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Vagina Shame is the third episode of Season 6 of Big Mouth. It is the fifty-fourth episode, overall.

Plot[]

Rita St. Swithens, a Shame Wizard like her son Lionel, hosts a very special episode focusing on vaginal shame.

Case Study #1: Jessica Cobain Glaser. Jessi is still living with her father and his pregnant girlfriend Caitlin. She has been wearing leggings for 11 days in a row and lying to Caitlin about their cleanliness out of spite, until her vaginal area starts itching. Trying to scratch it in school does not help, and neither does urinating. She tries to call her mother Shannon who is busy working, and at a drugstore meets several talking feminine hygiene products who try to convince her to choose them. She swipes many wipes that do nothing, while her vagina produces a discharge before turning into her psychotic twin, Beatrice.

Case Study #2: Lola Ugfuglio Skumpy. While her mother is out of town following and having sex with the band Hoobastank, Lola watches internet porn and notices that all the women do not have pubic hairs. Despite the words of her pubic hair knights in a toy castle saying that it offers protection from dirt and bacteria, a few days later she overhears Nick, Jay, and Andrew talking about how they dislike pubic hair on women after seeing Shortcuts. She later shaves them off, but soon realizes that the knights are gone, much to her regret. Interlude: What Do Boys Know About Vaginas?: Nick fails to draw a proper vagina, only drawing a triangle; Marty Glouberman angrily tells the interviewer “it's none of your business” and forces the camera out of his car; Coach Steve calls them “sweeties” and asks if the triangle Nick drew has a sister.

Case Study #3: Missy Foreman-Greenwald. Feeling left out in the locker room when all the other girls look for tampons, Missy fakes rummaging in her bag for one and then lies about using a Diva Cup (a menstrual cup brand) to hide the fact that she hasn't yet menstruated. As soon as she enters a bathroom stall, however, she realizes that her underwear is stained with menstrual blood, but she cannot turn to any of her friends for help as she had already lied. At home, she buries her bloodstained briefs in the bathroom waste-basket and continues to feel awful in her bedroom. Meanwhile, her mother, used to her daughter's adolescent mood swings, ignores her at first, but soon finds the underpants and explains that she told Missy she would be a “moon goddess” so that getting her period would be a rite of passage for her. She also explains that her late mother was a terrible mother who slapped her in a “Jewish tradition” after getting her period and, in a tender mother-daughter bonding moment, offers a secret stash of Advil's that she takes for menstrual cramps.

Case Study #4: Caitlin Grafton. Caitlin is 26 and seven months pregnant, when she and Greg get terrible news: an ultrasound reveals that she has cephalopelvic disproportion (CPD), meaning that her vaginal canal is too small to give birth. The doctor recommends a C-Section, but Caitlin wants a natural birth and feels less like a woman, while Greg only clumsily manages to offend her further with clueless remarks. As she heads to the bathroom, she catches Jessi furiously scrubbing her own vulva with a loofah to stop the itching. Caitlin realizes that Jessi has a yeast infection from wearing the unwashed leggings for too long. She offers Jessi Monistat, a topical vaginal cream, which relieves the infection and her vagina returns to normal. Caitlin begins crying about the C-section and having CPD, while Jessi admits she was a C-section baby, which makes Caitlin feel a little better about how her own child might turn out. Jessi's vagina points out that she is an organ like any other part of the body, and that it is actually societal expectations that are really the issue. Rita bemoans how camaraderie, compassion, and empathy are the enemies of shame, but remarks she has a few tricks left. That night, Shannon calls, explaining that she had a new phone and didn't see the notifications, but is upset that she wasn't able to help Jessi while Caitlin was able, and the two produce a whole new cycle of blaming themselves as Rita promotes her book Women and Shame on Amazon, which her viewers will regret shopping there, ending the episode.

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  • Both Greg and Jessi think CPD stands for "California Pizza Ditchin".

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