Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 116 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Thank you for flying Exposition Airlines
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2004.01.11
That's all Sydney needs. She's all, Vaughn? Did you say Vaughn? I think my thighs just went up in flames. Oh, I need to see him. I need to see him RIGHT NOW. Kendall's all, dude? It's been nine months. And the way he says it, you can totally tell that he knows about Vaughn and his whore -- erm, I mean, "girlfriend." Syd doesn't give a damn. "He loves me," she says. "Nine months is nothing." She storms out in her kickin' leather jacket and heads home for the great reunion. Except that, when she gets there, she sees Vaughn and Lauren getting out of a car, laughing and happy and -- OW! MY EYES! THEY'RE KISSING! AAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!
Ahem. I wonder if Syd looked at Lauren, then caught a glimpse of herself in the side mirror and went, "Dude! I look JUST LIKE HER! Even my eyebrows are darker than my hair! What the?" Because I know I sure as hell shouted that at my TV screen when I saw it. Like one big "duh," this episode is. Syd, after seeing her beloved with his skank -- erm, I mean, "girlfriend," decides that she can't confront him, because seconds after the Disgusting Duo leave the scene, a car with two thugs drives by, and Syd sees one of them talking into an earpiece. For some reason, this indicates to Syd that her confronting Vaughn will only put him in danger.
Syd picks up her cell phone and calls Kendall. "I'll do whatever you want," she says, hanging up on him before he can respond. "And that's how we started working together," says Kendall, back on the Exposition Express to Boring Storyville, Population: Two. Syd became Julia. We get an extended shot of Sydulia stalking down a supposedly European sidewalk, looking extremely hot, as No Doubt's version of "It's My Life" pulses over the soundtrack. I'd have preferred the original Talk Talk version, but then, my soft spot for eighties bands and music knows no bounds.