Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 5 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Meeeeooooow! (Ffffft!)
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.29.2005
Cut to Veronica fiddling with the camera. She sets it up so that it's pointing in her direction but is really filming Trina in the mirror. I guess the presence of a mirror was a key factor in this plan, but given that it's Trina we're dealing with here, Veronica must have thought the odds were pretty good. Veronica badly-acts that Trina is dying: "Can't you see you're dying?" If she performs this script in front of an audience, she'll really see what dying looks like. The scene, made hilarious from Veronica's intentional bad-acting playing off Trina's um, more natural bad-acting, goes on as we learn that only a bone-marrow transplant from a blood relation can save Trina. Veronica asks about Trina's parents, but Trina tells Veronica that she's adopted: "Unless the mother who abandoned me comes forward, unless I find out who I really am, it's over for me." She stagily puts her head in her hand, then pops back up with a "Scene." Heh. Trina had a lot more lines than Veronica, which some people might have noticed clashes with Veronica's stated intention in this exercise. But again, Veronica knew whom she was dealing with here. Trina mentions that she actually was adopted, and given the material, it's doesn't seem weird to me that she would mention that. Veronica: "Really? I...I didn't know that." Now that's the moment she should have put on tape.
Veronica leaves the room, but VMVO notes that she's the Mean Girl now, and she'd be making a public spectacle out of Trina. Frankly, I don't know why Veronica didn't just ask Trina for her permission to do this in the first place. It's not like being splattered across the tabloids or being featured on Access Hollywood is either unfamiliar or unwanted for Trina. Veronica reenters the room and drops the Prom Baby bombshell. Trina: "Ashton Kutcher is hiding somewhere, right?" Hee, especially with Kristen Bell having been recently Punk'd. Veronica manages to convince Trina that she's serious, so she asks if her mother "was one of those trashy sluts that dump her baby in a garbage can?" And just when I had stopped missing Joan Of Arcadia. Veronica tells Trina that she's pretty sure Celeste is the trashy slut. Trina takes that in, and brightens as she says that the Kanes have billions. Veronica confesses that she was going to use the tape to smoke Celeste out by sending it to all the tabloids. Trina, promo-style, tells Veronica that she's a rascal, and Veronica answers by saying she thought she was something less flattering. Well, one famewhore's "rascal" is another one's "bitch." Trina says that, if they hurry, they can get the tape on that evening: "It's the least 'Big Pat' can do for me after leaving all those pervy massages on my voicemail." Veronica takes a moment to realize the King Kong-sized monster she's created.