Bored to Death Hipster Quotient: Will the Real Jonathan Ames Please Stand Up...and Show His Ass

In last night's installment of Bored to Death, Jonathan Ames, your hipster P.I. hero, agreed to a three-way only after being convinced that Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller would do the same. Meanwhile, one character read the New Yorker while getting a prostate exam and the real Jonathan Ames enjoyed an ironic bare-ass cameo so gratuitous that viewers probably began to wonder if HBO was legally required to fill an Ames posterior-shot quota. (Just me?) To see how those components (and more!) affected this week's Bored to Death Hipster Quotient, proceed ahead and remember that this week's units of measure are corn cob pipes.

Dry Literary Reference(s): 4. Jonathan Ames and his girlfriend (Jenny Slate) spent precious minutes deciding which novelists would have actually taken part in polyamorous relationships before deciding that Henry Miller and Bukowski would have. Hemingway and Fitzgerald are mentioned later during a...

Quirky Situation(s) Involving a Brooklyn Bathroom and Vintage 70s Track Jackets: 1. After Jonathan sees the "elephant tusk" on his girlfriend's ex, he demands that Ray compare penis size in the bathroom of their favorite hipster hangout. When Ray worries that this situation is too weird, Jonathan reassures him with the following literary wisdom: "Hemingway checked out Fitzgerald when he went through a crisis like this. He wrote about it in A Moveable Feast."

Frank Discussion(s) about Sexual Confusion: 1 (aside from the above). "When I was thirteen my best friend used to put on his mom's wig and blow me," Stella's ex-boyfriend Wade earnestly confides in Jonathan. "I don't think that counts though."

Quirky Things Done While "on the Job": While hiding out in the closet of a client, Jonathan spends his down time filling out crossword puzzles and proofreading essays entitled "When Things Mattered."

Number of Intellectual Hipster Prostate Exam(s) Depicted: 1. George used this uncomfortable moment to catch up on the latest New Yorker. Later, when his female urologist asked how many sexual partners he's had, he said "I've always enjoyed French culture."

Number of Corn Cop Pipe(s) Smoked While in the Midst of a Nasty Break-Up: 1. "A corn cob pipe helps you get more stoned," Ray tells Jonathan. "Plus it makes me look like a sea captain."

Kinky German Expressionist Role Play: Check. George makes his ex-wife call him Nosferatu when they have sex.

Number of Random Cutaway(s) to a Vintage Bird Nightlight: 1.

Number of Times That a Food Co-Op Was Mentioned: 1.

Number of Times That a Liberal Arts College Was Mentioned: 1.

Number of Vintage Cardigans Worn: 1.

Number of Silk-Screened T-Shirts Worn: 1.

OVERALL: Aside from the gratuitous shots of the real Jonathan Ames fleeing in the nude from his hipster attacker (Zach Galifianakis), all was right in last night's Bored to Death hipster-verse. The fictional Jonathan Ames dead-panned to the wittiest of his ability ("I will not have a three-way cuddle with a struggling comedian"), in between refereeing his internal turmoil ("I'm commiting menta-cide. My brain is attacking itself") and watching his cardigan'd best friend deal with heartbreak through comics and mixed CDs.