And god forbid that girl doesn’t look exactly how the male audience wants her to look, whatever arbitrary traits those might be. If we do see a teenage girl having desires on other comedies, it’s either being mocked as something trivial and stupid or, even worse, shown behind the lens of what boys and men want from young women, catered to what the male gaze wants girls to be in that moment. Sure, we only see hints of how filthy her erotic stories get (TV Standards and Practices, after all), but the parts we see are still unabashedly “Tina.” I can’t think of a show (especially a comedy) that has so expertly handled a teenage girl’s desires in all their awkward glory. And did I mention her short story about becoming the girlfriend queen of a horde of sexy athlete zombies who all have cute butts? The girl knows what she likes! Heck, she listens to the traffic reports because she likes the phrase “bumper to bumper.” We’ve also seen Tina’s volumes and volumes of erotic fiction - both fan fiction and stories based on her classmates and almost all of them involve butt touching as part of the sexy activities. Along with zombies, she really, really likes sometimes-love-interest Jimmy Jr.’s butt. She flirts with them … it’s usually really awkward, but you’ve seen her level of confidence grow (props to her voice actor Dan Mintz for walking that line of awkward and confident perfectly). As the seasons have progressed, she’s been more and more unashamed about being physically attracted to boys. There was even an anthology episode this season where she writes a story for school about the school basketball team becoming part of the walking dead and Tina (in full Walking Dead sheriff uniform) seduces them with her expert hair flip and feminine wiles - it ends with them all becoming her sexy zombie boyfriends.īut it doesn’t stop there. Sometimes it’s a sight gag, sometimes it’s a passing comment and sometimes it’s a whole plot line. You see the dreams manifest themselves later in “Crawl Space.” Then you see euphoric visions of zombies in her head when she has her first kiss a few episodes later. Instead of just dropping the zombie fetish joke, they made it part of her character. A random joke that pokes fun at Tina’s intense awkwardness and then is never mentioned again, right? Bob, along with Tina’s brother and sister, are understandably unnerved by the admission and that’s where I thought it was going to end. In what seems like a throwaway joke, Tina warns that not only has she dealt with zombie-themed night terrors for years, but thanks to her budding sexuality, the night terrors are melding into weird sex dreams where she gets the zombies to make out and touch each other’s butts. My love for Tina started in the second episode, “Crawl Space,” when she’s faced with sharing a room with her brother for the week.
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