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By Sara M | Season 11 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.04.2004
Oops! Mom brought the daughter of a friend of hers over to meet Noah! With a "you two look great together," Mom leaves the pair alone, and they sit on the couch. The woman (Deborah) and Noah express disgust over their mothers' stereotypical wishes to fix them up, as if, Deborah says, they were sitting around in their rooms all day. Noah stops laughing because that is exactly what he does. He asks Deborah what she does, and she says she's a social worker, working mostly with convicted felons. Deborah ask Noah what he does, and you'd think he wouldn't have asked her that question knowing that she would ask him back and the answer would be so pathetic. "I'm a student," he says. Debroah asks Noah if he has spent his entire life in school. He says he has, and that there is nothing wrong with that. "You're in your thirties and you're still in school," says Deborah. "Exactly!" says Noah. "And you live with your mother and you're okay with that," she continues. "Yes!" says Noah, then, "No...no. Wait. I have to change my life." "I would," says Deborah meanly. Mom comes back in the room just in time to hear Deborah make her excuses and leave. Quickly. ["Maybe Deborah needs her mom to fix her up with people because she's such a bitch. On the other hand, Deborah? Word." -- Wing Chun]
Noah asks Mom to stop trying to fix him up. She says she just wants her son to have someone to love. "I will," he says, "one day. When it's right." This is enough of a prompt, apparently, for Mom to say, "The things that make life worth living -- they can't be thought here." She points to his head, and then continues, "They must be felt...here." And then she puts her hand on his heart as the music swells, telling us that THIS MIGHT BE IMPORTANT. "Maybe you don't know so much," she concludes. Damn, Noah's mom is mean.
Noah looks through want ads, a few prospects circled. He sighs and sits against his bookshelf as his mother creeps into the room and puts some papers on the bookcase, then creeps back out. Noah slams a book on the ground, which magically prompts several books to come flying off the bookshelf and hit him on the head. Last to arrive is a piece of paper, which floats to the ground accompanied by some piano notes. Noah opens it and takes out a blank piece of paper. The paper suddenly begins to glow and a letterhead for the Metropolitan Public Library appears, followed by writing which is also read in a voice-over by Jane Curtin. It's all very Harry Potter. "You have been selected to interview for a prestigious position at the Metropolitan Public Library," she says. "Now how did you do that?" Noah asks, not seeming quite as freaked out by the glowing paper with self-writing ink as I would be.
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