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# Fug the Show: Scandal recap, season 3, episode 6
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-show-scandal-episode-3-6/
- Published: 2013-11-12T21:00:27.000Z
- Updated: 2014-02-17T03:34:01.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:35

## This week's anagram: Columbus Short

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This is twelve-year old Olivia, by the way. She is cooler than any of us. And she's thinking, "Oh, I get it, they can't show Khandi Alexander's face in anything except dimly lit profile because she's too old to be my mother at this age but she's NOT too old to be my mother in PRESENT-DAY and that gives credence to the theory that she's alive somewhere and they need to save her face for that moment." And Khandi is like, "Where are the *NewsRadio* reruns, y'all? Don't EVEN TELL ME you've forgotten about America's need for Phil Hartman."

## Boss Curl Mouth

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In present day, Olivia's brain is as speckled as her suit. She can't process what Jake and Huck told her. And she can't ask her father for answers because [his pure furor will inspire a terrible murder](https://www.30rockquotes.net/seasons/Season%5F1/30rockquotes%5Fthe%5Frural%5Fjuror.cfm?quote=1394&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), so she figures, well, ask the President, because the proximity to her ladybits is his truth serum. I almost typed "truth semen" by mistake, but what an apt error that would've been.

## Must Color Bush

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Paul Adelstein and his plentiful hair are very, very excited to be plotting with Sally and her husband, Daniel Douglas Steven Carrington Heroes, to snatch the presidency.

## Loco Smut Shrub

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Sally is also happy, and Steven just wants to look at everything and everyone like they are a delicious sandwich that he will soon devour with religious fervor. Wordplay partially intended, because their big plan is to sabotage Fitz by getting the extreme right all het up about his wangular activities, while also keeping him close so they catch him by surprise.

## Thumbs Color Us

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Machiamellie thinks that Olivia is there to accept the job she prostrated herself to offer, and her preparing herself for a half-sincere, half-torturous avalanche of Yay Team celebration is hilarious. She looks like everyone singing "For She's A Jolly Good Fellow" to keep Mrs. Peacock happy so that she leaves without shooting anyone. Machiamellie probably WILL shoot someone eventually. I'm surprised SHE isn't the Baby Huck in this scenario, except in fact she's so much badder of ass than Huck is that she'd automatically get promoted to Senior Huck.

## Curt, Lush Bosom

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Olivia is going to rain on this parade. The Pope is seriously displeased. Fitz has hope, but Liv wants the straight Remington dope, but he's all, "I will hang myself with that rope," and so the Pope's like, "Soup for you? NOPE." Ergo, Fitz has no campaign manager, and Liv has no answers, but everyone has unlocked today's rhyming achievement. Also, her coat reminds me of skee ball.

## Lo, Mucus Throbs

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Cyrus is really stoked to hear that Olivia said no, AND that she knows about Operation Dumbington. His brain is grateful for another chance to threaten to explode. Jeff Perry's circulatory system deserves an Emmy nomination, because every single one of his veins throbs EVERY SINGLE WEEK, and sometimes for different reasons.

## Burst Locus. OHM.

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Josie "Phoebe 'Ursula' Buffay" Marcus is still running for president, and WHAT have they done to her face in this photo? Did they steal the left part from a different photo and just paste it on too low? Maybe my eyes are just deceiving me, but something looks unusual. Don't mess with Street Phoebe.

## Touch Rum Slobs

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And so begins a really annoying continuity thing. First, we start with Liv in her Speckle Suit, giving them crisp and clipped instructions for how to present Josie's image -- so far she's been making it too easy for her sexist opponent by doing only Happy Homemaker bits on morning TV shows, and too many folksy jokes, They're also broke, so Liv convinces Josie to abandon her principles and go after the fatcats' wallets, because principles don't pay the bills. She knows whereof she speaks. Abby is also there, in an absurdly disproportionate cardigan that isn't even really necessary -- it's like the sweater you leave at the office on the back of your chair, for whenever it's too chilly at work, and then accidentally wear out someplace. Or the Wine Cardigan you wear when you and it and the bottle make three.

## Colostrum Hubs

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Then we cut to a Car Wash montage of Josie charming the pants off the high-fructose corn syrup lobby, the sugar lobby, the hotel lobby, the [Bob Loblaw's law blog](https://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/technology%5Finternetcritic/2005/12/yes%5Fvirginia%5Fth.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) lobby, etc., all while Olivia sits by watching serenely in an angelic white coat with silver button nipples that give her a locked-and-loaded Fembot underbelly.

## Roust Slob Chum

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Then, inexplicably, we cut BACK to Olivia in her FIRST outfit, sitting down in a darkened room at Whatever Time Of Day Is Convenient To Your Imagination, and asking him to tell her more. He doesn't know more. He's going to FIND OUT, THOUGH, DAMMIT, because nobody knows whether Olivia's mom was shot down on purpose, or by accident, and who commissioned it, and who knew she was on the plane. Operation Remington is brought to you by the letter B and the numbers 613 and the word "Initiative," which you know they wanted to use except "Revenge" got to it first.

## Louts, Bro. Chums.

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We then take a brief break to establish that Cyrus has told Rowan that Jake and Olivia know the truth about Operation Remington, and Rowan -- or Eli? What the hell are we supposed to call him? -- is all THE TRUTH IS NOT OUT THERE, and then two of them pause to admire how wonderful it is that they can have revealing conversations in public at major landmarks with zero other people walking close enough to hear.

## Rub Smut School

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Luckily for Jake, he has a hot friend who works in high places, who can promise him information -- while also trying to sleep with him. But Jake's ballards are anchored elsewhere. And in the periphery, a Shady Gentleman is eavesdropping on them. Which is noteworthy because if Shady Gentleman can hear about her plotting to steal him information from sensitive places, then he is a TERRIBLE operative -- no wonder he landed in the B-AshamedOfYourself torture hole -- and she is a bad secret-keeper.

## Botch Rum Souls

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AND THEN: We cut BACK to Olivia in her Areolas of Justice coat, telling Josie Marcus that it was real nice of her to fellate all those donors on Olivia's orders, but OOPS, but it didn't work because everyone knows the rich ones don't go out on a limb alone; each wants to wait for another domino to fall before they follow. It's a Catch-22\. But let's recap: Daytime In Grey, then Daytime in White, then Pointedly Vague Time Of Day in grey with Jake, then Daytime In White Again, with two daytime scenes -- one involving Jake fresh from that OTHER scene -- in between. That sound you hear is somebody putting a flaming pile of Continuity on our doorsteps, lighting it on fire, then ringing the bell and running away.

## Lost So Much Rub

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And Harrison apparently holds his cell phone so far down his face that his ear is getting offended. As far as I know, sir, it's the mouthpiece that can be further away -- you still have to have to LISTEN through the EARHOLE. Maybe he just has really sensitive lobes.

That smell you hear is of deep-fried backstory: Cyrus wants Harrison to influence Olivia to dump Josie for them, or somesuch, and he blackmails him with information about His Shadowy Past that makes Harrison flip his shit -- he had come to terms with having no past on this show, and he was wearing way too cheerful a checkered shirt to deal with that kind of swerve.

## Crush Mob Louts

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Turns out Salif is an insider trader for whom Harrison used to work, and he's applying for a visa back into the U.S., which would end up with Harrison very dead. REALLY. Insider trading? THAT is the best this show could come up with? All I know is, Salif had better be an EXTREMELY DREAMY stabby insider-trader filled with untapped longing, or else I am real bored.

But, Harrison soldiers gamely forth with the material he's given: He puts on his bloodthirsty-plotting checkered shirt and gets Huck to do his illegal computer shenanigans to block things, so that the only way to get Salif into the country is for Cyrus to sponsor it himself. Which they assume he wouldn't dare. REALLY. Since when does Cyrus not dare?

## Lob Such Tumors

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So Harrison goes to Cyrus and loudly calls his bluff, in the most serious and sedate shirt-tiue combo he could wrest from his closet. Cyrus is unamused, and as soon as Harrison leaves, he picks up the phone to start the visa process for Salif himself. Poor Harrison. Somebody is always trying to kill every Gladiator.

## Torch Bum Souls

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Let's also talk about Eli Pope's house: This flashback of The Day Mrs. Pope's Plane Crashed looks to be set in the same place as the current set, except this one has curtains. In the present-day shots, Eli Rowan Pope has French doors and giant windows on every wall, with NO SHADES AT ALL, which seems like the WORST idea if you run a shadowy, stabby organization and have deep privacy needs. However, that mustache was a magnificent idea. I feel like he needs to sit me down on a stoop and talk to me about sharing and the number 12, or something, while Oscar the Grouch eavesdrops from his can.

## Ms. Turbo Slouch

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Olivia gets wasted, and it's here that I regret MOST not doing a running tally of shots of Olivia Pope drinking wine. However, I know there has been at least one per episode. Anyway, she drunk-dials her father after watching plane-crash footage, and blurrily weeps that she is afraid he'll kill all her friends but she needs answers. He allows her one question without any murder -- such a wonderful father, to offer that warm concession -- and she haltingly asks him if he ordered the plane to be shot down. He says no, but won't answer anything else, and you can see Olivia wrestling with whether she regrets not asking him to exonerate Fitz rather than himself. As much as I think Kerry Washington veers into the overwrought in a lot of Olivia's confrontational scenes , she was good in this one -- Drunk Olivia is good. I want Drunk Olivia and Drunk Machiamellie to face off RIGHT NOW.

## Hurls Boot Scum

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This guy is, as it says, in the tea party. And Mr. Tea Bag is important to the campaign, so Sally engineers some trickery to get him on their side, in secret, rather than Fitz's. But we learn at the end of the episode that this guy is in Cyrus's pocket, so he outs Sally's plan to Cyrus, in a moment of mutual back-scratching. I nicknamed him Tea Bag before I realized that the associated jokes about his relationship with Cyrus would be off-color at best. You may write them yourselves. They are impolite.

## Lo, Custom Shrub

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This shot cracks me up, by the way. It's Sally and Paul Adelstein meeting with Tea Bag, but the moment I got the grab coincides with Adelstein sitting down, head still bowed, and so it looks like he has actually been decaptiated and then rebuilt with a lamp coming out of his neck. It's amazing, and it makes me long for the hybrid show we all know would be a sensation: *Scandal Hollow*.

## Uh, Scrotum Slob

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Fitz invites Sally and Daniel Douglas Etc. for a strategy dinner, and beforehand, he spills to Mellie that he knows DD has a wandering eye. This gives Mellie and Sally something in common besides a pair of Ls and a disdain for Fitz's spone and/or other assorted bones, which is exciting for them.

## Bosom? Curl Thus.

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And Machiamellie, looking fantastic, is the picture of charm, but she notices Double D making flirty comments in her direction -- and so does Sally, who is surprised when DD offers to say grace, then peeks while everyone's eyes are closed and notices that he's using the prayer as an excuse to stare openly at Mellie. She astutely tells Cyrus that they should use the fact that DD is a womanizer, because it's a chink in their holier-than-thou armor. I can't wait until Pope and Associates has to represent one of them.

## Blur Out Schmos

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Josie refuses to play into the sexism stuff and wants to just be cheery and nice and jokey, but then two things happen: a) Olivia and Abby arrange it so she catches them discussing a campaign ad by Tom Amandes' team that shows a trembling female hand reaching for a doorknob, then faltering, implying that Josie is too soft to handle international power-brokering and the like; and b) the introduction to her interview, to be conducted by James, plays into the sexism thing. So she gives this great, very cutting, very incisive rebuttal to the notion that she is literally not ballsy enough for the top job, and takes James to task for the Homemade Pitcher Of Iced Tea set-dressing and "Thanks for inviting us into your wonderful home" opening line. It's a great scene, and it reminds me of why we loved The West Wing. Sadly there is no way she'd get away with that in the real world, because the loud asswads would discount her as a ranting, breasted harpy.

## Mulch So Robust

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And here is Jake Ballard doing push-ups in his very mod, very sparse apartment, which we've seen before, and which he MUST own because nobody was beating down his door with eviction notices while he was busy living in a torture hole. His contact calls him and arranges a meet to pass along her information...

## O Rhombus Cults

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... and when he gets there, right when she's about to draw her hand out of her purse, Shady Gentleman shoots her dead. Turns out she was about to pull a gun and kill Jake herself; Shady Gentleman was there at Fitz's behest, to make sure he didn't get killed. This leads to Jake and Fitz spitting a few more nails at each other over Olivia and jealousy, and then Fitz announces that he can't stick out his neck for Jake anymore. They're done. Personally, I thought they were done several episodes ago. Fitz is not good at making breakups stick.

## Crush Soul Tomb

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Josie celebrates her victory, but her sister/daughter/press girl tells Abby that she knows the truth: It was Abby's hand in the video, because they faked it to galvanize Josie. Sister-Daughter has problems with their lack of ethics, but Abby is completely fine with it, although she should be more upset that it didn't occur to her to REALLY drive home the point in the video by painting her nails Power-Suit Crimson.

## Ooh, Lust Crumbs

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Oh, and Baby Huck has been practicing at the gun range,and lo and behold, George "Charlie" Newbern is there watching her. He gives her tips, and they work, and Quinn is clearly totally turned on by this -- to the point where she asks Huck if the B-lahBlahBlah really ruins you for life or you can be normal someday, Huck isn't interested in talking, so she goes back to the gun range for some foreplay. Aha, but he's on the phone with Eli Pope, who has asked him to lay himself out as bait to Quinn. SHENANIGANS. Steve Martin was RIGHT about you, George Newbern.

## Blush, Root Scum!

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And FItz shows up at Olivia's front door. There's a great hot second where you can tell they both hope this is going to end in sex, but unless Operation Remington is all about how to work a vibrator, that ain't happening.

## Throb, Scum Soul!

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Liv bitterly asks him if he knows about Remington, and he gives the No Comment he has to give, because he's the Commander-In-Chief and sometimes they have to be Commanders-in-BRIEF. ZING. So she drops the bomb that her mother was on the plane he shot down over Iceland...

## Strum Chub, Solo.

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And FItz gives her a constipated look that suggests he finds this twist in the backstory just as ludicrous as the rest of us, and then toes the party line once more -- he disavows all knowledge. As he leaves her house, he gives another WTF face, and so it's left to us to wonder whether this was the first he'd heard of her presence on the plane, or if he even knew what he was shooting down, or why, and REALLY, he shot down a passenger plane? And brushed it off and slept at night and nobody figured it out? OKAY THEN, SCANDAL. I have a bridge made of purses that I'd like to sell you.

[Fug the Show: Scandal recap, season 3, episode 6I'm assuming they will be showing more flashbacks of Vatican City -- oh, come on, I HAVE to call Olivia's childhood home that, don't I? -- because they cast Khandi Alexander as Mama Pope, and that's a huge waste for just 10 seconds of blurry screen time. Then again, it's as likely that Mama Pope will turn out to be alive and well and driving her own mobile someplace Deeply Secret and that Rowan/Eli -- or Fitz somehow -- has been keeping her alive all this time because of Reasons. If they do that, they just have to PROMISE ME not to botch it as badly as Revenge did with Jennifer Jason-Leigh: terribly written, not very well acted, wasted opportunity, no do-over.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2013/11/img_7665-1024x768.jpg)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-show-scandal-episode-3-6-11-2013/)