Episode Report Card Kim: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Future Shock
By Kim | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 03.19.2002
Ben knocks on Lauren's door. She invites him in, but Ben prefers to stand in the hallway. Ben says he's not convinced that the baby is his. Lauren invites him in again; when he refuses, she says that she knows this is hard. Ben interrupts to say that they can do a paternity test, and he thinks they should. Lauren agrees, and Ben says that he'll set it up. Lauren agrees, and Ben flees.
Meghan and Javier sit on the couch, watching All About Eve. Javier is gleeful, and Meghan looks pissed. After one particularly bitchy speech by Bette Davis as Margo, Meghan decides that she has had enough and turns the tape off. Javier points out that Margo was "just about to talk about the bumpy night!" Meghan can't believe that Javier thinks she is as mean as Margo. Javier points outs that Margo is "always so mean, always yelling at everyone." Meghan starts to stalk off, and then turns to say that Javier is nothing like the guy in the movie, because the guy in the movie can actually act. Javier uses this as evidence that Meghan is as mean as Margo. Meghan keeps denigrating Javier's acting abilities and denying that she is like Margo, but Javier isn't having it. Finally, Meghan declares that she would rather be Margo than "some unemployed actor working at Dean & Deluca for the rest of his life." She stalks off, and Javier frustratedly searches and searches for a comeback, before finally screaming out, "Bumpy night!"
Zoe Webb and Noel are at a bar. Zoe says that she hasn't ever apologized for getting Noel fired. Noel says that he was in a bad place then, and Zoe says that she was, too ["obviously, if she would put her mouth on Noel" -- Wing Chun], and that it seems like a long time ago now. Noel says that Mr. Webb doesn't seem to have forgotten it yet. Zoe says that her dad wants the job, and Noel is the competition. Zoe says that she's glad that Noel called. Noel is glad, too. Smile smile. Whatever.
Ben gets blood taken at a clinic for his paternity test. He stares straight ahead as if he can't believe this is happening to him.
Cut to Ben and Trevor working on a lab. I don't know if they are doing classwork or research for Prof. Snark. Trevor asks whether Ben got the results of the paternity test yet. Ben is shaken out of his reverie and says that he has not. Ben reaches for a beaker to add some nitric acid to a test tube, but Trevor stops him, since they already added the nitric acid earlier. Ben apologizes. Trevor is sure that the baby won't be Ben's. I don't know how Trevor is so sure -- unless he slept with Lauren, too, and the baby is his! Wouldn't that be a great plot twist? And then they could both just fuck off together and we wouldn't have to deal with either of them anymore.