Episode Report Card Kim: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Love Bug
By Kim | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.06.1999
Maggie pours some wine for herself and Ben. Ben says he's glad she called him back. Maggie says she wasn't going to, since she knows how this is going to end. Ben thinks she might be wrong. Maggie makes a lame joke about being a "psychic Japanese-speaking caterer," and I really can't wait until she's not on this show anymore because she bugs me. She tells Ben, "I just wanted to be with you one last time. That's what this is. Do you understand?" Ben tries to make a joke out of it by saying that he's young, so he doesn't know what she means. Maggie says, "This is it. No more after tonight," as if she is refusing him candy, which in a way I guess she is. Ben keeps saying, "Unless you're wrong." Give it up, already, man! Clearly, you could get other women. They start making out and it's really loud and smacky and Ben asks if they should go somewhere else and Maggie dramatically sweeps all the utensils off the butcher block counter and they do it right there. I think any real caterer would take better care of her utensils. Of course, the only other caterer I have to look to for an example is Monica Geller, so there's that.
Felicity, David, Knoll and Ruby are sitting in a booth at Epstein Bar and laughing as they tease Ruby about her potential movie role, and how she's not allowed to tell them who the male star of the movie is. I am such a blabbermouth that I probably would have told five minutes after I heard. Clearly, Ruby has a little more self-control than I do. Ruby and David go to get more drinks. Felicity and Knoll chit-chat and Knoll notices that Felicity has an eyelash on her cheek and volunteers to get it off. He does, and holds it out for her to blow off and make a wish, and tells her to make a really good wish. Felicity asks him what he would wish for and they go back and forth in a very flirtatious manner until Knoll says he is "always wishing. Even in non-eyelash moments." I think it's kind of shitty of both of them to flirt so obviously when they are on dates with other people! Anyway, Felicity blows the eyelash off and Knoll says her wish couldn't have come true because he's still there, and clearly he's waiting for her to say, "I wouldn't wish you away!" but she doesn't, which is kind of funny. Ruby and David look over and notice how close the two of them are. Oops.
Ben and Maggie walk out of her building and Ben asks her if she wants to go get coffee. Maggie says she wasn't kidding about it being over and Ben protests some more. He says, "You like me. You do." You know, if he were a women doing this to a man, people would be saying he's needy and desperate. Somehow because he's a man, it's charming. What's up with that? Maybe it's just because Scott Speedman is so darn cute and you can't imagine a woman not wanting him. Anyway, Maggie tells him she just likes sleeping with him. Ben just can't take no for an answer and asks her to get coffee with him again. Maggie says, "We'll see each other and be polite," but their relationship has to be kept a secret, "but it was really fun. Take care." She walks off and Ben stares at her retreating back. ["I am a happily married woman, but if someone who looked like Speedy were telling me, 'You like me. You do,' I would have a few sleepless nights." -- Wing Chun]