Episode Report Card Wing Chun: A+ | 192 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Mile Deep And A Foot Wide
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2006.10.16
It doesn't last: the next shot is Shane, at the table on the patio, complaining that tonight's paella isn't as good as last night's. Andy tiresomely lectures that you have to watch paella closely. Nancy passive-aggressively reminds him that he was supposed to be there to cook it, and cheerfully tells Peter she thinks it's great and wants seconds; she's the only one. Trying to keep up the pretense that they're totally not dysfunctional at all -- really! -- Nancy addresses Silas's mopey behaviour by telling him to take his elbows off the table, getting ignored for her trouble. Peter takes this opportunity, while no one's eating his awful dinner, to tell Shane and Silas that he's sorry about the way he came by the other night, particularly given the occasion. Silas wearily says that they've heard this speech before: he doesn't want to replace their dad, he just wants to fuck their mother. Peter violently knocks Silas's elbow off the table, reminding Silas that his mother told him several times. As everyone else at the table tenses up at the turn Family Dinner has taken, Silas bitterly asks Nancy if she's going to let Peter get away with that. Nancy doesn't seem ot know herself, and stares at Peter in silence, submitting to his alpha-dog display as she definitely didn't with Megan's (way hotter) father. Anyway, Nancy's reaction is to smooth things over by (emptily) promising Gretchen that their dinners don't usually go like this, and Silas, leaping up, quickly agrees: they normally eat inside, they don't dress like they're going to a movie premiere. Peter tells Silas to have some respect, and Silas responds by flipping him the bird so close to his face that I spend the next thirty seconds or so that he holds it there waiting for Peter to break it off for him. Nancy sends Silas to his room, but it's time for Gretchen to go home. Silas says he'll take her home, but since he's being punished, Nancy taps Andy for the job instead. Andy begs off (Silas explaining that he's too high to drive), so Nancy moves on to nominating Peter. Instead of saying that he's clearly a psycho, Gretchen says that she doesn't know Peter. Nancy tries to say he's a "policeman," but Gretchen sticks to her guns. Nancy defensively says that Gretchen doesn't know Silas either, but Gretchen shrugs, "He's Shane's brother." I mean, honestly. Nancy says that she will drive Gretchen, then, but no one wants that, since she's had like four bottles of wine. So Silas is up after all, but Nancy orders him to come straight back, since it's his "last ride."