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Recap / Close Enough S 01 Ep 03 Logans Rund

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Candice is at a sleepover, leaving Josh and Emily time to themselves to do taxes and clean. Thinking that they have become old, Bridgette and Alex invite them to a new club that has opened. However, the club has sinister motives as they sacrifice anyone who is over the age of 30.


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  • Bait-and-Switch: First with the people who are over 30 getting VIP treatment. It first appears that they get special treatment because they get to sit on the couch, wear a comfy robe and float in the air...by a giant ceiling fan that sucks them in and kills them.
    • In the beginning of the episode after Candice leaves for her first sleepover, Emily sounds like she's gonna cry tears of joy...Only she's happy because now Josh and Emily have free time...to do errands. At the end of the resulting montage the two are in their bedroom getting each other's clothes off and acting sexy to the other, and just when it looks like their about to make out they hold up a box marked "Taxes" and work on them while on their bed.
    • When Bridgette was making out with a famous YouTuber named Jaxson Pill, he starts to talk about kid things like PBS Kids and living at his mom's and his dad’s on the weekend.
      Bridgette: Uhh...How old are you?
      Jaxson: Oh I just turned 26...
      Bridgette: (sigh of relief)
      Jaxson: ...months. 26 months.
      Bridgette: WHAT?!
  • Bloodier and Gorier: While the previous episode demonstrated swearing and more sexual themes, this one shows a character dying gruesomely with blood.
  • Everybody Has Standards: Bridgette (a man-crazy divorcee at 26) freaking out over Jaxson Pill being 26 months old and realizing she's going to jail for lewd conduct with a minor.
    • The twenty-somethings had no problem with the club horrifically killing anybody over thirty (or death in general, considering their response to one of their own getting skewered by a huge piece of debris was to take a picture), but even they are disgusted at the actual, incredibly petty reason the bartender was having VIP's killed.
  • Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Bridgette claims that Josh, Alex, and Emily are old, they are in denial until they think back to all the things they do that would make them old: for Emily and Josh, it's soaking their feet in a foot bath massager, drinking Gas-X, and going to bed at 6:00pm. For Alex, it's leaving his closet bedroom for a cup of Lavender Dream-Time tea.
  • Foreshadowing: Jaxson Pill is first described making a paid unboxing video where he "literally shit all over [the product]" (meaning that he gave it a scathing review). Turns out he's a Brainy Baby, so pooping everywhere is to be expected.
  • Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The 50-year-old bartender didn’t want people over 30 in his bar (and posed as a 20-year-old) because he believes that having people over 30 in a bar makes it a pub. However, the twenty-somethings don't think that's a very good reason to kill anyone over thirty especially since the bartender himself is way over that age and beats him up for it.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: What happens to the unlucky patron who was 30, being tricked into being led to a "VIP area", with the "light" turning out to be a Deadly Rotary Fan.
  • Heroic BSoD: Bridgette has one when she realizes she just made out with a 26-month-old baby ("I'm going to jail!").
    • Alex get this and decided to accept the execution because he believes he’s going to get older and lamer. Luckily, Josh and Emily and even Bridgette remind him of the good parts of getting old.
    • Despite joking about being old, the group still is traumatized after seeing someone get killed.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The bartender gets this (presumably killing him) at the end when everybody beats him up for being a hypocrite and killing people for a stupid reason.
  • Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: The bartender claims that he can’t have people over 30 in his bar but was later shown to be a guy actually in his 50s who didn't want his trendy bar to be classed as a pub.
  • Older Than They Look: The bartender did look like a guy in his 20s but once Alex ripped off the bartender’s toupee, it's revealed that the bartender is actually a man in his 50s.
  • Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Invoked. The bartender's disguise was banking on that none of his hip twenty-something customers knowing that the whole set-up for his bar was a reference to a movie from 1976.
  • Shout-Out:
    • The bartender gives an explicit one to Logan's Run with his method of executing people over thirty.
    • Josh and Emily's montage of running errands is done to Turn Down For What with the scene transitions referencing the music video.
  • Spotting the Thread: When the bartender claims that everybody over 30 must die just like in the movie Logan's Run, Alex realizes that he must be old too, because that movie came out in 1976.
  • Younger Than They Look: Jaxson Pill, who could easily pass for a guy in his 20s and even talks in full sentences with a deep voice only to reveal he’s actually a 26 month old baby.

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