Episode Report Card Michael Neal: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Revenge of the Wrath of the Nerd
By Michael Neal | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 12.04.2008
Tracy joins Kenneth and a crowd of people on the elevator at the last minute. He smiles wryly and cracks "How come they ain't no Puerto Ricans on Star Trek?" No one laughs and when the elevator stops on the next floor and Kenneth observes "What is this, the local?" those same people uncontrollably laugh. Tracy's not laughing. Jack at the same time bursts into Lemon's office with the news of Geiss. He's awake and soon Jack will be CEO. They're having a meeting in one hour on the Edison terrace. He braces his hand on Lemon's shoulder and thanks his lucky coin for making this possible. He also pays attention to Lemon's high school reunion invite and insists that she go, but Lemon has not so fond memories of her high school days. Specifically a memory she has of looking like a super nerd as she peered through a telescope. The most popular girl in school, Kelsey Winthrop, asks a question and when Lemon mumbles something indiscernible back all the cool kids behind her start to laugh. Jack insists that she go and show her high school nemesis "that the ugly duckling has turned into a vaguely ethnic swan." He even offers her to take the GE jet. Lemon pulls back initially but when Jack reminds her that they have popcorn on the plane she stiffens her back. "I want to go to there."Jack and Don Geiss meet later on the Edison terrace. Geiss is sitting in a wheelchair wearing a suit. He congratulates Jack for being the first to know, officially, that he is staying on as the CEO and then Geiss stands up confidently from his wheelchair. He was shaken out of his coma by a beam of energy and it told him to continue working. Jack's still his number two man and it will probably remain that way until Geiss drops dead. Judging from his full recovery from a coma that day may never come.
Tracy sits sulking in his dressing room, in his angry chair (a chair for pre-K students). He yells at Grizz and DotCom for not being around to laugh at his joke in the elevator. "Your job is to save me from embarrassment." DotCom points out that Grizz had to see the optometrist. "Making up words won't save you! We getting in an elevator with Kenneth and you're going to laugh at my jokes!"
Jack seeks out Lemon in the hallway and tells her what happened with Geiss. He's managing to control his anger but just slightly when Lemon retorts, "Jeez, Jack, tough year. First William F. Buckley dies, now this. Next stop, impotence, right?" Jack wheezes out a barely there laugh and tells her that he'll be accompanying her on the jet ride. After she gets dropped off, Jack will be continuing to Miami for anesthetizing lovemaking. "Let's go have some fun," he says. CUT TO: a snowstorm as Jack and Lemon make room arrangements with a hotel clerk. She apologizes for causing him to be stuck in her hometown of White Haven, but Jack is far away in his mind still contemplating the loss of not getting the CEO job. She tries to talk up White Haven's charm to him. "I know it's not Miami, but you can blow off some steam here. We have a lovely N. C. Wyeth museum." The clerk informs her that it's been burnt down by some meth addicts. Likewise, the excellent restaurants on Cabot Street have been taken over by Vietnamese immigrants and there are no bars as White Haven is a dry country, the one remaining tradition of the area. "But uh, do you like Methodist churches full of Vietnamese?" asks the hotel clerk to Jack.