Previously, Tino, I'm not your Father Here
Episode 6a: Taking Sides
Tino and Carver were playing pool and Carver being Carver likes to make it a show and they end up losing. This causes the two buddies to get into a fight. Carver is telling this to Lor and this makes Tino think that she's on Carver's side and he runs to Tish to make sure Carver doesn't "contaminate her". Carver runs to try to get there first. For note, Lor thinks they a both stupid. Tish calls them Germany and Russia and kicks them out. (As you do)
Tino and Carver go to work to make sure Tish would be on their respective sides. They make things a mess and worse. They go to bother Lor instead. The two girls run to get away from the guys because of their annoyance. Then, it ends up getting bad for them because they get into a squabble about who should just apologize. Lor has Tino and Tish has Carver. It actually causes a whole theater to fight. (that's funny)
Tino's mom has been watching the show and knows everything that happened. It's the next day and Lor is standing Tino's room eating cheese snacks until Tino wakes up. Tino realizes that his mom was right and wants to fix Lor from not being mad at Tish so he lies to her that he and Carver made up so she'll make up with Tish. A sweet move. She's going to tell Carver that she's his friend again too and Tino races to make sure he gets to Carver first so Lor won't know he lied.
He finds out that Carver did the same thing with Tish and then they real make up. Then we find out at the end that Carver and Tino had a rematch in pool and won this time.
It's a nice episode with a simple and again well done plot. I like how Tino doesn't want his fight to affect his other friends' just because of how silly it was, and decides to make sure they stay friends. It could have easily been a different outcome and drag out Tino and Carver being happy that they have someone on their sides. I think that again that's this show's strengths of not fully following the treated path and does a good use of its characters. I give this one 7.5/10
more after the jump
Episode 6: To Tish
Tish's name has become a verb which is something. It starts when Carver remarks about Tish was talking , using long words, and it's a term he made up to say how Tish does "acts smart". The rest of the friends start to laugh. A couple kids at another table over hear them and thus a term spreads. Tish starts to notice those other kids using the word, but then the next day she notices other people using it now.
As one can tell, Tish is getting annoyed with her name being used as a verb. The other three notice, the next day, that Tish hasn't shown up and figure she's still mad at them. This episode decides instead of a Tino's mom moment we get a Tish's mom moment. (ooh a mom switch) She thinks it's nice her name is being used because people will know she's a big intellectual. The friends show her certain things that she's helped her with and show how grateful they are for her. She forgives them.
Kind of a strange one, but it does get it's message out more subtly. The friends weren't trying to be mean to Tish, but they also didn't take her concerns to heart either. I also think the episode could also be saying that Tish needed a thicker skin and maybe that part falls flat, I can see where that was trying to do it, but her concerns should have also been factored here: even if it was in good spirits she didn't want to have her name be a verb. I think that's the weak part of the episode, otherwise it's stable and fine. I give it 6.9/10
That's it for now , tune in next time when we Tish up this place and then make you feel like Switzerland in our fights against another blog! Later Days!
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