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Dangle's Secret Family
Season 5, Episode 6
Air date February 20, 2008
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 Quote[]

"The first car I got. When daddy gave it to me, the keys were on that chain. It was a convertible, it was blue, it was so beautiful. I had so much sex in the backseat of that car!"

Summary[]

Dangle's father is dead and he's meeting his siblings for the first time.

Cold Open[]

The bomb disposal robot opens fire on the sheriffs as it retrieves a pipe bomb from a school.

Plot[]

Dangle enters the women's locker room to tell them that his father has died. He brushes off their sympathy, as his father left his mother and he has no affection for the man. His half-siblings from Chicago, whom he has not met, are meeting him to discuss their father's will, and he'd like to present an image of himself that is not that of a gay weirdo. He wants Raineesha to be his girlfriend for the one evening.

Garcia and Jones must stop an illegal backyard wrestling fight. The lead wrestler taunts them to join in the activities. A masked wrestler turns out to be Travis Junior trying to win $50.

Legal brothel: Andrew called the police claiming that he was not given a creme de menthe BJ and asks Junior and Dangle to test his member to prove what kind of alcohol flavoring was in her mouth.

Weigel and Dangle discuss how he didn't choose her as his fake girlfriend because she is likely to drop the N-word.

Williams helps Dangle de-gay his place of posters, fridge magnets and the like. He is told that "O.J. didn't do it!" is the only thing to say about that, Despite all of the evidence. Don't bring up the evidence. And Dangle has to figure out where he stands on Biggie-Tupac. Dangle raises the touchy subject that there may be times that he needs things translated; when Raineesha is baffled as to what he's saying.

Jones and Garcia try to stop kids from dropping a cinder block off an overpass, but "drop it!" turns out to be the incorrect instruction.

The deputies have received the latest kidnapper's ransom demand and steamed open the envelope, and all the letters have spilled out. They must unscramble the letters to figure out the message. They finally solve it in mid-afternoon: "I've got Mary. She dies at one o'clock."

Clemmie Johnson asks Cindy about the messages left for her. Cindy has referred to her as "Boobies," all of the urgent messages are from "Charlie" or "Charlie G.I." and she cannot make out the writing. Cindy says it is her shorthand. Clemmie would prefer it in regular words, so Cindy says she will do "long hand job."

Weigel and Jones must communicate with a man acting like a cat. Weigel talks to him in cat language and then sprays him with water. Jones praises her for being useful.

At dinner, Jim Dangle is demonstrably affectionate with Williams at the table and tries to speak with a lot of street lingo. His siblings, Eric and Bethany, (who are, let's remember, half-white and raised by a white man who probably told his kids that Jim is gay) are noticeably uncomfortable with how urban Raineesha and Jim are pretending to be.

Scared Straight: Garcia and some teens are gathered around a dead body in the morgue. He asks them if they ever had too much to drink and got behind the wheel of a car. When they raise their hands, he takes them off to jail.

Dangle's siblings finally discuss the arrangements now that their father is passed, and they agree that a three-way split is best. It turns out that there's no money and they're just splitting the cost of the funeral expenses, though clearly all of their father's money was spent on sending his Chicago family to college and buying them homes. They then give Dangle one thing: a Banana Splits keychain that belonged to their father.

Behind the Scenes[]

The cast provides commentary on the DVD. Observations include:

  • Cindy and Clemmie's scene is a great one for lovers of cleavage.
  • They had to get legal clearance for the Banana Splits keychain.

Notes[]

This episode is also sometimes called "Back in Black."

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