![]() ![]() "I'll always let you in," he says, pointedly. "This game takes guts." Then Teddy grabs Jonah's crotch, explaining that the VP's office also "takes balls" and "you got ‘em, buddy." As Jonah moves towards the elevator, Teddy blocks him, asking Jonah to let him know when he's dropping by in the future. ![]() Jonah apologizes and Teddy appears to brush it off. Doyle complains that Selina is freezing him out, perpetuating the "cycle of abuse." Afterwards, Teddy Sykes, Doyle's Chief of Staff, confronts Jonah about not arranging his visit to go through him first. Jonah arrives at Vice President Doyle's offices, where Doyle tasks him with being his "West Wing wiretap". It doesn't reek of moisturizer and vaginal spray anymore - and that was just Dan!" - Furlong Disappointed he's not allowed to join her in an intelligence briefing, Gary is further aggrieved when a Secret Service agent requests the bag - and only the bag - be brought in to Selina. In the Oval Office, Ben and Sue brief Selina on her appointments and disastrous world events. "What are we supposed to do? Google it like a best man speech?" Selina asked for it to be vague but then rejected a draft because it was "too vague." Dan complains that they still don't know what Selina wants in the address. The day before Selina is set to give her first address to the Joint Session, Mike, Dan and the new Director of Communications, Jim, struggle to put her speech together. "Some content would be nice in this speech. And then I’m gonna have the IRS crawl so far up your husband’s colon, he’s gonna wish the only thing they find is more cancer.Teleplay by Simon Blackwell & Georgia Pritchett And if I do win, I will have my administration come to your shitty little district and shake it to death like a Guatemalan nanny. “You’re playing a very dangerous game of chicken with the head fucking hen, ’cause if I don’t win the White House, O’Brien is gonna sink your stupid boats and you’re gonna look like a hair-sprayed asshole in your 1980s mother-of-the-bride dress.“I’m excited to get to know fun Marjorie, too.Behold, a compendium of Veep Season 5 insults. You know what they say - every leader sets a tone. After all, this is a woman whose own mother, upon visiting her daughter in the Oval Office for the first time, had only this to say: “I do hope you’ll wait till your hair grows to have your portrait painted.” It may not come as a surprise that Selina herself is the character most likely to dispatch a cutting remark - or that those remarks are often targeted at her daughter and her unruly hair. We’ve combed through all of Season 5, which ended on Sunday night, for the show’s most creative, stinging slurs. Veep, the sharpest-written comedy on the air, is so full of spectacularly imaginative put-downs it’s a wonder the show’s plot doesn’t collapse under the weight of them all. It’s appropriate that the moment that instigated Selina’s political career - at least in her memory - is a thinly veiled insult. “Daddy leaned in to me and he said, ‘You know, a lot of people don’t like Nixon, but by God, they respect him. In the second-to-last episode of the current season of Veep, Selina tells her daughter Catherine about the time her father took her to a Nixon rally as a child. ![]()
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