Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Recap: Kimmy Goes to the Doctor! (Season 1 Episode 4)

On “Kimmy Goes to the Doctor,” Kimmy finds a TV on the street and suddenly gets exposed to a whole new world. Like “Law Swiqqle Order”!

While catching up on her pop culture, her bunker mate Cindy calls her, in response to a letter Kimmy wrote her on Barbie stationary that was covered in pizza grease.

Spoiler: Titus wrote it. He knows she needs someone to talk to, but Kimmy doesn’t want to be reminded of her past and runs to work.

Jacqueline teaches Kimmy to take a selfie. They need a picture for Buckley’s school so that they know he’s not being abducted every day — and that Kimmy is actually his caretaker.  We learn Mr. Voorhees is again not en route home, and Kimmy teaches Jacqueline a new coping technique: pumping up and down and waving your arms while shouting ‘I’m not really here!’.

Titus and Lillian enjoy their “new” TV (the Buhbreeze commercials might be my new favorite thing). They learn of the disastrous injuries of many of the actors in Spiderman Too, and Titus NEEDS to audition. Lillian is against it, because she doesn’t want to bury another beautiful black man — her husband was shot on his way back to bed. (Lillian shot him….)

So Titus heads to the arcade to get a new set of headshots. In a photobooth.  With Kimmy’s assistance. And with new photos in hand, he heads to his audition where he runs into his nemesis, Coriolanus Burt.

Side note: I love James Monroe Iglehart, who plays the Genie in Aladdin on Broadway if you were not aware! Fun Facts!

Coriolanus puts poor Titus down, and saunters on his way, leaving Titus waiting in line with the other agentless actors.

Kimmy arrives back at the Voorhees with a photo she would like to use instead of her selfie, but Jacqueline doesn’t think that the composite of her and Titus’s possible child would work for an ID photo.

Jaqueline is on her way to her doctor, and Kimmy tags along. The doctor, a plastic surgeon, is played by MARTIN SHORT! YAY!

Jacqueline wants some foot work done, but Dr. Franff zeroes in on Kimmy…and her scream lines. He offers to fix them, and with Jacqueline’s encouragement, Kimmy takes him up on it!

With her scream lines gone, Kimmy has a renewed sense of confidence. So when Titus comes home defeated, she doesn’t let him stay down. They head to an agent’s office and do a series of confident poses until an agent picks up on the fact he’s important. First audition: Spiderman Too! However, the agent recognizes Kimmy as one of the Indiana Mole Women.

Kimmy decides to head back to Dr. Franff for a new face — she’s tired of being a Mole Woman! But as she starts to fall asleep watching a Buhbreeze commercial, it morphs into a nightmare, and Kimmy starts fighting the anesthesia.  She bursts out from the operating room and gives a great motivational speech. That is, until we hear that she is really just slurring words and then falls over.

The good news is that she recovers and heads back to the house to tell Jacqueline that she needs to face her problems and stop ignoring them. If she thinks her husband is cheating, she should address it! Jacqueline agrees, heading off to China that day. Or, when her feet recover from her surgery. And that inspires Kimmy to call Cindy back, and invite her to visit New York.

Favorite Quotes:

Titus: “Arial, that thing-a-ma-bob isn’t going to work.”

Kimmy: “I don’t have a recent picture of me. Is there a Sears near here?”
Jacqueline: “Ew no.”

Jacqueline : “Feet are the new butts!”

Dr. Franff: “I can’t choose. That is like asking me which of my children’s placentas were the most delicious.”

Jacqueline : “Joy comes from the outside in!”

Kimmy: “I want a whole new face!”
Dr. Franff: “I have some.”

Titus, auditioning: “And I will crush that spider man, and then that other spiderman, and all the spidermen, until I am the spiderman!” (Can this be a real song!? Edit: YES! They made a whole song for the credits!)

Kimmy: “You’re just Buhbreezing your problems.”

Jacqueline : “What filter is this?”
Kimmy: “No Filter. Hashbrown, no filter.”

 

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is available for streaming on Netflix.