Episode Report Card Joe R: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Roy Till Called
By Joe R | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 10.14.2007
Nancy shows up at Tim's soccer game (he tries to kick a ball at her head) and hands Val an envelope with $4,500 in cash. Val's like "I knew it" and accuses Nancy of scamming her. Nancy only says that an emergency came up and Val with have the rest of her money in a month. Val, her voice getting louder and shakier, says that she doesn't have the luxury of a month, what with the bills and creditors and all. Nancy, now wearing a terribly unattractive shade of petulant, asks why Val's managed her money so poorly. Val's like, "Because I work a shitty job in this shitty economy that's basically designed to fuck me in the ass? How do you not know this?" Val's now in tears, bitterly claiming that she's been "fucked." "Fucked...in the head," Nancy says (yeah, good one), and she leaves, pretending that Val's the one who's handling this poorly. She takes Tim's soccer ball as she goes. Tim whines to his mommy, but Val remains my hero: "Fuck your ball, she just took our money."
Majestic City Council. Doug's been brought before the board for an unpaid loan that was made to "Aguatecture" (Conrad and Heylia's fountain-house front). Doug tries to "repay" that loan with a post-dated personal check ("read the memo line -- it says 'for Aguatecture'). He even throws in some Jesus-freak-baiting for good measure. Councilwoman Ann (played by Sam McPherson's mom) ain't buying it, but the rest of the council members love those fountains, so once again due to the incredible doofitude of a city council, Doug Wilson skates free.
Celia's house. Isabelle feeds Dean dinner while Celia looks miserable and unshowered. And whether it's the fact that she's right back where she started, with a man who can't do anything for her and a daughter who despises her, or the sad looking chicken pot pie on her dinner plate, Celia starts crying. Sobbing. Wailing. Isabelle looks nonplussed and hands her mom a napkin.
Finally, since Nancy's feeling like a terrible, shitty, worthless person, I guess it's about time for her to slink up against Sullivan again. She drunkenly (? -- it's so hard to tell with MLP sometimes) wanders into his conference room and tells him she's quitting. He's pissed at her, but he doesn't want her to quit. She says if he were a real man, he'd nail her right on the conference table. Instead, he angrily grabs her, places a hand over her mouth, and takes her from behind. She's totally into it. On the surface. Lord knows the rivers of self-hatred going on down below. But it looks like she's going to have company in hating herself, since Celia's in the doorway -- in her hot red dress and holding a plate of delicious cupcakes, the poor sucker -- watching the whole disgusting show. And you know I love Nancy, but: git 'er, Celia!