This is another joke that remains a little opaque, but the elements we do learn about create a possible story that is pretty funny in the way it unfolds. The first bit we see is Bob Loblaw showing a jury that Barry could not reach the latch to open the gate into the schoolyard, then in a later episode we see him buying a stepladder, then we see him getting caught by Maeby as he tries to use the ladder to get over the fence. Who knows what he’s actually doing, but the suggestiveness and simplicity of this little subplot is pretty crazy.
The storyline with Maeby repeating high school is funny in itself, funnier still in the fact that it mirrors the number of times her former boyfriend and cousin Steve Holt had to repeat high school, and the way this was depicted in yearbook photos. In Maeby’s yearbooks, shown very briefly, she uses the names Maeby Featherbottom, along with the caption “I love you Americans. You’re all such wonderful pussies,” and Maeby Flunke, with the caption “Life is a roofie circle.” Hilarious callbacks to the British Eyes Only story of season 3 and Gob’s roofie circle in season 4.
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