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Shameless 11X7: Two at a Biker Bar, On in the Lake
🕑 Added 2025-03-11 20:48:28 +0000 UTCAlright, so we're all still fighting about selling the house. Lip is 100% for it; Debbie is 100% against it, and it seems like everyone else could be swayed.
So, whatever dumbass reason, Mickey and Ian decide that they need friends. I'm not on board with this. Why? It's not like they are bored on a Saturday night looking for things to do. But anyway, off they go to try to find some gay friends. Which turns into hand jobs in a sauna, a bunch of food, and an orgy (plus a pre orgy dance party apparently). Afterwards, they decide that they probably don't really need friends. I could have told you that. But, as per usual, the best part of any episode now is watching Ian and Mickey. I'll happily watch them do anything. I don't care.
Kevin totally fucked up and took one of the motorcycles out for a ride. Which wouldn't be so bad, except he got pulled over, and now the cop wants to buy the stolen bike. He enlists Tommy to help him get rid of all the stolen bikes at the bar. They drop several off at a biker bar in hopes that they blend in, but Kevin drives the one he got caught with into a lake. Lip and Brad are freaking out because he just destroyed thousands of dollars that they already had earmarked for broken babies and an apartment.
Meanwhile, Tami is fighting nonstop with Lip (again, these two do not need to be together) as she's trying to get him to move into her dad's house, and he's begging her for move time to convince his siblings to sell the house. Eventually, he does apply to Amazon, at her behest, but it's so begrudgingly done. This does not make her happy though. She's packed up all their shit and is already starting to move it over to her dad's.
Turns out Carl's fake girlfriend tricked all of us. She does not want to trap him. She's on the pill, allergic to latex, and just genuinely curious about his life. Plus, she's got a decent job lined up for herself and wanted to make sure he wouldn't be a drain on her. Oops. We find this out when he confronts her at work trying to force her to take Plan B.
Frank's dementia seems to be coming on quickly. At first, he tries to use it to his advantage, but pretty soon, he's genuinely confused about everything. It takes him the entire day to figure out how to get home. And he only manages because he happens to pass Lip.
And I don't know what the fuck insanity is going on with Debbie. Sandy's ex husband drops off their kid for Sandy to watch (who flat out refuses) and Debbie is all like, you have a kid? Debbie ends up watching him all day as Sandy split. She tells the kid she's going to file for joint custody and the kid is all like, 'No thank you. I don't want to live in this hellhole.' Fair. But, Debbie is losing her shit about Sandy 'abandoning' her child. It seems like the real issue is that she wants Sandy to be saddled with being a mother the same way Debbie is. But, Sandy claims the real issue is Debbie's fear of abandonment after Monica left. And now, she's trying to force everyone to stay in the house and not abandon her. It's an interesting theory.
Throughout this episode, both Lip and Debbie are calling everyone trying to sway them to vote the way they want them to about the house. In the end it's two to two, with Carl being the deciding vote. But, then Lip busts in with a sledgehammer and breaks through a wall screaming, 'We're fucking moving!' Debbie, in tears, runs from the house, where she runs into officers outside looking for Lip in connection with the bike theft.
Does no one seem to realize that if they sell the house, someone has to take Liam? They are giving him a vote (he votes not to sell), but no one is talking about where he's gonna go if there is no more house. And maybe I'm biased, but I think Mickey should get a vote.
