I suppose they have guns instead as their wild card, but at times I’m curious why did the show even bring Jeff back if it was going to keep him benched so frequently? Granted, this does all come back at the end of the episode to tie together nicely, but that’s not to say that this conclusion couldn’t have taken place without Jeff present throughout the rest of the episode, too. With Stan and Roger being a reliable, albeit predictable, story generator, throwing in the element of Jeff into the mix would be a nice way to keep things feeling fresh. I’d be more than fine with this story in the first place, but then Jeff (hey, Jeff!) also enters the fray, explaining his history and passion with sailing (“It’s the only thing I’m really good at”) only to get shut down immediately. On the other side of things, Stan and Roger end up buying a sailboat at a CIA auction, which is the perfect sort of chaos to balance with Steve’s hormonal half of the episode. It also helps add to the madness that’s going on, where so much of the water polo fodder is steeped in a delirious Metallica filter in the first place. The Francine material isn’t the highlight of the episode, but there’s still fun to be had with it. With the show attempting such simpler stories in the past, I’m more than okay with them trying to enrich this very silly plot of theirs. Speaking of family members, Francine ends up piggybacking on this story as she ends up finding herself as one of the cool jock moms at school, suddenly popular.
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Plus I’m also pretty okay with the disturbing idea that Steve is willing to have a family member be amidst his genitals for the sake of popularity. None of this exactly makes a lot of sense but it plods forward with a certain degree of confidence that allows me to get behind it. What follows is essentially Klaus “ratatouilling” Steve into being a great water polo player by yanking around with his junk. In fact, if these TBS seasons have done anything drastically different, it’s been their welcome collection of Klaus storylines. This is a pretty fun pair-up for the episode, and between this entry and the premiere, Klaus is batting two-for-two so far this season, which might be an all-time first.
This leads Steve right into the fins of Klaus, who is more than eager to coach Steve into re-convincing the water polo coach, James Hetfield (“So it’s a good thing that I’m this very different James Hetfield”) that he’s worth another shot.
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But then a wheelchair-bound student is edging Steve out of the competition. This quest for mammaries lead Steve and company to the conclusion that they need to obtain letter jackets, with water polo being the shallowest of two evils. The opening scene alone where Steve has a particularly breast-centric mindset (“You can have the starchy simulacra, but I want - nay deserve - the real thing”) and even gets jealous over a teen mom’s nursing infant is a strong example of the sort of quality that this episode is still capable of with a hackneyed story. While a Steve plot involving him and his group of rejects pining for the female body is hardly reinventing the wheel, this episode moves forward with a surprising degree of focus, and even if we’ve seen this sort of plot countless times before, it still connects.
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