Frank Gallagher right as the cops bust the car bonfire
The pilot episode of “Shameless” opens with a voice-over by one of the main stars Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy), talking about his family as they all stand around a car on fire while drinking and smoking. He talks individually about each of his children and then goes on to talk about his neighbors, then introduces himself as he smokes a cigarette. He ends the voice-over stating that they may not know everything in this world, but they know how to party and then the cops bust the whole thing up.
It cuts to Fiona (Emmy Rossum), Franks oldest child, wiping condensation off a mirror and waking up all her younger siblings to get ready for school. They proceed to go downstairs to breakfast, where Fiona puts a box on the table for everyone to contribute money to the electric bill. They discuss how Carl (Ethan Cutkosky), Franks fifth kid, who is only nine needs to start contributing before all the kids run off to school, Lip (Jeremy Allen White), Frank’s second child, stealing another kids bike.
We moves to Fiona working at a concession stand at a hockey game. Some slight flirting between her and a customer occurs, before that customer has a private conversation with his friend about the bangableness of Fiona and the friend comes back to say that he only would if he “double bagged it because project girls don’t abort.” Fiona overhears the conversation and seems annoyed.
Next, we see Lip walking toward a house, where he was requested to go tutor a girl named Karen Jackson (Laura Wiggins) who needs help studying for a midterm. Her mother requests that Lip takes his shoes off before coming in. Then Karen tells him about how her mother hates dirt. Lip changes the subject to science and Karen seems stunned at how smart he is. As he gets distracted by notes, Karen sneaks under the table and begins to give Lip a blow job, while her mom cooks in the kitchen ten feet from them at the dining room table.
Then we see Lip, back in the Gallagher household, changing and Fiona walks in on him and asks for his deodorant, as he tries to hide the sperm-soaked underwear. Veronica, the Gallaghers friend and neighbor walks in telling Fiona to hurry up and then rips the price tag of Fiona’s dress, saying she will put it back on later with her tag gun she stole from her job at TJMaxx right before she lost the job. They leave Lip alone in his room, where, while trying to hide his gross boxers, he discovers a folder in his brother Ian’s, Franks third kid, stuff. He opens it thinking that it is pictures of naked ladies, but it turns out to be pictures of naked men. Ian (Cameron Monaghan) begins to walk in the room and Lip hides what he found.
Then we see Veronica (Shanola Hampton) and Fiona dancing at a club, while a man watches Fiona dance from afar. The man notices another man walk up to Fiona and begin to dance with her, just long enough to steal her purse. Veronica and Fiona begin to chase after the guy and so does the man who was watching Fiona from afar. The staring man tries to be heroic and ends up falling and her purse is gone. They get locked out of the club by the bouncer so Steve, the guy who stared at Fiona, punches the bouncer and they all run-off to Fiona’s, where Veronica tries to patch Steve up. The kids come down and meet Steve (Justin Chatwin). Before Fiona got back though, Lip confronts Ian about what he found, and Ian tells him to “Keep your fucking mouth shut about it”.
Lip after finding Ian’s secret stash of naked men photos
All the kids come and meet Steve (Steve Howey) and the party is broken up by Veronica’s boyfriend Kev and the kids are sent to bed. Kevin and Veronica leave. As Kevin and Veronica walk back to their house and Veronica begins to tease Kevin. When they notice Steve’s car and how fancy it is, Veronica begins to talk all about how rich Steve is. Kevin begins to seem jealous and a bit embarrassed, she then tells him that it is good that he walked in when he did because her and Fiona were about to have sexual relations with Steve together. She then tells him that she is only kidding, when he seems like he is about to explode with anger. They laugh and walk inside, Kevin first seeing if the Fiona-Veronica thing is on the table for him.
We move back to the Gallagher house, where Steve and Fiona begin to talk. “If I hadn’t busted my skull for you tonight, would you have looked at me twice?” Steve asks Fiona before he begins to kiss her, she stops him, but he talks his way back into it with her. They begin to have sex on the kitchen sink, Fiona working fast and Steve saying “Slower, slower”, they then move to the floor where Steve ends up with his hand jammed in a drawer and Fiona says “Almost. Almost”. Then someone begins pounding on the backdoor asking for Fiona. Steve answers and it is a local cop named Tony. Steve goes to get Fiona, and she tells him to stay upstairs, while Fiona deals with the cops. The cops were bringing home her drunk dad, and the whole situation freaks Steve and Fiona tells him to go. The kids watch Steve leave.
Next day Fiona is filling in cleaning motel rooms, where the woman she is covering tells her she will bring some food by their house and she can take all the toilet paper she needs.
They cut to Frank walking into the Alibi, the local bar where Kevin works, Frank asks for a beer and a bump and a pen cause his disability check came in where he cashes it at the Alibi. Kevin settles out his tab and hands him back a twenty.
We then go the Gallagher home where Fiona is doing laundry and Steve shows up asking her what her schedule is like. “Desperate”, she calls him. He calls her his “Dream girl”. Lip comes in and gives Steve crap for continuing to try with Fiona and Fiona tells Lip to leave.
Fiona thanks Steve again and tells him she isn’t looking for a relationship, but Steve leaves his number.
We then see Lip and Ian walking towards Karen’s where Lip tells Ian to just keep talking about science. We then see Ian getting a blowjob from Karen as he names elements.
Karen’s dad walks down to go to work and knocks an apple onto the floor. When he goes to grab it, he notices Karen under the table. He chases the boys out of the house, as Karen and her mom yell telling dad “It’s just a study group”. Lip jumps out a window and they both bolt with no shoes on.
Veronica comes in to to try and treat Lip’s foot. She sends Ian to get supplies. The door gets knocked on and the boys freak. “What have you done?”, Fiona asks. Turns out the knock was from a new washer being dropped off at the house, which Fiona doesn’t know why. Then we see Ian in Veronica and Kev’s place and Ian gets distracted by Kevin’s bare penis.
We go back to the Gallagher’s where we find that Steve bought the washer.
We go back to Karen Jackson’s place where her dad is walking out on her and her mother for what he saw. Karen chucks more of his things out the window.
We go to a convenience store where Ian works. We see that Ian’s boss’ wife is a nagging woman.
It’s nighttime at the Gallagher house and Frank is passed out drunk on the floor. Ian is on the couch and Fiona goes to talk to him. She makes sure Ian didn’t get a girl pregnant. They begin to talk about Frank and how Fiona is needed to make the house work and Fiona says “proves I’m wanted”. Ian says “Congrats. You have a job for life with this joker”, then leaves. Fiona tries to get Frank to get up, then pretends that he says good job to her and walks off crying. After Fiona leaves, Debbie, the fourth child, puts a pillow under Franks head. It goes dark.
Then Fiona is walking down the street and calls Steve and asks him to prove that he wasn’t lying about seeing her before. He proves himself right. Steve say’s “You make me wanna enjoy my life again”. She runs to him and he takes her to dinner. Where he proceeds to insult her nature of not trusting people who don’t come from the same world as her. He asks her to meet him out front and he proceeds to show her how he isn’t such a good little boy by stealing a car and taking it to her house.
Fiona and Steve on their first date
Before they get home, Frank inspects the brand-new washer and is stunned by it.
We go to the convenience store where Ian works, door locked so Lip tries the back door. Before he gets in, there are grunting noise. Lip figures out what is going on cause the Ian and his boss Kash are both wearing one of each others shoes. Ian gets home and gets confronted by Lip about how he is screwing someone who is married with kids and says that Kash is just giving him nice things so that he gets sex. Ian rebuts with the fact that even though Kash has gotten him stuff, Ian has also gotten him stuff. He tells Lip to go tell him he is sorry.
Then Fiona and Steve get home to be confronted by Frank who is hopped up on drugs and begins to interrogate Steve. Steve attempts to leave and Frank takes his keys, so Steve can’t.
They begin to party with Frank, drinking and smoking weed. Veronica and Kevin come in and demand that if they are going to party they will party to the music they like. Then we see Fiona wake up with Steve in her bed, but Liam the youngest kid interrupts. Lip tries to find Ian and finds him in the van parked in their yard. He confronts him about being gay and comes to term with it, after a lot of questions. It ends with everyone sitting down to breakfast, that Steve cooked for them.
I think that this show is a very interesting and will be a very intriguing show to research. As the show progresses things only become more complicated for the Gallaghers. Life just never seems to go their way and one of the never ending questions with this show is that does life never go their way because life simply sucks? Or is it that they just can’t ever seem to make the right choices? I believe that the study of this show is one that is very warranted by its overall nature.
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Lip picture-netflix.com
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