Episode Report Card Sara M: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Dorky Decimal System
By Sara M | Season 11 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.04.2004
No one knows how to read the language of the Birds, says Noah, so how can he use the book? Bob responds with a throat-clear, and Jane whips some plane tickets out of her purse, which apparently has a tiny travel agent inside it. Noah says that it took Egyptologists seventeen years to decipher the Rosetta Stone. Bob says that Noah has less time than that. Noah breaks it down and says that he doesn't even have his own parking spot yet (not like he'd really need one in New York City), so he probably isn't quite ready to fight an evil international conspiracy. Bob appeals to Noah's ego, saying that the most valuable object in the entire world isn't a box with screaming ghost hell babies; it's Noah's brain. Noah starts to walk off, and then turns back to Bob and Jane. "The fate of the world is in my hands?" he asks. Bob nods. "That is just so...sad," Noah says, walking away. "Oh, god help us all," says a rightfully disgusted Jane. Then she and Bob stare at each other, and turn back to Noah. Bob does a double take, which is great, and we see Noah walking out of The Library's massive doors and into a bright white light, which envelops him and then the rest of the screen. I guess it snowed outside or something.
Now Noah's on a plane, and it appears that although The Library has the funds for all that security, they couldn't spring for a Business class seat. Fortunately, there's no one sitting next to Noah, so he has two Economy class seats' worth of space, which is roughly one cubic foot. He's irritating his neighbors with his audible attempts to translate the Bird language until he sees a gorgeous woman enter the cabin. We know she's gorgeous because her entrance is heralded by Sexy Saxophones, beauty light, and slow-motion. She walks up to Noah's seat, having just witnessed an invite-only showing of the plane's takeoff from the cockpit, and requests an aisle seat. He moves aside quickly and clumsily. When Gorgeous is finally settled, Noah volunteers that this is the first plane trip he has ever been on. Apparently he never had a chance to study abroad in his four hundred years of school. Gorgeous stops him and tells him that he's "way out" of his league with her, so he should just give up trying to chat her up now. So Noah focuses on a package of peanuts, which planes never give out anymore, and rips it open with his teeth, spilling peanuts everywhere.
Time passes, and Gorgeous is enjoying champagne while Noah has done some more translation work, if the multicolored post-it notes stuck all over his seat are anything to go by. Suddenly, he makes a few celebratory wheezes and a "woohoo!" and announces that he has learned the Language of the Birds, and that it only took him seven hours. The pilot stops by and invites Gorgeous to see the sunrise over the Amazon from the cockpit. Noah's all "ooo!" thinking that he has also been invited, but then he quickly realizes that he'll be watching the sunrise from his tiny window. Gorgeous leaves.
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