From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
                                   5-11 Punch Lines   
      
       First airing was Jan 24, 2000.   
      
       The episode starts out with Gabrielle trying to write, but has writer's   
   block. They are in one of Aphrodite's temples and Xena is sleeping.   
   Aphrodite appears and wants to know what the problem is. Gabrielle doesn't   
   want to bother her but Aphrodite says she's immortal and has nothing but   
   time.   
      
   Next Gabrielle is on a couch and Aphrodite is in a chair being a therapist.   
   Gabrielle says she doesn't feel complete if she can't write and doesn't   
   know why she stopped. Aphrodite asks her what she would write about this   
   day.   
      
       Flashback to Gabrielle, Xena and Joxer walking and trying to think of   
   names for Xena's baby. Gabrielle mentions how cranky Xena is getting.   
      
        Xena asks Joxer and he has flashbacks of the times she was mean to him.   
   But he says she was never cranky. Xena and Gabrielle make a bet that if Xena   
   can go one day without being cranky, Gabrielle will do all the cleaning and   
   cooking for a month. Xena adds in back rubs .   
      
       Gabrielle says she will take the horses to the river to wash them while   
   Xena and Joxer go into town for lunch.  Gabrielle pours a pan of water on   
   Argo and she shrinks down to pony size.   
      
       Back to Gabrielle and Aphrodite. Aphrodite says a shrunken horse is no   
   big deal. Aphrodite is writing  about Gabrielle – "patient is hostile and   
   insecure, and possible masking latent tendencies". Gabrielle says it's   
   stupid and want to know how Aphrodite learned such big words. Aphrodite say   
   not to let the blond hair fool her. Gabrielle continues her story.   
      
       Lachrymose, the God of Despair shrunk Argo because Gabrielle was using   
   his spring to wash her. Gabrielle she can make him laugh and if so he agrees   
   to take the spell off Argo. Gabrielle tells him about the killer rabbit ("In   
   Sickness and in Hell"), but he doesn't think it's funny.   
      
       In a tavern. Joxer and Xena are next to a crying baby that won't stop.   
   Xena talks to the baby and it stops crying . She thinks she scared it mute.   
   She's worried about what kind of mother she'll be and tells Joxer about the   
   baby toss at King Gregor's castle. (''Cradle of Hope'')   
      
       Back to Gabrielle and Lachrymose. Gabrielle tells him about Baby Bliss   
   making her fall in love with Joxer ("A Comedy of Eros"). He doesn't laugh.   
   She tells about being hit with Xena's flying parchment ("A Day in the   
   Life"), and about being captured in India on the flying carpet ("The Way").   
   And Draco in love with her (ACoE), and Joxer thinking Xena is Meg   
   ("Warrior…Princess...Tramp"), and Attis ("Fins, Femmes & Gems").   
      
       Aphrodite tells Gabrielle she should have used sex appeal. Gabrielle   
   says she did – the three naked Gabrielles ("The Quill Is Mightier . . .")   
   and Autolycus with Velasca ("The Quest").   
      
       Suddenly Gabrielle and Aphrodite are wearing matching pink pajamas with   
   bubbles flying around and she tells Gabrielle it's a slumber party. She asks   
   if story telling isn't like writing, but Gabrielle says it's a way to work   
   things out. And she admits she stalled rather than tell Xena about Argo.   
      
       In the tavern, Xena and Joxer are getting impatient waiting for   
   Gabrielle but she has the money so they can't leave. Xena starts to go   
   anyway and runs into Blutos the brother of a warlord Xena put in jail. He   
   says he's going to kill her. She knocks him out. Gabrielle comes in and says   
   there was a delay. She tells them to get the supplies and to meet her at the   
   spring. When Gabrielle goes back to the spring, Argo is gone.   
      
       Aphrodite is now in a hot tub because animals are dirty. She invites   
   Gabrielle, who turns her down.   
      
       In a market Xena and Joxer are shopping. Xena worries about all the   
   dangers her baby will face. Flashback to the blind Cyclops, the Titans, and   
   Gareth. Joxer also mention dryads, harpies and Bacchae, and diseases. But   
   she will have Xena. Xena hugs Joxer.   
      
       Gabrielle finds Argo in the store. Lachrymose appears and she wants him   
   to change Argo back, and says maybe he can't do it. He shrinks Gabrielle   
   down to six or eight inches tall. Argo is spooked by the tiny Gabrielle but   
   she manages to calm him down. While still hugging Xena, Joxer sees Gabrielle   
   and goes to talk to her. She tells him to make something up to tell Xena,   
   then help her find the god who shrunk them.   
      
       Back at the spring Joxer tries to call Lachrymose.  When he mentions how   
   bad life is, Lachrymose appears. Joxer starts telling him how terrible his   
   childhood was. Lachrymose encourages him to tell more.   
      
       Aphrodite can't believe Gabrielle wanted Joxer to help. When Gabrielle   
   tries to tell her all the times Joxer helped them, all she can think of is   
   all his goof ups. But she says he is a loyal friend. Aphrodite admits she   
   loves the dope. Gabrielle tells her Joxer convinced Lachrymose to return her   
   to her normal size.   
      
       Xena goes into the tavern and knocks out Blutos, then asks if anyone has   
   seen a guy in little pointed hat. There are a bunch of men in outfits with   
   pointed hats. They're insulted. She whistles for Argo.   
      
   At the spring, Lachrymose sees Gabrielle and starts to go after her. Joxer   
   says if she was normal size she would be easier to find. He changes her   
   back, but before he can cast another spell on her, she throws her sais,   
   pinning his shirt sleeves over his head to a tree.   
      
       When pony-size Argo comes in, Xena begins to boil over and there are   
   flashbacks of evil Xena, including the one from "Paradise Found," Bacchae   
   Xena, from "The Way," and demon-Xena in "Fallen Angel."   
      
         Gabrielle come into the Tavern and tries to explain that getting mad   
   is not good for the baby and all she has to do is make Lachrymose laugh.   
   Xena throws a pie at Joxer, he ducks and Gabrielle is hit. Suddenly there is   
   a pie fight. Almost everyone gets hit except Xena and Argo.   
      
       Lachrymose appears and Xena throws her Chakram to hit  a pie stuck to   
   the ceiling. It falls down into Lachyrmose's face. He begins to laugh and   
   Argo is back to regular size.   
      
       Aphrodite can't believe a stupid pie fight worked.  Gabrielle says she   
   still can't write. Aphrodite says at least she got Lachrymose in touch with   
   his inner child. Gabrielle realizes since Xena got pregnant all she's been   
   doing is trying to make the world a better place and hasn't been doing the   
   things that make her happy, like writing, and maybe writing will help Xena'   
   baby figure out who she or he is.   
      
       Gabrielle thanks Aphrodite and she leaves.   
      
      
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