Episode Report Card Niki: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Daddy's Girl
By Niki | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.13.2000
At her locker, Grace sees the boy walking in her direction. "I like what you wrote," she says as he passes. Surprised, he turns and asks, "How'd you know?" "I just knew," Grace replies. "I don't know." The boy introduces himself -- his name is Jared (I think -- or is it Ray? I'm having these damn auditory problems). When Grace tells him her name, he chuckles and says, "Amazing Grace. You probably get that all the time." "No, not really," Grace says, and some pages fall from her notebook. He picks them up for her, glancing at one before she can grab it from him. "I write poetry too," he says. They look at each other for a moment, but then Grace's friend Annie rushes up and interrupts. Grace abruptly says "Okay. Bye." He watches her leave, and she turns to look back at him. Hmm. Mutual interest?
Black-and-white Grace pops up. Oh good, I was wondering when she'd make an appearance. She explains that "by junior high you sort of know which way you're going to go," and she starts ticking off girly categories on her fingers: "There's cute, suicidal, student council, and then there's this other category which would be...I don't know...uh, different...from that. I figured I'd go for funny. And I really don't think I found my category yet." Hmm, you don't say. The funny thing is that she looks like she's going to cry as she admits this.
Cut to the foyer of Lily's house. The doorbell is ringing and Lily runs to answer it, and squeals, "Daddy!" He says he knows he's early, and mutters something about going to visit her brother but he's in some kind of new [something completely unintelligible]. A moment of warm family hysteria ensues as he's interrupted by Zoe, who runs down the stairs screaming, "Grandpa!" She's closely followed by Grace, who takes the cake (literally -- he brought them one) while Zoe leads him into the kitchen to show him a card trick. At the table, Grandpa mentions the opening and how excited they must be. He's leading up to a little fishing expedition: "So I guess Jake's at the restaurant?" Lily quickly quashes any hopes he may have by saying, "I have no idea where Jake is." Grandpa then gets busy with a bowl of nuts on the table and asks Grace about camp. She tells him, "It's pretty cool. You take these courses about writing and a lot of the teachers are published." Grandpa is surprised -- a camp where you write? Grace assures him that it's true and proceeds to rattle on about it, basically making it known how excited she is about it. Zoe butts in to guess which card Grandpa picked.