Episode Report Card Demian: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Touch my monkey.
By Demian | Season 5 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.26.2003
Crazy Grace's Bar And Grill. The Kazi king flares in through a window and immediately berates Crazy Grace for summoning him to her chamber. Not smart, douchebag. Pity the fool who crosses Crazy Grace Zabriskie. She's scarier than that thing trapped beneath the American Idol stage. Kazaa, incidentally, is dressed like an extra from Shogun. Yeah, yeah. Like any of you remember an early-'80s Richard Chamberlain miniseries well enough to know what the hell I'm talking about, but that's not important right now. What is important is Crazy Grace's cunning plan. Crazy Grace "must lay hands on" the Done One, the better to understand the sort of threat he represents to the future of evil. You'll remember she received a hint of that threat during her last appearance, a hint she now describes as "a mere taste" "of power like we've never known." She intends to weaken the Ps using an ancient magic. Once she's done so, Kazaa's to unleash his minions upon the Manor so that Crazy Grace can gain the Done One's trust using whatever it is she intends to steal from the Glamorous Ladies. Because we all saw the previews, and because Crazy Grace is now fondling a "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" monkey totem, we have a pretty good idea what she's going to swipe. Right? Right.
Meanwhile, over at the street fair, Piper's videotaping Quasimodo snoozing against the Dolt's chest while the Dolt tries and fails to interest nature's hideous mistake in a miniature pony. You know what would have ruled? If Quasimodo's first street fair had been that huge annual blowout on Folsom Street. Piper could stock up on the leather pants and wristbands and pick up a kicky little biker cap for the Done One while she's at it. But alas, this is the San Francisco of Charmed, where there are no gay people. Or Asians. Unless you count the mime currently taunting the oblivious Phoebe. He appears to be both. The Feebs is nattering away on her cell phone while the mime mocks her from behind. Raige arrives to break things up by shoving an enormous cone of cotton candy into the mime's face, with Piper videotaping the entire exchange. I like that they're emphasizing Phoebe and Piper's over-reliance upon their hearing and sight by using these relatively subtle and surprisingly naturalistic cues. I don't like that they couldn't figure out a way to incorporate Raige's voice into the whole thing. Yeah, there's her snippy little remark to the flaming Asian about how "everyone hates mimes," but whatever. You take what you can get on this show.