Logan has an AIDS panic and Mitch is still grieving over Tracy. Meanwhile, CJ trains for a ballroom dance contest!
Baywatching: A Little Help
Logan has an AIDS panic and Mitch is still grieving over Tracy. Meanwhile, CJ trains for a ballroom dance contest!
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Man, that artist lady is just awful. That picture of Mitch has him with bizarre stretchy orangutan arms. You’d think they could find someone with at least… SOME creative art talent to be their out-of-nowhere psychic artist. Then again the Ferris Wheel picture looks like it was drawn by a completely different person than Mutant Mitch, so I don’t know what they were going for.
As for the main HIV/AIDS thing… yeah, that’s always struck me as an odd aspect of the 80’s and 90’s. I grew up mostly in the 2000’s (and in England where we didn’t culturally make much of a thing about HIV/AIDS). By the time I was 10, medical professionals already figured out many treatments for HIV and it was being treated as less of a life-ending illness, and more of a treatable condition one has to be careful with. And even as a kid I knew it had to be transferred through blood and was incredibly difficult to catch. I’m glad that this particular episode handled it in at least somewhat a respectful way, but it’s still far out of Baywatch’s wheelhouse, especially for an episode where CJ’s boob flops out of her dress because of a waltz dip. These things just don’t match up at all.
Funny episode as always, I look forward to the next one where–wait, SERIOUSLY? Repressed memories? AGAIN?! How many characters have multiple psychoses linked with repression?!
Everybody has AIDS and crap! But seriously, I didn’t know you couldn’t get it from mouth to mouth. You learn something new every day.
Seriously? I’m pretty sure they mention that in sex-ed, of course there’s an exception that it could happen if one or both persons involved have abrasions in their mouths and thus blood in their saliva. You can get a boatload of other diseases trough simple mouth contact though, so that pocket mask subplot wasn’t as dumb as it was misguided.