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The Mindy Project Imagines The Worst Thing A Sex Partner Might Be Hiding Under His Shirt
Mindy's ex Casey comes back to town, bringing with him some unwelcome hangers-on -- and not just his disapproving friends.
Now that Mindy's on her way to being over Danny (please, god, let it stick this time; I haven't turned on a character this fast since the first time Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes), it's time for The Mindy Project to start throwing other romantic prospects at her. And I guess as long as he's not needed to co-star in The Intern 2, Anders Holm might as well come back and reprise his role as the former Pastor Casey, now a sneaker magnate back in New York to open a flagship store for his brand, Dope Feat. Though Morgan counsels Mindy against trying to start something up with an ex by using his own experiences as precedent -- "If they didn't like you with twenty dogs, they're not going to like you with forty" -- Mindy accepts Casey's dinner invitation anyway...
...but then, as they're wrapping things up, Casey tells her this wasn't a date. Mindy is stunned: "It was hella romantic! You paid for dinner! You're holding my hand! You keep calling me 'babe'!...I thought we were about to go up and have sex!" It turns out, though, that Casey's friends hate Mindy and made Casey promise that he wouldn't start seeing her again. But his friends' disapproval just makes Mindy all the more determined to win them over, and she develops a five-point plan to show them how cool she is.
This works on all of Casey's friends except Marcus, who sees through her act and tells her straight up why she's wrong for Casey: "You're always trying to change him -- his clothes, his career. He bailed on the Slimer tattoo that I designed for him!"
"You can stop pushing your boobs up with your arms. I know that trick."
Still, Mindy and Casey do manage to get together a second time, though their "date," if it is one, only lasts long enough for Mindy to try and immediately fall off Casey's hoverboard. As he looks after her back at her place, nature takes its course...for a while.
The only thing more horrifying to Mindy than Casey's Pizza Rat tattoo...
...is the Vote For Pedro inked over his heart. Still, though Casey has made some choices with his body that she most certainly would not have signed off on, the rest of the guy around them is still foxy enough for her to push through.
When Mindy ends the episode by deciding the dude she's interested in is actually not Casey but Marcus, maybe it's because knowing he designed a Slimer tattoo now makes him seem classy by comparison.