Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Never Forget Your First Time
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on 08.16.1998
We get a shot of Poet on Oz TV, looking like he's accepting some sort of award. Whatever. Schibetta returns to Em City, and Ryan snarks that the lunch special is arsenic. Schibetta looks up, and sees Adebisi smiling and dancing on the balcony. Cut to Schibetta in bed, tossing and turning. It's not going to get any easier for you to sleep for a while, Petey. Morning. The kitchen crew enters the cafeteria. Adebisi goes into the supply closet, while Wangler and the others go through a door. Suddenly, Pancamo appears. Adebisi says he doesn't work there anymore, but Pancamo says he has a job to do. A different camera angle shows that Schibetta is now behind Adebisi. He says that it's payday, which coming from someone smarter would be a very clever play on the chocolate bar incident, but in Schibetta's case is just Napoleonic bluster. Schibetta closes the door to the closet; the hack present runs away, clearly having been paid off, and the fight is on. Adebisi picks up a wrench and manages to hit Pancamo in the shoulder before Schibetta gets him in a nelson, but Adebisi slams Schibetta into the door, elbows him in the gut, and head-butts him, leaving him pretty much down for the count. Pancamo recovers to grab Adebisi, but in the ensuing melee Adebisi bites him, and in this case, he's not doing it out of love. Pancamo screams in pain, allowing Adebisi to pick up a metal can and clock Pancamo repeatedly until he's still. Adebisi spits on him, smiles, and puts on his headphones. He grabs Schibetta, who's apparently half-conscious, clears off a table, and throws him on top of it. Adebisi then pulls down Schibetta's pants, and with a "Payday, baby," starts going to town. Schibetta screams, and I don't blame him, considering that the way Adebisi is working his hips takes "bump and grind" to a whole new level. And I might note that this whole chain of events was put into action by the consumption of a candy bar. No wonder they couldn't sell that product placement -- I'm betting "Snickers really satisfies your desire to take it up the ass" didn't go over too big with the focus groups.
Okay, sidebar: What the hell kind of bullshit plan was that? Pancamo and Schibetta, without weapons of any kind, take on Adebisi in a tight area filled with implements that Adebisi is certain to be able to grab to defend himself? Plus, how did they know that Wangler and the others wouldn't return to help Adebisi? And what was with Pancamo giving away the element of surprise -- did he really think that Adebisi was so overmatched that it didn't matter? I mean, I know Schibetta's kind of dim, and the steroids may have affected Chuckie's cognitive capacities, but this was one of the worst plans I've ever seen on this show, and that's saying a lot.