From: davideml@bellsouth.net   
      
   5-15    Married With Fishsticks   
      
      
      
   First airing was Feb. 21, 2000.   
      
   The story starts out with Gabrielle holding Eve, who is crying and won't stop.   
   Xena is taking a   
   bath. When she returns, she takes Eve and she stops crying. Gabrielle is   
   worried that she has lost   
   touch when it comes to raising kids. Eve falls asleep but Joxer wakes her up   
   bringing baby food -   
   baby back ribs. Gabrielle drags Joxer off to go to town to buy real baby food.   
      
   In town, at the docks, a pirate is in a small boat full of flowers plucking   
   petals off one of them,   
   saying "she loves me" "she loves me not." Discord and Aphrodite appear.   
   Discord is mad at Aphrodite   
   for turning him into a lovesick fool. They trade insults, then Discord throws   
   a series of fireballs   
   at Aphrodite, who deflects them everywhere. Gabrielle and Joxer arrive.   
   Gabrielle whistles and both   
   Discord and Aphrodite appear, and stop fighting. They trade insults again, and   
   Discord starts up   
   with the fireballs again. One of the deflected ones burns through a rope and a   
   large wooden pulley   
   hits Gabrielle in the head and knocks her into the water.   
      
   When she wakes up, a strange man, Hagar (Joxer) asks if she is okay. She   
   doesn't know where she is   
   or who she is.  She sees she has fins not legs, but he tells her when she is   
   in the water she has   
   fins. And her name is Crustacea. She realizes she has amnesia, and then she   
   faints.   
      
   When  Crustacea wakes up,  she is in a water bed and has legs again. Hagar   
   comes in and gives her   
   medicine to get her back on her feet. She asks him who he is, he says her   
   husband, and she lost her   
   wedding ring. He introduces their three children and she thinks maybe amnesia   
   isn't so bad after   
   all.   
      
   Hagar is watching mermaids on a water TV. Crustacea tells him the place is a   
   sty. He brings out a   
   mop and bucket and says now that she is better she can start cleaning again.   
   She asks about the   
   kids, then is caught in a trap and is hanging upside down by her feet. Hagar   
   chides them about   
   playing in the living room.   
      
   Hagar introduces the kids - Flipper (with a seal face and fins), Urchin (red   
   spines coming out of   
   his head), and baby Roe - a squid/octopus. Baby Roe jumps on Crustacea and   
   they wrestle around on   
   the floor. The doorbell rings like a foghorn and Hagar answers. It is Crabella   
   (Aphrodite) and   
   Sturgina (Discord). They speak with New York Jewish accents. Sturgina has an   
   amnesia potion.  Hagar   
   says his real wife didn't walk out on him but is vacationing. They see   
   Crustacea and think she has   
   come back. He admits Crustacea isn't his real wife and he needs the potion to   
   keep her from   
   remembering who she is.   
      
   Later they come back and tell her she looks different since her "accident".   
   They tell her they are   
   her best friends and take Crustacea to The Club. A lifeguard has them doing   
   aquacising. They ask   
   Crustacea if things have gotten better at home. They mention how bad the kids   
   are and that   
   Crustacea should leave Hagar. She decides she has to stay to raise them to be   
   better.   
      
   Hagar is making a speech to the council about being elected president. He   
   tells them Crustacea is   
   back home and she can't remember when she was so happy.   
      
   At home Crustacea is hanging upside down again. A trap door opens and she is   
   dunked down into the   
   water where a shark is approaching. Somehow she flips back up and lands on her   
   feet. She sends the   
   kids to their room and they leave, leaving her still tied up.   
      
   Hagar comes home and tells Crustacea he wishes he could have it so easy like   
   she does. She throws a   
   knife and it sticks in the wall next to him. She says she works just as hard   
   as he does and from   
   now on he's going to help. She stomps off.   
      
   That night in bed she asks him how they met. He describes how he was walking   
   toward her with a   
   bucket of paint. He threw it up in the air and it came down knocked him out.   
   She gave him mouth to   
   mouth twice and he woke up. He confesses he wasn't knocked out, he just wanted   
   to kiss her. She   
   says that's almost sweet.   
      
   Sturgina and Crabella are trying to think of a way to get rid of Crustacea so   
   they can have Hagar   
   for themselves. They plan to have an accident happen to her. The bars of a   
   cage are broken so a   
   giant squid can get in.   
      
   Crustacea has brought Flipper, Urchin and baby Row back to the Club. Sturgina   
   says she must have   
   her portrait painted. They have her stand next to the water and the squid's   
   tentacle knocks her   
   into the water. After some fighting, there is blood in the water and Crustacea   
   comes to the surface   
   with a knife in her mouth and the squid is dead. As she leaves, everyone   
   applauds her.   
      
   When they get home. Hagar has fixed supper - clamburgers. Afterward he says   
   he's sorry how he   
   treated her and things will be different. She tells him to do the dishes.   
      
   Crabella and Sturgina are arguing about their plans not working and who should   
   get Hagar. But if   
   Crustacea gets her memory back she'll leave him.   
      
   Hagar has taken Crustacea to the Coral Gardens where he first asked her to   
   marry him. He brings out   
   a ring and asks her to marry him because he wants to start all over again. She   
   accepts the ring and   
   accepts the proposal.   
      
   They are at the vow renewal and the big boss tells him renewing his vows is a   
   stroke of genius and   
   the other candidates are kicking themselves for not thinking of it.   
      
   Sturgina asks Crabella if she switched the drinks. She says she did.   
      
   During the ceremony, Crustacea begins having flashes of memory of Xena and   
   herself as Gabrielle.   
   She says she can't get married because she's not Crustacea, but Gabrielle.   
   Hagar admits his wife   
   left him and he was more concerned with being council president.  But he   
   discovered that when he   
   was trying to make Crustacea happy, he was making himself happy.   
      
   Crabella says it is a shame to waste the minister and cake and he has to   
   choose his next wife. She   
   and Sturgina trade insults and start fighting. They are pulled apart. When   
   Hagar says he is going   
   to have figure it out, Sturgina and Crabella go after him, but Gabrielle   
   fights them and they end   
   up being thrown into the large wedding cake. They start fighting each other   
   again and are hauled   
   off by the bouncers.   
      
   The kids apologize for playing tricks on Gabrielle. She says she want to talk   
   to Hagar alone. He   
   wants her to keep the ring. She tells him he should try to make things right   
   with his wife and she   
   kisses him.   
      
   Next thing, Gabrielle is lying on the docks and Joxer is about to perform   
   mouth to mouth   
   resuscitation. Gabrielle grabs him and kisses him. Then she wakes up and   
   punches him when he leans   
   down for a second kiss.   
      
      
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