Episode Report Card Kim: B- | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Last Thanksgiving
By Kim | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.27.2001
Lauren immediately launches into a conversation with Ben. Meghan bumps Elena with her elbow and asks if she gave Trevor the test yet. Elena says that Trevor is zero for one. They both look at Trevor accusingly. Felicity listens to Ben and Lauren's conversation. She softly asks Ben to pass the gravy, but either he ignores her or he doesn't hear her because he's so engrossed in his conversation with Lauren. Meghan notices what's going on and yells at Ben to "pass Felicity the damn gravy." That Meghan. So tactful. Elena asks Trevor what the capital of Washington is, and continues to advance the lie that she needs to know for her application. Javier comments, "This end of the table is so boring." Sean overhears the question, and provides the answer: "Olympia." Trevor was going to say Seattle, and Sean says that most people would. Elena says, "Well, not most people," and Sean gives her a weird look. Javier pipes up and asks if anyone cares about the sale at Barneys. When no one responds, he looks around the table in disbelief and says, "Barneeees!" Felicity, obviously upset, looks down at her food. Meghan notices and asks if she doesn't like the food. Felicity says that she does, but she's not hungry.
Ben and Lauren are still deep in conversation and ignoring everyone else at the table. Meghan loudly asks Lauren if she has a boyfriend, because she has a great guy to set Lauren up with. Lauren gracefully answers that she doesn't currently, but she just got out of a long-term relationship. Meghan says it's too bad, because the guy is in AA too. Ben stares at Meghan, and then asks what she's doing. Meghan says Ben has no idea how tough it is for women out there. Trevor responds that it's not that great for guys either. Javier says brightly that he's never had any problems. Lauren says that she's "really not ready." Meghan responds, "You seem ready to me." Lauren explains that it was an "excruciating break-up," and that she had been in love with the guy since high school. Meghan banters, "Oh, whoa! That was a long time!" Ben asks Meghan what her problem is, and Meghan says that he knows what it is. Sean tells Meghan to back off, and Meghan wonders why Sean is on Ben's side. Sean points out that Ben didn't do anything wrong. Ben asks what he did, while Felicity tries to get Meghan to back off. In the midst of all this turmoil, Javier yells out, "Does anyone want to play Yahtzee?" Felicity tells Ben that he didn't do anything wrong. Ben replies, "Yeah, I didn't do anything wrong except waste the last year and a half of my life." Ouch. Felicity stares at him, stunned. Ben looks like he knew the second that it was out of his mouth that it was a bad move. Felicity stands up and leaves the table. Meghan looks at Ben and says, "Nice." Ben gets up to follow Felicity. Meghan turns to Javier and says, "Yahtzee?" Meghan really bugged me in this scene, for one reason: Even if she believed that Ben was purposely trying to hurt Felicity, Lauren didn't do anything wrong. She was an innocent bystander, and as such, it was really shitty of Meghan to pick on her. Also, wow. Could Ben have said anything meaner to Felicity than that his time with her was a waste?