Episode Report Card Aaron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dead Again
By Aaron | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 03.02.2002
And with that, Nate awakens on the sofa. He picks up a pen and a TV Guide, and starts scrawling on the back cover. Fade to white.
Oy. It's 6:30 now, and I've still got fifteen minutes of show to go. And just so you know, I've been up since 6:00 AM working on this recap. I'm seriously doing this on like eight minutes' sleep. Anyway, it appears that David has just woken up as well, as he sits in the kitchen in his PJs and calls Keith. Keith, however, is still asleep (lucky bastard), and he groggily rubs his eyes as he says hello. David goes on about how much he enjoyed their little lunch with Eddie (who's sleeping right beside Keith), and then slyly mentions that if Keith ever wanted to do anything with "just the two of [them]," he'd be, uh, up for it, so to speak. Keith tries to gently break it to David that he's happy with Eddie now, and that David is just going to have to get used to it. David gets pissed at this and hangs up, but not before shouting, "Jesus, Keith! Could you be a little more self-righteous?"
Just then, Mommie Drearest comes downstairs and joins her son in the kitchen. David asks if Nikolai slept over, and then quite nicely tells his mom that she has every right to have a boy sleep over if she wants. "I know that," she replies. "I don't need your permission." "Nor do I need yours," he answers. They agree, and chat a little about how horrible last night's dinner was. Ruth says that she did it all for him, because "some stupid book" told her to. Then she asks if Nate is addicted to drugs. "I think he took it by accident," says David. "Oh please," replies Ruth. "How can something like that be an accident?" Get it? Do you? Because, you know, she took some by accident too, remember?
And now for the funeral. We see a photo of Li'l Miss Slash 'n' Sniff, and then Ugly Manager gives a eulogy, which basically consists of holding up her little locket full of ashes and talking about how LMSnS's star shone too brightly for this world. Gabe and Claire are sitting in the back, with Gabe cracking jokes and making ominous comments about how "everybody dies." Then he gets up and walks out, and we see Nate and David in their usual positions by the back entrance. Nate still can't figure out how Ecstasy got into the aspirin bottle. At first he thinks it was Claire, but then David admits that he's the one who put it there. Nate smiles and asks, "Well, do you think you could get some more?" Heh.