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I love the messages from "bad horse". It's just a fun way to make a plot-forwarding device more, well, fun. Again, there's probably a world of background and jokes I'm missing, with the horse and the westerns and all, but still - it was so fun, in and of itself.
And I loved how Billy goes to Penny for understanding instead of his former not-so-super-villain friend. That's so sweet - how their relationship is based on trying to understand each other and really getting to know each other, almost the exact opposite of all the "love at first sight"great romances. Fun.
And she's even better with the "everything happens" line, because it's true. Forget the reasons (unless you're really into getting into a deep everlasting theological debate) , just deal with the situation at hand. She's great! By the time she called him "Billy Buddy" I was willing to look for vans to save her from, myself (not that she needs that). I love how she has all that personality of her own, other than being pretty and a damsel and in distress and adorable.
Oh, and did you notice how the actor's hands are almost always in his pockets when he's Billy, all trying to protect him and not bother the world around them. And then when Penny's singing to him, and reaches out to him, and her hand touches his leg, and it takes him a couple of verses to even realize that it actually happened to him - yeah, hugging and soup and Jewishmommying unite, all over again.
NF is hilarious. "I'm just naturally like this"! (and his expression!), how he got confused with phrasing his fist inside the "sign the house" sentence - NF must have had the time of his life , and I can't stop laughing each time he's on my screen. I love how he doesn't have any other sides (OK, so no cake. Maybe *he* is the frozen yogurt?).
I had to go back a few seconds to make sure I heard correctly the "the hammer is my penis", and then I had to stop again until I finished laughing. I mean, he insinuated a line earlier (the sort of vague hints that are always lost on the more-vanilla-than-any-yogurt me), and usually he had to stop at that. And then, with that deadpan delivery (did I mention already how much I enjoy NF in this?), he came back to explain. Because he could. What a great way to say "we're in the internet, not a tv station, so we can say such things!".
And then, meeting Hammer for the first time as *Billy*, not Horrible, made that change - the apparent physical change (did I mention already that the actor is great?) in Billy, to get Horrible's face, and singing about a "new me". And now there's a whole shabbat before I can find out what that means. And even the anticipation is fun.
And, again, the little things: "lost and found" (I'm not sure why, but I just loved that line, and not just because it rhymes!); Billy in the homeless shelter, spying the date, wearing a silly little mustache and so into what going in from of him with Penny that he doesn't seem to put the soup into the plates of the homeless in line; Penny saying "glow" and showing her in the sun right afterwards; "crazy random happenstance", "trust your instincts", "peace - but not literally" (goodness, so many great lines!); Hammer watching the blog, Moist being unable to open the can because of his hands; "Do I even know you?", Billy calling Hammer "cheesy on the outside"; "look at my wrist", "I don't love these" (man, that was a fun scene!), "I get what you want"; the change in Hammer's expression, in a matter of a blink of an eye, when Penny turned to him; how Billy didn't hit with all the darts at Hammer's face, but then collected them all and stuck them there; the home videos of hitting Horrible (complete with Santa); "a shiny new Australia" (I heard it right? I hope I did!); Hammer's expression when he was squashed. (continued...)