12 photos in galleryOnly three outfits this week, but one of them got to go to Paris — yes, actual Paris, not just Backlot Paris, or Paris Hilton’s house — and do a lot of jogging. Lucky outfit. Well, it’d have been luckier without the jogging, but still. This brings our outfit count to 42 for the series, each one more elaborately accessorized with necklaces and ginormous rings than the last. And that number doesn’t even include her various pajama tees or the sweats she wore in gym class. Erica Dasher must spend a lot of time in wardrobe.
Plot: I was all crabby on Twitter the other day about how it’s only the fifth episode of this show — EVER, not even, like, season three, episode five — and they were already trotting Jane off to Paris AND implying that she was realizing Duckie is her One True Love, and I was all, “Did they prank the writers that this was a six-episode miniseries?” But it ended up not being as ridiculous as I expected: Andie needs a look book hand-carried to her in France, so she books Jane on a red-eye and only gives her a few hours on the ground in Paris before she has to go home. Jane fakes a sleepover at Lulu’s house (which Duckie gets Lulu to agree to by shoving his tongue down her throat), and we have a lot of time-killing nonsense wherein she loses the lookbook, but it’s an inane waste because we all knew she was going to find it and get to go. She calls Duckie from Paris — he is stuck getting dragged on illegal errands with his ne’er-do-well brother, who ne’er-do-welling WAY more than Jane’s Deadbeat Brother (who is actually well-meaning and nice and employed now, and not a shoplifter who makes out with panties-clad ladies on his relatives’ beds) — and it’s very sweet, and tinged with great affection but zero covert lust. I hate when people cut promos to full-on sucker you, rather than merely tease.
Comments (13):
ABC Family must have decided to cut wardrobe budget for this episode to pay for the trip to Paris.
I’m jealous – my job sends me to Omaha.
I want to give up on this show, yet I keep watching. I think in part because it is more fun to read Fug the Show if you watch the show!
Plus, Oded Fehr! And a lot of other man-pretty, including the briefly-seen owner of the fashion house – wowza!
I should not like this show, but I keep watching and thinking that they are so totally going to do a whole story where Jane or Billy starts thinking “we should be more than just friends because I think I love him/her.” And I will be so very disappointed.
…because EVERY teen whose mom has disappeared/dad has died happens to have a passport sitting around…
I’m not sure who is wearing the shoes she is worshiping, prostrate, in #4, but they are mighty cute.
That would be the Arch-Nemesis, India. A lot of truly gorgeous shoes have popped up on this show in random places.
Jen: Passports are good for like 10 years. She didn’t have to get one in the middle of the family’s destruction in order to have one lying around. I had mine for two years before I used it, because it’s easier to plan a big trip if you don’t have to worry about getting back into the country.
All I can see in this is the woman in the Notre Dame shot wearing a blue coat and yellow scarf. She looks EXACTLY like one of the girls in my study abroad group, which was – of course – in Paris. Actually, if it weren’t for the small child in pink that I think is hers, I would assume this woman WAS her. Weird!
The skirt is actually very cute. I’d be more concerned about the heels, you are going to catch a flight and run around paris in heels & wouldn’t put some flats in your bag?? Really??
Yeah I’ve always had a passport my whole life, it’s an essential not something you get just before a big trip
Even though it’s cheesy teen drama, I find myself somewhat into this show. I would really like to tell Jane to invest in something like those collapsing flats you can get. Then she wouldn’t have to risk life and limb running in heels all the damn time. It gets annoying. Plus, it’d be nice if she didn’t always miraculously save the day when no one else could get it done. That seems too easy.
Also I find it seriously amusing that Andie McDowell’s character is named Gray when she’s been doing the Loreal Excellence hair color commercials for years touting about zero grays. Maybe that’s just me though.
…Is it just me or does that white skirt remind anyone of those frilly ruffle butt bloomers baby girls wear? You know, the ones that make their already diapered butts look three times bigger?
Dear Heather,
Are you not contractually obligated to have at least ONE shot of Andie in every “Fug the Show”n for this one. You should be, because Jane just isn’t that interesting.
Duckie is. But he’s like twelve so no – I’d feel like what’s his face in Pretty Little Liars, but any male models are fair game too no?
(I don’t watch any of these shows, but usually I like the fugs, but 3 outfits doesn’t a blog make…)
GL