Episode Report Card Niki: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Won't Someone Please Help George Bailey Tonight? (2)
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.17.2001
Rick collects Lily, and they bluster out of the studio. The assistant trails them, saying how well it went. She says the audience loves it when the guests "give as good as they get." She promises them that the numbers are going to be great for the show. Inside their bubble, Lily and Rick gape at one another, shocked to think that people may actually enjoy such a spectacle. Rick says, "Nobody watches this show, do they?" "Nobody I know," Lily insists as they stride down the hall.
Cut to Judy at Booklovers, taking down a display of "Great American Women." As the camera pans back, we see that Karen is with her, looking for some feedback on the case of the D.A. with hot pants. Karen says there are no offices on the third floor that he could have been visiting on business. Judy laughs that it's pretty obvious Dumanjiak went to her building just to run into her. Karen wonders about the awards dinner, and what it will look like if she sees him there. She admits that she told him she had her kids that night because she was worried that he'd ask her to go with him. Judy points out the ridiculousness of the situation. "I know, it's pathetic," Karen says, clamping her teeth around the straw of her Jamba Juice. ["Wah! I'm so jealous." -- Wing Chun] Judy says she thinks it's sexy. Karen absorbs this for a second, then fights off her impulse to get swept up in it, saying that even if she likes him, they can't see each other because it would be "inappropriate." That really is her favorite word, isn't it? Karen says that the bar association has rules against that sort of thing. "Against dating?" Judy teases, adding, "I knew there was some reason I didn't go to law school." "About conflict of interest," Karen says, giving Judy a playful shove. She sips her juice and surveys the store serenely, saying, "It's so peaceful here." Judy kids, "Yeah, kind of a monastic feel." She scrambles to stand up when the doorbells tinkle. Her face falls as she sees who it is. Three guesses.
Lily strolls in, and Judy says, "Lily! Hi!" Karen looks a little guilty and scrunches down as if to hide. Lily fumes about how angry she is at the media and corporations and lawyers. She rambles on about how Rick went to do "this show and this man -- this...this horrible man -- starts attacking him like he's some sort of criminal!" Maybe he didn't know how many remarkable qualities Rick has, either. Judy, clenched, tries to herd Lily out the door, asking whether she feels like taking a walk. Lily spits that she feels like taking a big rock and hitting someone with it. She whines that "now Rick's kids have to hear about all this, and [her] kids, and who knows what his ex-wife is saying to them about all this." Karen sucks her tongue and cocks her head, standing up indignantly. She strides over to where Lily is standing, announcing her presence with a tight "Lily. Hi." Ha! Lily tries to sort out why Karen's there, and there's an awkward silence. Karen lamely says, "So, Rick's on television." Lily tells her which show, and Karen assures her not to worry, that no one watches "those shows." Arms folded, Lily says she hopes not, and pulls her mouth into a tight, chilly smile. Karen falters and says she should get going, and as she leaves, she makes like she was just there to order a book. Lily rolls her eyes into her skull as Judy shows Karen out, and then spins confrontationally once the door is closed. "We never talk about you, I swear to god," Judy says immediately. Uh huh. Lily slowly takes a seat, looking as if she's been wronged.