Episode Report Card Kim: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Family Affairs
By Kim | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.20.1999
Julie and Sean are whispering to one another in Dean and Deluca. In the background, Javier is talking to Maggie's husband and pointing out "blue water. It's not really blue -- it's just the bottle." Yes, I recognize my obsessive need to catalog everything Javier says, even if it doesn't apply to the plot. I just love him. Ben sees his roommates whispering and rushes out, telling them he knows what they are talking about and everything will be fine. Projecting much, Ben? Julie and Sean say they were just wondering if they can take the leftover food home. Ben points out Maggie's husband. Julie didn't know that Maggie is married. Ben says he wasn't advertising it. The Husband comes over and introduces himself, then apologizes in advance to all three of them for having to put up with "stuffy, rich people." He also recognizes Ben as the "kid" who sold him the cake for his anniversary. See, now we are supposed to think he's a swell guy, and understand that Ben feels guilty for cuckolding him.
Felicity is mixing something in a bowl and then she tells David she's "ready for the pumpkin." Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Felicity says her parents are "a little too excited" about getting to know him. David doesn't mind -- he likes them. Felicity is increasingly anxious about this, and decides it's time for the test. She brings out the gift. Instead of being freaked out, David says that he got a gift for her parents. Okay, that's a little weird. Thoughtful, but weird. Felicity tells him that he doesn't have to pretend for her sake if her parents are driving him crazy. David says, "How can I not like your parents? They're part of you -- the person I'm falling in love with." If he is always this clingy, I can see why his last girlfriend cheated on him. Also, this plot development is kind of out of nowhere. David was never this lovey-dovey before tonight's episode. Bad writers! Bad! David opens his gift and Felicity just stares at him with her mouth open.
Felicity and Elena are in the grocery store and I think about Sars's piece on grocery stores in New York City and laugh. Elena is saying that she can't believe David used the word "love," and asks Felicity what she said back. Felicity says, "Nothing! I was in shock." Elena continues to search for her storyline on the grocery shelves while pretending to shop. Felicity babbles on and on about herself. At one point, Felicity says that she must have misled David and realizes, "Oh my God! I'm the Ben of this situation." Elena assures her that she is not, but Felicity doesn't believe her. Elena asks her to grab a couple of tomatoes (in a shout-out to Sars, I am sure), while Felicity wonders what she should do. Elena counsels her to talk to David eventually, but right now she should help with the shopping. Felicity says she has to talk to David right away. Elena replies that Felicity will not be talking to David tonight when they have all those people coming over for dinner.