Episode Report Card Erin: B- | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT You Give Me Fever
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.06.2003
Graz. Man. You know what I love about this show? I mean, beyond the Spy Family dynamics and the Syd/Vaughn interactions? I love that it makes me look up "Graz" on Google. I know. It's a simple pleasure, but it's one I truly enjoy. Shit. I've had to look up more cities, more words, more DEVICES, than any recapper should ever have to (barring Sobell, because dudes? I don't envy her damn job), and I goddamn love it. Oh, Graz. You have so much to offer. Except an ENGLISH-SPEAKING SITE. So, unless I learn German in the next few seconds, I have nothing humorous to offer about Graz. I don't even know where in the hell Graz IS.
Well, apparently, Graz is the center point of all that is rock and all that is roll because in the Hotel Verlustzeit in Graz, there are several people wearing fur, many chicks sporting crotch-revealing mini-skirts, plenty of guys playing guitars for no reason, and men who think that wearing sunglasses indoors is COOL. Syd and Will enter, Syd sporting an awfully bizarre pink and black wig with accompanying pink and black ensemble, and Will sporting an equally bizarre cowboy hat and a sort of rattlesnake jacket and pant ensemble. Will hands off an empty beer bottle to a passing waiter, and he and Syd head to the check-in desk. The concierge is all, checking in, are we? Will, in a fantabulous rock star Brit accent, goes, "Yeah, 'course. I'm here. She's here. We made it." The concierge is like, um, and you are? "We're the next big thang," says Syd, in her own version of a rock star Brit accent. Will just sort of smacks his gum in the concierge's face and grins. Heh.
Once in the room, Syd and Will try to act like rock stars, and the bellboy who's showed them up tries to act like they're important by pointing out all the amenities of the room and the hotel. He is SO hoping for a good tip. Syd performs a little "look at my ass" routine on the bed that should really let Bellboy understand that this is a rock 'n' roll room and therefore he should get out, like, NOW. Will falls down on a sofa at the end of the bed and Bellboy asks if there's anything else he can get for them. Will just barely looks up and goes, "Yeah, thank you for asking. You know, you're a lovely li'l man, isn't he?" Bellboy thanks him. "Sweetheart, um. Two bottles?" Syd's all, two bottles of what? Will's all, champagne. Four? Two? "One's good," says Syd. "One," says Will, rolling off his perch and launching himself at Bellboy. "We'll need four bottles of champagne," says Will in his spot-on Rock Star Brit Accent. Melissa George really should pay attention during this episode. For more reasons than one. "And I'm gonna tip you like I've ordered five," says Brit Will, all manhandling Bellboy. Heh. Will's all, you know wot Ah mean? You do, don' you, you cheeky li'l bastard! Poor Bellboy's all, yeah, I know what you mean. And stop slapping me on the face like that. Bellboy goes to leave, and Will's still smacking him around in a gently humorous fashion. Syd recognizes a rogue agent when she sees one and heads on over.
She glares at Will as she shuts the door behind Bellboy. He's all, whuh? Whuh? What'd I do? Come on! If we're gonna do this, we have to be real about it! Heh. Syd opens the room door and looks out, looking for, um, stormtroopers? I don't know. Because they're not on a known assignment, right? What in the HELL is she looking for? She makes sure the "Do Not Disturb" sign is on the outside of the door and then tells Will he was a bit over the top. Will's all, dude? How many chances do I get to BE OVER THE TOP? Huh? "I'm wearing seat coverings," he says, "there is no 'over the top.'" Heh. He opens up a guitar case and removes the guitar, revealing a laptop. Syd grabs some device and heads to the widescreen TV. "Plus, I like champagne," he says. "You keep forgetting, I live in Wisconsin now. This is the only chance I have to do something cooler than tipping cows or buying underage kids booze! I'm not squandering this!"