Racist Concern Trolls Come Out Of The Woodwork

Unfortunately for Amy, Danny wasn't exaggerating when he warned her about how racist his father Charles is. I mean, Danny never actually uses the word "racist," but then, neither does Charles. In fact, according to Charles, his objection to Amy and Danny's interracial marriage is due to all the dirty looks he thinks they're going to receive from others, as though ABUSE FROM SOMEONE WITHIN THEIR FAMILY ISN'T KIND OF WORSE THAN THAT.

Anyway, no one can have possibly been surprised to see that the first meeting between Danny and Amy and Danny's parents is awkward as hell. Charles's hostile fake smile is super-creepy.

Amy's softball opener -- asking whether Charles or Danny's mother, Jan, know anything about South Africa (or about Africa in general) -- is met with a shrug of total ignorance from both. Really, they couldn't come up with "I think I heard something about legally mandated racial segregation?" or "Wasn't Nelson Mandela from there?" If Charles really hasn't ever heard of Apartheid, then that might be why he thinks Amy needs him to educate her on the concept of racial intolerance.

Long story short: if Amy is still around IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING, then her affection for Danny is probably sincere. They really just need to get married and then, despite their promises, move far away from what is apparently the very whitest part of Pennsylvania.

Look, you may think that Daya's life's ambition is not to spend the rest of her life in Brett's double bed in his tiny bedroom with his two elderly lesbian roommates. I may think that. But you and I have enough class not to say those kinds of things to Daya's face, unlike Brett's good friend Sue. (Sidebar: why does this thirtysomething dude apparently make friends with nothing but old ladies?) Sue, you see, has experience working in "a dominant Asian culture," and apparently every Asian woman she's ever known ended up divorcing the white GIs they married, so...? Daya calmly tells Sue she's with Brett because she loves him, the end. And while Daya didn't exactly make the best first impression what with her suspicions about Brett's ring and her dissatisfaction with the non-rose floral arrangement he brought her at the airport, her tears when she and Brett have to go drop Cassidy off back with her mom seem real enough. This might not actually be a love connection for the ages, but I think she likes him okay.

Or should I say "Martha & Evelin," since the two of them seem to be enjoying more honest, direct conversation that Evelin ever has with Justin, from what we've seen? Justin is committed to having a wedding that excludes his whole family, and given what we've seen of his bitch sister-in-law Jen (and his backwards-baseball-cap-at-the-dinner-table-wearing brother Jake, for that matter), I kind of don't blame him. But family is very important to Evelin, so she's arranged to bring Justin's mother Martha along to look at wedding dresses, where the two of them conspire to change Justin's mind about having his family there to witness his wedding. Already keeping secrets over something this big? Bad start.

On some level, I don't blame Cassia for trying to turn Jason into the man she thinks is the appropriate partner for her, since she can probably do better than a pig like him and he certainly knows it. But even if she gave him a full makeover, would the result be worth the effort, really? She needs to go back to Rio, get back on her computer, and find a prospect that isn't going to keep interrupting their "nice" dinner because his phone's blowing up with $8 offers on his eBay garbage. And as for Jason, maybe what he really wants is a weekend in Las Vegas with strippers and prostitutes: at least they wouldn't keep scowling at him in dissatisfaction during their every interaction.

Things start out badly for these two as Danielle scales back her dream wedding plans and settles for a cheaper dress and a $50 ring. Then she loses her job. Apparently, Mohamed had seen this coming, given that his immediate response is to ask what she did wrong to have gotten herself fired (Danielle: "No, I didn't do nothin' wrong....They felt that I'm not good enough at the job" -- same thing, dummy) and spits, "But you wasn't serious about jobs." He's furious that they were already living paycheque to paycheque and now they're about to be even more broke than before, and who can blame him? He's been manfully submitting to Danielle's kisses and hugs and nose-nuzzles all with one goal in mind: her marrying him and then paying $1000 to get him his green card so that he can start his new life. If she doesn't have $1000, then what use is she to him? It might be awkward to tell Danielle he's ditching her, but then she'd probably just meet that announcement with the same idiot smile she meets everything else.