Episode Report Card Djb: F | 26 USERS: D YOU GRADE IT Someone Left The Crack Out In The Rain
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 07.17.2004
Jimmy is all genial again when they get back out to the parking lot, apologizing to David for punching him, laughing, "I didn't even know I was gonna do that! I just fucking...I just did it!" But Jimmy chides, "Hey, you're not gonna dump me after our first fight, are you? We're best friends forever. Now get in the van before I kick your motherfucking ass." David heads toward the van, unhitching his cell phone and putting it in his pocket in possibly the least proactive move he could have made at that point, except perhaps for an impromptu game of Twister. Right hand...dead.
Where are all of the other characters? It was probably at this point in the writing process that the writers started to think, "If we had to revisit any of the other characters and their suddenly, totally dropped plot lines, why not at least cut back to them wondering where David is? Nah. That's the problem with the characters. They're all so disconnected that no one even cares where David is. Let's just ignore them all, then." High fives followed this logic.
Back in the van, Jimmy cracks open his tequila and advises David to "Go, cowboy." David asks where, and Jimmy's all, "That way!" But first, he tells him to wipe his face for some symbolic reason I fail to understand because zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. David cranks up the van and no music plays. Huh. I guess the radio station playing "It's My Life" when they turned the car off went out of business the second that song was over. Or it got too friiiiiiiiiiiiiiightened of Jimmy Felon and turned itself off as a defensive maneuver. In either case...David? Your radio's broken.
David asks Jimmy if he should take him back to his car, and the plot adds tequila and shakes, not stirs, when Jimmy responds, "I don't have a car." Jimmy puts on his seatbelt because, y'know, safety first, as he explains to David, "Well, it's definitely party time." Jimmy at first suggests that they head down to Long Beach to hook themselves up with some meth, but instead changes his mind and sets course for "MacArthur Park." David offers the whole van to Jimmy, but Jimmy reminds him, "I'm drinking. Friends don't let friends drive drunk." That is true. Every catchphrase I learned in the '80s is true. My fresh breath does go on and on while I chew it. David starts to turn onto the freeway, but Jimmy freaks right out about that and says they won't be taking the freeway. A waver enters his voice when he explains, "I had an accident on the freeway. My father was killed. Right after we moved here." David apologizes and sympathizes, "My father died in a car accident." Yeah, this might not be time. Jimmy asks how old he was, and David tells him, "It was just three years ago." When this show kicked ass. Jimmy yells that "It's not the same. I was ten years old." Eep. Someone had better fart to break the tension.
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