Episode Report Card Gwen: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT What a Clone. What a Maroon.
By Gwen | Season 4 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.22.2001
Unisex. Jackson apologizes to Ling, then checks the stalls and gets hit by Richard's door again. "Déjà vu bygones," says Richard, before leaving. Ling says that she's been angry with herself for having the one-night stand with Jackson, and for still giving a crap about him now. He suggests that they start over. She answers ambiguously and runs out of the restroom. Larry walks in, and the two men greet each other with mock joviality. We hear the opening bars of Barry White's "You're My Everything." Jackson and Larry act as if they hear it or sense it, too. John comes in and starts bobbing in front of the mirror. I do not at all want to laugh at the scene that follows, and yet I do.
Larry [standing next to Jackson, both of them watching John]: What are your thoughts, Jackson?
Jackson: Oh, I was just going to ask you the same thing, Larry.
Barry White [as John gets more into his moves]: We got it together, didn't we? We've definitely got our thing together.
Larry: He's on to something there, Jackson.
Jackson: Oh, yes he is, Larry.
Barry White: Nobody but you...and me.
Jackson: He's a funny little man, isn't he?
Larry: Yes, he is.
Jackson: Well, I can get with that.
Larry [indicating John's moves]: What -- that there?
Jackson: It's not a problem for me. You?
Larry: Not at all.
Jackson: Shall we?
Larry: Let's.
The three men fall in line and start doing John's stupid condor dance and other, even stupider dances. Like I said -- I didn't want to laugh. Taye Diggs and RDJ cracked me up with their facial expressions, though. The scene's shark is jumped when Ally comes in and husks, "It's about time." Then the dancing becomes too silly, and I roll my eyes into the next scene.
Courtroom. John gives a supposed-to-be-good closing about the fear of the unknown when it comes to cloning. He throws out the old cloning-a-heart-and-saving-a-life chestnut. Larry takes off his glasses for full effect; he talks about the ethics of cloning the dead and asks where we draw the line. He says something about fathering Barry White's twin brother, and John is totally pimped. Judge Walsh rules against John's client, even though Larry's tie is ugly as hell. After it's all over, Larry tells John, "I don't want a rematch," and shakes his hand. Aww...whatever.