This video is largely focused around dates, but first, we get an interesting tidbit from future Sophie. She tells her son that she will have kissed all her friends by the time she's 40. That's not largely surprising considering that the show will want to keep everyone guessing about who the father is, but it's interesting nonetheless.
She also refers to Ellen as Aunt Ellen when talking to her son. That doesn't really mean anything. Ted's referred to Lily and Robin as their aunts in How I Met Your Mother, so Sophie's son could be doing the same even if Ellen isn't technically his aunt, but it's interesting all the same. (Something about his "Even Aunt Ellen?" when it could just have been "Even Aunt Valentina?" does strike me as a bit curious though.)
Towards the start of the episode, Valentina invites herself along on a date with Ellen and Rachel. Valentina's date ends up being a man with an emoji for a face who doesn't talk the whole time, which was a bit amusing.
Valentina and Rachel fight before then bonding over talking about Ellen's flaws, which I didn't love. It's pretty cruel to start going on about how annoyed someone makes you like that. She and Rachel haven't even been together that long, so the fact that she's talking about Ellen like that to her friend didn't feel so great.
Towards the end of the episode, Sophie also mentions that Rachel, Ellen, and Valentina would never hang out as a trio again. That makes me think Ellen and Rachel aren't going to hang out again. If Rachel was sticking around for a while, I don't think the show would make such a definitive statement, since who knows what would end up happening in the future. I'm kind of hoping the way Rachel talks about Ellen will be part of what leads to their break up.
Meanwhile, Charlie finds a date because he's jealous of Valentina. He recruits Hannah and Sid to come with him, and they spend the entire time trying to get airline miles off of the date, which Hannah does end up successfully doing.
The date goes disastrously for Charlie, and it doesn't seem like he'll go on a date again anytime soon. When Sophie and Valentina are talking, Valentina even declares that she and Charlie will be together one day and that she's not worried about him finding someone. However, he does, in fact, meet someone who I assume will be significant at the end of the episode.
I do think that the show will eventually pair Valentina and Charlie together, even if it's not happening right now, but I'm curious to see how this new relationship for Charlie goes.
While all their friends are on dates, Sophie and Jesse have dinner with the couple who bought Sophie's picture. Jesse is worried about them being rich people, but it turns out that the bigger problem is that the husband is some kind of men's rights influencer person. I'm kind of surprised the show went there. Of course, everything is played as comedy, but I have to say that the wife in this episode is just really sad. I'm assuming we'll never see her again, but I sure hope that somewhere out there in fictional land she gets some help.
They do end up giving Sophie and Jesse the picture back, which is great, but Sophie ends up losing the picture when a taxi drives off with it. Somehow, she'll apparently get it back, but I feel like that's a story that won't come for a while.
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