"Mean, Green, and Straight Poured into These Jeans" is the fifth episode of the American television series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, based on Marvel Comics featuring the character She-Hulk. It follows lawyer Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk as she faces a lawsuit by Titania for the "She-Hulk" name. The episode is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films of the franchise. It was written by Dana Schwartz and directed by Anu Valia.
Tatiana Maslany stars as Walters, alongside Josh Segarra, Jameela Jamil, Ginger Gonzaga, Jon Bass, Griffin Matthews, and Renée Elise Goldsberry. Valia joined the series by December 2020 to direct multiple episodes.
"Mean, Green, and Straight Poured into These Jeans" was released on Disney+ on September 15, 2022.
Plot
Jennifer Walters discovers that Titania is suing her for the rights to her own name, having trademarked "She-Hulk" for a new line of beauty products. Holliway warns Walters that she needs to deal with the situation quickly, and assigns Mallory Book as her attorney for the case. Nikki and Pug come up with a plan to acquire a superhero outfit for Walters from Luke Jacobson, a highly exclusive tailor who does work on the side making commissioned special made super-suits for a number of underground vigilantes, while Book and Walters decide to countersue Titania in the hopes of regaining the She-Hulk trademark.
Walters is annoyed to discover that Todd, one of her unsuccessful dates, is also a client at GLK&H, but this helps her to realize that she can use her dating-app history to establish a past record of her identifying as She-Hulk before Titania ever tried to gain the trademark. Thanks to her past dates' all being subpoenaed and testifying on her behalf, Walters wins the case, and a humiliated Titania is ordered to discontinue sales of every one of her products bearing the name "She-Hulk". Walters establishes a tentative friendship with Book, who had previously been hostile to her for getting to head up the superhuman law division over her. Jacobson agrees to design a new business outfit for Walters that she can wear as both herself and She-Hulk as well as another suit hidden from view.
Production
Development
In August 2019, Marvel Studios announced that She-Hulk: Attorney at Law was being developed for the streaming service Disney+. By December 2020, Anu Valia was hired to direct three episodes, including the fifth. Executive producers include Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige, Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, and Brad Winderbaum, in addition to lead director Kat Coiro, and head writer Jessica Gao. The fifth episode, titled "Mean, Green, and Straight Poured into These Jeans", was written by Dana Schwartz, and was released on Disney+ on September 15, 2022. The title of the episode is a reference to what Jennifer Walters put as her "about section" of She-Hulk's dating profile, while the episode's title card is altered to say She-Hulk by Titania.
Writing
Exploring Walters navigating her dating life was "so beautiful" to Valia, because they were able to show with one of her dates, Arthur, the hurt she feels that he only was interested in She-Hulk and not Walters. Valia said, "the essence of what's being explored is like, 'You like this other side of me, but not both sides? That's also me.'" and conceded it was hard to understand given she believed Walters was equally as attractive as She-Hulk. Mallory Book becomes better friends with Walters by the end of the episode, faster than the two characters did in the comics. Actress Renée Elise Goldsberry felt the change in medium warranted a faster bonding between the two, since she starts out by not respecting She-Hulk, but feels Walters earns Book's respect by the end of the episode, though still not necessarily making them friends. Goldsberry believed Book had to give Walters her respect in order to "to commiserate a little bit about what they have in common in the world they live in".
The end of the episode shows Luke Jacobson has been creating a new suit for Matt Murdock / Daredevil, who appears later in the series. Valia was surprised to see this included in the script, and called it "a of responsibility" but "very fun". "Mean, Green, and Straight Poured into These Jeans" is the first of the series to not feature a mid-credits scene. Valia, Gao, and Marvel "played around with different versions" of the episode to see if a credits scene would work, ultimately believing the tease of both She-Hulk and Daredevil's costumes before the credits was the strongest.