Episode Report Card Deborah: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT I See Undead People
By Deborah | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.13.2005
Grace: "Well, the zombies represent the oppressed, right? So they should rise up and demand equal rights from the living." Johnny Broadway: "A zombie rebellion?" Carl's head drops dramatically. Grace: "Totally! And if Suzy there really did have a brain, she'd join with the people who needed her as they defeat the forces of tyranny. Now that would be something to sing about." Elizabeth makes some small effort to conceal her opinion of this idea. Everyone waits nervously but no one says anything. I expected a huge outcry given how close they are to opening night, but I guess Johnny Broadway's got them well-trained to stay open to the process. Everyone just waits for his reaction as he considers Grace's idea. Finally he says, "It's brilliant. Let's do it. 'Zombie Uprising.' There's your song title." He rips up some papers that were in front of him. Poor Carl bangs his head on the keyboard. Grace, not satisfied with the havoc she's already wreaked, muses, "Of course, you need a new queen…" Elizabeth's all over that, naturally: "Why? I'm the queen." Grace: "Eh, prom queen. You need a real queen of the zombies who will rise up and lead the revolution!" Johnny Broadway's all over that: "Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" He points at Joan: "You!" Joan: "Me?" Johnny Broadway: "Yes!" Joan: "No!" They go back and forth and he declares that she's perfect. He puts his hands on the side of his head as he exults: "She's gonna rise up from the moon at the end, and sing to her subjects about justice." He doubles over and bounces back up in glee. I cannot believe Elizabeth isn't throwing the world's largest snitfit. Friedman announces, "Ooh, I want to be the military!" Adam suggests, "Dude, you could fly in on a chopper!" Joan: "Wait! What just happened?" Elizabeth: "My aunt is driving in from Indiana!" She says it with a tight, pleading smile. Joan argues that Elizabeth should definitely be the queen. Johnny Broadway orders everyone to take five. He tells Adam, "You: Choppers. Run with it!" Smiling in Carl's direction, he says, "Carmel, sweetie…don't you feel a new song coming on?" Carl just rubs his forehead. Carl is awesome. What a great bit part. He's got almost no lines but he's done so much with his small role. As everyone scurries around to regroup, Joan crabs at Grace, "What did you just do?" Grace says, "I am still upset about the election." Heh. I think she means the Arcadia High student council election, but maybe she means the other one. As Adam's running out, Johnny Broadway asks if the moon can rise from the depths of the earth. Adam thinks for a moment and then says it can. Joan sits there shaking her head and looking freaked out as Johnny Broadway gloats about the moon in the background.
Grace is shoving her knapsack into her locker when a grim-faced Glynis walks up to her: "What is your problem, Polk?" Hee. "Polk." Grace is instantly in Sipowicz mode: "What was that?" Glynis, who's about a head taller than Grace, doesn't back down: "How about you just get over yourself, okay? Everybody knows Luke adores you. I'm willing to work with you. And if anyone should have a problem here, it's me. So you sulking and refusing to talk to Luke is just arrogance! Either that, or you actually believe that anything could happen between me and Luke, which couldn't be further from the truth -- no matter how much I might fantasize. So why don't you do everyone a favour and take the giant stick out of your butt?" Whoa. Grace: "You are way more intense than I ever knew." Glynis hands her a piece of paper: "Here are the formulas you can work on if you can successfully remove that stick." As Glynis walks away, Grace asks, "Did he tell you to do this?" Oops, wrong question. Glynis turns around and sneers, "You think I'd involve him in our business? Have some respect for me as a woman!" Whoa, again. Grace turns around, smiling to herself, even though Glynis just tore a strip off her. Forget Rocket Boy. Now she wants Glynis.