If you must know, David and Bryan are a gay couple who hires Goldie, played by Georgia King, as their surrogate mom. Goldie was raised in the Midwest by Jane Forrest (Ellen Barkin), her super conservative, old-fashioned 39-year-old grandmother. Yes, she's THAT young to be Shania's great-grandma! Goldie has an 9-year-old daughter named Shania (Bebe Wood) and had just left her husband Clay Clemmons (Jayson Blair), after seeing him in bed with another woman just a few minutes after leaving the house. She steals Grandma Jane's car and drives to LA with her kid.
Aaaanyway, this week, Bryan went on a shopping spree with Shania, buying baby clothes for their coming baby. David sees the clothes and tells Bryan to return ALL the baby stuff. He wanted them to buy the baby clothes in a later time, when all the test results come out, to make sure of the baby's gender, congenital anomalies, etc.
Things are doing great with Shania at school now. A boy sits with her in class and invites her to eat lunch because he likes her top (a baby skirt she bought with Bryan). Goldie learns about Shania's new friend and decides to buy her new clothes at Loehmann's. David and Bryan came along to help her out and end up having an argument with a man for being intolerant. The man says he's trying to protect his family and doesn't like gay couple flaunting their affection in public. I call BIGOT!
Nana Jane comes to Shania's school and walks in on Shania and her new friend kissing. She sees her new top and was mortified with what she's wearing. She brings the kids to a women's services office and asks for "birth control options" for Shania and her friend. The lady employee from the women's services desk calls the police.
Bryan's still upset with what happened at the store earlier. David comes over and talks to him, saying that there will always be stupid jerks in the world and they just need to ignore them. Bryan disagrees and says that he's been ignoring them his whole life, but thinks that the ignoring should stop since they're having a baby. He says that bringing a new life into a world where "idiot people are free to say and do the things they wanna say and do because we (gays) were trained to ignore them". He's scared that someday, when their kid gets bigger, he/she will be a witness to such intolerance and might get hurt being in such situation just because they ignore those people, instead of standing up for themselves. He wants to someday protect their baby from so much hate.
David came in late and upset at Goldie's check-up after punching a guy at the gym. He defends a man with down syndrome after the guy calls him a retard and for taking so long at the line, buying a smoothie. To his shock, the man with down syndrome gets mad for "fighting his battle" and calls him a fag. Goldie admits that she heard the scuffle at the department store and apologizes for not speaking up to defend them, saying that she was afraid of the man. Doctor comes in, aaaand we have a heartbeat! (Enter waterworks for Goldie, David and Bryan. Aaaaw!)
Next day, Goldie and Nana comes to Shania's school, along with Shania's friend's mom, to talk with the kids' teacher about what happened at the back classroom and their quick trip to Plan Parenthood. Turns out Nana and Shania's classmate's mom have the same point. Kids grow up so fast these days that they had "the talk" after finding out the Plan Parenthood trip. She thanks Nana Jane as she (Jane) asks the teacher to wrap their talk up. Shania's friend ends up hitting up on Jane this time. Jane talks to Goldie in private, telling her that she also need to have "the talk" with Shania soon. Goldie's defense is that Shania's just nine and that they still have a lot of time before she talks to Shania about it. Jane explains that Goldie, her mom, and Jane herself, thought of the same thing back then and she's far too young to be a great-great-grandmother, if Shania messes up and haves a kid at that age. She convinces Goldie that their young mom streak has got to end, and that Shania must break that cycle by talking to her soon. Goldie agrees and tells her that they'll have "the talk" that night.
Meanwhile at the gym, David patches things up with the guy he punched and learns that he's also gay and just got engaged with his boyfriend. However, they were both revoked of their membership and got kicked out from Equinox due to their fight, much to the delight of the intolerant guy with down syndrome, who David defended in the first place.
David comes home and admits to Bryan that he was right. That he should let go of his fears and start defending themselves from intolerance... and that they should start buying baby stuff even without the test results. He also tells him how happy he was of hearing the baby's heartbeat and that they should be celebrating that, instead of worrying about the tests.
The love fest was easily disrupted when Goldie, Shania and Jane came and returned the baby clothes to David and Bryan because it was too revealing, considering her size and how small the baby clothes were. Jane hands them a gift--a onesie that says "PLEASE HELP ME". Though I don't know if that's a gift or an insult. Haha! The couple asks them to stay for dinner. Jane and Bryan finds something in common when she asks them why didn't they just "order one of those unwanted pretty little Chinese girls for delivery, with six you get egg roll" (Jinx! Haha!). Episode ends with the five of them having Chinese food for dinner.
**The New Normal airs Tuesday (United States), created by Glee's Ryan Murphy.
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