The girls believe that a housekeeper that they fired has put a curse on them.
Tropes:
- Amusing Injuries: Rose being hit in the chest with a baseball. (Funny in context, plus it also apparently isn't hard enough to hurt as she doesn't really react to it).
- Artistic License – Law: Rose tells Marguerite that she is a good liar, and Marguerite says that this is why she is studying to become a lawyer. While more of a joke, in real life, if a licensed attorney is ever caught lying or otherwise omitting vital information, they could be suspended or even disbarred for perjury and/or contempt of court.
- Stereotype Flip: Marguerite purposely plays into the stereotype of a woman of Caribbean descent as a practitioner of voodoo and black magic by letting the girls believe that she's blessed them with good luck charms for hiring her and later cursed them with bad luck for firing her. She admits in the end that it was a put-on and she's studying for her law degree, which explains why she's so bad at housework (she's too busy studying to focus on the chores).
- Superstition Episode: The girls' lives take a turn for the better when they hire Marguerite as the housekeeper, but once they have to fire her because of her incompetence at housework, bad luck comes in spades, and they're convinced Marguerite has put a voodoo curse on them.
- Tempting Fate: When the Girls fire their Jamaican housekeeper Marguerite, she warns them that they're "making a big mistake." As Marguerite had demonstrated apparently magical abilities before (she gave Blanche what was supposedly a love potion and left a painted rock as a charm under Dorothy's bed), Rose and Blanche are convinced that she's cursed them when a string of bad luck hits. Dorothy refuses to believe this and points out that nothing that unusual has happened... cue a man in a crow suit suddenly parachuting onto their lanai.
- Man in Crow Suit: This isn't the Orange Bowl, is it?
- Walking Disaster Area / The Jinx: After firing Marguerite , all the Girls seem to be beset with bad luck, but Rose seems to get it the hardest. While describing her day to Dorothy (in which she had a flat tire, was late to work, and smashed her hand in a door), she collapses the lawn chair she tries to sit on and a baseball hits her in the chest.Rose: Something weird is going on here, Dorothy!Dorothy: Don't be silly. You're just having a little bad luck.Rose: [after baseball hits her in the chest] Do you really think that's all it is?Dorothy: Of course.Rose: Well, maybe you're right. [walks over to help Dorothy with the barbecue] Need any help?Dorothy: Get away from me, you jinx!
