Recap / Crazy Ex-Girlfriend S2E9: "When Do I Get to Spend Time with Josh?"

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Songs:

"Who's the New Guy?" (sung by Donna Lynne Champlin, Michael McMillian, Danny Jolles, Esther Povitsky and Stephnie Weir)

• A Day in the Limelight: Aside from Paula, everyone performing the song is a minor character.
• Ratings Stunt: Parodied and with Lampshade Hanging:
  Maya: He's suspiciously good-looking in ways that normal people are not.
  Karen: Is this some sort of desperate move to help our ratings?
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The song constantly pushes and pulls between complete meta awareness and having the lines make sense in-universe:
  Tim: Do we really need a new guy this far into the season?
  And by 'far into the season' I mean it's almost fall.

"George's Turn" (sung by Danny Jolles)

• A Day in the Limelight: Taken further. George has been even more marginalized in the show than other minor characters.
• Musicalis Interruptus:
  George: George won't be unheard
  George won't be interrupted
  Because...
  [ACT BREAK]
• Tempting Fate: See above.

Tropes in the episode:

• Daddy Issues: Nathaniel clearly has hang ups with his father, and seems to have an obsession to please him. Rebecca actually mentions it.
• Freudian Slip: Nathaniel lets it slip about something he had to deeply apologized to his father about a pool. Everybody is weirded out by this.
• Internal Homage: After Rebecca and Josh have re-initiated their love story, Rebecca's arrival to West Covina from the Pilot is partially recreated (with a few repeat cameos), but this time with Josh.

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