Everybody Loves Hugo

Everybody Loves Hugo
Season	6
Episode number	12
Airdate(s)	April 13, 2010
Flash-sideways	Hurley Desmond Locke
Centric	Hurley
Writer	Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz
Director	Daniel Attias
Guests	Bruce Davison - Dr. Douglas Brooks Lillian Hurst - Carmen Reyes Harold Perrineau - Michael Cynthia Watros - Libby
Co-stars	Francois Chau - Pierre Chang Kenton Duty - teenage boy Samm Levine - clerk Jesse Smith - waiter
Transcript	Everybody Loves Hugo transcript

"Everybody Loves Hugo" is the 12th episode in Season 6 of Lost and the 115th produced hour of the series as a whole. It was originally broadcast on April 13, 2010. Hurley agonizes over what the group's next move should be, while Locke is curious about the new arrival in his camp.

Trivia

General

• The episode's title, "Everybody Loves Hugo" is an obvious nod to the season 2 episode, Everybody Hates Hugo.

Production notes

• Daniel Dae Kim (Jin) does not appear in this episode.
  • Yunjin Kim (Sun) and Emilie de Ravin (Claire) appear, but without speaking lines, though Sun still communicates in written form.

Bloopers and continuity errors

• The licence plate number on Desmond's car in the flash-sideways timeline changes after he sees Hurley and Libby together on the beach to when he runs over Locke.

Recurring themes

• Desmond's order number at Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack is 42. (Numbers)
• Hugo places a black sheet on the beach when on a date with Libby. (Black and White)
• When Hugo and Libby are talking at the Asylum, in the background a patient is playing Connect Four. (Numbers) (Games)
• Desmond runs over Locke with his car. (Car accidents)
• Ilana dies when she puts down the unstable dynamite. (Life and Death)
• In the flash-sideways timeline, Hurley continues to disagree with his mother when she says he needs a girl in his life. (Parent issues)
• The Man in Black releases Desmond from his ropes after Desmond says he has nowhere to run to, an excuse the Man in Black finds most irrefutable. (Imprisonment)

Storyline analysis

• Hurley convinces Jack, Sun, and Frank to follow him to the Man in Black's camp in hopes to talk with him. (A-Missions)
• In the flash-sideways timeline, Desmond runs into a wheelchair-bound Locke outside of the school at which Locke substitute teaches. (Crimes)
• In the flash-sideways timeline, Libby reaches out to Hugo at the restaurant because she "knew" they were soul mates. Because of this, Hurley makes strides to see her again, and they share a moment on the beach in which Hurley sees flashes of his other self from the original timeline in which he and Libby knew each other and were together. (Relationships)
• Hurley assumes a leadership role after he was told by Michael that he shouldn't destroy the Ajira plane. (Leadership)
• A rift grows between Richard and Hurley when they disagree on how to approach the Man in Black: either by destroying the Ajira plane, or by talking with the Man in Black. (Rivalries)
• Hurley barters with the Man in Black to not harm one another when Hurley, Jack, Sun, and Frank approach the Man in Black's camp. (Economics)

Cultural references

• Connect Four: When Hurley visits Libby in the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute, one of the patients is seen playing Connect Four. (Games)
• Seinfeld: As Hurley exits the award ceremony with his mother, he notes that the next award ceremony he will attend is that of the Human Fund, a reference to a fake charity that George Costanza creates in order to "donate" holiday presents in the episode The Strike to in lieu of giving gifts to his colleagues. Further, when speaking with Libby in the mental hospital, Hurley uses the term "bizarro" to refer to the original flash-sideways timeline, a reference to the The Bizarro Jerry episode where many of the Seinfeld characters have a set of alter egos that mimic their style and group in strange ways. (Movies and TV)

• • Superman: "Bizarro" is also an enemy of Superman, which Jerry Seinfeld often referenced in the Seinfeld series.

Literary techniques

• In the original timeline, both Hurley and Libby were in the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute. In the flash-sideways timeline, only Libby is. (Juxtaposition)
• Ilana, previously in the hospital for severe burns, is killed by an explosion of dynamite. (Irony)
• Hurley refers to the original timeline as "some bizarro alternate universe." (Irony)
• In the original timeline, Flocke (aka the Man in Black) pushes Desmond down a well, possibly injuring him. In the alternate timeline, Desmond runs over Locke with his car. (Irony)

Episode references

• Richard tells Hurley that Jacob once told him what the Island is. ("Ab Aeterno")
• The Man in Black tells Desmond that there is more than one well on the Island. ("This Place Is Death")
• Libby tells Hurley that their date in Los Angeles reminds her of the date they never had. ("Two for the Road")
• Michael tells Hurley that he is sorry for murdering Libby. ("Two for the Road")

Unanswered questions

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For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Everybody Loves Hugo/Theories

Original timeline

• Why did the Man in Black push Desmond down the well?
• Who was the young boy seen in the jungle by the Man in Black and Desmond?

External links

• ABC Medianet schedule
• ABC Press Release