#hiring and firing

[jsmapdi]

1x02/4x02

[ricktimus]

[vodka-zamolodchikova]

[stayoutofmynamastespace]

I don't want to do it, but I can hire somebody to do it.

white woman, in Boulder, on responsibility

[wolfwhiteflowers]

Time Will Tell x Subway baby

Hiring and Firing 1x02 x C is for Coward 4x02 

[overanalyzingtelevision]

No one is gonna cut you up into little pieces tonight (13/99)

(So why do you want to get your license?) Tired of carrying my passport into bars. It's so bulky (14/99)

I think I see Joaquin Phoenix (15/99)

I think I left half a chicken Philly steak in the fridge labeled 'Dr. S,' so that's up for grabs (16/99)

[mysudsyboyflyf]

Time will tell

Mindy Lahiri

[klheir]

Script for The Mindy Project episode 1x02, "Hiring and Firing."

Again, please let me know if you find any mistakes I (likely) made! I have the document set up so that people with the link can leave comments.

[wolfwhiteflowers]

“I’ll never marry this woman.”

“Babe, I’d marry you in a gutter.”

[theminkayproject]

Pilot + Hiring and Firing:

day 1 of TMP rewatch!

The beginning of this pilot is just pure gold.

lol remember when Mindy is running to her delivery and she throws her drink and yells “It’s fine! I’m a doctor” this show.  

I’m going to a wedding soon and Jeremy is right about those... everyone loses it. I love him.

I, too, am addicted to attention

Aw Danny... eating his Multigrain crackers 

DANNY WENT FROM “IF YOU LOST 15 POUNDS” TO “YOU’RE A WOMAN AND THAT’S GOOD, LOOK LIKE A WOMAN” IM FINE

BAD GIRLS

DANNY’S “IS THIS THE KINDA GUY THAT...” SPEECH. OK, IM FINE

There is no way these two aren’t end game

Only time will tell

I miss this show so much

OH HEY SETH MEYERS

I always wondered why Mindy didn’t get samples before buying the frozen yogurt... but maybe she didn’t because the store wouldn’t let her because of her sample fraud history... they just make her buy a whole cup without trying it... 😂anyway...

awww Danny “working on [his] chords” 

I love beth/ beverly

Knowing everything that is coming for Mindy and Danny i just... i love them

The first appearance of Ransom Tookers, Morgan Tookers, “No more stealing cars” tattoo, and Beverly. What an episode.

[overanalyzingtelevision]

i'm not sure if you talked about this before, but what do you think is the logic behind Danny's attitude towards Mindy in 'hiring and firing' ? is he being so jerkish because he kind of wants to protect her? that's all i can think of it but it might be a stretch.

I think that Danny does protect Mindy in a lot of ways, and I could certainly see that come out in very small flickers in the first handful of episodes of the show—but I think that if Danny is protecting anyone, he’s protecting himself, because he is so jaded and is so untrustworthy of love, especially at the beginning of the series.

You can see that it’s out of his control what he feels for Mindy and that a lot of the things he does are compulsory—like the way he seems jealous of Seth Meyers (“Seems like a bum!”), or the way he smiles whenever Mindy hits him playfully. I think that Danny did not know he had feelings for Mindy…I don’t even know if I would call it ‘feelings’ as much as he was attracted to her from the onset, in many ways because when it came to love they were so different (Mindy dating with the certainty she’d find her true love in a Josh or Casey and Danny dating/sleeping around really to fill a void). And on top of that you have that Mindy is able to engage him so easily in a way that not a lot of people do, even if the ‘engagement’ is Mindy pushing his buttons and him pushing hers.

But I think that Danny was very self-protective and I think that’s what his jerkish behavior is based off of, in that he doesn’t want to open up because he remembers what happened the last time he opened up (and this is in terms of even a friendship with Mindy, let alone a relationship). He doesn’t understand why Mindy would want to talk to him on a subway because he isn’t looking to start any sort of personal relationship with her. He thinks work should be for work, because he doesn’t want to put himself in that position of risk. (Office relationships—they never work! They’re like foreign cars. Am I right?)

But the thing that the beginning episodes emphasize, to me, is that while Danny acts like a dick, and a lot of people (including Mindy!) think that he is a dick, he really is just this very damaged and broken man who puts on a front. Arguably Danny Castellano is one of the most thoughtful and compassionate male leads in memory, right—what with the dance, and the letters to Haiti, and the running to the hospital, and the making breakfast. He’s a romantic comedy’s dream, and he has the potential to be that sort of happy and in love and kind and thoughtful guy all of the time, but he acts like a jerk instead because in order to be all of those things you have to have confidence in yourself and trust in others, and Danny really didn’t have either in the beginning. 

So it was easier for him to be a jerk and to not pursue what was so scary—which, again, in the beginning included friendship with Mindy. He didn’t want to be friends with her (just like he didn’t want to be friends with anyone in the office). Of course, as this episode shows and as Danny Castellano…Gynecologist shows, Danny does have personal ties to Mindy, whether he likes it or not—it’s something that’s out of his control, and only continues spiraling out of his control once his feelings for her develop.

[danielmussolinicastellano-blog]

How dare you delete a Betsy scene! 

The deleted scene is so funny.

Beverly doing her nurse work lmao.

And Jeremy's face when Mindy says she's in her mid-twenties.

And of course

"I'm the one who calls people perverts." "Shauna's the one who calls people perverts."

"Kids killing kids. How is that funny."

I miss Shauna so damn much. 

[lovelysparring]

I was rewatching TMP and is s1e2 towards the end when Danny and Mindy are on the subway after Mindy got punched and I noticed Danny was reading Catching Fire 😂 idk I just found it so funny

Haha I doubt he’s into mainstream books. Mindy probably made him read it. A screencap of that scene could be captioned “what’s wrong with this picture?” 😂

[levitatingyouth-blog]

What's boarding school? A school where you learn snowboarding? What's snowboarding?

Nurse Beverly, 'Hiring and Firing', The Mindy Project

[ahneunjin]

He did not mean to hit me. My husband is not a monster.

The Mindy Project

(s01e02)

[wolfwhiteflowers]

Hiring and Firing

Dr. Shulman: Danny, you know it's not just you and me anymore. We decided to expand. You need to accept that. Danny: Remember when Mindy's office was used for storage? Now, that was great. I'd keep my bike there all winter. Dr. Shulman: Yes, and you adapted. Now you're fine. Danny: Fine for now, but now she's in charge of the hiring. Before long, Mindy hires another Mindy. That Mindy hires two more Mindys. And before you know it, yap yap yap. "Did you see that movie?" "Did you hear about that celebrity breakup?" Yap yap yap yap yap. I mean, where do I put my bike?

Diary of a Mad Indian Woman

Danny: Yeah, she wants me to propose by Christmas. It's not right. It's too much pressure on the Lord's birthday. I mean, you think that's crazy, right?  Annette: Of course it's crazy! You should break up with her. Danny: What? No! No. I'm not doing that. We just went 50-50 on a unisex raincoat.

I don’t know what it is. I just think it’s funny how his reasons for not liking something is so simple. “Where do I put my bike?” “We just got this unisex coat!”