Faking It Episode 306 Recap: This Is Where The Kissing Usually Happens

Shane shuffles Karma into the tunnel with a boy dressed like a hot dog and Amy slips in with Harper, who immediately cops a feel. Ten points for Harperclaw!

This reminds me of a nightmare I had about being trapped in a bunker with the Blue Man Group

This reminds me of a nightmare I had about being trapped in a bunker with the Blue Man Group, except they were all wearing red and talking about communism

Karma’s trip through the tunnel is less eventful, as for some reason she’s uninterested in walking through an enclosed space lined with actual human hands reaching towards her while accompanied by a complete stranger. She escapes before they get too deep. In other Liam-related news, Shane’s afraid that Liam is gonna hook up with his Mom and keeps having creepy hallucinations about it.

Looks like somebody's got an eyelash to make a wish on!

Looks like somebody’s got an eyelash to make a wish on!

Lauren tries to butter Shane’s roll and complement his excellent party-planning skills as sweetly as possible in hopes that he’ll come back to her place after the party and protect her from the serial killer. I mean, she doesn’t tell him that’s WHY she wants him to come over, but that’s why she wants him to come over. He feels weirded out by her niceness and flees the scene.

Stop looking at me like that!

Stop looking at me like that!

LIKE WHAT??

LIKE WHAT??

Karma’s creeping around the back-end of the haunted tunnel when she is scared silly by Felix. He’s dressed up as a chainsaw murderer and has decided to lend his scare tactics to the Haunted House Team with a specific focus on Amy, who claimed she can’t be scared. Just you wait, Amy!

Yeah IDK I just thought, well, I'm already bloody from slaughtering all those chickens, might as well come out to the party and share the blood!

Yeah IDK I just thought, well, I’m already bloody from slaughtering all those chickens, might as well come out to the party and share the love!

Amy and Harper exit the tunnel and Harper’s like, “what do we do now?” and the hot dog boy is like “you make out!” and they’re both like “hey leave us alone, patriarchy, our girl-on-girl action is not for your consumption.” The good news is that it IS for our consumption and it does happen.

Finally somebody's Amelia Earheart fantasies come true

Finally somebody’s Amelia Earheart fantasies come true

Of course, they’re mid face-suck when Felix rolls up with his loud power tool.

Whoa buddy, be careful, the carcass that needs butchering is hanging from the meat hook over THERE

Whoa buddy, be careful with that thing, the carcass that needs butchering is hanging from the meat hook

“Felix?” asks Amy, looking kinda guilty. “I guess you two know each other,” says Harper, still wearing a catsuit. Amy should make a joke like, “yeah well, as a serial killer, I happen to have a lot of friends with chainsaws, but enough about me, let’s make out more!” Instead, she stands stupidly as Felix stomps off and I smash my head into the wall, releasing a nest of wasps that eats me alive. (Update: just killed the seventh wasp.)


Karma finds Felix sitting forlornly at a table journaling and probably thinking about other power tools and home improvement projects. He feels angry and a little bit sad, but Karma insists that Amy’s kiss with Harper meant nothing! Amy just came here to make out with random strangers! Felix points out that Amy told him she just came here to help KARMA make out with random strangers, so, oops. I guess Karma is shipping Amy and Felix, or else picking up on Amy’s contradictory vibes and statements regarding her interest in him.

There are TONS of home remedies online for getting Manic Panic off your hairline, Felix

There are TONS of home remedies online for getting Manic Panic off your hairline, Felix

You mean I don't have to live like this forever?

You mean I don’t have to live like this forever?

This changes everything.

This changes everything.

Karma tells Felix that Amy doesn’t drink (and somehow manages to resist mentioning that time that Amy did drink and then had sex with Liam), so why can’t they date? “I have to get my house in order until I let anyone else in,” says Felix. THUS THE POWER TOOLS, DUH.


Liam emerges from the backroom where he’s been hanging out with Brian Kinney to find Karma, who says that just ’cause she wants them to get back together doesn’t mean that they should. She’d probably just screw it up, after all! So they should just be friends.

Look, it was just one blow job! Brian has a live-in boyfriend now, it's not serious, I promise.

Look, it was just one blow job! Brian has a live-in boyfriend now, it’s not serious, I promise.

Then Shane’s Mom chokes on an eyeball cookie but Liam saves her. PHEW close call!


Felix, apparently done with his journaling, finds Amy leaning against a wall looking like a cute girl who just ditched another cute girl who she could be watching Broad City re-runs with right now. Instead — INSTEAD! — she’s telling Felix that they have a “thing” and that her lips were just “KILLING TIME” when she put them on the lips of another lady AND that she would TOTALLY wait two months for him to be allowed to date. I feel like this was the plot of The Notebook, which is a movie I did not see and therefore did not have to recap.

Okay fine you can borrow my chainsaw. But please don't kill any lesbians with it.

Okay fine you can borrow my chainsaw. But please don’t kill any lesbian characters with it.

Felix doesn’t want her to wait for him, it’s too much pressure. “I release you,” says Felix. Aw, he’s just like Bill Compton!


“Seriously, Shane? You think I want to do your Mom doggy-style in the middle of a school party?” asks Liam, in his most memorable line of the season. He can’t believe Shane thinks that Liam would sleep with his Mom! It’s not like Shane’s Mom is played by an actress who played a lesbian in a different teevee show. Shane admits he’s just a little paranoid because, you know, Liam slept with his sister.

Come on it's not like I'm the first straight guy to EVER wear this outfit!

Yo, have you seen Olive Oyl anywhere?

Liam’s got a genius plan to earn Shane’s trust back: he’ll move out of Shane’s house, thus ensuring Liam will have minimal opportunities to sleep with any additional family members. This doesn’t make a ton of logical sense, but I think we all know where this is heading, plot-device-wise!


A terrified Lauren loses her glass slipper in the wet, murky parking lot, only to discover that the man she feared was following her to her car is in fact Hester’s Own Liam Booker, animal trainer to the stars. She uses some kind of self-defense mechanism that injures his head, which means she’s got no choice but to let him spend the night in her apartment.

Dale a tu cuerpo alegria,, Macarena, Hey Macarena?

You wanna do the Macarena? Now?

So now Lauren’s apartment is a Safe Space because Liam has lots of upper body strength and even though I talk shit about him all the time, often for no reason (at least since Season One, when he was a lesbian-conquester douchebag), he would absolutely demolish anybody who tried to hurt Lauren. So don’t worry Mey, Lauren is okay!


Back at the Haunted House of Heteroflexible Horrors, Amy tells Karma she kinda WAS waiting for Felix, but now she’s not, because she wants me to be happy. Also because he released her like Bill Compton. Karma tells Amy that she’s decided not to get back together with Liam, because Amy was right: Karma needs to stay single and be okay with being alone.  Amy points out that Karma is not alone, it’s in a song by Michael Jackson called “You Are Not Alone,” ever heard of it? Then they hug.

Let's do this again later, but naked!

Let’s do this again later, but naked!

They’re about to exit the party in order to eat a bunch of leftover Halloween candy at an undetermined location when their path is blocked by a human in a mask. It’s not Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut, don’t worry. It’s SABRINA!

Amy, it's me! Sabrina!

Amy, it’s me! Sabrina!

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HOLY SHIT!!!

They actually brought another queer female character onto the show! Can you believe it??!

Karma, they finally brought another queer female character onto the show! Can you believe it??!!

Who’s Sabrina? Well, hopefully she’s a teenage witch… or a teenage witch LESBIAN!


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29 Comments

  1. God!, I hope yr killing those wasps with some kind of trapping rather than just swatting at them, that sounds like a sure way to get stung.

    And I know there are like three hundred and sixty seven thousand reasons why Karma is a really terrible friend but I think reassuring Felix and trying to keep that whole thing alive almost certainly tops them all.

  2. Came for the lady kissing stayed for the wasps-
    I really hope you’re not squashing the wasps because apparently they release a smell when you do that attracts more wasps… I have seen wasps remove chunks of chicken breast from my plate and fly off with them. Fear is the only appropriate response to this. Fear and industrial amounts of Raid.

    • I worked as an EMT at an amusement park which had lots of problems with wasps, and I 100% agree with your assessment of wasps. I’ll never forget the day when we had eight people go into anaphylaxis…or the (subsequent) days when we were out of epi-pens. We used so much Raid and life was still a wasp-filled hell. WASPS ARE EVIL EVERYONE (also I totally believe that wasps can eat pieces of chicken breasts but please don’t tell me the details, I have enough problems sleeping right now).

  3. UGH GO AWAY FELIX YOU DON’T EVEN GO HERE

    I’m pleased that Amy apparently will finally get a girlfriend, but still furious the show decided to make her ‘fluid’ just so they can throw boys at her when it suits them. Like, if I wanted to see Amy flirt with Felix, I could watch literally any other show for that.

  4. I don’t feel great about the whole “Noah’s hiding something” storyline in that preview, hopefully that handle that well.

    Not gonna lie, i may have cried a bit when i saw lauren in that princess costume. I just want her to be recognized as the princess she is!

    Also, thank you for letting me know she’s okay, i was worried. But still, i feel like she can do much better than Liam.

    • She will probably get the Best Liam there is, though – let’s be real, she’ll not let him get away with any bullshit.

  5. No. no no no! Liam’s going to move in with Lauren and it is going to be terrible. But watching Halloween episodes in April is kinda awesome.

    Also, all the lulz to the manic panic caption.

  6. Usually, the best thing to do if you see a wasp is to just be calm. They won’t sting you unless you provoke them. However, if they have built a nest nearby or even in your home it’s probably best to call an exterminator. They can be quite aggressive if you intrude on “their” home.

    • Second sentence is pretty much refuted by the following sentences.

      You have not seen the things I have seen.
      Wasps will build a nest anywhere that is at the moment they try to build said nest dry and is a surface near another surface. Source? My childhood.

      Fucking everywhere is potentially their home dude OnO
      There is no safe space when it comes to wasps.
      You can power walk/run, but can you hide? NOT AS WELL AS A WASP NEST MY FRIEND.

      • “You have not seen the things I have seen.”

        I guess I haven’t. I have encountered aggressive wasps, but usually they leave you alone if you leave them alone, it all depends on how close to their nest you are.

        • That’s the point, how close to the nest you are but do not realise that you are until the wasp is flying at your soft tender exposed flesh.

          I respect their sometimes role in pollination, how they keep caterpillars in check, don’t hate them and don’t purposely try to interact with them but when their nest is potentially everywhere I’m just trying to liiiiiiive and not be stung or be chased.
          I like sharks and gators so I understand if you feel protective of a species with bad rep or one that has humans overkilling them. Wasps are the more ha-ha funny traumatic part of my childhood that don’t have a 50/50 chance of making someone sad.
          So understand I was attempting a bit of humor, sorry if it rubbed you the wrong way.

  7. But regarding the Faking It episode… If Lauren can keep Liam away from Karma, then I do think that’s a good thing. But I cannot for the life of me understand why Liam manages to attract pretty much every girl on the show…

  8. I hate myself so much for failing to recognize the epic pun in Amy going as Amelia Earhart because she’s Karma’s WING-WOMAN. jfc so much shame I carry now.

  9. That entire donut scene pretty much sums up my reaction every time I’ve ever had a chance with a girl: oblivious and/or eating donuts.

  10. 1. Lauren would have been the best A!
    2. The only thing I like about Karma is her hair.
    3. The Manic Panic comment amewsed me fur too much.
    4. I refuse to acknowledge the Liam and Lauren thing.
    5. I think you put more effurt, whimsy and talent into these recaps than the writers put into the show.

  11. That mid season preview just gave me the sweats. Please Riese don’t let Felix hook up with Karma. I need Felix and Liam out of this show, why can’t this happen?

    • right but if felix hooks up with karma then maybe that will neutralize amy hooking up with liam and we’ll never have to talk about either of them ever again

      • Maybe Felix and Liam will end up being bisexual and hooking up with one another.

        In fact, that sounds great with no downsides to me.

    • I can’t say I have any problems with Karma and Felix as a pairing, even though I hope that it’s temporary. Felix, unlike Liam, seems like a sweet guy.

  12. Anyone in the UK know a site where I can watch Faking It? I’m using putlocker at the moment but it cuts the end off the episodes :(

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