From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
                             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 Roe 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   
      
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