Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 3 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Mac's Daddy...
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.03.2005
Standing by...technical difficulties...
Okay, we seem to have sorted this out. My twelve-year-old and seventy-year-old selves are going to let me talk, on the condition that I let them interject comments throughout the recap. Since I have to get this thing in before I can go get certain prescriptions refilled, I have no choice but to obey. Anyway, the dorky kid, "Jackson Douglas," tells Veronica he can pay her, which earns him a big smile and a seat at the table. Given her reputation at this school, I'd think she'd want to hear a little bit more about the "detective work" before she commits to it -- if, for example, he asks her to find his trouser snake, she should at least charge more. Especially since she'd probably have to put in some overtime on that job. Jackson says he wants to dig up dirt on his parents, because they're really strict and he wants some leverage to use against them. Veronica: "Sure you can handle the truth? The '70s and '80s were not pretty decades for people. We've all seen the pictures." ["Yer tellin' me! All them stinky hippies with their grass and their 'L' 'S' 'D'! Wait, what years was the little filly talking about again?" -- Geezer CB] Jackson says he can deal with bell-bottoms and massive lines of coke, so Veronica brings up the money issue, but she's interrupted by a string quartet. No, really -- there's a string quartet in the courtyard, playing "Today's Your Birthday" to Madison, or Makeup, Makeup, Makeup! from "Return Of The Kane." I reserved judgment on whether to keep the nickname until I got a look at her face. Not surprisingly, it stands, considering she had pancake for breakfast without consuming any carbs. Anyway, M,M,M! basks in all the attention as uniformed servers bring out a cake bearing candles forming the number "17." ["Too bad she's not a little younger. I'd still pay a dollar to see her undies, though." -- Kid CB, trying to pass] Madison passes out invitations to her birthday party while Veronica's table looks on with a mixture of contempt and bitterness. We have contests for who can do that look the best in TWoP Towers all the time. Or we used to, before the tragedy. I can't name names, but you know the old chestnut "If you keep making that face, it's going to freeze like that"? It's true, and someone on staff's mom forgot to mention it. Also, Veronica references M,M,M!'s birthday as a "rite of fall," so put a tick mark on your scorecard under "Errors Of Continuity Caused By Candy-Assed Programming Executives." ["Eh, don't be so hard on them, sonny. We couldn't have gotten away with a quarter of the things they get away with back in the nineteen-dicketies." -- Geezer CB]