Episode Report Card Maggie: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Christening
By Maggie | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.03.2000
Sean is interviewing Javier yet again. This time they're in a jewellery store and Javier is picking out a watch for his mother. He asks to have it inscribed with the phrase, "Made en españa." Um, shouldn't that be "Hecho en españa"? And he mentions again that he's worried about Knoll being with Gnatalie.
Over at the Brooklyn apartment, Felicity and Ben are about to get busy, when she starts screaming mid-snog. She's seen a giant bug and she dispatches Ben to kill it for her. Then the plumbing noises start again which distracts Ben and he launches into a tirade about how the noise went on for hours in the afternoon. Ben starts banging on the floor and shouting at the downstairs tenants to stop the noise. Felicity wisely notes that it probably isn't the neighbours making the noise, but "the pipes." She suggests just calling the manager about it in the morning. Ben would rather keep raging, but Felicity convinces him to turn his attention back to the bug.
There's a knock at the door and a lithe, scantily clad young woman is there, claiming to be from downstairs. She explains that whenever she turns on the bathroom taps that noise starts. Ben is bowled over by her appearance and suddenly he isn't so angry anymore. The chickie leaves and Felicity reams him out for being so gobsmacked instead of "ass-kicking" as he had threatened. He finally sees the bug and asks her to turn on the light so that he can get it. She plugs in the weird cone-shaped lamp that she snagged from Mitchell and when she does, it bursts into flame, which makes Ben combust. He starts freaking and yells for her to get the fire extinguisher from under the sink. The extinguisher is empty so Ben runs out to the hall to get another extinguisher. In the meantime, Javier arrives, sees the fire and screams, "Fire! Aie!" Then, without missing a beat, he looks around the room and deadpans, "Ooh, I don't like that TV." Ben charges back in yelling, "Clear!" and he puts out the fire. The neighbour chickie comes back in because she's heard yelling. Ben says it's just because of the fire and some bugs. Javier turns to Felicity and mutters, "Oh god, please tell me she doesn't live in the building." Through clenched teeth, Felicity says, "Mm-hmm."
Time for some more inane commercials starring various WB employees.
The action cuts back and forth between Elena and Tracy as they recount an enrollment lottery tale for the Docuventary. It seems that they both really want to get into a class with limited enrollment. A lottery is held and they decide to hold off opening their envelopes with the acceptances or refusals until they're out at dinner. Since they are both obscenely competitive, they've decided that whoever wins admittance to the class will pick up the tab at dinner. They both separately confide to the camera that they've peeked into the envelopes and discovered that only one of them got in. Tracy switches them so that Elena will get in and she ends up switching them back so that he'll get in. Oh, how very Gift of the Magi of them.