Episode Report Card Maggie: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Laser Labels and TV Dinners
By Maggie | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 04.17.2001
Meghan stomps into the girls' apartment to rant to Sean -- who is in the kitchen making a sandwich -- about her work-study assignment. She complains that she's "working with midgets." Sean corrects, "They're called 'little people.'" Meghan clarifies that she's a "teacher's assistant for the university elementary school." Sean wonders what could possibly be wrong with that. Meghan replies that she isn't a "kid person," and that she doesn't like children because "they're loud and smell weird." Like no one has ever said that about her before. Sean tells her to quit, but she whines that she can't because "they're part of [her] lame-ass requirement." She attacks Sean because he doesn't "get it." He takes it in stride and gets her to calm down, and then he suggests that she might even have fun. Meghan isn't convinced.
Felicity walks into the loft to find Knoll still ensconced on the sofa. She asks what he's doing and he says, "I'm eating Ding Dongs. Taking solace in Ding Dongs." You are what you eat, of course. Felicity turns off the television and tells him to "scoot over." She sits down and shows him some new characters she's created. They're brother and sister cats, George and Georgia, who have been locked in the same cage forever until one day when someone comes in and purchases Georgia. Felicity explains that George sits around feeling sorry himself all day. At this point, Knoll interrupts, "Until he realizes that he has, like, eighty brothers and sisters, so what does it really matter?" Knoll claims that he isn't feeling sorry for himself, but he can't be like "you guys." He says he thought that Avery would understand. Felicity is surprised to hear that Avery was there, and asks how she was. Knoll states that "she was cuter than [he] remembered." So sorry that when she wasn't up to your aesthetic standards when she was, oh, I don't know, fighting for her life, Knoll. I really hate Knoll. Anyway, in between stuffing Ding Dongs into his fat head, he tells Felicity around his full mouth that he sent Avery to Dean & Deluca to find Ben. Wordlessly, Felicity runs out of the loft. After she's out the door, he mumbles, "Don't we have work to do?"
Through the front window at Dean & Deluca, we can see Ben working and serving customers in slow motion. He looks up and notices Avery looking in at him. She notices him, noticing her. They blink and smile at each other, and exchange a tentative wave.
Establishing shots of a school playground. Kids are making merry while Meghan sits on a bench, with headphones on. A small girl runs up to Meghan and breathlessly squeals, "Miss Rotundi! Miss Rotundi!" Meghan removes one earphone to hear the girl report that "they're making fun of [her]." Meghan replies, "So what? Wait until junior high." The girl runs away and a teacher approaches Meghan. The teacher says, "About your attire --" Meghan interjects, "It's King's Dungeon on Greenwich." However, the teacher, who I'm going to call Ms. Sensible Shoes, wasn't looking for shopping tips. She's come to tell Meghan that some of the children and all of the faculty are frightened of "the leather." Ms. Sensible Shoes reminds Meghan that college is one thing, but that, at school, she's a professional. Meghan offers to wear her bra under her clothes; Ms. Sensible Shoes is appreciative.