‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Musical Recap: Zig-a-Zig-Wha?
Who runs the world? Girls! Specifically three girls: Rebecca, Valencia, and Heather. West Covina’s newest power trio strutted their stuff in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s sixth episode, “Who Needs Josh When You Have a Girl Group?” With Josh Chan spending some quality bro time with his buddies — and trading texts with that cute blond girl (Brittany Snow) he met in the desert — his exes Rebecca and Valencia continue their budding girl-mance. But that relationship has come at the expense of Rebecca’s once-tight connection to Paula, who gets thrown into the mix for a girls’ night that goes disastrously wrong. How wrong? Let’s just say that Rebecca’s bathroom becomes Paula’s temporary jail cell, forcing her new pal, Sunil, as well as Rebecca’s fake ex-boyfriend, Trent, to come to her rescue. For now, at least, Rebecca and Paula appear to be splitsville, and we haven’t been this sad about a squad breakup since Ginger quit the Spice Girls.
“Friend-topia”
What it’s about: If you want to be Rebecca’s lover, you’ve gotta get with her friends. Except you can’t, because they’re totally going to rule the world and establish their own despotic government that’s going to spike the water supply and make viewings of Hocus Pocus mandatory.
Sounds like: The Spice Girls moments before being beamed into Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” universe.
Best lyric: “We’re going to braid each other’s hair, then cut each other’s braids, connect the braids to build a rope, to hang all of Congress.”
Funniest sight gag: Valencia whipping her hair back and forth with an abandon that would give Willow Smith a headache.
What it reveals about Rebecca: Having never enjoyed a tight-knit group of girlfriends before, Rebecca understandably experiences a sudden surge of power at the realization she’s part of a squad. That power then mixes with her lingering feelings of resentment and anger at the patriarchy that produced her ex-boyfriends, Josh and Greg, to create compelling visions of a friend-topic Earth.
“Stuck in the Bathroom”
What it’s about: Heather narrates the squad’s failed attempts to free Paula from the bathroom, after the lock jams and the ceiling collapses.
Sounds like: R. Kelly’s classic exercise in multichapter surrealism, “Trapped in the Closet”
Best lyric: “My second sophomore year, I took a kinesiology class. That’s college for gym.”
Funniest sight gag: Paula’s skeptical reaction to the idea that Valencia’s “little bird arms” will free her from her commode prison.
What it reveals about Heather: Just like “Trapped in the Closet” kept going … and going … and going, we imagine that this is the sung-through monologue running through Heather’s head at all times. It certainly makes the world a more interesting place.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend airs Fridays at 9 p.m. on The CW
