Younger – P Is For Pancake

By starrymag | October 28, 2016

By: Taylor Gates

 

 

Maggie (Debi Mazar) is dressed to impress as she heads out to check on her tomato plants since she has a crush on a girl, Malkie, she met at the community garden last week.

 

Liza (Sutton Foster) goes into work and spies Bryce (Noah Robbins) sitting at her desk. Bryce explains that at all his other companies he promotes something called “hot desking”—people can sit wherever they want to promote equality and productivity. He also tells Diana (Miriam Shor) that everyone gets their own coffee. Diana refuses to comply, ordering Liza to fetch it.

 

Diana complains to Charles (Peter Hermann) that Bryce doesn’t respect her or their traditions at Empirical, but Charles explains that Bryce could help them adapt in ways they never would have thought of themselves. He gives her the tip to just pretend Bryce is from another culture that she respects. Diana sees a picture of Charles and his girlfriend at the opera in the paper and is disappointed that he is now taken.

 

Maggie and Malkie flirt over tomatoes and she eventually invites Maggie to a party at her boutique.

 

Liza and Kelsey (Hilary Duff) see the interns playing Grand Theft Auto. Liza wants to complain about Bryce and his managerial style over lunch, but Kelsey has a date with a guy she met on a dating site Lauren set her up on. His profile picture is gorgeous, but she’s bracing herself for the worst. Kelsey’s date with Lucas (Sean Kleier) is starting great, but they both keep getting texts from their friends asking if everything is going okay. He says he wants to see Kelsey again and asks her out for the next night. Kelsey, equally as smitten with him, agrees.

 

Diana tells Liza to find out everything she can about Charles’ new girlfriend since her Facebook is set to private. Liza tells her nothing is really private anymore and gives her a crash course on what’s in and out technology-wise. Email and voicemail is out and texting without punctuation is in. She also suggests Diana soften her look a bit in order to appear more comfortable, but Diana assures her she is comfortable.

 

Lauren (Molly Bernard), Max (Ben Rappaport), Kelsey, Liza, and Josh (Nico Tortorella) go to a bar together. Kelsey tells them how Lucas seems like a diamond in the rough, but Lauren thinks she needs to find herself a “bad pancake” first. The first relationship after a serious one is always doomed and she needs to have a bad relationship before getting serious with Lucas so it isn’t destined for failure. Josh disagrees since technically he is Liza’s “bad pancake” then. Lauren tells them all to stop by Max’s doctor party the next night so she can check out Kelsey’s new beau.

 

Diana wears jeans to work the next day and Liza compliments her on her new relaxed style. She also tells her everything she knows about Charles’ new girlfriend. Basically, she’s smart, kind and perfect, but Liza assures Diana she’s probably just the bad pancake.

 

Bryce interrupts Diana’s marketing meeting to go over ideas he has for his Summit speech. He’s going to talk about the ideas he has to reinvent old media like books. He wants to make e-reading and digital books interactive, rewrite the end of some great American novels and perhaps just make Empirical an app. Everyone is upset and Charles assures them it won’t happen.

 

At the doctor party, Lauren tells Kelsey that Lucas is soulmate material. Her widowed brain is going to mess everything up and she needs to put the quality batter back in the fridge and find herself a bad pancake first. Lucas finds Kelsey sitting alone and finally gets it out of her that she doesn’t want him to be her bad pancake. He says he doesn’t find girls worth waiting for every day, but she is worth it and he is willing to give her some time.

 

A couple of the drunker medical professionals are ranting about delusional older woman who want to be moms, but are clearly too old to get pregnant. Josh, slightly high, inquires on the probability of pregnancy for older women. They say that after 35 years old, everything starts to break down, which is why they’ll be giving birth in their twenties.

 

Maggie enters the boutique, which turns out to be a clothing line for modest, mostly Orthodox Jewish women. She feels awkward and out of place, embarrassed that she thought Malkie was gay until Malkie takes her to the dressing room to make out. “I’m an Orthodyke,” she says.

 

Liza finds out via a Google alert that P is for Pigeon was nominated for a prestigious book award. She calls Diana to tell her the good news. Diana tries to play it cool, but is actually extremely thrilled.

 

Kelsey thanks Lucas for being so understanding. However, he then tells her he lives on Roosevelt Island. This is a deal breaker. Lauren tells Kelsey that he is her bad pancake after all so she bangs him on the tram ride back to his place before telling him she doesn’t think their relationship is going to work out.

 

Liza asks Josh why he was asking so many pregnancy questions and he says he was just curious. She tells him having Caitlin so young wasn’t exactly her choice, but it did end up being the best thing to ever happen to her. She doesn’t think she wants to have more children, though.

 

Diana tells Bryce that he should talk about how P is for Pigeon has been long listed for an amazing literary prize, but Bryce tells her neither he nor the people at Summit care. Charles says he cares and he thinks Bryce is wrong about the future of Empirical and books in general. Charles is a romantic who thinks books and great stories will endure. Bryce tells him he’s delusional—it’s either adapt or die.

 

Charles doesn’t want to listen to Bryce insult them anymore and Bryce says he won’t invest unless they listen to his ideas. Charles tells him maybe he shouldn’t be investing and Bryce calls his lawyer in order to break their agreement. Liza tells Charles that what he did is what makes Empirical great. Charles thanks her but is afraid he might be in real financial trouble now. She tells him she’s so proud to work for someone who follows their heart. Charles says he can do impulsive things when he follows his heart, obviously alluding to their kiss.