Scandal Eiffel Towered the President's Daughter and We're Gonna Act Like We Didn't Have to Look Up That Sex Term

Tonight's episode of the ABC hit featured teenagers getting up to some seriously adult shenanigans

By Lauren Piester Oct 17, 2014 2:57 AMTags
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So who else found themselves on Urban Dictionary after tonight's episode of Scandal?

The episode, titled appropriately, "Like Father, Like Daughter," focused mainly on one huge problem for the First Family: In the wake of her brother's death, teenage daughter Karen managed to give Secret Service the slip, make her way to a party, do a bunch of drugs, and then have a threesome with two boys. One of them, of course, filmed it, and now had the ability to ruin a whole lot of things.

Karen first called Olivia, who jumped into action as only Olivia Pope could. She got Huck to disable all the phones at the party. She then got Karen to a helicopter and took her back to the White House, where she and Fitz confronted the still-wasted teen. Yes, she drank, smoked, snorted, and injected all kinds of things. No, she had not been raped, and she did not appreciate the question.

While Olivia dealt with keeping the tape from getting out, Fitz and Mellie dealt with their daughter. Fitz described the tape to Mellie, saying that Karen had been involved in a sex move called the "Eiffel Tower."  Olivia had said that the tape, which starred three teenagers, was one of the dirtiest things she had ever seen. 

Instead of getting angry and yelling at Karen, Mellie took a different approach. She told her daughter that she understood her grief and the fact that she had just wanted to feel something, and told her she got a pass. So, not only did Scandal feature a storyline in which a young girl got up to some insanely adult shenanigans, but it also didn't punish her for it. In fact, it sort of made light of the whole thing. The scene in which Quinn, Huck, and Olivia were trying to help Karen remember who exactly she had "slept" with was downright comical.

Meanwhile, Olivia unleashed total hell on the parents of one of the boys in the tape, who had the gall to ask for millions of dollars to keep said tape from getting out. It was Olivia Pope at her best, and it was Scandal at its best, too.