Funny / Crazy Ex Girlfriend Season 4

Season Four

Episode 1: I Want to Be Here

• A "full" version of George's ska song "Maybe I'm Just Broken" is available. It gloriously summarizes ska music in 30 seconds!
• The fact that even when emotionally crushed into near catatonia, Rebecca still managed to take a break from her Madness Mantra to oh-so-casually mention that she went to Harvard.

Episode 2: I Am Ashamed

• "Time to Seize the Day", a cheerful, upbeat, perky song about wasting an entire day reading facts about stingrays and watching gay porn.

Episode 3: I'm On My Own Path

Episode 4: I'm Making Up For Lost Time

• "I Want To Be A Child Star", in its brutal catalogue of every child-star-gone-wrong cliché.
  Tucker: I want to have a teenage Hollywood meltdown
  Be a pop-culture casualty
  I want a bunch of addictions
  To illegal prescriptions
  And completely lose touch with reality
  I want to squander everything I've worked for
  And spiral out of control
  I want to wake up in Van Nuys
  With a bunch of sketchy guys
  Whom I've never even met before
  • The director's reactions to Tucker, ranging from confusion to concern to horror. By the final verse, it's clear that she's already decided to keep Tucker as far from show business as possible.

Episode 5: I'm So Happy For You

Episode 6: I See You

• "Trapped in a Car with Someone You Don't Want to Be Trapped in a Car With" (which is a mouthful) has so many funny moments.
  • First and foremost, the song itself musically tells the history of The Beach Boys in only three minutes, with the beginning modeled after "Fun, Fun, Fun", the middle goes into "Pet Sounds", and the ending parodying "Kokomo".
  • Rebecca doing the barking noises during the "Pet Sounds" section.
  • The San Gabriel Valley cities sung by Josh and Daryl is ridiculous, such as "Ontario, Alhambra / We already said 'Alhambra" and "Pina... Colada... / That should be a city."
• Heather's stunned reaction when Nathaniel's envelope splits open and she (and, to a lesser extent, he) gets covered in the ashes of Nathaniel's au pair, Heidi. Taken up to eleven when they attempt to fulfil Heidi's wishes to have her ashes scattered in the sea by standing over an open storm drain and brushing their clothes off into it.

Episode 7: I Will Help You

• Darryl's song to Josh, "How To Clean Up". At first it looks like it's going to be a song in which the two of them clean up the apartment together, but after a long intro with lots of dancing, Darryl's advice turns out to be "Take everything that isn't where it's supposed to be and put it where it's supposed to be." As soon as he's delivered this, the song ends, and Darryl's out the door with a reminder to Josh that he's a grown-ass man and ought to be able to tidy up.
• The ways the different moms in Naomi's song "Forget It" deliver the title line: the Indian, West African and Italian-American moms all give a sharp Forget it! (with the Italian mom making it Fuhgeddabout it!) but the WASP mom just gives an uptight little laugh and says It's fine!
  • The rap sequence with "Emilio at the frame store", who sings about how he has no life of his own and only exists to judge his customers all day, and that because her daughter left law he's gonna mess up all her frames from now on. The frame store is also called "Judgmental Framing".

Episode 8: I'm Not The Person I Used To Be

• Everyone practically breaking the Fourth Wall:

Heather: You’re here! How long will you be here?
Valencia: The rest of the series. Of holidays, I mean.

• Valencia tells Heather about someone she loved in high school other than Josh. Heather assumes it was a girl, but it turns out to be Father Brah:

Heather: Also using your sexual fluidity as a red herring? Baller move.
Valencia: My pronouns tracked, that was you. Check your assumptions.

• Also: Heather still loves drama.
• In "What U Missed When U Were PopUlar", the Goths' entire identity is based on them...wearing black.
  George: Right over here are the arty goths, a real tight-knit pack. / While you were wearing tank-tops...
  Goths: We were wearing black.
  George: While you were wearing cargo shorts...
  Goths: We were wearing black.
  George: While you were wearing flip-flops...
  Goths: We were wearing black flip-flops.

Episode 9: I Need Some Balance

• The entire Cats parody, where the cats symbolize the condition of Rebecca's vagina. "Stop ruining my vagina like you ruined musicals!"
  • Climaxing (or rather not) with "Nostalgic Vagina Metaphor", where the Nostalgia Cat laments Rebecca's inability to get laid:
    Nostalgia Cat: [sings] Nostalgiaaa, I'm feeling nostalgia, such heartbreaking nostaaal-giaa, for the last time I booooned...
    [Enter Doggy Dog]
    Doggy Dog: Did somebody say bone?! [starts rapping and dancing] I'm the Doggy Dog, and I'm waggin' my tail, sniffin' some...
    Rebecca: [exasperated] Okay, that's enough. [music cuts out, she walks away]

Episode 10: I Can Work With You

• Greg and Rebecca end up having sex on the floor of Darryl's apartment. When Darryl returns, Greg says, "I just came over to see Rebecca. Nothing more than that happened. Hey, can I wash some of these toys? No reason. I just want to help out and wash some of these floor toys for you."

Episode 11: I'm Almost Over You

• The entire episode, which is just Nathaniel's daydream about being inside a romantic comedy. Especially all of the brilliant parodies of Rom-Com characters, like George just saying random sports all the time ("Basketball!") and Paula always talking about the "Big Presentation." And Maya being the Rom-Com female protagonist to a tee:

Maya: And FYI I have opinions and a brain, I know that makes me hard to love.

• Maya reveals that her glasses aren't needed and are "just a tribute to Velma from Scooby-Doo."

Episode 12: I Need A Break

Episode 13: I Have To Get Out

• "Little Cough Boy," a boy with a rare strain of flu that enjoys running around coughing on people.
• "Real Life Fighting is Awkward", which contrasts fantasy scenes of Josh and Greg fighting like actions stars with ultra-realistic fighting in which they keep practically apologising for hurting each other.
  Real-life fighting is awkward
  It's not like sci-fi fighting
  You can't stop time momentarily
  There are no futuristic weapons
  And even if you had a real weapon
  You'd be freaked out by the weapon
  A weapon makes everything too real
  • At the end of the song, Josh and Greg end up in the children's quarentine room. Nathanial tries to get them to stop, but Little Cough Boy disagrees.
    Nathaniel: Oh, hey, kids. Um, these two grown-ups are being very silly, fighting over a girl. I'm gonna get 'em to stop.
    Little Cough Boy: The Little Cough Boy wants a fight! Fight for the Little Cough Boy!
• Josh explaining that he has never judged Greg, even when he had sex with a bush. Vincent Rodriguez III's delivery is what makes it hysterical.
  Nathaniel: I'm sorry, he had sex with a-
  Josh: A bush? A bush. He had sex. With a bush.

Episode 14: I'm Finding My Bliss

• All the musical's songs, a vicious Take That! to classic musical songs that have fallen badly into Values Dissonance.

Episode 15: I Need to Find my Frenemy

• Audra Levine "pulls a Rebecca Bunch" and abandons her husband and triplets to hang out with a sleazy guy in Vegas called Jesse. Rebecca grudgingly agrees to go and get her back.
  Audra: I love my family, but triplets are rough, okay? And we're all alone. It's just me and David and our three Au pairs. It's so much. [crying] There's always something touching my breasts.
  Rebecca: [clears throat; trying very hard to seem sympathetic] That sounds hard.
  • What caps it is the reprise of "JAP Battle", in which they managed to turn complimenting each other into a battle rap, topped by Audra asking Rebecca if they should make out, and looking sincerely disappointed when Rebecca suggests that it's better if they just shake hands.
• Rebecca needs a while to figure out a not-so-veiled Destination Defenestration threat, which the others all have wide-eyed disbelief over. And a bit later she's still somehow under the impression that no one could possibly understand it right away.

Episode 16: I Have a Date Tonight

• Weird Al Yankovic singing a song about not wanting people to poop in his hot air balloon, and yes he plays the accordion.
• "Love's Not A Game": The last great ensemble number of the show is comedy gold, especially White Josh pretending to be judgemental before gleefully joining in all the gambling.
  • The death pool.
  Josh - Electrocution due to faulty DJ equipment, age 59, 30 to 1
  Nathaniel - Trampled by elephants at the zoo, age 49, 18 to 1
  Greg - Dying of loneliness, age 65, 30 to 1
  Josh - A sink dropping on his head while he was fixing it, age 42, 25 to 1
  Nathaniel - Dying of loneliness, age 65, 35 to 1
  Greg - Kitchen fire accident, age 49, 15 to 1
  Mrs. Hernandez: Josh, age 52, parasailing accident.
  Maya: That is so smart! Same!

Episode 17: I'm In Love

• As Rebecca starts to drift off into the song "Eleven O'Clock", we finally see what happens in the real world when she does this:
  Rebecca: What do I do...
  [She stares off into a corner of the room as the music starts]
  Paula: Well, what I think that you sh... [stares at her. Rebecca keeps staring into space] Rebecca. Woo-oo? Hello?
  Rebecca: [absently holds up her finger to Paula] Ssh...
  Paula: What are you doing?
  Rebecca: ...Gimme one sec-, one second...
  Paula: Ohh, I get it. You're doing that...thing that you do. [takes out her phone] I'll just wait.