Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C | 1058 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT An Eclipse! An Eclipse!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2008.11.17
Waffles upon waffles arrive at the table amid the sound of crashing pins, and those are easily the most interesting things to happen in the scene, in which Ando tries to get Hiro to stay on point and Hiro acts like a ten-year-old who's had thirty too many sodas as he and some girls at the next table shoot spitballs at each other. Ando eventually succeeds in getting Hiro to freeze time, although his first attempt only slows it down. Upon a successful second attempt, then, Hiro follows Bart-Simpson-as-Stretch-Dude's superhero code of "I must only use this power to annoy!" and runs around fucking frozen people up, so when he restores time, some dude sits in ketchup and another falls over because his shoes are suddenly tied together. Ando's amused until he tries to salt his fries and the whole shaker empties out, upon which he intones, "We've got a lot of work to do." No argument here, especially if you're including the writers and producers.
Daphne returns to Matt and tells him she couldn't find anyone, and he opines that he's got to try to get inside Angela's head, as if he was doing something different when he got that mental bitchslap earlier. Daphne asks if he could possibly get hurt, and he admits that he doesn't know. He asks her to keep an eye on him, as he might "disappear for a while," and he takes Angela's hand. His consciousness seems to slip away, and as Daphne anxiously asks if he can hear her...