Episode Report Card Kim: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Happy Birthday
By Kim | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.26.1999
Felicity runs down the hall and barely makes the elevator. She ends up standing right in front of Noel in a crowded elevator. They exchange greetings, and Felicity says that she heard Noel might be moving. He says, "Maybe." Awkward pause. The elevator stops and some people get out, leaving Felicity and Noel alone together. The doors close and Felicity stares at the numbers, then announces that they aren't moving. Noel says you have to push the button, and does so. Felicity has lived there all year and hasn't figured that out? Or maybe that was supposed to be a metaphor for their relationship? I don't know. Noel looks sweaty and gross. Finally, they reach their floor and say goodbye.
Felicity and Elena make posters for Julie's party. Felicity tells Elena that she almost said something to Noel, and Elena is happy she didn't, because Felicity needs her pride. Has Elena met Felicity? The girl who followed Ben across the country and then continued to repeatedly make a fool out of herself over him? She has no pride. Elena says that Noel was "so wrong" and that Felicity's working to make it okay is pissing her off. Felicity says she's not going to forgive and forgot, but that it's not like what happened with Elena and Blair because Noel was honest about it. Elena asks if that makes it okay. Felicity says it's not, and that she has to deal with it, but that punching Noel is the nose is not the answer. Punching Noel in the nose is always the answer. Elena says that it might make Felicity feel really good, and Felicity laughs.
Julie and Ben talk at the loft. Ben reiterates that Carol wants to keep Julie a secret. Julie sits on the counter cross-legged, putting her dirty shoes on a surface where people eat. Manners! Ben asks Julie why she thinks Carol came back. Julie says Carol claims she felt like she owed Julie the truth, and didn't like lying. Ben points out that this problem seems sudden, since Carol has been lying to her family for years. Julie says it would be hard to bring up after all this time. Ben says that Julie is way more understanding than he is. Sean apologizes for interrupting, but says he needs to know where to take Chloe on their second date. Julie congratulates him on getting a second date, but Sean is flustered because when his first dates go well, his second dates always end in tragedy. Ben tells him to take her to Shopsin's. Sean says he needs someplace more special than that. Julie half-heartedly assures him that it will go better than he thinks, and leaves. Ben watches her go as Sean continues to worry about his date with Chloe, who will mysteriously disappear in, like, two more episodes so I'm not going to bother caring now.