Just try giving an obstacle as a gift to your friends this holiday season. Even the ordinarily stoic Bruce gets in on the action, repeating a clichéd Ike talking point about how obstacles are actually gifts. Meanwhile, Ike and his very loud three-piece suit are charming the pants off everyone else. What Ike is doing is obvious to Phyllis, but when Marty brings Ike into the office as a consultant, Phyllis really does try to understand the situation.
Although the series doesn’t concern itself much with an in-depth exploration of Marty’s and Ike’s relationships with their fathers, it’s clear both are re-creating elements of past parental dynamics that were flawed and toxic. He continues to push his way into Marty’s life, demanding more latitude and taking more and more money, while encouraging very unhealthy (or, as Ike pronounces it, unelthy) levels of codependency and dependency. “Unlocking the trust” is an inquisitive turn of phrase here because that’s what Ike has been trying to do with Marty the entire time. This money is ostensibly Phyllis’s, but Daddy Markowitz only gave Marty the ability to unlock the trust.
She comes to apologize … but also to ask for money to hire another divorce lawyer. Marty is flying high on post–bar mitzvah vibes, but then Phyllis comes to chat with him. The color is inexplicable, but honestly, when we see the finished product later in the episode, it does pop, so score one for Marty. He gyrates and twirls to the pop sensation “Gloria,” by Laura Branigan, as he enthusiastically rolls a thick layer of teal paint onto a wall of his office. At the top of the episode, we’re invited to Marty’s dance party. However, two key plot points occur in the last ten minutes, and a few shining moments are worth watching throughout. Two key plot points in the episode - Phyllis going to see Ike for a therapy session and Marty nabbing a contract for a big Broadway production thanks to Ike’s wheeling and dealing - didn’t occur in real life, so it’s no wonder they feel like filler. Paul Rudd continues to smize and simmer as Ike, Will Ferrell continues to put on his best puppy-dog eyes (they are quite effective), and Kathryn Hahn continues to let her protective-sister flag fly. I’m sure it comes as a shocker to exactly no one that Ike is doing almost all of the boundary breaking here and Marty is continuously left in the emotional lurch.Īs someone who listened to the podcast, I felt this is an episode that mostly doesn’t need to exist. This episode is full of boundary talk and contains lots and lots of boundary crossing. The word of the day is boundaries! Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries.
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