Episode Report Card Aaron: C+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Dead Man's Hand
By Aaron | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 04.13.2002
At the Halfway House for Hirsute Hippies, Loud Guy is reading a poem, accompanied by a white-haired guy on the bongos. It's all very Mike Myers in So I Married An Axe Murderer, minus the coffee shop and (thankfully) Nancy Travis. If you're interested, here are some of the nicknames I've assigned to a few of the half-dozen or so guests in attendance: Cowboy Hat Guy, The Female Stevie Wonder, Not Quite CCH Pounder, and Bongo Boy. Once the poem concludes, a few more guests arrive, and this time they've brought along "magic mushrooms," "THC butter," Aaron Sorkin's lawyers with a restraining order telling me not to make anymore jokes about him, and a fresh-faced teenaged boy who immediately catches Claire's eye. As expected, I hate him at first sight.
Rico's House of Shut The Hell Up. He sneaks inside, and immediately overhears the sounds of hot monkey love being made in his living room. We know it's monkey love because of the helpful jungle noises on the soundtrack. Welcome back, sound boys. I've missed you. Ripping some plastic sheeting out of the way, Rico angrily confronts Ramon and -- another guy? Whoops. Didn't see that one coming. In fact, I ranted just last week about how disappointing the whole "Vanessa sleeps with Ramon" thing was going to be. And since I did it less than three paragraphs after pointing out that Alan Ball always, always, always delights in doing precisely the opposite of what's expected, I now feel really, really, really stupid for not guessing. Congratulations, Alan. You've won this round. Rico, meanwhile, is completely shocked by what he's seen, and goes a long way towards earning a "Shut up, Rico" moratorium by dancing around his living room and shouting things like "What the fucking fuck!?!" Of course, he also ruins it a bit by asking Ramon if he's "out of his fucking homo mind." Ramon seems to be taking all this pretty calmly, although he's also displaying a bit of an inappropriate attitude for a guy who just got caught having sex on the job. I know Sars hates it when I'm cocky after sex, especially since that's the reason my recaps are always so late. Heh. I can say that because she's on vacation. But I'm so gonna be grounded when she gets back.
The DGDJ's funeral has just wrapped up over at the Fortress, and Nate moves to intercept the Hot Rabbi on her way out the door. He claims he's interested in asking her a few questions about death from a Jewish point of view, but I suspect he's actually just angling to find out if she'd be interested in demonstrating her bris technique on him. Minus the actual snipping, of course. The Hot Rabbi readily agrees to help out with his inquiry, although she does warn him, "Jews tend to answer questions with more questions." Hmm. Isn't that more of a Greek thing? On the other hand, do I really want to be making a rather obscure Socrates joke here? And if so, will anyone get it? Or will they just think "Greek thing" is actually a sly reference to the previous scene? Also, should I shut up now? Anyway, the Hot Rabbi offers to let Nate ride along to the cemetery with her, and he accepts.