Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy Gets a Job!
March 10, 2015 7:07 AM - Season 1, Episode 2 - Subscribe

Kimmy fights to get her job back while Titus fights to get his costume security deposit back so he can follow his dreams.
posted by drezdn (31 comments total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
That faux Miss Piggy.

It haunts my dreams.
posted by rewil at 7:50 AM on March 10, 2015 [9 favorites]


Glad to see Horatio Sanz again.
posted by drezdn at 9:42 AM on March 10, 2015 [1 favorite]


This show isn't great, but many of the jokes are, and the bones of the thing they are creating could be great, so I'm excited. This is as far as I have seen so far, but at this point, I'm on board.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:43 AM on March 10, 2015


"Spend as much money as you have to so that when Julian comes home, he knows that he's at his son's birthday party, not the reception for an Appalachian incest wedding."

"But I already did something today!"

"Those books are recommended for 12 and up. 'And up,' Kimmy!"

Still loving this show.
posted by bibliowench at 10:17 AM on March 10, 2015 [13 favorites]


Ellie Kemper's growing exhaustion and anger as she counts to ten, supplanted by relief when she starts at one again, which then grows to exhaustion and anger until she reaches ten, is one of the show's best little performative comic bits. The show definitely makes superb use of Kemper as a comic actress, rather than just as someone who says funny things well.

Once again, we have one significant white male character in this episode -- the owner of the costume shop -- who is abusing his position of power to take advantage of others. In the show, this is almost always coupled with a surprising perverseness, in this case the fact that he also has sex with the costumes. There's indications that Mr. Voorhees and his son Titus are cut from the same cloth -- more than indications, now that I think about it, as Titus declares that he wants to be a supervillain and spends the climax of the episode engaged in what sometimes comes disturbingly close to looking like a hate crime.

The joke about Kimmy looking like an old-fashioned Wendy's hamburger was great, and gets at least one great callback. I wish it had a longer shelf-life on the show.
posted by maxsparber at 10:31 AM on March 10, 2015 [13 favorites]


“Are her friends with her? They’re so mean and cool. Sometimes I look at them at Barney’s from behind a pillar.” I am so glad that Jacquelyn Voorhees is cut from the same cloth as Jenna Maroney.
posted by everybody had matching towels at 10:51 AM on March 10, 2015 [9 favorites]


I forgot the spoiled rich kid's name, but Titus is the black guy that Kimmy lives with.
posted by desjardins at 11:05 AM on March 10, 2015


Oh, you're right (apparently, Tituss). Buckley is the name of the kid.
posted by maxsparber at 11:41 AM on March 10, 2015


Tituss Burgess is the actor who plays Kimmy's roommate, Titus Andromedon.

Living For Titus! 6 Videos of Kimmy Schmidt Star Tituss Burgess Singing His Face Off
posted by roger ackroyd at 11:54 AM on March 10, 2015 [4 favorites]


Is Buckley a name? I cant help but associate it with the beagle from Royal Tenenbaums.
posted by sweetmarie at 12:57 PM on March 10, 2015


They named their other kid "Xanthippe" so I'm going to go with "no."
posted by desjardins at 1:33 PM on March 10, 2015 [2 favorites]


It's the name of some female antecedent of Pater Voorhees, like maybe his mother's mother's father's name was Buckley. Voorhees wants to debunker the name and the fact that he and his scion are related to Wm. F., so he gave the name to his son for a first name. Technically Xanthippe is his first born, but she's a girlchild so she can't pass the name along or do anything interesting, so the good name had to be saved up for the boy. Of course it's fine to give the girl a name that shows she isn't expected to do much other than marry a really old man. I love this show. It's like an angelfood cake with an axe blade hidden in it. I cannot stop singing the song.
posted by Don Pepino at 1:53 PM on March 10, 2015 [5 favorites]


I mean, it's a perfectly cromulent last name (see Jeff and Tim Buckley). I thought it was actually a weird choice of name if it was supposed to signify the kind of weird last-name-as-first-name thing a lot of rich WASPy folks are giving their kids now, because my first thought about someone naming their kid Buckley is "wow, big fan of Jeff and/or Tim Buckley?" Something like Cooper or Grayson reads as more stereotypically rich WASPy to me.

Anyway, I thought the reveal that the kid hated superheroes and wanted to be a supervillain was pretty hilarious and unexpected, as was Kimmy's willingness to go along with it in an effort to rescue the poor kid's birthday.
posted by yasaman at 1:54 PM on March 10, 2015


I assumed Voorhees was a reference to Jason from Friday the 13th.
posted by maxsparber at 1:56 PM on March 10, 2015 [6 favorites]


The only Buckley I know is the boyfriend on King of the Hill. (Buckley spoils within.)
posted by tofu_crouton at 2:00 PM on March 10, 2015


Buckley was the name of the dog on Sesame Street.
posted by frecklefaerie at 2:26 PM on March 10, 2015


Wow, 'spoilers'. Although I love how deep that typo sounds.
posted by tofu_crouton at 2:26 PM on March 10, 2015 [1 favorite]


I assumed Buckley was named after famous conservative WIlliam F. Buckley Jr.

Not sure if you were joking, but the dog on Sesame Street was Barkley.
posted by ALongDecember at 2:35 PM on March 10, 2015 [4 favorites]


Barkley was the name of the dog on Sesame Street.

"But I already did something today!" is basically my life.
posted by yellowbinder at 10:13 PM on March 10, 2015 [4 favorites]


sweetmarie: Is Buckley a name? I cant help but associate it with the beagle from Royal Tenenbaums.

desjardins: They named their other kid "Xanthippe" so I'm going to go with "no."

Your frame of reference is too recent. Xanthippe was an ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus.
Xanthippe means "yellow horse," and the "hippos" in an ancient Greek name often suggested aristocratic heritage. Xanthippe's father is believed to have been named Lamprocles. Since he was even more well-established in Athenian aristocracy than was Socrates' father, his name would have been the preferred choice for the name of the first-born son.
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Little is written of her. It is only in Xenophon's Symposium where we have Socrates agree that she is (in Antisthenes' words) "the hardest to get along with of all the women there are."Nevertheless, Socrates adds that he chose her precisely because of her argumentative spirit.
(Quick clipping from Wikipedia)


maxsparber: I assumed Voorhees was a reference to Jason from Friday the 13th.

That was my first thought, too! Buckley is a little bit of a monster, but nothing to Jason's level of (comic) brutality (head-punch scene).
posted by filthy light thief at 9:48 AM on March 11, 2015 [2 favorites]


I think "Voorhees" is to telegraph Dutch. As in, "These are old money Dutch people from THE DAWN OF NYC, flyoverland bitchiz." The show suffers from a little bit of this.
posted by Don Pepino at 10:45 AM on March 11, 2015 [2 favorites]


The ten second rule is something we should all live by.
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Oh, that mystery crank! I wonder what it was?
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I can't help but be amused at the "beating up on Iron Man as best birthday ever."
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:32 PM on March 11, 2015 [4 favorites]


Metal Hero Friend
posted by isthmus at 10:39 PM on March 13, 2015 [4 favorites]


Mrs Voorhees, after revealing she met the Mr when a stewardess, delivers the line "Look around you!" while doing the exit pointing-out hand gestures.

Happy to find a new show where I have to pause it from laughing so hard. Thanks Mefi!
posted by travertina at 6:58 PM on March 15, 2015


My favorite lines:
"I'm proficient in WordPerfect"
"What? Who are you? I wasn't rapping."
"A scrunchie that's also a wallet?"
Japan Perv Co.
"These people have so many towels and you're not allowed to use ANY of them!"
posted by sweetmarie at 12:24 PM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]


Please tell me that Lillian is Jacqueline's long-lost mother. The Carol Kane-Jane Krakowski thing is RIGHT THERE.

I was a little hesitant about the stereotypical gay gayness of Titus at first. But then I kept going and liked the backstory that they gave him, and how they fleshed out his character. And, really, when he's played by Tituss Burgess, how could he not be fabulous in every way? I couldn't remember where I'd seen him before until he let loose with that voice, and now I have Meadowlark stuck in my head again damn you and your soaring vocals
posted by St. Hubbins at 12:00 PM on March 19, 2015


Oh god, on rewatch, Jacqueline is filling Abattoir's water dish with lemon-lime water. Noooooooooo...
posted by angeline at 2:11 PM on March 21, 2015 [2 favorites]


It's okay. The anus is just decorative.
posted by St. Hubbins at 2:45 PM on March 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


lemon-lime water. Noooooooooo...

Wasn't it cucumber water?
posted by porpoise at 12:54 AM on March 22, 2015


I swear it looked like lemons. OH NO I HAVE TO WATCH IT AGAIN heeeee
posted by angeline at 7:01 AM on March 22, 2015


There are definitely lemons in that pitcher.
posted by angeline at 6:50 AM on March 23, 2015


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