Episode Report Card Djb: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Real Slim Shady
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 07.10.2004
Rico sits with Infinity and Nicole watching children's television programming, and a shot later walks through his front door to discover Vanessa alone on the couch watching television. He asks after the whereabouts of his children, and we learn that one of them is sleeping and one of them is spending the night at a friend's house. Rico tells her that he loves her, and then climbs on top of her to prove his love with the most guilt-ridden sex this side of all Catholicism.
And, speaking of sex, the Matthew Barney of LAC Arts all but gets his Cremaster Cycle all over Claire as they smoochy smoochy all over his ratty (er, I mean "vintage") couch. He whispers, "Tell me what you'd like me to do." She tells him to do whatever he wants and that she'll let him know how it works out, adding that she doesn't have a checklist that she goes through. Well, I do, when it comes to the Matthew Barney of LAC Arts, and that checklist includes 1) Shave 2) It 3) Off. He rolls her over and asks, "Do you like to have your nipples played with?" Ew. I didn't even like typing that sentence, much less being explicitly asked it. Claire is no fan of it either, screeching, "Not if we have to talk about it." He rolls off of her, all sulky, and tells her that they should just go to the movie, but she ups his "you blew it, and not in a good way" ante by suggesting that she just go home. I guess that made her a lesbian.
Back at Brenda's mom's house, where excessively squishy modern furniture from the 70s goes to die, Margaret prattles on that Brenda will never learn anything about counseling in eighteen months. Olivier says that shrinks are more fucked up than the rest of us, and Margaret laughs at the irony of Brenda's becoming a shrink. Brenda asks her mother if she thinks she's a good therapist, and she laughs, "I think I'm a very good shrink!" Joe tosses in his one good missive, asking, "Does that mean you're very fucked up?" Unfortunately for dramatic development, Margaret knows thyself all too well, laughing and screaming, "Absofuckinglutely!" Apropos of nothing, Margaret asks if Brenda's heard from Nate, and she responds that she saw him last night. He came over, he showed them pictures of the baby, he recited lovelorn poetry where he rhymed "my pain is very raw" with "reanimated jaw." Margaret thinks she's put the pieces together, telling Brenda, "Now this makes sense. You want a baby!" Brenda takes this as their cue to leave. Margaret shakes Ther-neaux's hand and bids him a farewell of "Nice meeting you, Jim. I hope you're up for the challenge of my daughter." Awwww. She learned his name from reading the recaps. He turns away from her and mumbles, "Joe. It's Joe" as Brenda calls back a final "Bye! See you in a few years!" As they depart, Olivier waves them off and tells Margaret, "Terrible evening," before pulling her backwards onto the couch in a bed to stave off being the most pointless character on this show since...