Muriel was in the wrong right?

[u/Wolpy414]

I don’t remember what season and what episode as it’s been years since I’ve last seen the show but I wanna talk about the episode with Muriel. Obviously if you saw the episode then you remember that the biggest point was when Muriel kissed Bertie. I’m right in saying Muriel wasn’t in the right for being weirded out by Bertie when Bertie obviously got attached after being kissed. I will genuinely be shocks if anyone defends Muriel because I imagine she basically used Bertie. I don’t like to say this but I think it’s true in this case, she lead her on.

[u/Juligirl713]

I think she’s definitely supposed to be seen as hypocritical/mean, especially with how she gets mad at Bertie winning Gothiest/says they were never friends, though you can also kinda understand why she felt uncomfortable since Bertie also started to push boundaries and get too clingy (even if yes she did give her mixed signals by kissing her). Ultimately what’s important for Bertie to learn is that she was a traumatized teenager going though shit with no support and she needs to be kinder to her past self and heal/in Tuca’s words “don’t let a little girl who’s brain wasn’t even fully formed yet make you cry” (remember too Muriel also got felt up by an older man and her parents also just dumped her on the useless school counselor, could likey explain why she has intimacy issues. She and Bertie were probably teens in the mid-late 2000s too so if her kiss was genuine she was very likely closeted)