"Jenny Unfiltered" is an episode of Bless the Harts that first aired on October 13, 2019. Directed by Bryan Francis. Written by Rich Blomquist.
The people of Green Point are split about the statue of a tobacco magnate, with half the town demanding its removal and the other half demanding the statue stay where it is.
It turns out that Betty could have married the cigarette tycoon, except she was unwilling to have sex with him. The woman who did marry him, Marjune Gamble (Holly Hunter) is now a lonely widow, though her life is not as sad and pathetic as Betty had hoped.
Tropes
- Ambiguously Bi: Betty's former rival Marjune Gamble has been alone for twenty years since her rich husband's death, and hungers for companionship. She looks at Betty, who herself is a lonely widow...
- Enemy Mine: Both groups were brought together again by their mutual hatred for Randy.
- Everybody Has Standards: Betty can't bring herself to trade tawdry sexual favors (with males OR females) for material gain.
- Faux Horrific: David and Violet scream in horror at the tacky décor in Marjune's apartment.
- I Love the Dead: Violet proposes the possibility of Marjune keeping the fully intact skeleton of a dead handyman to spoon during her afternoons as a show of how awful her life's become. This turns out not to be the case (although she did steal the statue to keep to herself).
- I Was Quite a Looker: Betty was revealed to be this in her youth. She was even a beauty queen.
- Irony: Violet and David turned out to be right about Marjune being strange. Not that they'll ever find out.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Jenny tells a pro-tobacco patron that if they remove the statue, they'll be banning cartoon characters smoking next. The customer agrees and is about to smoke a cigarette when the camera cuts away before it gets to his lips.
- Playing Both Sides: At the restaurant, Jenny plays both sides of the statue debate for tips. It comes to bite her when she is asked to talk at the town meeting and gives a vague speech that just makes everyone angry.
- Rousing Speech: Jenny makes one when she sees the debate getting out of hand, while also confessing to taking both sides just to receive tip from customers, and is strongly against smoking and supports taking down the statue. Unfortunately, BOTH sides turn on her for lying to them and for being "too specific" about her anti-tobacco stance.
- Sarcastic Clapping: Jesus after Jenny sacrificed her principles for tip money. She calls Him out on it, and He claims to be clapping at the speed they used to clap 2,000 years ago.
- Shout-Out: Violet and David assure Betty that Marjune is living in squalor like in Grey Gardens. When they find her living in a luxurious penthouse instead, Violet says it's like paying to see The Conjuring and watching Crate and Barrel: The Movie instead.
