Episode Report Card Deborah: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jew Of Arcadia
By Deborah | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.25.2004
Adam tells Joan he thinks they should go. Joan: "Like I wouldn't go to Grace's bat mitzvah?" Adam meant the grief counselling. He thinks it would help to talk about it: "I mean, I'm having trouble coming to sense with it." Joan apologizes for jumping all over him, but says that constantly rehashing it just keeps it too fresh in her mind: "Without some kind of 'why,' it's just going to drive me crazy. I can't. I'm sorry." Adam: "Sure." The bell rings and she kisses him, saying she has to go: "Can't be late for French. Gotta keep my…D average." Adam calls after her, "Hey, do you think your grades are tanking because…" Joan pleads, "Please, don't. Just don't." Adam wearily leans his head against the locker.
Joan wanders through the hall as some girl is putting up another one of the Grief Counselling/Spirit Day posters. She complains as Joan passes, "Someone keeps ripping these down." Joan doesn't miss a beat: "Oh, Snippy God. Well, I don't need to go whine." "Snippy God," who's dressed like she goes to a Catholic girls' school, and is played by Christy Carlson Romano -- someone I've never seen before, although I wouldn't admit it to my Kim Possible-worshipping five-year-old niece -- says, "Other people might." I'm just going to go with the official script name for this avatar: "Officious Hall Monitor God." Even though it's really long and annoying to type. She reminds me ever so vaguely of Jennifer Love Hewitt. Sort of like what you'd get if you crossed "Love" with Kimberly McCullough. Apparently she and Christopher Marquette went to his homecoming dance together in 1999. Joan suggests a Q&A session: "'Ask the Almighty.' I'd show up for that one." So would I. Officious Hall Monitor God says, "You want to know why she died, why it had to be Judith." Joan: "Uh, yeah. You wanted me to live in the present, but you know what? Here in the present, Judith's death is with me all the time." Officious Hall Monitor God takes the bat mitzvah invitation out of Joan's hand and says, "I wish you could have seen the baby picture, Joan. Adorable! She had these little chubby cheeks…" She puffs out her cheeks to illustrate. Joan: "Could we focus?" Officious Hall Monitor God claims, "I'm always focused. Grace seems a little scattered, though. You should help her get through this." Joan sighs: "It's a Jewish thing, okay? I'm not really the point person for Jewish." Officious Hall Monitor God: "Help her, Joan." She wanders off with a weird backward Godwave as Joan calls out, "Hey…what -- what about Judith?"