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“Sugar and Spice”

Kimberly and her best friend kiss, experimenting and stir up all kinds of trouble.

Kenny and Maxine compete for the job of under sheriff and stir up all kinds of trouble.

Jimmy makes some mistakes when speaking with Maxine about the position and stirs up all kind of trouble.

Poor Jimmy just does not see things coming. He is pretty old fashioned when it comes to a lot of things, but when he told Maxine that he did not think she would be accepted as under sheriff because of the other male deputies, he really put his foot in it.

His heart was in the right place. He did not intend to commit sexual discrimination even though that was exactly what he had done. He was trying to protect her from a job that he did not think she was ready for. He just went about it in the wrong way.

Of course, Maxine did not react well to not getting the job at first either. Her immediate outburst was disrespectful to Kenny, no matter what she said later. It showed that Jimmy was right that she was not ready for the position, even though he went about it in the wrong manner.

I think the show did a great job with the Kimberly sexual confusion story angle. This felt real and made a lot of sense, even if it were uncomfortable to watch at times. Jimmy, Jill and Lydia reacted in all sorts of ways though, in the end, Kimberly seemed to appreciate what they had done. They sort of lucked into it.

Oh, and Matthew had to fight an older bully to protect Zach. Jimmy had found out and gave his son some pointers and Jimmy’s shock and joy when he discovered that Matthew had won the fight was as funny as Jill’s outcry over him knowing and letting Matthew do it. It was a funny little C-level story.

We looked quite a bit at Jimmy again this episode, as he interacted with his real children and his two deputies that he thinks of as his children. Maxine was mad at Jimmy, but she’ll get over it.