Episode Report Card Wing Chun: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Scribbling Rivalry
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on 01.16.2001
At PagesAlive, Crusty's just had a flat-screen TV mounted to the wall in her office. Because that is a worthwhile expense when you're in the middle of a budget crunch. DAMN, woman! Okay, I'm not even going to start, because that is just so stupid. Lily walks in and greets Crusty cautiously, adding that she's not there to ask for her job back. Crusty curtly asks why she is there, then. Lily tells her that she's been thinking about the meeting Crusty's having with the investors that afternoon, and how important it is for Crusty to go into the meeting from a position of strength. She explains, closing the door, that one of the "marks" Clavan and Fosdick has against Crusty is her problems in working with the staff: "So if you go into that meeting today with those investors, having just fired your assistant, on top of your webmaster quitting...?" Lily spreads her hands, like, "Right?" and Crusty pouts, "I'm listening." Damn, people pout a lot in this episode. Lily stresses once more that she's not asking for her job back, but is rather offering to create the impression that she's still on Crusty's side by going to the meeting with her. "Like The Way We Were!" Crusty exclaims. Lily agrees, "Oh my God, you're right!" ["Congratulations, Lily. Another brilliant idea that is, in effect, a rip-off." -- Niki] Crusty reminisces, "When Streisand asks Hubbell to stick by her until the baby's born..." "...and they both know it's over. It's so sad!" Lily concludes, apparently relieved that they've found this common ground. Crusty blinks a few times, and then suspiciously asks, "That was his baby. This isn't your baby. Why are you going to do this?" Lily shrugs, "I don't know. Because I can. Because I should have told you that I was having breakfast with [D.B. Sweeney]." This seems to convince Crusty, and, heartened, Lily goes on to say that she's been thinking about the fact that D.B. Sweeney is also looking to replace Artie, but that since the webmaster job is so central to the operation of the site, if D.B. Sweeney hires a replacement, "he'll have his person in that powerful position." Okay, Crusty's outfit is okay today -- black slightly flared pants that fit her properly in the assal region and black tank top under a sheer purple-ish patterned blouse (though the blouse has a matching scarf that Crusty's tied like a choker -- I hate that), but she really shouldn't pull her hair off her forehead and temples like that; it makes her face look really weird and angular. Anyway, she seizes on what Lily's saying, but says that she doesn't think Artie is her person anymore. Lily offers to call Artie and see if she can help smooth things over. Crusty smiles, and asks where all this political savvy is coming from; Lily says that compared to the kids at home with sibling issues, this is nothing. Plus, the books.