Everybody Hates Hugo
- Episode aired Oct 12, 2005
- TV-PG
- 43m
Hurley struggles with a task inside the hatch as he flashes back to disturbing memories. Sawyer and the others learn their captors' identities.Hurley struggles with a task inside the hatch as he flashes back to disturbing memories. Sawyer and the others learn their captors' identities.Hurley struggles with a task inside the hatch as he flashes back to disturbing memories. Sawyer and the others learn their captors' identities.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJin is notable in that he is the only major character who was purportedly unable to speak English before arriving on the island. In Hurley's dream sequence, Jin speaks flawless American English, as actor Daniel Dae Kim grew up in Pennsylvania. In actuality, he was out of practice speaking Korean before he got the role of Jin, since he had last used it as a teenager to speak with older relatives. He was coached on set by a dialect coach and co-star Yunjin Kim to speak Korean as well as someone who had lived there all his life.
- GoofsIn the flashback plot, Hugo is shown with his winning lottery ticket still in hand and has yet to cash it in, when he decides to quit his job at Mr. Cluck's and hang out with his best friend one more time before "everything changes". Yet, when they stop by the convenience store where Hugo purchased the winning ticket and find the local TV crew filming a news segment about the lottery winner, the clerk identifies Hugo as the winner. Even if he had already claimed the prize, the convenience store clerks would have no way of knowing who purchased the winning ticket. Lottery winners remain anonymous when claiming the winning prizes until they choose to go public.
- Quotes
Hurley: Let me tell you something, Rose. We were all fine before we had any potato chips. Now we've got these potato chips, everyone's gonna want them. So, Steve gets them, Charlie's pissed, but not pissed at Steve, he's pissed at me. And I'm gonna be in the middle of it. And then it's gonna be, "What about us?" "Why didn't I get any potato chips?" "Help us out, Hurley. Why did you give Kate the shampoo?" "Why didn't I get the peanut butter?" Then, they'll get really mad and start asking, "Why does Hugo have everything? Why should he get to decide?" Then they'll all hate me.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Lost: Everybody Loves Hugo (2010)
Poor Hugo is involved first-hand in the ongoing events when he's asked to take care of the food inventory inside the Swan station (the hatch's proper name, as established in the previous episode). Despite help from Rose (L. Scott Caldwell), he doesn't think he's up to the task, especially after a weird dream containing the message "Everything is going to change." While he struggles with these problems, Jin, Michael and Sawyer keep dealing with the "Others", who are revealed to be the last remaining survivors from the tail section of Oceanic 815: Ana Lucia, the big and menacing Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, now part of the regular cast like Michelle Rodriguez), Rose's long lost husband Bernard (Sam Anderson, best known for playing less sympathetic roles on ER and Angel), and Libby Smith (Cynthia Watros).
Flashback-wise, the story revolves around Hurley's lottery win and his decision to keep it a secret, partly because of his superstition and partly because he doesn't want anything to change. He quits his job and mentions this to a friend, who promises everything will stay the same. Needless to say, it doesn't...
Having made their debut with the slightly less compelling Born to Run, writing duo Edward Kitsis-Adam Horowitz have a much more assured touch this time, effortlessly exploiting Hurley's comic relief function to make it fit inside the big picture. To do so, they openly acknowledge the show's debt to Twin Peaks with a delightfully twisted dream sequence (with Daniel Dae Kim finally allowed to speak English) and a main plot that really allows Jorge Garcia to make his part a solid element in the main ensemble. Other plot strands are equally well handled, with some fun banter between Sawyer and Ana Lucia (nice M*A*S*H joke) and a fan-pleasing nod to the sexual tension between Jack and Kate. Four words: Evangeline Lilly, shower, towel.
- MaxBorg89
- Dec 1, 2010