- “Cool! Mom packed tampons for lunch!”— Andy Pesto to Ollie Pesto
"Bad Tina" is the eighth episode in Season 2, being the twenty-first episode overall.
Plot[]
A new girl, Tammy Larsen, comes to the school and Tina is picked to give her a tour. Tammy believes that their school is boring and gets her and Tina in trouble. While in detention, Tina realizes that Tammy will help her get closer to Jimmy Jr. She begins acting badly to get attention. When Tina realizes the error of her ways and tries to go back to being herself, Tammy threatens to read her erotic friend fiction out loud during lunch. Louise and Gene help get the notebook back from Tammy.
Synopsis[]
At the Belcher residence, Tina is up before breakfast to write what she terms "erotic friend fiction"(explaining to Gene and lousy that she ran out of movies and series to "perv up", so she is writing about people from school, with zombies included). As part of the Wagstaff Welcome Wagon, Tina shows a new girl around school. The new girl, Tammy, is bored with Tina's tour that covers sights like the typo on the cafeteria menu saying "browie" and asks for something fun. Tina decides to show her a secret hole into the boy's locker room. It's in a supply closet and at floor level so only their ankles are seen, but Tina can still tell Jimmy Jr's feet. In excited curiosity at the energetic Zeke, Tammy tries to make the hole bigger with a screwdriver, but the two are caught by Coach Blevins and sent to detention.
Tina is upset about getting detention while Tammy is nonplussed. Zeke and Jimmy Jr. show up for detention as well, with Tammy wanting to be introduced and putting on strawberry lip gloss, giving it to Tina as well, who awkwardly tries to flirt with Jimmy Jr. Tina arrives late at the restaurant, with the family surprised at Tina getting detention and Linda mad at Tina using the words "crap attack" and "snore-gasm" learned from Tammy. Tina writes more erotic friend fiction in her room 9htis time about Jimmy Jr. cleaning up a juice spill by removing his pants) before babysitting her siblings that night, with strict rules in place set by Linda as Tina mouths off. When their parents leave, Tina uses the emergency cell phone to text Tammy, who comes over. Gene and Louise hide in Tina's closet to watch as Tammy finds and laugh at Tina's erotic friend fiction, while noting that Jimmy Junior should never see it 9and farting a little). Tammy talks Tina into inviting Jimmy and Zeke over. As the forum sit in Tina's room (who is sporting a new Tammy-type hairstyle), Tammy reveals some margarita mix she took from Linda's alcohol collection for them all to drink (though as Louise points out, it's non-alcoholic). As they drink it and dance, Jimmy Jr. knocks over Tina's porcelain horse figure, and she tells them the party is over, over Tammy's objections. As Tammy gets ready to leave, she sees Tina's erotic fiction notebook and slips it into her own backpack. After the kids leave, Gene and Louise reveal they saw, and in exchange for not telling their parents, Tina has to do their chores for a month.
The next day at school, Tammy approaches Tina and says she convinced Zeke and Jimmy Junior into cutting class to go to the mall. Tina is hesitant, and Tammy shows her the erotic friend notebook, threatening to show it to Jimmy Junior as she feels Tina "owes" her. Before they leave, Tammy gives Tina a makeover that includes blush and frightened Andy and Ollie. At the mall, Tammy uses the notebook to get Tina to buy them "temp tramp stamps" at a booth, and the dinosaur tattoo Tina receives is seen by her siblings when she arrives back at the restaurant. Tina keeps hanging out with Tammy and doing such acts as shoplifting lip balm and sneaking into R-rated movies as she does Gene and Louise's chores. Later at school, Tammy approaches Tina and says the four will hang out at the park that night with Tina bringing margaritas, but Tina refuses. Tammy tells her that Jimmy Jr. likes the new Tina and removes her glasses to look less "math class." That night, Tina, near-sighted and without glasses, prepares to sneak out and trips stealing margarita mix form the cabinet in the dark, waking her parents. As she tries to explain, the emergency phone buzzes, revealing Tammy texting it. After mouthing off again by calling Linda a "boob punch", her parents ground Tina.
Later in the night, Tammy throws rocks at Tina's window and angrily asks why she was not at the park, humiliating her in front of Zeke and Jimmy. Tina asks her not to give the notebook to Jimmy Jr, and Tammy says she won't. She will instead read it out loud in the cafeteria the next day at school, much to Tina's horror. The next morning, Tina does not want to go to school, and explains that Tammy stole her erotic friend fiction and plans to read it out loud, so everyone laughs at her. Her siblings are outraged, as only they get to blackmail Tina, and Linda tells Tina that she is creative and talented, with nothing to be embarrassed about. Tina in turn decides to write the most graphic erotic friend fic she can and read it out loud, with Linda's encouragement. At school, Louise and Gene manage to steal and swap Tammy's backpack with the journal in it using Andy's identical backpack. In the cafeteria, Tammy finds that her backpack instead has a photo of Andy and Ollie, and Tina gets everyone's attention by reading her latest work, "Buttloose", to the diners as Louise and Gene run in with her journal, too late to stop her.
Tina's story is of a dystopian Wagstaff where everyone is watched on monitors by Mr. Frond and touching butts has been banned; suddenly, a pink-workout-gear-wearing Tina with flowing hair runs in, touching Jimmy Junior's butt. As Frond tries to stop this, Tina runs with the mike and continues her story: everyone began touching each other's butts as Tina runs past them, filling the air with sparkling pink energy, with even the teachers engaging, and ending with Tammy saying she was sorry. As the story ends, Linda and Bob rush in to stop her, too late. Tammy yells out that Tina is a freak and as her classmates begin to laugh, Tammy loudly farts in front of everyone, and Louise and Gene use this to point at her instead. Tammy runs off farting. Linda apologizes and tells Tina that the story didn't go very well despite Tina's insistence. Jimmy Jr. tells her it was a cool story.
Bob and Linda attend a performance of the show Cake at the Wharf Arts Center. At first, Bob is apprehensive and does not care for the new take on patty-cake. However, as the show goes on, he becomes enamored and participates with the performers. After the show, Bob attempts to "cake" with anyone he can. He slaps everything he can and manages to frighten Teddy in playing the game. While practicing in the restaurant with gloves on ketchup bottles, Linda explains what happened and Tina's plan to read out loud at school, which Bob immediately notes is a bad idea, and Linda suddenly realizes what she has done, and they race to the school. After the incident in the cafeteria is resolved, Frond sees Bob's "Cake" shirt and the two proceed to cake to their heart's content.
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External links[]
- "Bad Tina" on IMDb
- "Bad Tina" press release via The Futon Critic
- "Bad Tina" script via Springfield! Springfield!
- "Bad Tina" review at The A.V. Club