Previous: Gemstones Episode 4.2: Baby Billy's dong, BJ's pole, Kelvin's pipe, and the Clobber Verses.In Part 1, the conflicts of the seasons were introduced: Eli is looking for meaning, BJ for independence, and Keefe for a wedding ring. Next up: Jesse and his Cain-and-Abel sons, Pontius and Gideon.
Pontius' Private Parts: Jesse taping a commercial for his new line of Prayer Pods, like privacy pods except that inside you can pray, play Bible Bonkers, listen to a sermon, and so on. He forces the entire family into one. It's a tight fit: Pontius, sitting on his lap, deliberately farts in his face.
In the dressing room, we get some back story: Pontius (top photo and left) got kicked out of the Citadel for low grades, and because he was posting videos of his buddies sticking firecrackers up each other's butts.
That sounds like slang for homoerotic activity, but apparently it's a real thing: people put fireworks in their friends' butts as a prank.
I still think Ponty is hinting at homoerotic interests..
Amber notes that you can "hurt your privates doing things like that, but Pontius insists that his privates work fine, disgusting his parents.
Darn, now you have viewers checking out your bulge.Gideon's Butt Buddy: Jesse can't communicate with his father Eli, but Gideon has no trouble: "I call Granddad, or he calls me."
This enrages Jesse, who calls them "butt buddies." Amber points out that the phrase actually refers to "sodomy," so he backs down: "I didn't mean it like that. I'm not trying to say that he's trying to f*k Daddy in the ass." Of course not, Gideon is a bottom.
This is a continuation of the Eli-Gideon relationship from Season 3, so it shouldn't come as a surprise. I'm wondering, however, if Gideon is ever going to have a relationship with anyone outside the family. His last friend or boyfriend was Scotty, who died at the end of Season 1. Your Granddad has overcome his grief and moved on, Gide Baby; maybe you should, too.
Abraham's got nothing: Poor Gavin; his last plot arc was in Season 2, and it was about masturbation. Looks like he's got nothing here, either; after the Prayer Pod commercial, he sits by himself and plays on his cell phone, just entering the conversation to laugh that his Dad is "butthurt" over Gideon's relationship with Eli.
Amber criticizes that phrase as referencing "sodomy" also. What you got against anal sex, girl?
Karen arrives: The siblings are getting jetpack training from J.R. Rodriguez (good idea), when it's time for the friend or relative from Eli's past to arrive and shake things up: Baby Billy in Season 1; Junior in Season 2; May-May in Season 3; and now "Mama's bestie," Lori , played by Megan Mullaly, Karen on
Will and Grace.
Everyone rushes to hug her; Kelvin blurts out "I love you." It sounds like he means it in a romantic way. Is he going to dump Keefe for the old lady? They discuss how much they miss Aimee-Leigh.
She explains that she hasn't visited for awhile because she's been doing dinner theater in Pigeon Forge -- the Smokey Mountains home of Dolly Parton's Dollywood and other countrified attractions. An article in Focus, the Tennessee LGBTQ magazine, calls it a "Gay Mecca."
Maybe not a mecca; it's still overwhelmingly "family friendly" conservative fundamentalist Christian. They had a "Gay Day" at Dollywood in 2004, but horrified protests caused it to not be repeated.
More after the break. Caution: Explicit
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