Episode Report Card Niki: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Mystery Dance
By Niki | Season 1 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.06.2000
Cut to the interior of a cavernous art gallery, where there's an exhibit of big metal sculptures. Judy's busy moaning again: "It's just all so desperate." Lily misunderstands (perhaps she's not really paying attention, and I can't say I blame her), and thinks Judy's referring to the artwork. But Judy pulls her firmly back on track, saying, "I meant my life...Maybe I should just give up dating altogether, you know, because now I've just become one of those women." "What women?" Lily wants to know. Yeah, Judy, what women? The kind who are willing to go out with anyone just because they ask? The kind who obsess so much about their crappy love lives and sucky dates that they make everyone around them want to puncture their eardrums rather than listen to one more self-pitying word? But again, I digress. What Judy meant was that she's becoming the kind of woman whose mother is so desperate to see her paired off that she, too, becomes active in finding potential dates. Apparently Judy almost let her mother set her up with the son of a friend, but they guy was a pharmacist. After walking around a sculpture that "speaks" to Judy, the pair just happen to run into Rick and a friend. Lily immediately drapes herself down the front of Rick while they make smiley chit-chat. They're awfully friendly considering how recently she slept with someone else. While those two are busy smooching, Judy and the stranger make small talk -- he makes a joke about the sculptures that leads to the revelation that he sculpted them. Lily and Rick continue with their public display of affection, leading Sam the sculptor to observe wryly, "You know, the couple that seems to have the best sex life is actually the most troubled." Judy agrees, saying, "Of course, they're overcompensating." Lily and Rick smile indulgently at the jokesters. Sam rushes off to stop someone from buying one of the pieces to which he's become attached, and we're left watching Judy watching him. She's got this goofy look that, I think, means she's smitten.
Cut to the outside, where the camera is focused on a raised car hood. Someone is tinkering with the engine. I guess it's Judy since we cut immediately to black-and-white Judy talking about an ex-boyfriend -- how he was really into old cars and she "did that thing you do, you know?" -- she immersed herself in something she wasn't into just because he was. Well it didn't work out, but hey, Judy "learned a lot -- about rebuilding cars." Ba-dum-dum.