Episode Report Card Deborah: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Six Feet Under
By Deborah | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.09.2004
A custodian is in the hallway, putting away one of the folding tables used for the team recruiting effort, when she suddenly starts laughing a deep belly laugh to herself. Joan comes walking stiffly along the hallway, holding her arms away from her body and trying not to let her legs touch each other. The custodian comments, "Great dive, Joan." Joan stops and looks at her, as God continues to laugh in her face. Since there are so many janitorial avatars, I guess I'll have to use the official title for this God, which is Female Custodian God, even though I think I've made my views on such modifiers fairly clear. Despite that, I really like this God, who is played by HITG! Sonya Eddy. Something about a black female God enjoying an irresistible laugh at human expense is quite appealing. She's my favourite new God. Joan, whose skin is looking somewhat more pink than normal, complains, "God mocking humans? That's nice." Female Custodian God: "Belly flop. Eternally funny. Nothin' I can do about it." Joan: "Funny? Look at me. I'm a beet!" God: "Yeah. Ha ha ha! But the low board doesn't scare you. You didn't dream about the low board." Joan: "If I did a belly flop from the high board, I could have exploded! I take physics! I know these things. And don't mess with my dreams. Using Judith to get me to do this…" Joan sighs: "If there was someone over you, you'd be in a lot of trouble." Way to threaten God, Joan. Female Custodian God just walks off with a Godwave, laughing to herself. Joan trudges off in her pained, awkward fashion. I like thinking about God, hours later, still laughing her ass off every time she remembers it. Maybe God and Satan IM each other sometimes:
TheTerminator: Did you see her? SPLAT! Man, she smote that water like I did the Egyptians. ROFLMAO!!
Beelzebubba: HA HA!! LOL!!!!!!!! Fo'shizzle, my nizzle. That was so freaking kewl, dude!!! Gotta hand it to ya…the belly flop is something I wish I invented. Okay, got a meeting with a cute li'l redhead. CUL8R!
TheTerminator: Don't do anything I wouldn't do.
Beelzebubba: BWAH!!!!! ROFLMAO!!!!! You kill me, dude.
Helen and Will are getting ready for bed as he complains about Lucyfer's decision. Helen says that Will still gets to interview the guy who was arrested. Will: "Yeah. When he lawyers up." Helen wonders what difference it makes who physically apprehended the guy. Will: "It's my case, Helen." Helen: "So? In a dangerous situation your boss chose caution over putting you at risk? I don't even like her and that sounds like a good call to me." Will: "You don't understand. I shouldn't have said anything." Helen's pissed all of a sudden: "Oh…so…I don't get to have an opinion? You're just gonna keep running around busting down doors without a thought that you have a family that might actually want you to stay alive?" Will's a little bewildered: "Helen…what just happened?" She looks at him with a mixture of hurt and anger on her face, and then sits on the bed with her back to him: "I'm scared. Okay? I'm scared." Will says he'll be careful. She says it's not just that: "It's Kevin, the lawsuit, Joan going…nuts from Lyme disease, it's Judith…everything. Every time the phone rings -- " Will: "I know we've been hit with a lot…" Helen: "I can't talk about this with you." Will: "Helen!" She turns to face him: "I can't. You won't understand." He agrees: "No, I won't -- not if you shut me out." She tells him: "It's God. I'm…scared of God. Okay? I'm afraid of what he'll do next." Indeed, Will does not know what to make of this. I agree that God can be scary and all, but what's really scary in this scene is how much makeup Helen's wearing to bed. Lady, wash your face. Helen turns her back to Will again and broods at the edge of the bed. Hmm. One's involved with God, the other's involved with Satan. Can this marriage be saved?