Episode Report Card Djb: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT SFU 406: The Apology
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 07.25.2004
Keith sports his "I came back from touring with Celeste and all I got was this continually emotionally unavailable boyfriend and, oh yeah, also this t-shirt" t-shirt (he wears it on the inside, people) as he continues on, "We can go out to the beach." Man, he really has been reduced to babysitting here. But the good news is that he can eat anything in the fridge he wants, and he's totally allowed to have his boyfriend over whenever he wants. But David's ready with the comeback, as he responds to Keith that he has to go back because "Rico is totally overwhelmed." Especially considering the prohibitive "You must be at least this tall to be a partner at Fisher & Diaz" sign they have in front of the house, featuring a cloaked grim reaper holding out a hand of death that measures forty inches off the ground. Which is, for those of you number-crunching at home, still a good six inches higher than Rico, even on his spikiest hair day. And his ever-lengthening nose doesn't count as height, either. David complains that he has to deal with "the family of the body [he] lost," even though once he gets to work we don't actually see him dealing with it at all. Which, come to think of it, might have been kind of interesting. Instead, Keith tells David that he didn't lose the body, and David writes off the whole event by reminding Keith and informing us, "Well, horribly misplaced, then. For several days. In the wasteland of Echo Park." Oh, stop that. Everybody knows that Echo Park is totally the new Eagle Rock. Which was totally the new Silver Lake. Which was totally the new Los Feliz. Which was totally the new Hollywood. Which was totally the new...I don't know, Pangaea? I seriously think Los Angeles is reversing the direction of manifest destiny, except this time instead of gold they're chasing new stockpiles of wheatgrass shots in a constant effort to gentrify eastward. When the Walk of Fame extends into Utah just to accommodate Vin Diesel's star, we'll know we've gone too far to come back. Either way, "Echo Park" is Spanish for "We have ATMs too, thanks." Few people know that.
David and Keith walk into the next room, and like every week, the identical David/Keith scene that comes at this point is powered entirely by stage directions, which entice Keith to change the subject: "I just talked to Mitchell." What does that mean? Is that gay talk? "He said the prints they got off the van didn't bring up a match." David has seen enough episodes of actual cop shows to infer that this means Jimmy Felon didn't have a record, though maybe it secretly means that he waaaaaasn't eeeeeeeeeven aliiiiiiiiiive! Haunted van! And, wait. The Mystery Machine turned up? The hell? Keith soldiers on by saying he wants to look into the possibility that there was a camera at the ATM. In that ghetto deli? Oh, please. That thing wasn't even plugged in. And jerky tells no tales. David agrees that jerky tells no tales, taking this opportunity to stop putting on his tie and snap at Keith, "I think I'd like to not talk about this anymore." Keith is chastened slightly, as if realizing that his current job is less about "running those prints" and more about "run off and make sure nobody's messing with Celeste's personal Bedazzler," so he backs off with a loud, loud beeping sound and suggests, "Maybe we should call off your birthday for tomorrow night." It's David's birthday? No one else ever gets to have a birthday. David protests, but Keith raises a voice and tells David, "Pretending it was a robbery is bullshit," begging, "You should tell your family." David stares him down for a second and asks somewhat sardonically, "Would you tell yours?" At which point they should both turn to the camera and ask the viewing audience in slow unison "Would you tell yours?" after which the projector is turned off and we break up into our individual discussion sections to answer the nagging question, "Why Doesn't Cathy Eat Breakfast?"