Episode Report Card Maggie: B- | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT The Trouble With Normal Is It Always Gets Worse
By Maggie | Season 3 | Episode 16 | Aired on 05.15.2001
Meghan waltzes into the kitchen in the loft -- which, by the way, features that unattractive wedding-cake lamp from IKEA -- to find Sean struggling with his bar mitzvah speech. He's finding it hard because it's his "first public address as an actual man." Meghan puts on her coat and responds, "Uh huh." He says, "What?" and she replies, "Nothing." She kisses him and wishes him good luck with his speech. As she's almost at the door, he says, "So, I'll see you there later." Meghan frowns and says she doesn't think they need couples therapy. Sean insists that they do. She asks, "Why? Why? We're kissing, we're talking, we had sex last night." He informs her that they didn't have sex and she says, "God, that was an amazing dream." I have to say that I really hate the playing-card earrings she's wearing in this scene. Sean drones that they "have issues," and cites their serial break-ups. Meghan states, "I dated a guy with a pierced scrotum." Does she make it a policy only to date guys with genital oddities? Sean looks befuddled and opens and closes his mouth a few times. Meghan explains, "I'm just saying that this isn't the most abnormal relationship I've ever been in." Okay, I get it, this episode is going to examine exactly what normal is for each and every relationship or heart. First it was Felicity and Knoll, then it was Javier and his abnormal heartbeat, now it's Sean and Meghan. I. Get. It. Sean yells until Meghan relents and says she'll be there. She snarls and stomps out the door sneering. While I don't despise these characters, the incessant bickering has got to stop. I just want to fast-forward through their scenes.
Molly and Richard are sitting together in the library. He's whining about the library getting TPed and that people like to "kick the president around." Since Molly's role has been reduced to being a part of the scenery, she only bleats that she's sure that whoever did it regrets it now. Knoll strides up to the table and asks Richard why he has left so many messages. Richard hauls out the surveillance videotape and announces, "You're busted, Crane." Knoll pretends not to know what Richard is talking about, but Richard says, "You're practically waving at the camera. It might as well be your graduation picture -- that is, assuming you're still graduating." Knoll looks stricken as Richard says that the administration "wants heads to roll," but if it were up to him, he'd burn the tape. Richard says that while the tape doesn't reveal Knoll's partner in crime, he has a pretty good idea who the culprit is. Knoll refuses to name names. Richard reiterates that the university administration is seeking to punish the perpetrators, not him. Methinks Richard doth protest too much. Knoll urges Richard to talk to the powers that be, because as he puts it, "I'm not going to lose everything over a couple of rolls of stupid toilet paper." Oh, I see. The toilet paper is the stupid party in this scenario. Knoll didn't seem too worried about losing anything when he was on the roof last week (not jumping), planning this idiotic caper. Richard says he'll do what he can, but that he's not promising anything. After Knoll is gone, Richard tells Molly, "I'm sorry you had to see that." Good ole Tricky Dick.