill seems to be the only one who cares. When he tells his wife that he found a dead mother surrounded by five orphaned children, her response is: \u003cem>Ewwww, she was Catholic?! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yikes! Dial down the evil just a smidge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/ross-friends-dial-it-down-gif-quiet-hands-gesture.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/ross-friends-dial-it-down-gif-quiet-hands-gesture.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, Victoria comes across an impassioned letter Dr. Traill wrote to a newspaper editor and brings up its shocking contents (corpses in the street!) to the Prime Minister. Before he can react, some random jerk we've never met mansplains why it's actually a good thing that the Irish are dying in mass numbers (population control is nifty, you see!). He also shares these bigoted gems: \"The Irish as a race are prone to exaggeration\" and \"The Irish like to imbibe at funerals. Perhaps that is why they are incapable of digging a decent grave.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/excuse-me-drag-race-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101640\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/excuse-me-drag-race-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/internally-outraged-drake-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/internally-outraged-drake-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"261\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the hall, the Most Likely Gays run into each other, but hold your applause. There is a 0% chance of them getting into an sexy fun this time around 'cause the brown-haired one's energy has switched decidedly to no homo. Since video footage doesn't exist in this time period, quick, someone paint the waterfall scene from last episode and show him that, just a few days ago, he was very much in a yes homo state of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/youre-gay-nicole-richie-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/youre-gay-nicole-richie-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"221\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, Brunette Most Likely Gay is siding with the Prime Minister about not wanting to send money or resources to all the dying Irish people. Because he isn't a monster, Blond Most Likely Gay is appalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/i-dont-like-you-anymore-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101642\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/i-dont-like-you-anymore-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if this wasn't enough to really spoil the mood, Brunette Most Likely Gay decides to be sexist about Victoria wanting to prevent millions of people from dying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brunette:\u003c/strong> \"Women are so damn emotional!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blond: \"\u003c/strong>Women like your fiancé?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brunette:\u003c/strong> \"She's insisting on setting the date right in the middle of the session... Sorry. You don't want to hear about that, do you? Goodbye.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/nice-knowing-you-traitor.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101643\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/nice-knowing-you-traitor.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, an Irish maid is distraught about her family back home and asks for a wage advance to help them out. The head butler, who turns more into a Disney villain every episode, responds with a \u003cem>Muahahaha, never!\u003c/em> This would be a great time for Dash's ghost to materialize and bite this dude's face off. Instead, we get a heartwarming scene of Hot Italian Chef giving Irish Maid his fancy gold pocket watch to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/lauren-conrad-aww-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/lauren-conrad-aww-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After receiving a letter from the Queen asking to hang out, Dr. Traill heads to London, where he sees tons of food being exported to other countries. And none for Ireland, bye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/none-for-gretchen-wieners-bye-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101648\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/none-for-gretchen-wieners-bye-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon meeting the Queen, he promptly asks: \u003cem>Uhhhh, what the hell??\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/wheres-the-food.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/wheres-the-food.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before she can attempt to explain, Albert comes in and regurgitates a Facebook post he skimmed once about how the Irish rely too heavily on one crop, so it's okay that they're all dying. Dr. Traill weighs uppercutting him versus calmly explaining how ignorant he is. Unfortunately, he settles on option B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/hit-him-in-the-crotch.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101649\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/hit-him-in-the-crotch.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"292\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her talk with Dr. Traill, Victoria holds up her new baby (who has apparently already been born even though she was just a cluster of cells at the end of the last episode) and asks the Prime Minister to think of the innocent Irish children. It seems to work, which I'm happy about... but I'm way happier that the show decided to spare us from having to watch another entire pregnancy and labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/raw-1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/raw-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"278\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few boring news bulletins for you lumped into one 'cause I can't even pretend to care: Albert installed a working toilet in the basement! Hot Italian Chef decided not to publish the cookbook! Victoria's bestie that Ernst had a thing for is now a widow, but Ernst can't have sex with her 'cause of his STD!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, I do kind of care about that last one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/popcorn-steph-curry-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101650\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/popcorn-steph-curry-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back home, Dr. Traill tells his wife he intends to use their house as a soup kitchen. She hates this idea and threatens to leave him and never come back because she's the absolute worst. He decides that would be okay with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/bye-nene-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/bye-nene-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abandoned by his bigoted wife and peers, Dr. Traill puts all his energy into giving the needy what little food he can scrounge up. Things are starting to look up! And then he drops dead of typhus fever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/jennifer-lawrence-what-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/jennifer-lawrence-what-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>End scene!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it’s only right to reward characters who’ve impressed and diss the ones that haven’t, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL: Basically Everyone. \u003c/strong>Dr. Traill's friends. Dr. Traill's wife. Brunette Most Likely Gay. The Prime Minister and his entire party. The head butler. Albert. All of them deserve to be flushed down the palace's new toilet into a poop-filled sewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION: Blond Most Likely Gay. \u003c/strong>Hopefully reincarnation is real so that he gets to come back a few centuries later and use an app to find the gay love he deserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRONZE:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Hot Italian Chef. \u003c/strong>Good on him for giving away his favorite fancy possession to make the world a better place. And another good on him for not putting out that cookbook, thus avoiding having to do one of those painful daytime TV segments where a celebrity chef is forced to make seven dishes in two minutes while being interrupted by a wine-drunk Kathy Lee Gifford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SILVER: Irish Maid. \u003c/strong>This award is my way of saying sorry about her circumstances, and also sorry for never mentioning her in other recaps because I found her very boring. My bad!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GOLD: Dr. Traill. \u003c/strong>Way to drag your ass on the way to justice, arc of the moral universe.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>R.I.P. buddy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week! If you miss my thoughts on \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em> or pop culture in general, follow me on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty\">@xcusemybeauty\u003c/a>, listen to my podcast \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">\u003cem>The Cooler\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, or read all my other \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/victoria/\">\u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em>\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/poldark/\">\u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em>\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/downton-abbey/\">\u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/recaps/\">recaps\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>More recaps:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108303/victoria-season-3-finale-recap-matchmaker-matchmaker\">'Victoria' Season 3 Finale Recap: Matchmaker, Matchmaker\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108301/victoria-season-3-episode-7-recap-california-love\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 7 Recap: California Love\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108299/victoria-season-3-episode-6-recap-love-on-the-brain\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 6 Recap: Love on the Brain\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108293/victoria-season-3-episode-5-recap-on-the-road-again\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 5 Recap: On The Road Again\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108291/victoria-season-3-episode-4-recap-ill-be-missing-you\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 4 Recap: I'll Be Missing You\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108289/victoria-season-3-episode-3-recap-la-isla-bonita\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 3 Recap: La Isla Bonita\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108287/victoria-season-3-episode-2-recap-the-guns-of-brixton\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 2 Recap: The Guns of Brixton\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108284/victoria-season-3-premiere-recap-god-save-the-queen\">'Victoria' Season 3 Premiere Recap: God Save The Queen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97779/victoria-season-2-finale-recap-its-a-hard-knock-life\">'Victoria' Season 2 Finale Recap: It's a Hard-Knock Life\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97777/victoria-season-2-episode-6-recap-somewhere-over-the-rainbow\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 6 Recap: Somewhere Over The Rainbow\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97775/victoria-season-2-episode-5-recap-lost-and-found\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: Lost and Found\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97773/victoria-season-2-episode-4-recap-people-are-people\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 4 Recap: People Are People\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97771/victoria-season-2-episode-3-recap-daddy-issues\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 3 Recap: Daddy Issues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97769/victoria-season-2-episode-2-recap-puppy-love\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 2 Recap: Puppy Love\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97767/victoria-season-2-premiere-recap-baby-its-cold-outside\">'Victoria' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Baby It's Cold Outside\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/56546/victoria-season-1-finale-recap-bye-bye-baby-blues\">'Victoria' Season 1 Finale Recap: Bye Bye Baby Blues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/19/victoria-season-1-episode-6-recap-cmon-ride-the-train/\">'Victoria' Season 1, Episode 6 Recap: C'mon Ride the Train\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/12/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-5-recap-ill-make-love-to-you/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: I’ll Make Love to You\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/05/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-4-recap-wedding-bell-blues/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Wedding Bell Blues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/29/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-3-recap-youre-so-vain/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: You’re So Vain\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/22/victoria-season-1-episode-2-recap-all-the-single-ladies/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap: All The Single Ladies\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/15/victoria-season-1-premiere-recap-bow-down/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1 Premiere Recap: Bow Down\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"excerpt": "This week's episode was about the potato famine, so you probably need a laugh or two right about now. This recap has your back!",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/01/28/victoria-season-2-episode-3-recap-daddy-issues/\">the previous episode of \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Albert had a meltdown about everyone being a whore and wearing too much makeup, Victoria got knocked up for what feels like the 19th time, and the Most Likely Gays finally saw each other naked. Will Albert's next pet project be inventing makeup remover wipes? Will Victoria hate her new baby for looking like an amphibian again, or will she find a different reason? Will the Most Likely Gays join a nudist colony so they can hang out naked all the time without homophobes sending them to jail? Only one way to find out! On with the show!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While people in Ireland drop like flies due to famine, Victoria and Albert are feeling a bit full from breakfast as they listen to a sermon about plagues in Egypt circa Moses. Did they manage to glean anything from this Biblical tale that might help those who are starving to death? NOPE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Ugh, why does the priest have to be such a downer!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Albert:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>What's there to be down about? Peasants and plague are part of God's will. Not our problem!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wow. Nice knowing ya, Irish people!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That afternoon, while on a walk, Victoria and Albert run into Ernst. \"Could it really be you?!\" Yes, Victoria. It's really him. He literally shows up in every single episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernst has been spending time in Baden-Baden, a German spa town, on the recommendation of his doctors. \"I enjoyed myself perhaps a little too much in Paris.\" Oooo, you know what that means! Gimme an S, gimme a Y, gimme a P, H, I, L, I, S!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/at-least-not-herpes-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101631\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/at-least-not-herpes-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, while putting away Ernst's belongings, a servant accidentally spills a bunch of white powder from his suitcase. Turns out it's mercury chloride, a poison that people back in the day decided was a remedy for syphilis. Spoiler: it wasn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/poison-bottle-winking.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101630\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/poison-bottle-winking.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ireland, a bunch of important men meet to discuss what they should do about the potato famine. The quick consensus is: absolutely nothing! A man named Dr. Traill dissents: \u003cem>Um, letting millions die just 'cause they're poor and Catholic is kinda evil. Maybe we shouldn't do that?\u003c/em> Everyone laughs at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you dying to know what Prince Albert's new pet project for this episode is going to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*crickets*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I'll tell you anyway!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants to ..... *drumroll* ..... modernize the palace sewer system!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/yay1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/yay1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Already-Bored.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/Already-Bored.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another tedious storyline no one asked for, a random American woman tries to convince Hot Italian Chef to release a cookbook. How did we go from last week's exciting naked waterfall action to this mundanity? If we can't get more skinny dipping, at least give us a scene starring Dash's ghost. Throw us a bone, \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em> writers! (Pun absolutely intended.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without his poison... I mean, medicine, Ernst's syphilis is raging. He seeks out a new doctor, who has an even better remedy than mercury chloride powder. A steam room full of mercury vapor!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It does not go well:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/steam-room-simpsons.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dear \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em> writers, sorry to bug y'all again, but if I was part of creating this scene, I would have included a cameo of a young, futuristic-speedo-wearing, slightly unhinged Sting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/steam-room-sting.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/steam-room-sting.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"242\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And / or the aforementioned ghost of Dash:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/steam-room-dog.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101636\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/steam-room-dog.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have plenty more ideas where these came from. Call me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Ireland, things are getting worse and Dr. Traill seems to be the only one who cares. When he tells his wife that he found a dead mother surrounded by five orphaned children, her response is: \u003cem>Ewwww, she was Catholic?! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yikes! Dial down the evil just a smidge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/ross-friends-dial-it-down-gif-quiet-hands-gesture.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/ross-friends-dial-it-down-gif-quiet-hands-gesture.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, Victoria comes across an impassioned letter Dr. Traill wrote to a newspaper editor and brings up its shocking contents (corpses in the street!) to the Prime Minister. Before he can react, some random jerk we've never met mansplains why it's actually a good thing that the Irish are dying in mass numbers (population control is nifty, you see!). He also shares these bigoted gems: \"The Irish as a race are prone to exaggeration\" and \"The Irish like to imbibe at funerals. Perhaps that is why they are incapable of digging a decent grave.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/excuse-me-drag-race-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101640\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/excuse-me-drag-race-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/internally-outraged-drake-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/internally-outraged-drake-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"261\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the hall, the Most Likely Gays run into each other, but hold your applause. There is a 0% chance of them getting into an sexy fun this time around 'cause the brown-haired one's energy has switched decidedly to no homo. Since video footage doesn't exist in this time period, quick, someone paint the waterfall scene from last episode and show him that, just a few days ago, he was very much in a yes homo state of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/youre-gay-nicole-richie-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/youre-gay-nicole-richie-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"221\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, Brunette Most Likely Gay is siding with the Prime Minister about not wanting to send money or resources to all the dying Irish people. Because he isn't a monster, Blond Most Likely Gay is appalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/i-dont-like-you-anymore-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101642\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/i-dont-like-you-anymore-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if this wasn't enough to really spoil the mood, Brunette Most Likely Gay decides to be sexist about Victoria wanting to prevent millions of people from dying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brunette:\u003c/strong> \"Women are so damn emotional!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blond: \"\u003c/strong>Women like your fiancé?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brunette:\u003c/strong> \"She's insisting on setting the date right in the middle of the session... Sorry. You don't want to hear about that, do you? Goodbye.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/nice-knowing-you-traitor.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101643\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/nice-knowing-you-traitor.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, an Irish maid is distraught about her family back home and asks for a wage advance to help them out. The head butler, who turns more into a Disney villain every episode, responds with a \u003cem>Muahahaha, never!\u003c/em> This would be a great time for Dash's ghost to materialize and bite this dude's face off. Instead, we get a heartwarming scene of Hot Italian Chef giving Irish Maid his fancy gold pocket watch to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/lauren-conrad-aww-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/09/lauren-conrad-aww-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After receiving a letter from the Queen asking to hang out, Dr. Traill heads to London, where he sees tons of food being exported to other countries. And none for Ireland, bye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/none-for-gretchen-wieners-bye-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101648\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/none-for-gretchen-wieners-bye-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon meeting the Queen, he promptly asks: \u003cem>Uhhhh, what the hell??\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/wheres-the-food.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/wheres-the-food.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before she can attempt to explain, Albert comes in and regurgitates a Facebook post he skimmed once about how the Irish rely too heavily on one crop, so it's okay that they're all dying. Dr. Traill weighs uppercutting him versus calmly explaining how ignorant he is. Unfortunately, he settles on option B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/hit-him-in-the-crotch.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101649\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/hit-him-in-the-crotch.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"292\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her talk with Dr. Traill, Victoria holds up her new baby (who has apparently already been born even though she was just a cluster of cells at the end of the last episode) and asks the Prime Minister to think of the innocent Irish children. It seems to work, which I'm happy about... but I'm way happier that the show decided to spare us from having to watch another entire pregnancy and labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/raw-1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/raw-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"278\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few boring news bulletins for you lumped into one 'cause I can't even pretend to care: Albert installed a working toilet in the basement! Hot Italian Chef decided not to publish the cookbook! Victoria's bestie that Ernst had a thing for is now a widow, but Ernst can't have sex with her 'cause of his STD!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, I do kind of care about that last one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/popcorn-steph-curry-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101650\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/popcorn-steph-curry-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back home, Dr. Traill tells his wife he intends to use their house as a soup kitchen. She hates this idea and threatens to leave him and never come back because she's the absolute worst. He decides that would be okay with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/bye-nene-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/bye-nene-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abandoned by his bigoted wife and peers, Dr. Traill puts all his energy into giving the needy what little food he can scrounge up. Things are starting to look up! And then he drops dead of typhus fever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/jennifer-lawrence-what-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/02/jennifer-lawrence-what-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>End scene!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it’s only right to reward characters who’ve impressed and diss the ones that haven’t, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL: Basically Everyone. \u003c/strong>Dr. Traill's friends. Dr. Traill's wife. Brunette Most Likely Gay. The Prime Minister and his entire party. The head butler. Albert. All of them deserve to be flushed down the palace's new toilet into a poop-filled sewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION: Blond Most Likely Gay. \u003c/strong>Hopefully reincarnation is real so that he gets to come back a few centuries later and use an app to find the gay love he deserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRONZE:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Hot Italian Chef. \u003c/strong>Good on him for giving away his favorite fancy possession to make the world a better place. And another good on him for not putting out that cookbook, thus avoiding having to do one of those painful daytime TV segments where a celebrity chef is forced to make seven dishes in two minutes while being interrupted by a wine-drunk Kathy Lee Gifford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SILVER: Irish Maid. \u003c/strong>This award is my way of saying sorry about her circumstances, and also sorry for never mentioning her in other recaps because I found her very boring. My bad!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GOLD: Dr. Traill. \u003c/strong>Way to drag your ass on the way to justice, arc of the moral universe.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>R.I.P. buddy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week! 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"disqusTitle": "'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 3 Recap: Daddy Issues",
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"content": "\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"l9N3FI3K0vd1X18rdMBt45JcTZRvD0tR\"]In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/01/22/victoria-season-2-episode-2-recap-puppy-love/\">the previous episode of \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Albert found out his uncle might actually be his dad, one of the Most Likely Gays got engaged to a human woman, and, oh yeah, DASH DIED! Will Albert keep processing his incestuous family's twisted revelations by getting so drunk he hallucinates elves? Will society pause on all the homophobia long enough to allow the Most Likely Gays to skip that whole being-miserable-in-the-closet-for-a-lifetime thing and just live happily ever after? Will Dash rise on the third day and bark, \u003cem>Just kidding! Nothing this cute could ever die!\u003c/em>? Only one way to find out! On with the show!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We find Victoria and the Prime Minister with very concerned looks on their faces. Over the widening gulf between the classes and the rising rates of poverty and starvation? Not so much. They're miffed about the king of France wanting to marry his son to the queen of Spain. Because she's underage and the match is being made against her will? Again, not so much. They simply don't want the French creating an empire across Europe using marriage; only Victoria's family should get to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/hypocrisy-meter-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97106\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/hypocrisy-meter-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"289\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albert is so upset about Uncle Leopold probably being Daddy Leopold that, for once, he doesn't chime in with his unsolicited opinion. That's never happened before!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tries to calm down by going into the next room to sketch his own face (naturally), but soon realizes he hates all of his features because they're the same as Leopold's! (Um, my dude, your entire family is related to itself, so this was always true.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being the mature adult that he is, Albert proceeds to pour an entire ink bottle onto his sketch and all over the table. Sure, it's weird that your uncle boinked your mom, but don't take it out on the antique desk! Who's going to clean all this up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/spill-coke-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/spill-coke-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Spoiler: probably one of the impoverished servants.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, Victoria is writing in her journal, which is resting on HER PREGNANT STOMACH?!?!?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-1020x666.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-768x502.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-1200x784.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-1920x1255.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-960x627.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-520x340.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it.jpg 2014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ohhhh, nevermind! She had her knees up. Phew! I really just need a single episode where she's not knocked up, okay? We've been through that storyline enough for now, thank you very much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, it's decided that Victoria doesn't want to simply butt into France and Spain's matchmaking via letter; she'd rather mind other's people's business up close and in person. With an invite list that includes both the Most Likely Gays (oooooh la la!) and a little purse with Dash embroidered on it (awwww la la!), they make their way to France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon arriving, the French king kisses Victoria on both cheeks (oh mon dieu!). In the coach to the chateau, the Duchess of Buccleuch shares how much she hated that the king put his lips all over the queen as if she were just some washwoman. The topic of making out is enough to get the Most Likely Gays heart-eyeing each other again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-1020x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-1020x591.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-800x464.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-768x445.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-1200x696.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-1920x1113.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-1180x684.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-960x557.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-240x139.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-375x217.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-520x301.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-1020x664.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-800x521.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-768x500.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-1200x782.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-1920x1251.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-960x625.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-375x244.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria is very much taken with the weird bright orb in the sky they have here in France. Everyone's seasonal affective disorder clears right up. \u003cem>Let's never go back to that damp sadness we call a country\u003c/em>, everyone agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait! Hold up! Hit pause on the Let's-Ditch-England-For-France's-Marginally-Better-Weather plan because these people are *French R pronunciation* RRHUDE!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-1020x733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-800x575.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-768x552.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-1200x862.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-1920x1379.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-1180x848.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-960x690.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-520x374.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What exactly is your problem, miss? Dash was supremely beautiful and deserves to be commemorated not only via embroidered bags, but also via face tattoos. Comment dit-on \"HOW DARE YOU!\" en français?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the chateau, Albert realizes he is way too much of a prude for the French aesthetic. \"This painting! 'Tis not to my taste!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-1020x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-1020x578.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-800x454.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-768x436.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-1200x681.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-1920x1089.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-1180x669.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-960x544.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-240x136.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-375x213.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-520x295.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Translation: He hates big butts and he cannot lie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Queen's bedroom, Victoria is feeling insecure about being the only woman in the country without three inches of makeup caked on. Babyface Maid gets the lowdown on all the products the women in France use: rouge, eyeliner, boob cream, and a creepy mask that secures hunks of veal to one's face. Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's raw meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/meat-mask.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98829\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/meat-mask.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria makes a grand makeup-to-the-max entrance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/trixie.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98830\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/trixie.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, because there's a handful of gussied-up women present, Ernst magically appears out of nowhere to say, \u003cem>Woah, Victoria! You look like a whore! I love it!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dinner, all the rich people eat tiny baby chicks because PETA doesn't exist yet to make them feel bad about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the table, the Oh C'mon Just Be Gays are inspired by a towering phallic dessert...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98834\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-1020x817.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-800x641.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-768x615.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-1200x961.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-1920x1538.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-1180x945.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-960x769.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-240x192.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-375x300.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-520x417.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1.jpg 2002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-1020x619.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-1020x619.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-160x97.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-800x485.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-768x466.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-1200x728.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-1920x1165.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-1180x716.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-960x583.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-240x146.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-375x228.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-520x316.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...and non-subtly flirt a bit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blond Most Likely Gay:\u003c/strong> \"I'm prepared to be led into temptation. What about you?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brunette Most Likely Gay:\u003c/strong> \"I think to refuse such a creation might cause a diplomatic incident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>THEY'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT DESSERT! THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT GETTING NAKED TOGETHER! JUST DO IT™!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that night, Albert decides to fit in a tantrum before bedtime over how artificial, deceitful, vulgar, and impure the French are. \u003cem>They're all ginormous whores! Why can't they all wear chastity belts?! Why did my mom have to sleep with my uncle?! Waaaaahhhh!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/baby-cry-mask.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/baby-cry-mask.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"193\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albert then cries over how sad Victoria's new makeup makes him:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/trixie-drag.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/trixie-drag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pleads: \"Please never do it again! I do not know if I could bear it!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YEESH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can you imagine being married to a man that has an emotional breakdown every time you put colored lip balm on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/dump-him-latrice.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/dump-him-latrice.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"278\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Albert lectures his slutty brother Ernst on how he should keep it in his pants. Ernst is like, \u003cem>HA! AS IF! You realize I've already contracted syphilis at least nine times, right?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Albert, the Duchess of Buccleuch is also being a terrible killjoy. She hates all the rampant seduction going on, and don't get her started on the phallic food!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-1020x1236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-1020x1236.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-160x194.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-800x970.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-768x931.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-990x1200.jpg 990w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-1180x1430.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-960x1164.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-240x291.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-375x455.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-520x630.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread.jpg 1330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of phalluses, while on a walk with Albert, the Most Likely Gays decide to TAKE OFF THEIR CLOTHES AND GO SKINNY DIPPING TOGETHER!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This totally sounds like one of my exaggerated jokes, but it's not!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98840\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-1020x746.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-1020x746.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-768x561.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-1200x877.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-1920x1403.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-1180x862.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-960x702.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-240x175.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-375x274.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-520x380.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-1020x666.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-768x501.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-1920x1253.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-1180x770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-960x627.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-1020x719.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-768x541.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-1200x846.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-1920x1353.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-1180x832.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-960x677.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-520x367.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98847\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-1020x691.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-1020x691.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-800x542.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-768x520.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-1200x813.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-1920x1301.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-1180x800.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-960x651.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-375x254.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-1020x605.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-800x474.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-768x455.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-1200x712.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-1920x1139.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-1180x700.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-960x569.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-375x222.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-520x308.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-1020x838.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-1020x838.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-800x657.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-768x631.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-1200x986.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-1920x1577.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-1180x969.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-960x789.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-240x197.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-375x308.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-520x427.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-1020x1185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-1020x1185.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-160x186.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-800x929.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-768x892.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-1033x1200.jpg 1033w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-1180x1371.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-960x1115.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-240x279.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-375x436.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-520x604.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm.jpg 1374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-1020x1081.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-1020x1081.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-160x170.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-800x848.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-768x814.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-1133x1200.jpg 1133w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-1180x1250.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-960x1017.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-240x254.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-375x397.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-520x551.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye.jpg 1510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My feelings on this scene can best be described by the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/give.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-98851\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/give.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"408\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/praise-god-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-98852 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/praise-god-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, Albert finally tells Victoria about his daddy issues. She's like, \u003cem>You know what'll make you feel better? Meddling in the life of an underage Spanish queen! \u003c/em>They go downstairs and tag-team negotiate with the French king. All parties agree that they won't try to make the Spanish queen marry one of their relatives. Cool. Glad they decided that without any consideration for what the queen actually wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following week, Victoria and Albert are back in England, still enjoying the residual vacay vibes and going over their successful Instagram posts from France.\u003cem> Look, Albert! This one of you swimming completely naked with the Most Likely Gays got 100 likes!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All is well until news breaks that the French king totally played them. His son is now engaged to the Spanish queen. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albert feels duped and betrayed, but Victoria sees a silver lining: at least they worked as a team for once and got schooled together! Isn't that romantic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, with the Uncle/Daddy Leopold drama out of the bag, they have no secrets between them. Well, except for one, she cheekily says, before revealing that she is once again pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/are-you-fucking-kidding-me-bridesmaids.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39749\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/are-you-fucking-kidding-me-bridesmaids.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"233\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/no-please-god-no-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97254\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/11/no-please-god-no-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wendy-cant.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wendy-cant.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"240\">\u003c/a>End scene!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it’s only right to reward characters who’ve impressed and diss the ones that haven’t, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL: Albert. \u003c/strong>He needs to stop policing other people's sex lives. He also needs to stop having meltdowns over whether Victoria wants to put on lipgloss or not. But most of all, he needs to stop being so damn fertile!!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ANOTHER PIECE OF COAL: Rude French Rando Who Had the Audacity to Make Fun of the Dash Purse.\u003c/strong> I never forget a slight against my favorite pooch. Someone dust off and roll out the guillotine!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION: The Duchess of Buccleuch. \u003c/strong>Sure, she was a wet blanket the entire trip, but I agree with her on one count: French food sucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BRONZE: The Queen of Spain. \u003c/strong>Poor girl can't even have any fun \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em>-esque single adventures before people she's never met chain her to some old random foreign dude who will just knock her up and cheat on her behind her back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SILVER: That Waterfall Lake. \u003c/strong>Thanks for existing in the right place at the right time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GOLD: The Most Likely Gays. \u003c/strong>They didn't make out, but this was maybe better?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week! If you miss my thoughts on \u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em> or pop culture in general, follow me on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty\">@xcusemybeauty\u003c/a>, listen to my podcast \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">\u003cem>The Cooler\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, or read all my other \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/victoria/\">\u003cem>Victoria\u003c/em>\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/poldark/\">\u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em>\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/downton-abbey/\">\u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/recaps/\">recaps!\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>More recaps:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108303/victoria-season-3-finale-recap-matchmaker-matchmaker\">'Victoria' Season 3 Finale Recap: Matchmaker, Matchmaker\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108301/victoria-season-3-episode-7-recap-california-love\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 7 Recap: California Love\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108299/victoria-season-3-episode-6-recap-love-on-the-brain\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 6 Recap: Love on the Brain\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108293/victoria-season-3-episode-5-recap-on-the-road-again\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 5 Recap: On The Road Again\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108291/victoria-season-3-episode-4-recap-ill-be-missing-you\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 4 Recap: I'll Be Missing You\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108289/victoria-season-3-episode-3-recap-la-isla-bonita\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 3 Recap: La Isla Bonita\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108287/victoria-season-3-episode-2-recap-the-guns-of-brixton\">'Victoria' Season 3 Episode 2 Recap: The Guns of Brixton\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/108284/victoria-season-3-premiere-recap-god-save-the-queen\">'Victoria' Season 3 Premiere Recap: God Save The Queen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97779/victoria-season-2-finale-recap-its-a-hard-knock-life\">'Victoria' Season 2 Finale Recap: It's a Hard-Knock Life\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97777/victoria-season-2-episode-6-recap-somewhere-over-the-rainbow\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 6 Recap: Somewhere Over The Rainbow\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97775/victoria-season-2-episode-5-recap-lost-and-found\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: Lost and Found\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97773/victoria-season-2-episode-4-recap-people-are-people\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 4 Recap: People Are People\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97771/victoria-season-2-episode-3-recap-daddy-issues\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 3 Recap: Daddy Issues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97769/victoria-season-2-episode-2-recap-puppy-love\">'Victoria' Season 2 Episode 2 Recap: Puppy Love\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/97767/victoria-season-2-premiere-recap-baby-its-cold-outside\">'Victoria' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Baby It's Cold Outside\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/56546/victoria-season-1-finale-recap-bye-bye-baby-blues\">'Victoria' Season 1 Finale Recap: Bye Bye Baby Blues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/19/victoria-season-1-episode-6-recap-cmon-ride-the-train/\">'Victoria' Season 1, Episode 6 Recap: C'mon Ride the Train\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/12/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-5-recap-ill-make-love-to-you/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: I’ll Make Love to You\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/02/05/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-4-recap-wedding-bell-blues/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Wedding Bell Blues\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/29/pbs-victoria-season-1-episode-3-recap-youre-so-vain/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: You’re So Vain\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/22/victoria-season-1-episode-2-recap-all-the-single-ladies/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap: All The Single Ladies\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/01/15/victoria-season-1-premiere-recap-bow-down/\">‘Victoria’ Season 1 Premiere Recap: Bow Down\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being the mature adult that he is, Albert proceeds to pour an entire ink bottle onto his sketch and all over the table. Sure, it's weird that your uncle boinked your mom, but don't take it out on the antique desk! Who's going to clean all this up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/spill-coke-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/spill-coke-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Spoiler: probably one of the impoverished servants.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, Victoria is writing in her journal, which is resting on HER PREGNANT STOMACH?!?!?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-1020x666.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-768x502.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-1200x784.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-1920x1255.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-960x627.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it-520x340.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/stop-it.jpg 2014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ohhhh, nevermind! She had her knees up. Phew! I really just need a single episode where she's not knocked up, okay? We've been through that storyline enough for now, thank you very much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, it's decided that Victoria doesn't want to simply butt into France and Spain's matchmaking via letter; she'd rather mind other's people's business up close and in person. With an invite list that includes both the Most Likely Gays (oooooh la la!) and a little purse with Dash embroidered on it (awwww la la!), they make their way to France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon arriving, the French king kisses Victoria on both cheeks (oh mon dieu!). In the coach to the chateau, the Duchess of Buccleuch shares how much she hated that the king put his lips all over the queen as if she were just some washwoman. The topic of making out is enough to get the Most Likely Gays heart-eyeing each other again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-1020x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-1020x591.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-800x464.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-768x445.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-1200x696.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-1920x1113.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-1180x684.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-960x557.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-240x139.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-375x217.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-2-520x301.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-1020x664.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-800x521.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-768x500.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-1200x782.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-1920x1251.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-960x625.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-375x244.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/maybe-gay-1-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria is very much taken with the weird bright orb in the sky they have here in France. Everyone's seasonal affective disorder clears right up. \u003cem>Let's never go back to that damp sadness we call a country\u003c/em>, everyone agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait! Hold up! Hit pause on the Let's-Ditch-England-For-France's-Marginally-Better-Weather plan because these people are *French R pronunciation* RRHUDE!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-1020x733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-1020x733.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-800x575.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-768x552.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-1200x862.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-1920x1379.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-1180x848.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-960x690.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/ONSD-520x374.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What exactly is your problem, miss? Dash was supremely beautiful and deserves to be commemorated not only via embroidered bags, but also via face tattoos. Comment dit-on \"HOW DARE YOU!\" en français?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the chateau, Albert realizes he is way too much of a prude for the French aesthetic. \"This painting! 'Tis not to my taste!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-1020x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-1020x578.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-800x454.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-768x436.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-1200x681.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-1920x1089.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-1180x669.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-960x544.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-240x136.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-375x213.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-art-520x295.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Translation: He hates big butts and he cannot lie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Queen's bedroom, Victoria is feeling insecure about being the only woman in the country without three inches of makeup caked on. Babyface Maid gets the lowdown on all the products the women in France use: rouge, eyeliner, boob cream, and a creepy mask that secures hunks of veal to one's face. Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's raw meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/meat-mask.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98829\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/meat-mask.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria makes a grand makeup-to-the-max entrance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/trixie.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98830\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/trixie.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, because there's a handful of gussied-up women present, Ernst magically appears out of nowhere to say, \u003cem>Woah, Victoria! You look like a whore! I love it!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dinner, all the rich people eat tiny baby chicks because PETA doesn't exist yet to make them feel bad about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the table, the Oh C'mon Just Be Gays are inspired by a towering phallic dessert...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98834\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-1020x817.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-800x641.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-768x615.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-1200x961.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-1920x1538.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-1180x945.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-960x769.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-240x192.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-375x300.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1-520x417.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/brunette-1.jpg 2002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-1020x619.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-1020x619.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-160x97.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-800x485.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-768x466.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-1200x728.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-1920x1165.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-1180x716.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-960x583.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-240x146.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-375x228.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/Blonde-520x316.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...and non-subtly flirt a bit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blond Most Likely Gay:\u003c/strong> \"I'm prepared to be led into temptation. What about you?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brunette Most Likely Gay:\u003c/strong> \"I think to refuse such a creation might cause a diplomatic incident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>THEY'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT DESSERT! THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT GETTING NAKED TOGETHER! JUST DO IT™!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that night, Albert decides to fit in a tantrum before bedtime over how artificial, deceitful, vulgar, and impure the French are. \u003cem>They're all ginormous whores! Why can't they all wear chastity belts?! Why did my mom have to sleep with my uncle?! Waaaaahhhh!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/baby-cry-mask.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/baby-cry-mask.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"193\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albert then cries over how sad Victoria's new makeup makes him:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/trixie-drag.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/trixie-drag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pleads: \"Please never do it again! I do not know if I could bear it!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YEESH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can you imagine being married to a man that has an emotional breakdown every time you put colored lip balm on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/dump-him-latrice.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/dump-him-latrice.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"278\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Albert lectures his slutty brother Ernst on how he should keep it in his pants. Ernst is like, \u003cem>HA! AS IF! You realize I've already contracted syphilis at least nine times, right?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Albert, the Duchess of Buccleuch is also being a terrible killjoy. She hates all the rampant seduction going on, and don't get her started on the phallic food!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98839\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-1020x1236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-1020x1236.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-160x194.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-800x970.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-768x931.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-990x1200.jpg 990w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-1180x1430.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-960x1164.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-240x291.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-375x455.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread-520x630.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/victoria-bread.jpg 1330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of phalluses, while on a walk with Albert, the Most Likely Gays decide to TAKE OFF THEIR CLOTHES AND GO SKINNY DIPPING TOGETHER!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This totally sounds like one of my exaggerated jokes, but it's not!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98840\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-1020x746.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-1020x746.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-768x561.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-1200x877.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-1920x1403.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-1180x862.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-960x702.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-240x175.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-375x274.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/wink-520x380.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-1020x666.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-768x501.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-1920x1253.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-1180x770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-960x627.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/take-it-off-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98844\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-1020x719.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-768x541.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-1200x846.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-1920x1353.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-1180x832.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-960x677.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yes-520x367.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98847\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-1020x691.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-1020x691.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-800x542.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-768x520.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-1200x813.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-1920x1301.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-1180x800.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-960x651.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-375x254.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/skinny-dip-2-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-1020x605.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-1020x605.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-800x474.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-768x455.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-1200x712.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-1920x1139.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-1180x700.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-960x569.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-375x222.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/yess-520x308.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-1020x838.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-1020x838.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-800x657.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-768x631.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-1200x986.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-1920x1577.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-1180x969.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-960x789.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-240x197.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-375x308.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt-520x427.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/butt.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-1020x1185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-1020x1185.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-160x186.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-800x929.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-768x892.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-1033x1200.jpg 1033w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-1180x1371.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-960x1115.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-240x279.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-375x436.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm-520x604.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/mmhm.jpg 1374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-98854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-1020x1081.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-1020x1081.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-160x170.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-800x848.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-768x814.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-1133x1200.jpg 1133w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-1180x1250.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-960x1017.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-240x254.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-375x397.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye-520x551.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/heart-eye.jpg 1510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My feelings on this scene can best be described by the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/give.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-98851\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/give.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"408\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/praise-god-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-98852 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/01/praise-god-gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, Albert finally tells Victoria about his daddy issues. She's like, \u003cem>You know what'll make you feel better? Meddling in the life of an underage Spanish queen! \u003c/em>They go downstairs and tag-team negotiate with the French king. All parties agree that they won't try to make the Spanish queen marry one of their relatives. Cool. Glad they decided that without any consideration for what the queen actually wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following week, Victoria and Albert are back in England, still enjoying the residual vacay vibes and going over their successful Instagram posts from France.\u003cem> Look, Albert! This one of you swimming completely naked with the Most Likely Gays got 100 likes!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All is well until news breaks that the French king totally played them. His son is now engaged to the Spanish queen. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albert feels duped and betrayed, but Victoria sees a silver lining: at least they worked as a team for once and got schooled together! Isn't that romantic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, with the Uncle/Daddy Leopold drama out of the bag, they have no secrets between them. 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"content": "\u003cp>On this morning's \u003cem>Megyn Kelly Today\u003c/em>, Kelly locked herself into vengeance mode, steely sights set on Jane Fonda, and went on a blistering three-minute attack. But to fully understand it, you have to go back to a mini-feud that Kelly unwittingly started back in September 2017. During an interview with Fonda and Robert Redford, Kelly asked Fonda about her history with plastic surgery. Fonda was visibly startled to be asked this within the context of a promotional appearance, pooh-poohed the topic, and pivoted back to talking about \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5034266/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4\">Our Souls at Night\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, the movie she and Redford just made. Skip to 1:39 if you want to see the almighty awkwardness:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j9RrWgo5rE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the interview, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=54&v=pA_ruiJp1nk\">ET Canada asked Fonda about the incident\u003c/a>, and the actress explained: \"Given the fact that we don’t have a lot of time, and Bob is right here, it was a weird thing to bring up, whether I’ve had plastic surgery or not. I have, and I’ve talked about it, but it just seemed like the wrong time and place to raise that question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then last week, Fonda's \u003cem>Grace and Frankie\u003c/em> co-star Lily Tomlin made a crack about the incident when the two appeared on \u003cem>The Today Show\u003c/em>. Commenting that she and Fonda had been friends for a long time, Tomlin said: \"I think before your first facelift...\"\u003cbr>\nFonda quipped back: \"Who are you? Megyn Kelly?\"\u003cbr>\nHoda Kotb loved it so much, she almost fell off her chair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/953262104039055360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnews%2Farts-and-entertainment%2Fwp%2F2018%2F01%2F22%2Fthe-megyn-kelly-jane-fonda-drama-explained%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's worth noting that Fonda changed the topic even in this jokey context, just as she had in the Kelly interview, and just as she did \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8VMdSQL50w\">at the beginning of the \u003cem>Today\u003c/em> interview\u003c/a>, when a change in her usual appearance was brought up. \"I had a little cancer,\" Fonda said, literally waving away the subject. With that in mind, maybe Jane Fonda is just sick to death of talking about her face, period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days after \u003cem>Today\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=22&v=xzNqxD9nHIs\">\u003cem>Variety \u003c/em>asked Fonda\u003c/a> if she'd ever agree to be interviewed by Kelly again and she replied, \"Sure... It wasn't like I was 'Agh!' upset, I was just stunned. It was so inappropriate. It showed that she's not that good an interviewer. But, you know, if she comes around and learns her stuff? Sure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was this last statement that apparently hit a major Megyn Kelly nerve. The ex-Fox News anchor's response to Fonda was so extreme and disparate, it was a little bit like responding to a slap in the face with a dirty bomb. Kelly started out talking about the recent events, then somehow worked herself up into basically calling Fonda an American traitor:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MegynTODAY/status/955454505067470848\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter was quick to respond, and Kelly did not fare well:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/955498362681389057\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Zebop/status/955453622543880192\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SethAbramovitch/status/955467493593595904\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Kelly's criticism of Fonda for her anti-Vietnam activism four decades ago that got the nation riled up, but the thing that's somehow not come under much scrutiny, is whether or not Kelly's arguments about plastic surgery actually carry some merit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Fonda has been going out of her way to positively represent mature women in her roles. In \u003cem>Grace and Frankie\u003c/em>'s third season, Fonda and Lily Tomlin's characters are seen turning down a lucrative business opportunity because it would involve airbrushing their faces and bodies in promotional materials, and they want to look their own age. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lci71HjGvaM\">\u003cem>Our Souls at Night\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Fonda is seen taking control of her life in her twilight years, seeking out romance with her handsome neighbor, while rocking a grey hairdo that Fonda herself would probably never sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly argued that: \"For years, [Fonda] has spoken openly about her joy in giving a cultural face to older women. Well, the truth is, most older women look nothing like Fonda... If Fonda really wants to have a discussion about older women's cultural face, then her plastic surgery is tough to ignore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truthfully, on closer examination though, that's not really true. We, as a culture, ignore plastic surgery all the time -- especially when it's as well done as Fonda's. Going under the knife is standard practice for most celebrities past a certain age, because they exist in a profession where job opportunities are likely to disappear if they don't play the game. Fonda's entire career has been spent in an industry where only the thinnest and prettiest survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fonda has done what she had to do to keep working, and yes, she looks amazing. But what Megyn Kelly seems to have forgotten is that Jane Fonda has always looked amazing. She is not an exceptional beauty at 80 because of surgery, she is an exceptional beauty at 80 because she started from a genetically blessed vantage point (see: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xo6FaypcpY\">literally any scene in \u003cem>Barbarella\u003c/em>\u003c/a>). She worked extremely hard to stay in optimum health her entire life, which is how she built her aerobics empire in the 1980s, and why she is still able to share new, expertly-curated workouts with the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBzG4eRqS7I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other point that Kelly has missed is that most women of Fonda's age don't need or want to hear discussions about plastic surgery. Women who have been alive for a half century or longer are well aware of what normal aging looks like and, in turn, what it looks like when someone has paid for an aesthetic boost. They also know that, actually, stars \u003cem>aren't\u003c/em> like us; they have more time and money for beautification, they have more pressure on them to look a certain way, and they have far less fun with food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown a shift in focus can take place in senior years for women. 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When stars like Fonda, Anjelica Huston, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton fly the flag for senior women, eradicating outdated ideas about what it means to be over 60 and female, it is almost impossible to care if any of them have had work done or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, it's right to question industries that peddle youth as the only form of beauty. And it's right to criticize a system that all but forces its biggest stars into surgery as a means to stay in business. But picking on individual women who have gone to great lengths to stay flawless in an industry and culture that demands it is totally counterproductive. Megyn Kelly picked the wrong fight with the wrong woman.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It's a conversation between co-creators Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, intercut with a surreal music video featuring circus performers and hipster types.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4hShMEk1Ew\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armisen asks Brownstein, \"Remember when people were content to be unambitious, sleep till 11 and just hang out with their friends? When you had no occupations whatsoever, maybe working a couple hours a week at a coffee shop?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right,\" Brownstein answers. \"I thought that died out a long time ago.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not in Portland,\" Armisen says. \"Portland is a city where young people go to retire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early sketches lovingly skewered the city's progressive optimism and \"Keep Portland Weird\" mindset. Some locals joked that they bordered on documentary — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ifc.com/shows/portlandia/video-extras/season-01/episode-01/colin-the-chicken\">the infamous sketch\u003c/a> about a couple at a farm-to-table restaurant asking after their chicken's provenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The chicken episode cracks me up to this day,\" says Portland artist \u003ca href=\"http://www.mkguth.com/\">MK Guth\u003c/a>, \"partially because I can kind of see myself a little bit in it, you know. So I'm like, 'Oh wow, look, I am the person who knows where my eggs come from.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAlWrT5P2VI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show channeled a national zeitgeist. It seemed like everywhere people were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYey8ntlK_E\">pickling things\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBPT1pgByqc\">making jewelry\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNpIOlDhigw\">putting a bird on it\u003c/a>. Brownstein says the show was meant as a funny sendup of things she and Armisen loved. \"\u003cem>Portlandia\u003c/em> was specifically not called \u003cem>Portland\u003c/em> because it implied a heightened version of place; it implied an ideology, a mindset, a way of life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show's TV audience peaked in the second season, but its sketches soared across the Internet, reaching millions. Tiara Darnell started watching it while in the Peace Corps in Morocco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just seemed like a really cool place to go and sort of figure myself out,\" she says. \"That wasn't the only reason I moved to Portland or to Oregon, but it would be not truthful to say that didn't have some impression on me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving, Darnell, who is African-American, starting seeing holes in the show. \"I could probably count on one hand how many episodes actually have a black person even in it, even as an extra,\" she says. \"And so it lends itself to this notion that Oregon and Portland are very white and there's no black people here. And for a while that weighed on me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darnell says it took a year or two for her to really connect with the black community in Portland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's popularity boomed, and not just because of the show. The cost of housing rose, and the \"Dream of the '90s\" started to sting when that part-time barista job no longer covered rent and your favorite dive bar was bulldozed for high-end condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ch1kXp3mQA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Portlandia\u003c/em> became a target for anger, and the most public backlash came from In Other Words, the feminist bookstore the show used for one of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ch1kXp3mQA\">most well-known ongoing sketches\u003c/a>. 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