The Cabin
At the motel, David casually walks into his parents in a Primal Scene. He repeats “Oh My God” and Johnny and Moira try to explain to a grossed out Alexis and David, and all of them agree the living in two adjacent rooms is awful.
Johnny is at Roland’s house begging for him to fix the adjoining door at the motel. Roland makes a bunch of salacious remarks which makes Johnny very uncomfortable, and he refuses to participate. He just wants the door fixed, but Roland offers Johnny and Moira the use of his cabin. Johnny tries to say no, but Jocelyn appears and convinces him to take the cabin. Roland also says that Johnny and Moira should “feel free to use the restraints” to a mortified Johnny. Jocelyn sips tea and tells him to pick a safe word.
Later at the motel, Moira says they should take them up on their offer. Johnny is skeptical, but Moira says they can’t have any real intimacy at the motel and she doesn’t want to turn into her parents, who had separate beds. Johnny replies they also lived in separate countries. Johnny says he’s game. Moira suggestively says she’ll play. They are about to kiss when David walks in and asks if he is being punished for something. Moira, in turn, asks if David is a dirty peeping tom. Moira and Johnny say they are planning a trip and would like David and Alexis not to contact them for the next twenty-four hours. David says he’s grateful to them, and Alexis suggests they stay longer. Moira sarcastically replies she would never abandon them. David asks “Didn’t you once take the wrong baby home from preschool?” Moira responds that Alexis looked Chinese as an infant.
Moira and Johnny load bags into Roland’s truck and thank him for the loan of it and the cabin. Roland makes more suggestive comments. Roland then gives Johnny a long series of convoluted directions. Roland says the key is under the mat, and Johnny says he’s got it but Moira is skeptical.
David tells Alexis he’s going to Johnny and Moira’s room because her mess is making him anxious. She replies, “What mess?” and there are clothes and other items strewn on and around her bed. David reminds her how clean his New York apartment was, and she replies that he had a maid. He said he kept it clean after Cecilia cleaned. He says see you tomorrow.
David relaxes on his parents’ bed with a book, and Alexis comes in and says she’s bored. She suggests throwing a party, just a casual motel party. David replies that he has no interest in finding out who is attracted to casual motel parties. She reminds him he’s lounging on a bed their parents had sex on. She says she misses her life and misses doing things. She says that he can’t tell her that he doesn’t want to hang out with people other than her. Obviously, he replies and agrees to something small. They agree to a small, little games night party. David insists only six people be invited. He says it’s not a party, it’s a games night.
Johnny and Moira pull up to the cabin, and Johnny says it’s not bad. Moira says she’s shocked and delighted. He says he has to hand it to Roland, as he came through.
Johnny is crawling through the kitchen window, mumbling that Roland had said the key was under the mat. He calls Roland an idiot and a moron. He stands up and has something stuck to his back. He answers the door, and Moira role plays like she’s a lost traveler. He plays along.
David and Stevie are sitting outside the cafe, and he says he needs to flesh out this games night thing. He says that they have Alexis, Stevie, the barn guy, the girl from the cafe and they need one more for an even six. Stevie asks “What if I’m not a games person?” He says they are too similar for her not to be. Stevie looks through her phone, and David says he wants someone funny and smart and who has a well-rounded sense of humor and knowledge. She says all those people move away. He thinks its a joke but she’s not joking. She suggests someone named Eric, but David doesn’t love his look. Stevie suggests throwing a pageant. She suggests someone named Sarah who speaks English, and he rejects her too. She gets frustrated and leaves.
Later, Stevie’s at the motel desk. David comes in an apologizes for uninviting her. She says she uninvited herself. He replies he’d really like her to come and bring a person of her choosing. She asks if it matters if they blend and if this has something to do with the fact that he couldn’t find anyone else. He says she’s got knowledge and it’s not just because they need another person. She smiles and says he’s a liar, but that she was bluffing when she said she wasn’t coming. They banter as he leaves.
Moira brings some tea to Johnny, and they admire a picture of Roland, Jocelyn and two other people Moira asks who the other two are, and Johnny says it's Bob from the town council. Moira is shocked and delighted that Roland has gay friends because she assumes Bob’s partner is a large man. Johnny says he thinks that’s his wife. Moira corrects him that they are both called husband.
At the motel, David asks a bleach blond goth teenager named Eric how he knows Stevie. He replies she used to babysit him. David also asks how his trivia skills are, and he replies with a “what?” David tells Stevie he’s a good choice. There’s a knock and an excited Alexis opens the door and welcomes Mutt and Twyla. Twyla gives her a pie that might have meat in it. David pushes everyone to start the game and tries to explain the rules. Everyone seems confused. There is another knock, and it’s people Alexis invited who show up with booze. Stevie says one of the guys is named Dean, and he’s the worst. They are there for a party.
Moira and Johnny are lying in post-coital bliss. Johnny says he’ll go get food and wine, and he walks into the living room to find Bob and his wife Gwen. Bob says they didn’t want to interrupt. Johnny asks what they are doing there, and Bob responds he’s reading a novel. He also says it took Johnny some time to get going. Moira appears and Gwen compliments her. Bob says it’s his cabin and that Jocelyn and Roland’s is a mile up the road.
At the motel, they are still playing trivia while the townies watch. David is frustrated by rules violations and more people show up. David tries to leave, and Alexis says she’s just trying to have fun and make the best of their situation. Mutt looks amused. David goes into their parents room. Alexis tells everyone to drink up.
Johnny apologizes again to Bob and Gwen, who are nonplussed. Moira says she doesn’t know how to make a bed, and Johnny says he may have damaged Bob’s corkscrew. Bob replies he broke it in half. Johnny and Moira try to leave but the door is locked. Bob says it’s locked to prevent strangers from coming in. They leave.
Stevie comes to see David. She apologizes for inviting Eric, and she says she’s sorry he’s in a quarrel with his sister. She says she needs him to return because she doesn’t like most of those people and because they are playing drunken charades and her team is losing. He says he doesn’t care, but she convinces him.
The next morning Johnny is putting a lock on the adjoining doors between the motel rooms. Moira asks if he needs help. Johnny says “instant lock” and they start blue collar role playing. Alexis opens the door, busting through the lock, and asks for her masks. Johnny, still using his role playing voice, says maybe he’ll use a bigger screw.
Snarkiest Person in Schitt’s Creek: David Rose
Tropes That Appear In This Episode:
- Big "OMG!": David exhibits one of the Rose Shared Family Quirks by exclaiming Oh my God!
- Best Friend: It’s clear that David and Stevie are rapidly becoming this to each other.
- Farce: Johnny and Moira’s sexual adventure is classic farce.
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First Appearance: Gwen is introduced. - Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: David may be a fool sometime, but he wisely wants a quiet evening with a book or a game night rather than the wild party Alexis wants.
- Mistaken for Gay: Moira assumes Gwen is a man (from a photo in which Gwen is in full fishing gear, which tends to obscure things), and so she is pleasantly surprised that Roland and Jocelyn hang out with a gay couple.
- Parental Sexuality Squick: David gets the primal scene, but both Rose children are mortified.
- Parents as People: Johnny and Moira really just want alone time.
- Personal Space Invader: Roland has no sense of space, and he is a close-talker.
- Primal Scene: David walks in on his parents having sex.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: David’s fussy intellectualness and introversion contrasts with Alexis’s ditzy-hard partying ways,
