"To L and Back" Season 3 Best and Worst Moments

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* 1. Which of these moments would you include on a list of the Worst Moments of The L Word: Season Three? You must pick at least 5 and no more than 15. (This list contains mostly specific scenes, the larger plot elements that we hated (e.g, dana dying, alice going temporarily bananas, shane leaving carmen) will be discussed in a different segment of the pod!)

"Party on, Dana" / "I'm Down With That 'Do"

Max throws thousands of dollars of cash money at Jenny and screams "This won't even pay for one tit!"

Alice wildly car-chases Dana through Los Angeles after chugging a bottle of Ritalin

Tina has sex with HENRY in her house and MEANWHILE Bette calls her crying from a silent retreat

Everybody claps for Dana at the WNBA game for like 45 minutes while the jumbotron flashes her name and face over and over again and like, will it ever end??

Joyce Wyshnia sends the sole custody filing to Tina through a hotel fax after Bette changed her mind about it

Alice's flower toy sings "You are My Sunshine" while Alice cries outside Dana's hospital room where she has just. died.

Alice covers her wall with photos of Dana to create a shrine, also has dinner with a FOAM CORE cutout of Dana

Alice interrupts a discussion of body part terms to talk about Dana liking the word "peeper"

Jenny tells Max she's writing his story because it's REALLY about her and then he aggressively attempts to take her laptop away

Helena goes for a walk on the beach and gets served with a sexual harassment suit

Everybody goes to that fancy dinner where Max talks about lobsters and everybody asks Jenny about her trauma and Alice corners Dana in the bathroom (and Dana was wearing a terrible shirt) and Bette's credit card gets declined and she's like, oh it must be the boots I bought lol

Shane asks Carmen to marry her right after Dana's funeral, while crying

Tina hooks up with Josh Becker in Real Vancouver and he goes "you're so not a lesbian"

"You know I think that's really the question we need to put to the Democrats, why are we not talking about George Bush's penis?" - Alice, on the actual radio

Max gets rejected for a job by a bro who says Max is "neither fish nor fowl"

Dana yells at Lara "Why can't you leave me the fuck alone? You're not a fucking nurse! You're not my mother!" so Lara goes to Paris and gets a mud bath

Tim tells Becky that next time they see Jenny she will be dating a German Shepherd

Literally everything that happens at Dana's Happy First Chemo Pool Party

The minister at Dana's funeral says it's too bad Dana died before she found her male love-mate and then Alice yells "what are you talking about Dana was gay!!" and storms out of the funeral

Kit tells Max it's sad that so many "strong butch girls are giving up their womanhood to become a man" and that he should reconsider transition

Everybody talks at the B-52s concert about Max's gender and the article Alice wrote about "women who become men" etc and Dana is like "fuck this" and leaves

God-Des and She rap about eating pussy at Shane's bachelorette party

Angus mansplains music to The Betty Girls and Nona Hendryx and Kit

Daddyof2 tells Lindsay76 that he's got a little pre-cum squirting out and wants to stick it in her blonde pussy

The social worker visits Bette and Tina, gives a weird homophobic speech about feeling a man's chest, and then faces overt ableism from Bette, Tina and Alice

Everyone dumps 100 bodies of ashes into the waterfall and from it, a Dana mirage is born

Bette and Tina go to sex therapy with Kate Clinton, who recommends clown noses and sexy ice cubes

Everybody thinks Max's arms have inflated overnight because he's been on T for three hours

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* 2. Which of these moments would you pick for the Best Moments of The L Word: Season Three? You must pick at least 5 and no more than 10.

Shane gets hired to work at Wax, a skate shop / giggable vest boutique / hair salon that inspires Carly to create the legendary "Wax riff"

Peggy Peabody reunites with her long-lost girlfriend Marilyn

Alice has sex with Uta, a vampire

Carmen does her sexy dance for Shane (you know the one)

Bette yells at some senators about censoring art and wanton distractions

Senator Grisham interlocks her fingers with Bette and they almost make out but don't

Billie Blakie hosts bisexual speed-dating

Cherrie Peroni shows up to get her hair cut looking full Hot Mommi

"Who's fucking Josh Becker?" "Tina"

Jenny takes her book back from Eve Ensler and tells her to find another hero because Eve cannot tell her what's bullshit and how to respond to her own trauma!

Helena and Dylan have full sex in the sea mansion

The cast wears cute '80s outfits to the prom party

Carmen's family shows up in Whistler wearing matching coats

The flashback of Dana doing acid at a Tegan & Sara concert

The flashback of Dana and Alice meeting at Fred Segal and then going to the Y2K party where Dana pretends like Harrison is her boyfriend and Shane makes out with the performance artist

Shane pouts in the dress w/Converse, a relate-able feeling for so many of us, and then Carmen whispers sexy in her ears

"We're not f*ggots, we're dykes, you asshole!"

Carmen sprays Shane with a fire extinguisher while talking about birds and monogamy

Jenny tells a table of Max's colleagues that the reason she looks so distracted is that she was thinking about how when she was 12, she used to masturbate 20 times a day

Max and Jenny dance joyously at a "typical lesbian dive bar" they encounter on the road

Bette fingers Alice at the opera and then pulls her hand out from between Alice's thighs and applauds

Dana wins the Mercedes Benz Tennis Challenge!!!! Kisses Lara and gets a fancy car!!!!!!!

Bette yodels her way out of the Silent Meditation retreat

"Three million dollars P&A. 250 screens to start. And two thousand in the fourth week? This is a documentary, not Finding Fucking Nemo." - Peggy Peabody

Shane and Cherie #poolsex #straponsex

Sleater Kinney plays The Planet!!!!

Shane and Alice play video games with their hair in mohawks

A lesbian offers a solid selection of snacks and beverages to the passengers on Helena's private jet

Carmen looks really hot in that white shirt and the cutoff shorts and her hair in a ponytail while her and Shane are fighting in the death episode

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