Mindy Fever & The Peter Project

Everyone knows that the The Mindy Project is essentially two shows in one. First you have your modern day Lucy and Ethel in the form of Mindy and Danny.

Ricky Ricardo is Beverly.

Then you have your Brady Bunch cast comprised of Morgan, Peter, Jeremy, Tamra, Betsy (we miss you), Lauren (we don’t), Cliff, the witch doctors, and Ricky Ricardo as Alice.

With two shows comes two stories so let’s break it up as such.

Lucy and Ethel:

– Team Schulman & Associates are late to a meeting being held by the hospital’s new department chief, Dr. Jean Fishman aka Deputy Raineesha Williams of Reno 911.

– Not only are the doctors tardy,* but Mindy’s phone goes off once she’s seated. Her ringer is “Fancy” by Iggy Azalea because that song will never get old.

-*Morgan and Tamra appear to have been there on time.

- Dr. Deputy Raineesha Williams gets pissed at them for being late/loud/rude and gives them the graveyard shift equivalent of hospital hours

– If this is sounding more like the Brady Bunch than I Love Lucy, hang on. I’m not Nick at Nite. I am getting there.

– In order to fix the horrible scheduling situation, Mindy befriends the cop-cum-doctor. They have a Girls’ Night out in Dr. Fishman’s new city (she’s been hanging out by the Statue of Liberty mostly), both doctors have fun, and then they make out.

Whoops!

– Turns out Dr. Fishman is a lesbian and likes Mindy. Mindy is scared to tell Dr. Fishman the truth for fear of ruining the now-rectified schedule and so, like a Shakespearean character or Lucy Ricardo, Mindy keeps up the shenanigans that Danny/Ethel strongly advises against.

– It blows up in her face when she decides to do the “right thing” and tell the truth. It turns out Dr. Fishman has a wife who happened to hear Mindy’s confession so now she knows that Reno Raineesha cheated. Wife is pissed. Reno Raineesha is pissed, and the Shulman & Associates’ schedule gets threatened once again.

– To rectify this situation Mindy calls Doctor Cop and lies about Danny’s mental state, causing Dr. Fishman and her wife to make a house call to Danny’s apartment wherein he pretends to be drunk and obsessed and wild-eyed. Somehow the women are convinced by Danny’s weird act, they sympathize, and all is righted in the couples-only dinner party world.

Meanwhile, on the Brady Bunch:

– Beverly / Ricky Ricardo made one appearance in an orange cardigan. She thought Mindy was a man and admitted to using Jeremy and Peter’s joint office toothbrush.

– Morgan’s ringtone is also “Fancy.”

– Peter needs a new beer pong partner for the Dartmouth Alumni game because his old frat bro’s dad dies and can’t make it. Jeremy gets chosen for his skill of putting little balls in containers with small openings even though Peter still kind of hates him. Meanwhile we learn that Morgan may have never thrown anything before!

– The team to beat is Shonda Rhimes’ (unclear on her partner, she may have been on a solo mission.) You may know Shonda Rhimes from writing such shows as Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder and Grey’s Fricking Anatomy!!! Writing’s how she pays the bills but beer pong is her passion in life. I feel that she and I probably have other stuff in common too.

– At the beer pong tournament, Jeremy, who is faking an American bro-cent with surprising accuracy, and Peter — whose nickname is “Leftie” — are killing it. Just sinking balls like ships left and right.

– Then Shonda who loves drama brings up Lauren “the brain surgeon” and Peter has a breakdown.

– We learn that “Leftie” did not come from his preferred partner in the one-man-hand-dance but rather, because every girl leaves him for one of his friends : – (

– Jeremy gives him a pep talk then burps. Peter walks into the burp solidifying their freshly patched friendship and the two continue their game in glorious slow motion until they win the whole thing.

-Shonda accepts the loss gracefully but it’s a good thing she’s not a writer for this show because in Shonda Land, people die mysteriously.

– Tamra lines: 0, so here’s a gif

– Morgan lines: a depressing total of 3, maybe.

Did anyone see that hot Dartmouth guy who was clearly not supposed to be in the shot post-Peter/Jeremy victory, but was so handsome that someone was like, “Meh, you’re fine just stay there,” who awkwardly arm-pumping while Peter jumped around celebrating his win?

Anyone else want a whole Flashback to Peter at Dartmouth episode?

What about an episode where Dr. Fishman, dressed as Deputy Raineesha Williams, gives Morgan’s house a “Clean House” makeover while Danny and Mindy work in the assembly line at a chocolate factory; hilarity ensues?  

Tell me all your thoughts and favorite lines and possibly also discuss Peter’s new nickname. Last thing: was Bev’s hair on point or what last night?