Remember last season when Jill wanted to go back to school and study psychology? Producer Bruce Ferber thought it was a good idea. Yeah, I don't know what he was smoking either. But, as you may have expected, Jill has let her good grades go to her head, by posting her A+ psychology test on the fridge, and then she tries to pry into Randy's little friendship with Michelle. As you may recall from last season's "It's My Party", Michelle's dad Burt is now best buds with Tim, and they're both car buffs. Today, they're rebuilding Tim's new hot rod from the chassis up. Burt mentions some problems at home, namely with his wife who, whenever her parents visit, she goes cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Oh boy, can Tim relate, and he even says how psycho Jill gets...and inadvertently right in front of her too. Jill overhears Burt's problem and tries to give him some amateur psychology advice, despite Tim's vehement objections. Basically, Jill says Burt's wife is a daddy's girl (takes one to know one) and that he should talk with her about his feelings. Despite Burt saying it could lead to a big fight and thinks he should just leave it alone, Jill encourages him to do it anyway. So when Burt's wife Dana comes by to pick him up, he lets his feelings be known. In his defense, he thought Jill was a psychology teacher. Nope, student. But for some reason, Burt and Dana still took what she said seriously and fight all the way out the door.
Apparently, the fight continued all the way to the mall, right in front of Michelle and Randy. Realizing maybe she made a boo-boo, Jill goes out to talk to Wilson, who was practicing fencing with Judith. Jill opts to talk to the latter, and somehow, this sparks an argument between Judith and Wilson. Jill is batting a thousand today. So, let's move on to Fool Time on location at a project house, where Al has become a designated turtle sitter. He's looking after his mother's pet turtle, Scooter. He has Tim set the turtle someplace out of the way while they kick off their project: laying a brick walkway on quick-drying cement. Disaster rears its head as one thing leads to another, Tim bumps into Al, and next poor Scooter is rocketed through the air. Al jumps to catch her before she can land in the wet cement...too late. After that, Tim and a cement-covered Al head down to the veterinary clinic, which surprisingly is run by Dana. Burt was there, trying to vain to smooth things over. And then Jill comes down to try to apologize, also in vain. Mainly because she can't leave well enough alone! After promising to keep her trap shut, she suggests talking to a QUALIFIED psychologist, and gives Burt and Dana her card. But when they learn this person taught Jill, they decide to look elsewhere. So, hopefully Jill has learned a lesson from all of this. Despite being a person who likes to fix things, she in turn only makes them worse. My guess is because she has no confidence in herself or her abilities to help others, she's going in with her heart instead of her head. Unfortunately, this won't be the last time she gives out poor psychology advice. And as for Scooter, she's made a full recovery, and Al brings her back on to Tool Time, and you know how they say an elephant never forgets? Neither do turtles. She greets Tim with a firm chomp on the finger.
The moral of our story: leave well enough alone. Advice Jill can never seem to take. As I stated above, her heart is in the right place, but her head is somewhere where the sun don't shine. For the life of me, I STILL can't figure out why they wanted to make Jill a psychology student. Out of ALL the professions she could've studied, why this? Her attempts at trying to look like a brilliant therapist are just pathetic. Oh, and there's a bonus! Remember Ilene's schtick of telling teeth jokes? They seem to have bestowed upon Jill a similar schtick of telling psychology jokes. I mean, I give the writers a lot of credit here. You have TRY HARD to make somebody like Jill even more unfunny than she already is. But anyway, Advise and Repent is a good episode, one to learn some good lessons from, like don't trust a psychology student to diagnose your problems. And don't ever bring your turtle to a construction site!
Apparently, the fight continued all the way to the mall, right in front of Michelle and Randy. Realizing maybe she made a boo-boo, Jill goes out to talk to Wilson, who was practicing fencing with Judith. Jill opts to talk to the latter, and somehow, this sparks an argument between Judith and Wilson. Jill is batting a thousand today. So, let's move on to Fool Time on location at a project house, where Al has become a designated turtle sitter. He's looking after his mother's pet turtle, Scooter. He has Tim set the turtle someplace out of the way while they kick off their project: laying a brick walkway on quick-drying cement. Disaster rears its head as one thing leads to another, Tim bumps into Al, and next poor Scooter is rocketed through the air. Al jumps to catch her before she can land in the wet cement...too late. After that, Tim and a cement-covered Al head down to the veterinary clinic, which surprisingly is run by Dana. Burt was there, trying to vain to smooth things over. And then Jill comes down to try to apologize, also in vain. Mainly because she can't leave well enough alone! After promising to keep her trap shut, she suggests talking to a QUALIFIED psychologist, and gives Burt and Dana her card. But when they learn this person taught Jill, they decide to look elsewhere. So, hopefully Jill has learned a lesson from all of this. Despite being a person who likes to fix things, she in turn only makes them worse. My guess is because she has no confidence in herself or her abilities to help others, she's going in with her heart instead of her head. Unfortunately, this won't be the last time she gives out poor psychology advice. And as for Scooter, she's made a full recovery, and Al brings her back on to Tool Time, and you know how they say an elephant never forgets? Neither do turtles. She greets Tim with a firm chomp on the finger.
The moral of our story: leave well enough alone. Advice Jill can never seem to take. As I stated above, her heart is in the right place, but her head is somewhere where the sun don't shine. For the life of me, I STILL can't figure out why they wanted to make Jill a psychology student. Out of ALL the professions she could've studied, why this? Her attempts at trying to look like a brilliant therapist are just pathetic. Oh, and there's a bonus! Remember Ilene's schtick of telling teeth jokes? They seem to have bestowed upon Jill a similar schtick of telling psychology jokes. I mean, I give the writers a lot of credit here. You have TRY HARD to make somebody like Jill even more unfunny than she already is. But anyway, Advise and Repent is a good episode, one to learn some good lessons from, like don't trust a psychology student to diagnose your problems. And don't ever bring your turtle to a construction site!
