#lest we forget this is a mere two episodes after Starsky sleeps with a woman involved in a case so it ain't qualms about that

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Truly I had forgotten until rewatching Foxy Lady how little of it is, in fact, about the foxy lady in question. Yes technically this is a boys(gn)-go-stupid-over-a-girl episode but only in the sense that there is a girl there and they would likely not have gone stupid if she were not there. 

She turns up at Hutch’s place in the middle of the night in a low-cut wrap dress batting her eyes and he flirts with her in thee lightest most superficial way either of them have ever flirted with a woman and then trips over himself hastening to establish that he did NOT mean they should go to bed together when he offered her his bed. 

She comes out in a towel and Starsky gets mad thinking that Hutch was planning to sleep with her - one can only assume bc the terms of their open relationship at this point dictate that the other has to know about it prior to the fact, because it very clearly has nothing at all to do with her - and Hutch again trips over himself attempting to reassure Starsky that it wasn’t like that. 

Starsky, not fully believing him (and also pissed off about the whole unbelievably petty bathroom thing. what was up with that) takes her home, VERY POINTEDLY SLEEPS ON THE COUCH, and then tells Hutch, who seems utterly unsurprised to find him on the couch, that it 'made them even’. Even for what, huh. ‘Cause both of you very blatantly did not even try to get the girl. You really just wanted to give Hutch the same five minutes of betrayed jealousy and you apparently succeeded. 

And then the episode ends with them alone facing each other covered in women’s underwear. I’d say you can’t make this shit up but the S&H writers very much did

#Starsky and Hutch #Starsky & Hutch #french kissing primetime homos #Foxy Lady #yes it is them going stupid over a girl but only in the sense that the girl provides the catalyst for them to go stupid over each other #'looks like you did just about as well as i did' hutch neither of you TRIED to do anything. what are you talking about #lest we forget this is a mere two episodes after Starsky sleeps with a woman involved in a case so it ain't qualms about that #i mean that scene in Class In Crime is its own whole thing #mostly in how different it does feel to normal and how the only placable reason why is that it's. i think possibly the ONLY time post-s1 #where they sleep with a girl and it's not either option a) the other was involved/around/aware the entire time of the leadup #or option b) they afterwards act somehow guilty/embarrassed about the other not knowing #which brings me back to my (and faor's) thesis about the changes in the nature of their relationship and its openness throughout the seasons #to which Class In Crime provides an odd little exception #also of course notable for Starsky opening the door in quite possibly nothing but a shirt and Hutch barely reacting #anyway i know opinions are divided on foxy lady but personally i love it bc it is so stupid and they are so stupid in it #but also actually aren't! they put together that she's a con artist on fairly little evidence all things considered #thanks to the fact that they are not actually stupid over her #and i cannot overstate how much i love that they decided to make the name-mixing thing a genuine plot point #mine