'The Millers' recap: 'CON-troversy'

We’re back with a recap of last night’s The Millers. Kip and Carol arrive at the house talking about going to Comic Fan Fest and what they would dress up as. Nathan mentions that he was thinking of going since his boss at the news station is trying to broaden their appeal to an audience since they don’t have any viewers after the rerun of The Big Bang Theory beforehand. Debbie and Mikayla come in from the kitchen where Mikayla was doing homework and they ask about movies to watch. Carol and Kip want Star Wars, but Mikayla says her dad won’t let them because someone named Jeff said it causes seizures. Jeff is apparently a guy from Adam’s childhood commune. They decide to watch it anyway.

The family is watching the film when Adam comes home, who panics when he sees what they are watching. They assure him no one is having a seizure and when Nathan mentions Alderaan, Adam tells him that’s where Jeff is from. He begins explaining Jeff’s life to them, but it all sounds exactly like the movie’s plot. When Adam realizes this, he makes a phone call to someone named Brenda, who calls him Moon Potato (apparently after whatever your mom was looking at during childbirth and your dad’s favorite food) and tells her to give a message to Jeff that he is “on to him.”

At the Comic Fest, Nathan isn’t having luck getting interviews. Kip and Carol come in dressed as Star Trek characters. Nathan is concerned about not getting his story and that the pod-casters there are not actual journalists. When the author of Fire and Rain Martin J.S. Essex, Kip tells him to interview him since it will give Nathan an in. However, Carol remembers him as one of her students, Cody Simpson, who used to get sick on the bus to school.

They are in line to meet Essex where Kip is resting his face for a perfect smile for his “Kippie,” otherwise known as “Selfie.” When Carol says hi to Essex, she brings Nathan up and he immediately calls him a backstabber. He calls security on Nathan, but before they take him, Nathan wants to know what he did to Martin. Martin goes into a long narrative about what happened at Leesburg Middle School. As he tells a fable about what happened when they were kids, Martin reveals Nathan needed help in Algebra and he had promised to be seen with Martin since he was the cool kid. But when the other kids were taunting him, Nathan joined in and Martin claims that he cut off his head…obviously, he didn’t. Nathan says he doesn’t remember this and Carol tells Martin that Nathan needs an interview and that Martin owes her for telling the other kids boogers were a delicacy in another country.

Meanwhile back home, Adam comes downstairs after watching the rest of the Star Wars trilogy. He bemoans Jeff’s poor daughter, who was named Jar Jar Binks. The doorbell rings and when Adam answers, it turns out to be Jeff!

Kip is trying to help Nathan understand Fire and Rain, but Nathan isn’t taking it seriously. Because Nathan won’t give in to the fantasy of the book, Kip becomes frustrated and scolds Nathan, telling him he will never understand people who weren’t popular and he eventually leaves.

Debbie is telling Adam he has to let Jeff in, who has been standing on their porch for 26 hours. Jeff comes in and explains to Adam that one night everyone had paired up to have sex back in the hippie days leaving him with no one else. He decided to go out and rent a movie about Star Wars and he went home to tell everyone about it. But because they were all on drugs, they thought it was an actual place and made him their leader. Adam asked why made them do things like writing notes in metal trashcans, or ‘R2D2.’ Jeff tells him it was to help give him the courage to do things he wanted to do, such as approach Debbie. Adam eventually apologizes and they invite Jeff to dinner, who tells Adam his wife is beautiful and can’t wait to meet the others.

At the Comic Fan Fest, Kip comes to the interview despite still not being happy with Nathan. The interview begins, but then Martin gets up and begins trash talking Nathan and talking about how he used to be a bully. But as he goes on, the entire rant begins to turn against him, especially when he tries to poke fun at Nathan having a roommate and it being his mother. The audience sides with Nathan and Martin calls them all losers. Nathan is happy and tells the audience they are all tough nerds, or terds. Realizing what he said, he goes back to nerds. In the end, he gives a speech to the audience on television about being the best person you could be and at home, Tom, Debbie, and Adam hoped the viewers Nathan wanted stuck around to watch what he had to say.

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