Fresh Off the Boat: Persistent Romeo

March 3, 2015 3:06 PM - Season 1, Episode 5

Jessica gets hooked on the "fright of the night" stories in the nightly news, and gets Louis to put on a sexual harassment course to protect the restaurant from lawsuits. Enter Dusty Nugget (Brett Gelman), a reformed sexual harasser himself (“They Hannibal Lecter’d me! Don’t be alarmed, I got booked on showing, not touching.”) and his collection of sexual harassment prevention tools, including video cassettes. It's those VHS that save Eddie, who secures his home as the sleep-over destination because he has a dirty movie, but doesn't initially have such a video. But it doesn't stop there ....
posted by filthy light thief (4 comments total)

The jokes are actually pretty funny. Hoping there's more non-culturally specific gags.

Louis mentioning "spring break" during the cool-dad birds and the bees talk; that suggests he went to college/undergrad in the US, and presumably slept around?
posted by porpoise at 5:54 PM on March 3, 2015

From how I understood it - he didn't but heard about it and wished he had.
posted by dominik at 11:59 PM on March 3, 2015

Songs from this episode:
LL Cool J - I Need Love - July, 1987
H-town - Knockin Da Boots - March 11, 1993

Watch the episode on Hulu.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:37 AM on March 4, 2015

I border on being annoyed by Eddie's romeo arc, but the actor redeems it. He's so utterly confident in this. At school, Eddie suffers from insecurities about his race, income, etc., but somehow he has no anxiety about hitting on someone his mom's age.
posted by tofu_crouton at 9:39 AM on March 7, 2015