'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Musical Recap: Makeover Madness

Smell ya later, Greg. Even Rebecca’s mad dash to the airport couldn’t stop her former boyfriend/post-Josh back-up plan from leaving on a jet plane bound for Atlanta. Now, in all honesty, Greg is too rich a character — and Santino Fontana too good a singer — to be gone forever, even though Fontana has confirmed he won’t be back anytime soon. But his departure also opens interesting creative possibilities for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend beyond the Rebecca-Josh-Greg love triangle that’s defined the narrative so far.

Those possibilities include a new living situation for our heroine, who is ditching her old house for new digs with slacker neighbor Heather, and the long-awaited return of Josh’s own ex, Valencia, who clearly hasn’t been taking her own break-up well. And if Greg had to go, at least he exited singing, with two great musical numbers. Here’s our recap of the three big songs from “When Will Josh and His Friend Leave Me Alone?”

“It Was a S*** Show”
What it’s about: Greg extricates himself from Rebecca (for now at least) by putting in stark terms what a garbage fire of a couple they were together.
Sounds like: “Where Do I Begin,” the love theme from Love Story.
Best lyric: “Chernobyl next to us looks like a campfire/Hurricane Katrina was just bad weather.”
Funniest sight gag: Rebecca’s wide-eyed reactions to Greg’s increasingly catastrophic metaphors for their romance.
What it reveals about Greg: Quitting the sauce has apparently done wonders for Greg’s self-awareness levels, as he realizes just how ruinous it would be for him to trade grad school for Rebecca. But he can’t resist digging the Knife of Spite into her gut, taking their happy times to a harsh place.

“We Tapped That Ass”
What it’s about: Rebecca relives her romances with Greg and Josh with an assist by their “polter-guys” — the ghost versions of them that live in her head. And, in this case, romance means sex… and lots of it.
Sounds like: An X-rated version of Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor’s Singin’ in the Rain pas de deux “Moses Supposes.”
Best lyric: “On the sink in the closet, I made a deposit.”
Funniest sight gag: Greg and Josh dancing on two chairs that resemble Rebecca’s shapely posterior.
What it reveals about Rebecca: Her ideas of intimacy generally trend toward the physical since both she — and her two would-be boyfriends — have trouble with emotional connections.

“Makeover”
What it’s about: Looking to rebound from her double rejection, and win the “Miss Douche” contest, Rebecca indulges her blonde ambition with a major makeover.
Sounds like: Toni Basil’s “Mickey.” Or, almost any Black Eyed Peas song.
Best lyric: “Old you was a diaper, new you is a diamond.”
Funniest sight gag: Rebecca’s glassy-eyed stare as she repeats, “I had a stroke, I had a stroke, I had a stroke.”
What it reveals about Rebecca: Her makeover ideas seem equally inspired by Bring It On and vintage Charlie’s Angels repeats.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend airs Fridays at 9 p.m. on The CW.