Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 2 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Domo Arigato, Donnie Roboto
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.30.2006
Keith busts into Dean Ed's office in a right state and asks where his stepson is. Dean Ed heavily says that he just got off the phone with his wife, and she and Jason are in Mexico, but she refused to tell him at which hospital. Apparently Mindy's brother is helping her, and they're going forward with the marrow-stealing. I don't know if it's meant to be implied that Mindy's brother is a doctor (or if he even exists, actually), but still, getting an entire surgical team to assist in a very disturbing felony seems like it would be pretty difficult, especially in the U.S. Oops. Keith says he'll track her down, and Dean Ed offers to go with him, in case he gets her on the line in order to track her call. "I could say half a sentence and get her to yell at me for three hours." I will say I've heard less believable things in this life.
Jail. Veronica arrives at Weevil's cell again, and Weevil tells her that one of the Hearst maintenance guys found the masks and the guns used in the holdup in a dumpster. He came to Weevil instead of going to Lamb because he wasn't sure if the evidence would hurt or help Weevil, and Weevil confesses that he's not clear on that point either. Veronica suggests a trace of the guns would be the way to go, but Weevil informs her that the guns weren't even real. Veronica looks stunned as she realizes that she could still have her necklace if she'd gone for one swift kick to the goolies.
Veronica finds the college theater company mid-rehearsal of something that seems way too existential for me to sit through. Even recapping it, I'm running at a cup of coffee a sentence. Anyway, the bored theater people, never shifting their straight-ahead gazes, tag-team their bored responses to Veronica's questions, saying that they don't have prop guns, but the film department does, and by the way, she can tell them that the theater people loved "their little opening-night present." Veronica's confused, so they tell her that the stage is covered in Pam. Veronica asks who Pam is, and that's pretty preposterous. I mean, I've never used the stuff in my life, but you can't tell me she's gotten this far in life without ever watching The Price Is Right. (Which seriously is still about the best show ever. I can't believe Bob Barker is finally retiring! Okay, okay, I'll get on with it.) Anyway, a theater dude clarifies that they're unable to use their stage because it's covered in cooking spray, a predicament perpetrated by the film department, because they were unhappy the theater people scheduled their opening night on the same weekend as the short film festival. Veronica suggests that maybe it was their way of saying, "break a leg," causing the theater people's heads to snap toward her in unison. Veronica goes into an overdone Catskills routine on her way out. She could simply have gone with "tough room," but they do break down the fourth wall on this show an awful lot already.