Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Recap: Kimmy Goes to Court! (Season 1 Episode 12)

Kimmy and Titus head to Durnsville in “Kimmy goes to Court”, and everything starts to come together.

After arriving, Kimmy meets up with Cyndee, who has decided since everyone is now in town, she will go ahead and have her bachelorette party with Kimmy as the Maid of Honor. Kimmy also finds that Gretchen is still trying to live in the delusional cult and has recruited several people.

To make matters worse, the Reverend is still winning over the population and twisting everyone’s words. His defense makes Kimmy seem like the bad guy, and Kimmy is gets completely frustrated. He manages to alienate Cyndee from her as well, twisting Kimmy’s words even further to make sure that she, and most of the town, is angry with her. Cyndee even kicks her out of the wedding party in anger.

Kimmy decides to fix everything by getting the evidence that they need to convict the Reverend herself. She recruits Cyndee, even though she is skeptical, and the rest of the mole women/wedding party, and the group heads back to the bunker. They pick up Randy on the way for assistance, and set him up as a guard at the opening while they descend back into the bunker.

Titus is soaking in the spotlight for Kimmy, so that she doesn’t have to, and (not surprisingly) he loves all the attention. It’s easy to see how he thinks that this is his stepladder to fame. But a warning comes in the form of the man from the opening titles of the show, who sings that catchy theme song you can’t get out of your head. He warns that fame will not last, and it can turn on him, but unfortunately, Titus shrugs him off.

Instead, Titus schedules an interview with WTHR in Indianapolis, and preps for the interview. The schedule on the show ends up being moved around, so Titus is on air before he knows he is…resulting in the whole world seeing an embarrassing song about his potential fame, before screaming and panicking at the realization he’s on live TV.

He tries to escape, but trips on his pants, falls to the floor, letting out quite the embarrassing flatulence on the way down. It is, by far, one of the most comical things I have ever seen.

Meanwhile, in the bunker, Kimmy and the women explore the Reverend’s private room, to discover that he was living a plush, lavish life, with working electricity courtesy of the women turning a crank for days on end. He not only held them captive, but made them provide the power for his swanky way of living.

The women are furious, and Kimmy tried to settle them by searching for definitive proof that the Reverend was lying. Hidden behind curtains is a safe, and the episode ends on the faces of the women as they open it.

Favorite Quotes:

Kimmy: I’m gonna make waffles out of him. That’s a thing people say in Durnsville. Well, West Durnsville. It’s really bad.

Kimmy: As they say in New York, ‘Look at the marbling on that corned beef!’

Randy: Do you want to take a stroll down memory lane?
Kimmy: No! Memory Lane is where I got kidnapped!

Titus: Please rise for the national anthem. For the red white and blue, the funny things you do, America, America, this is you!

Gretchen: Last one to the bunker is a mother of whores!

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is currently available for streaming on Netflix.

Sarah Gagliardo

Sarah Gagliardo likes, no... loves, nerdy TV. Her Netflix queue includes anything from Police Boxes and animated burger joints, to princesses and pirates, with a dash of quirky documentaries thrown in. She tries to live her life like a Leslie Knope, but ends up more like a Liz Lemon. You can find her most days at a craft brewery or in her kayak, waiting for the next fish to bite. During winter and on rainy days, she tackles her Netflix queue with her Maine Coon in beautiful Wilmington, NC.