Todd’s Mom – The episode begins with an intense Friday night game of Bridge in the McAllister’s kitchen. Much to Audrey McAllister’s (Rachel Bay Jones) displeasure, Georgie Cooper (Montana Jordan) appears to be doing especially well for a so-called beginner. Mandy McAllister (Emily Osment) clearly has no interest in the game and even attempts to quit at one point. It isn’t much longer before she gets her wish, but retiring to the bedroom only adds to her realization that her and Georgie’s social life has become non-existent.
Mandy sets out to immediately change things the following day when a colleague at the Bluebell Diner, Beth (Casey Wilson), asks her out for a drink after work. Despite having a good time, Georgie later inadvertently ruins it when he jokes about her getting hit on.
As Georgie’s work conversation with Jim McAllister (Will Sasso) reveals the following morning, Mandy has clearly gotten inside his head. A nearby Ruben (Jessie Prez) overhears the conversation and tells Georgie and his Friday half-court pickup basketball games and pizza but fails to invite him along.
Despite having another card game scheduled with the parents, Mandy breaks those plans to spend the evening with Beth. She also drags Georige along, which leaves Jim and Audrey alone with Connor McAllister (Dougie Baldwin) and an odd number of players. Thanks to Connor’s suggestion, this leads to a spirited game of, ‘Can You Guess What I Am In 20 Questions Or Less?’
Mandy and Georgie’s night is no less awkward and only gets even more so when Beth’s teenage son Todd (Jackson Kelly) recognizes Georgie from Medford High School. Despite this, the two of them hit it off and end up in the garage working on Todd’s dirt bike. While Mandy and Beth debate the perks of sleeping with much younger men, Georgie and Todd debate the upsides of divorce and marriage.
While Mandy and Georgie return home, Jim and Audrey are down to 12 questions but more determined than ever to solve Connor’s riddle. Mandy’s frustration eventually spills over into a heated argument when he tells her that she is acting like his mother because she doesn’t want him riding dirt bikes with Todd.
Although Georgie has a great time riding dirt bikes, things immediately turn awkward when Todd, Richie (Evan Nikolas Fields), and Jason (Myles Perez) break out the beer and he takes on the parental role. At the McAllister house, Audrey clearly has too good of a time taking advantage of Mandy and Georgie’s argument. While Georgie plays designated driver to Todd and his friends, Mandy and Beth return to the Roadhouses. This time, however, Mandy clearly isn’t having a good time and ends up calling Georgie to pick her up when Beth leaves her to make out with Doctor Piccardo (Alex Ball).
By the time Georgie picks up Mandy at the Roadhouse and they realize they’d be having a much better time watching CeeCee sleep, Jim and Audrey are down to one question. Unfortunately for them, they do not solve the riddle and Connor refuses to share the answer. This is where the episode ends.
Georgie And Mandy’s First Marriage Review
A great episode and by the end, I found myself nearly as frustrated as Jim and Audrey that Connor’s enigmatic riddle wasn’t solved. Despite the typical themes of the episodes and the average way they are played out, the series feels refreshingly different to me. I mean there is nothing shocking at all by the way things unfold most of the time, but it somehow feels different. I guess that is exactly what a good series should do.
Other than not learning the answer to the riddle, I surprisingly have nothing to complain about. The episode gets an easy 6.3 out of 10.
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