Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-16645605-20140510023151/@comment-27454522-20160331122921

I really just think this episode, along with ''Daddy Issues" and most of the episodes featuring Eileen were really trying to undo the whole thing that every episode with Margeret involved Mordecai being awkward trope. The fact every one of these episodes was Rigby ignoring eileen's similar advances. Ultimately the relationship with CJ kind of reset everything. It's like, at least as far as I've seen was a few weeks back with "Just Friends" Basically marked the end of Mordecai and Rigby and Margeret and Eileen can all in fact casually be dating people without the same old song and dance. Maybe a bit late but I think this was part of a long process of the writers making the possibility for an episode to explore such content to be less tropey in the future. I think a very good example is on "Play Date" for once the fact completely insane events do in fact surround Mordecai and Rigby's lives it doesn't instantly become and excuse to sledgehammer home any normal interaction from Mordecai. CJ destroys millions of dollars of equipment in "Real Date" instead of the entire episode being Mordecai awkwardly hiding what seems to be adulterous intentions or something. Like with CJ they actually explored romantic things happening with CJ on his side not Mordecai and Margeret being a running gag. As for this episode and as for Eileen, I think they also wanted to start fleshing out a character who wasn't a supernatural being but was basically perfect who had been there all along. In the end I really think after a few seasons that the writers were seeing that the series could go that way but instead came back with a way where romance episodes are just episodes.