Episode Report Card Sara M: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Le joke est morte; vive le joke
By Sara M | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.05.1998
Simon's in the RevOffice, laughing to himself while typing on the laptop. Here comes Annie, demanding to know what's so funny. Simon explains that he's in a chat room for The Tick. Annie wants Simon to show her something "useful" on the internet. What, The Tick isn't useful? Annie suggests that maybe something about families hosting foreign exchange students would do the trick. I suggest something for foreign exchange students stuck in houses filled with the holier-than-thou, but no one listens to me. Simon looks up Annie's topic, and Annie is extremely impressed with everything he finds. I am also impressed; the page Simon looked up loaded in under a second. That never happens to me, because God hates me and loves the Camdens! Simon narrows the search down to sites about French foreign exchange students while Annie scratches her nose unattractively. Again, we see the page load instantly. Amazing. Annie decides to go to a French foreign exchange student chat room, which I can't believe really exists. They do, and we see that there are other people in there having a lame conversation about feeding French people. Their screen names are PJones, ShananaR, and RevCamden. Wait a minute...RevCamden? Could it be? Annie and Simon think so, and Annie almost falls off her chair, she's so excited. She picks up the phone to tell him that they saw him online, but then we hear that melodic modem static sound. Simon explains that the phone line is already in use. So they decide to talk to the Rev via the internet. The first thing Annie does is scold him about not working on his sermon. Now we're at Rev's office, where he says, "Yikes." RevCam welcomes his "cyberchick" to the internet. Annie and Simon laugh, and then Annie kicks Simon out of the room for "privacy." Hee. Simon sets up a private chat room for them and leaves. I wonder what the Annster is planning.
The taxi arrives at the Pool Hall, and Mary and Lucy are ever so excited that all their friends are watching them arrive in a taxicab. I'm sure they're really, really, impressed. Then Gee lights a cigarette and they walk down the street arm-in-arm. Mary and Lucy don't even notice the ciggie. ["Okay, considered what a big deal was made over Simon and Mary smoking in seasons four and five, that's really stupid. Oh, what am I even saying." -- Sars]
Simon's in the hall; he peers into Gee's room and spots Ruthie snooping around. I am reminded that I haven't seen Ruthie in a blessedly long time, and that the apple doesn't fall very far from the tree. Ruthie spots a pack of cigarettes. Ruthie wants to smoke them. Simon yells at her. She doesn't care. Then she holds the pack up invitingly and says, "You know you want one." Yes, Ruthie, I do. It's commercial time, so I go outside to light up because I want to be like an annoying little girl and a smarmy French guy.