Time after time, he seeks her out, only to see strangers in the form of Ike’s friends and family. In the wake of this argument, it’s a real bummer to watch Marty continually scan the crowd for his sister at both the ceremony and the reception. He says that she’s uninvited to his bar mitzvah, even if she changes her mind. She’s got an entire punch card full of red flags, but Marty is already in too deep. Phyllis does not deny Marty’s claims, and she admirably doubles down on her assertion that this whole bar mitzvah endeavor is crossing a line for a psychiatrist. The crackling sibling dynamic here makes everything that’s about to happen even sadder. They squabble, hurling half-formed insults at one another and gesturing wildly. Ike gets what he wants as Marty heads over to Phyllis’s place and confronts her about the snooping. Methinks the (bad) doctor doth protest too much. In his tirade, he manages to invoke the doctor’s credo of “do no harm,” name-drop NYU Medical School, and repeatedly underscore that he’s all about trust. Ike sets to the task of planting seeds of doubt in Marty’s brain, turning him against Phyllis. Marty’s big, shiny saucer eyes stare in disbelief as his beloved psychiatrist throws a legit tantrum. Ferrell truly has the best hangdog look in the game, and he deploys it perfectly here. Remember that glimmer from earlier in the episode? Here, it explodes, becoming a firework of rage (This is definitely not what Katy Perry had in mind). As an unsuspecting Marty heads out, Ike pounces. As Marty wraps up his totally hilarious and inappropriate practice session with the rabbi and teen overachiever Emily, Ike lies like a predator in wait. And the key string is Marty’s connection to his sister. He realizes that to have a functioning Marty puppet, he needs to cut some external strings. When Ike’s rabbi questions him about the situation, something snaps in Ike. Phyllis’s well-intentioned snooping leads to a full-on meltdown from Ike. She finds out that Marty isn’t having his bar mitzvah at their temple he’s having it at Ike’s. Hahn’s glorious wig bobs with confused frustration as Phyllis heads to see Marty’s rabbi. She doesn’t understand why her brother would do this she doesn’t understand why a therapist would do this she thinks this is all just ridiculous. She can’t stand by as her brother does this ridiculous thing. ![]() She tells Marty to celebrate his midlife crisis like the normals do. Throughout the process of Marty getting ready for the bar mitzvah, Phyllis pushes back hard. So he agrees to the (terrible) idea.īut one person thankfully still has her wits about her, and that’s Marty’s sister Phyllis. He would never do anything to disappoint his new idol. Marty is taken aback by this transformation. His eager smile falters and his whole face falls, determination and “want” glimmering behind his eyes. At this moment, Rudd finally lets the inner Ike shine through for just a moment. Marty races to meet him, but when he hears what Ike says, he’s not too excited about it. ![]() Ike calls Marty out of a hilariously awkward meeting with his staff to present his proposal: He wants to throw a redo bar mitzvah for Marty. When Marty recalls his disastrous bar mitzvah, Ike gets an idea. Marty finally starts to really open up and get into the meat of his issues. But Ike keeps steering him back to his grief over his father’s death. Marty deflects several times during a session with Ike, talking about Ike’s shirt and the absolutely wild real-life fact that Ralph Lauren’s real name is Ralph Lifshitz. But the way he goes about rectifying this issue is really just not great, Bob. And Ike sees that it’s happening with Marty. One of the best lines in the episode is when Phyllis asks Marty how therapy is going, and he says, “I have to talk about my feelings, but my main feeling is I don’t wanna.” From personal experience as a therapist (and as a therapygoer), I 100 percent know this mood. He’s going to therapy regularly, but he’s still afraid to talk about his emotions. Having a bar mitzvah for a 40-year-old man who had one as a teen is already kind of a bonkers idea, but having a therapist throw said shindig? That’s a shanda.Īt the top of the episode, we see that Marty’s life is actually improving somewhat under Ike’s guidance. One of the first big moves that Ike makes with Marty is to throw him a bar mitzvah for his 40th birthday. And this episode illustrates exactly how Ike snuck his way in. Presented with a shiny new father figure–friend–mentor, Marty has decided to follow Ike wherever he leads. Ike Herschkopf has fully entranced Marty Markowitz. By the end of the second installment of The Shrink Next Door, Dr.
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