DON’T TRUST THE B–: “Love and Monsters”

If an episode starts with both Chloe and June agreeing that Halloween is an amazing holiday, I think we’ve all just entered a parallel universe with down is up and South is North. But that’s quickly tempered by James announcing his Halloween party, complete with love, rainbows and ice cream. James hates being scared, stemming from his father showing him Halloween on Christmas. (Ruining two holidays a once.) Halloween tropes are already being thrown out the window and we haven’t even reached the theme song.

June and Mark go to a chick flick, spotting Chloe and a boy (Benjamin), before June wants to meet him and have a good time over dinner. Ben and Chloe are so adorable together, but that’s not going to last long as now Chloe wants to rip his heart out. Of course Chloe can’t live in a place where she’s happily in a relationship with a guy–she has to be the girl who sleeps her way through a city of over eight million people.

(Let me take a moment to say Ben Lawson, I’ve missed watching on you on my television. Rest in Peace The Deep End.)

Ben’s got a Mommy issue, so Chloe has worked really good on pumping him up and then dumping him. June now wants to convince Chloe to give love a shot, and this won’t good.

June as a lady Hobbit is hilarious. Chloe as a sexy bus driver is equally inspired. I think that June setting a video to Train with Dave from Happy Endings might be too funny. (I find the Happy Ending cross-pollenization to be well done.)

Ben’s room with [easyazon-link asin=”B000EQ45BU”]The Facts of Life[/easyazon-link] theme might be the most awkward thing I’ve seen on the show. Chloe gets a sudden honest moment, but it turns out Ben has been playing her the whole time. Ben’s turned Chloe’s life into a chick flick, which is just about the best medicine she could ever get.

Eli, even from the apartment across the way, is way more perceptive than June.

Dave, why did you dress as a devil to James’ party? But in a contest of wills, Dave has some serious issues with his girlfriend.

Chloe met a girl in a bee costume who helped Chloe to see that she needs a happy ending. I don’t know if she’ll really go through with the prank now that she’s heard that there is an happy ending out there. Chloe is that girl who will fall for the guy who beat her at her own game. This game is getting confusing, even to me. But that’s mostly because Ben and Chloe were still playing with each other as they meet at the Airport before Chloe is escorted away by the police.

Looks like there’s a sequel for Ben and Chloe in the works. I wonder if it’ll be better than the first.

June, please stay away from Ben’s best friend. He looks awful, even if he’s the cook of the Firehouse. For your sake in this chick flick, I hope you don’t end up with him, because that’s just not worth it at all.