Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Oh, Boy!
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 01.13.2003
Chilton. Calculus class. Or maybe EA. Or Trig. Damn. I'm rusty. Anyway, so's Fraulein, who asks Paris to repeat what the teacher just blabbered in Mathian. Paris is doodling on her notebook, and tells Fraulein to ask Louisa, who immediately tells Fraulein to ask Paris. Louisa's writing notes quickly while staring intently at the instructor, while still carrying on a conversation with Fraulein, asking if she was in a fight with Paris. Ah, high school. How I miss the skills you taught me. My most glorious note-taking moment: I was completely asleep in a college classroom, my hand still taking notes (the best notes -- just one scribbly, sad line across my notebook), when the teacher shouted, "And why would that be, Pam?" And I raised my head, looked him straight in the eye and answered the question. Correctly. About Socrates. My friend turned to me and whispered, "You were totally asleep, weren't you?" I nodded. "How the hell did you just do that?" he asked. I still don't know, but man, was that awesome. Ah, sine, consine, secent, cosecent. That's Trigonometry! No, wait. There are functions on that chalkboard. F(x) and stuff. That's Calculus. And this is Chilton. It has to be Calculus.
The bell rings. Rory walks over to Paris and informs her that the bell just rang. Paris is still doodling, unaware of anything. Rory explains in detail what a bell is. Paris jolts awake. She asks what the professor talked about. "Ask Louise," Rory says. "I didn't take notes!" Paris warbles, her body tense. "I didn't pay attention!" Rory says that Paris can borrow Rory's notes. Fraulein says she'll be borrowing those notes as well. Louisa reads over Fraulein's shoulder: "Wait. Add one and divide by the new power? Oh, I thought he said 'Add one and divide by the Jew power.' It makes much more sense this way." Paris can't believe she was "zoned out" for the entire class. Rory says she must have a lot on her mind. "I do," Paris says. Rory says that she doesn't think she'll have the prom bids ready in time for this week's supplemental student council meeting. Paris says they can just cancel the supplementary meeting this week. "What?" Rory asks incredulously. At some nearby desks, Francie and two lackeys are just sitting around, listening to every word of the conversation. Don't these girls have other classes to attend? Paris says that if there's nothing to talk about, there's no need to get together. Louisa reminds Paris that she said one meeting a week wasn't enough. Fraulein reminds her that she said meeting once a week was lazy, ineffective, and no way to govern a class, and if they were going to do it like that, they might as well just buy themselves a ranch in Texas. Paris says that if they want to sit around after school and swap makeover horror stories, then count her in. She leans in: "Hey, did I ever tell you about the time I plucked outside of my designated brow line? Man, was my face red." Fraulein: "I've done that, too! Ooh, it's bad." Louisa: "She was being sarcastic." Fraulein: "I wasn't. I looked surprised for a month." Ba-dum-bum. Paris says they'll take this week off, and next week they'll go back to two meetings a week. Rory nods that it sounds fair.