Shameless Recap Season 5, Episode 4: “A Night to Remem- Wait, What?”

Last week on Shameless we saw Frank’s mouth and Shelia’s house exploding, ending with Shelia driving off in the RV? This week’s Shameless Season 5, Episode 4: “A Night to Remem- Wait, What?” is pretty heavy on Frank reverting back to his own ways. It starts at the end of a wild night out and the episode is pretty heavy on him trying to recall what all went down… Very The Hangoveresque episode

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Frank waking up from a crazy night before

Frank: The opening scene is him lying face down covered in pigeon excrement and a cop waking him up. Geez, what did you get into the night before Franky boy? Blabbing away to the cop about how he picked up his settlement check from last season’s broken leg “accident” you can tell he’s not sure about the events that happened the night before. He then goes to Lou’s to pick up his insurance check – still covered in pigeon shit mind you – and said check ends up being  worth $121,000. Lou looks at him like he’s crazy and puts together that he must have went on one heck of a bender since he picked up the check the day prior. Completely oblivious to this, he starts backtracking to see what he did with the money. First clue he gets from Lou is that they opened a bank account, so he goes to the bank – still covered in and looking like crap; let’s just get out of the way, he looks this the whole episode –  only to find out he withdrew all the money. The bank knows nothing about what he did next except that he said he was going to celebrate. So where can that lead him next? Walking into the Alibi he gets a standing ovation of applause from everyone in the bar. Rightfully so since he spent a couple grand buying drinks for everyone. Still no clue of where he went next, Tommy mentions to check his pockets for his missing fortune and he pulls out keys to a Porsche… Going back to the park where he woke up, he finds the car with a smashed in windshield, a crack pipe and Kermit passed out in back.

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Frank & Carl with his new ride

Kermit proceeds to tell him he bought the car for $60,000, some crack and then went to Chinatown for some dim sum… So headed down to Chinatown, the restaurant maître d‘ remembers him and walks him down to a private poker room. Turns out he doubled his money playing pai gow and left with 3 “babies” but failed to mention where he was going. Dead end again, until…. he takes the car to the house, Carl all impressed starts going through his wallet and discovers a hotel key. Walking into the hotel suite he mentions that he is paid up through the night and finds a bunch of prostitutes in the room drinking very expensive wine. He asks if he paid them already. Luckily, yes! They proceed to tell him of the wild party they had the night before with various people found on the street or in the hotel and of the business man down the hall that Frank left with. Thankfully, Buddy Diamond left his business card.

Frank trying to steal back one of the prosthetic legs.
Frank trying to steal back one of the prosthetic legs.

Frank calls the number and Buddy right away is excited to hear from him and states he knows how scary it is to hand over $113,000 to a complete stranger as an investment. Frank, playing dumb, is like, sure I’d love to come see my investment when he’s asked if he want to come to the business. As they walk in, Carl still on crutches, Buddy exclaims that now he sees why Frank gave him all his money, it’s personal. Turns out it’s a prosthetic limb for homeless children venture! True to form, Frank asks for the money back, Buddy tells him the money is gone so Frank tries to grab the limbs and run out the door. Now back at the hotel on the curb, Carl says at least you still have the car. The Valet crew comes running over and threatens to call the cops for Frank hitting one of their guys the other night and putting him in a full body cast. So to even that debt Frank persuades them to just take the car for payment. Moral of Frank’s story is don’t start drinking on an empty stomach and doing pain pills because that leads to smoking dope, then crack …. and finally broke.

All googly eyed at the diner
All googly eyed at the diner

Fiona: Clearly enamored with her new musician beau Gus, even though only together a little over a week, he proclaims that he is falling in love with her. She is a little uncomfortable about it but she’s also super giddy about it. Meanwhile V calls to tell her she is going out dancing with her for the night and no is not an option. After disastrous events at the dance club, she heads back over to Gus’ and tells him she is falling love with him too. After a night of many romps, she calls in sick to the diner for one of her shifts and in turn they decide to go get married. So after filling out all the appropriate paperwork, they race off to the courthouse to get hitched. They at least stop to question this for one second if they are being stupid, then their name gets called. No time to second guess so they get married and she then goes to work at five. Back on the job, Shawn asks if she is feeling better and she assures him she is fine, meanwhile Gus’ band mates come in and pronounce to the diner that they got married. Her boss, displeased that she lied to him, says next time you get married just take the day off and tell me the truth. Once all the congrats are over and a phone call from Deb this look just washes over her face like what the hell did I just do?

Lipp getting all nerdy with Amandas dad
Lipp getting all nerdy with Amanda’s dad

Lipp: Takes up Amanda’s offer to go to Miami to visit her and her family. Her Dad, remember, paid him $10,000 to stay away from her so this can only go bad, right? Amanda wants to play bad girl with him there and decides to lose her virginity on her parents’ bed. Ohhh, naughty naughty. So once the parents come home and he meets her sisters and her sisters nannies. Yes nannies, a nanny per kid. Her father then immediately makes a crack about wanting his $10,000 back with interest, giggles and walks away. Later at lunch, getting drilled about what he wants to do with his life, Amanda’s parents seemed a little shocked when he says he wants to get into engineering. Amanda’s father in turn is also in engineering so they all of a sudden seem to become buddy buddy. While bonding over a joint her father asks what he does for work and offers him a paid internship rather then his back breaking construction job. Yay Lipp!

Welcome to Ian's Dept. store, toiletries on the left
Welcome to Ian’s Dept. store, toiletries on the left

Ian & Mickey: Mickey, signing for a lost suitcase that was delivered to their house on accident, opens it up to see what valuable treasure awaits. Ian, thinking this could be a great new way to make money  goes a little off the deep end and starts going to the airport to collect “lost luggage.” The first time Mickey just kind of poo-pooed it but now that their whole house is laid out like a department store he really sees clearly the manic starting to come out in Ian, it’s really quite sad. Hopefully now he will see he can’t handle him alone.

Carl: Hooking up with the local thugs, Carl starts his new job of becoming a drug dealer. “Little white boy on crutches” is just what they are looking for in order to sell. Now dubbed Tiny Tim, he clearly doesn’t know his drug ratio to money amounts and screws up his 1st sale. He later asks Frank if he is good with fractions. Frank clearly knows why he is asking and is a little apprehensive to tell him because he is scared of Fiona finding out he helped him learn his drug math. Carl assures him she won’t so he teaches him all. Love the end when he has his drug flashcards and is studying them.

Debs: Running into her mean girl friends on the street, they confront her on the fact that she “raped” Matty at her party and laugh at her. She then throws a punch and a girl fight ensues. Some cute tough guy comes to break it up and says she better learn how to fight if she’s going to take on a group. He is wearing a shirt to a local gym which she in turn tracks down and asks if he will train her. He doesn’t want to be all Karate Kid but tells her the first class at the gym is free. Deciding she wants to get all buff and tough she starts going to the gym. Seems like she has a little crush on her fight break up knight in shining armor.

A little dirty Dancing indeed
A little dirty Dancing indeed

Kev & V: REALLY needing some date time with her man, V tries to convince Kev to go out for a  night on the town and get a hotel room so they can get their groove on. Kev is just not down for the plan. He is not ready to leave the girls with some strange sitter for the night. V, really needing a night out, tracks Fiona down and says they are going out dancing. While at the club she starts grinding with some guy on the dance floor and ends up having a big O, tracks Fi down and says that they have to leave NOW and is clearly upset because she feels like she cheated on Kev. The next morning you can tell she is still very upset and hardly says a word to Kev. After working a double, she comes home and fesses up to Kev. what happened and states how much she really needs his attention. Hopefully he’ll catch the hint.

 

So there it is, a lot going on this week, but STILL no Jimmy/Steve/Jack or whatever. On the other hand there was also no Sammi/Shelia line. I missed Shelia, not so much Sammi….

Oh, and I also have to mention congrats to William H. Macy for winning the SAG [Screen Actors Guild] award, FINALLY this show gets some love on the awards circuit!