Louis tells Jessica he supports her decision to tear up the check, and then immediately tapes it back together so he can pay to have a mechanical bull in the restaurant. Much to her horror, though, her victory is cut short when the second she sees her commission check - numbered “4444.”įrom there, the episode takes a turn toward the more typical as far as sitcom plots go.
Jessica being Jessica, she still manages to sell the house after standing outside on the curb and shouting at the couple touring inside about the master bedroom’s closets.
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A series of flashbacks reveals clocks with upside-down 4s (Emery: “it’s a quarter to H”), a fear of Forbes magazine (“It’s too close”), and Evan turning three and “second three!” So when Ashley assigns her the toughest open house available, Jessica can shrug off its rat infestation and history of murder, but she can’t ignore its address: 44 West 44th Street. Jessica being Jessica, her superstition is not half-assed. Like, a lot of ‘90s references.) “Very Superstitious” is also better for backing its way into those typical plots with one that the incredibly white comedy landscape would could never touch.Īs the real-estate office’s (white) janitor points out, Jessica’s superstition around the number 4 is firmly rooted in Chinese tradition, since the Chinese word for four is so close to the one for death. Writer and stand-up comedian Ali Wong then makes the most of the show’s comfort level with a dense script that takes those routine sitcom plots and stuffs them to the brim with jokes.
What makes Fresh Off the Boat stand out, though, is that its voice and characters were so well-established so early on that even the most routine story lines get an extra jolt of refreshed energy. Lessons are learned! All’s well that ends well! Rinse, repeat, see you next week. Shenanigans arise, ensue, and resolve themselves. It features a school election, a valuable lesson on the perils of white lies, and people bursting into a bathroom to find a grandma on the toilet. At face value, “Very Superstitious” is as typical a sitcom episode as it gets.
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