Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 2 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Bunch Of Turkeys
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.21.2005
At the club, Hep Alien, minus Zach, is setting up for the showcase. Brian waxes fond, remembering seeing Granddaddy there in one of their first concerts. Gil has also been there before: "I remember once throwing up in that corner, and some dude slipped in it and had to go the hospital, and I stole the chick he was with and I shacked up with her for, like, a week and a half." Lane: "Another fun memory." Awesome. Zach finally arrives, late, and Brian admonishes him for almost missing sound check. "Well," he snaps, "'almost' means I didn't miss it. Just set up your amp, okay?" Brian says "whatever" and is about to set up when Zach stops him, saying he doesn't like the old set-up -- it's stale, plus they'll need room for the new guy. Uh, they are a little surprised to hear of a new guy. Frankly, I'm a little surprised, as well, especially when the new guy is Joel Gion, formerly of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, made cultishly famous in the already-referenced-on-this-show- this-season documentary DiG!. Rent it today to watch the inspiration of the hilarity that is about to go down. Just know that Joel Gion is maybe the funniest and weirdest dude ever to hit the stage, as is borne out here. The rest of the band is also surprised to find out that Zach has, indeed, purchased the wireless mic he was messing with earlier, and evenmore surprised to hear him bitch out the club sound man, saying he didn't want the mic to be broken or stolen. He got the thing for crowd surfing, he said. "They love crowd surfing, dig," Joel says. Lane has to take a minute and pulls Zach to the side. "What is wrong with you?" she asks, wondering why he added a band member without telling them. He says it's his band, right, leading Lane to mention that no, it's supposed to be a democracy. "Is this coming from Brian?" pfTL asks, stupidly, and Lane says no, it's coming from her; she's just concerned. "Well, don't be," pfTL totally condescends, "and don't be a huge mega-bummer before our big show, that's not cool." Ugh. How can Pamie's friend Todd Lowe flip on us like this? Ass. I'll say it now just so I can repeat it, later, Keiko Agena is brill in this entire episode.
At home, Rory talks to Paris on the phone about coming back to Yale. Paris has instituted a policy of silence at the Yale Daily News, and we see the paper staff walking around, not speaking and typing quietly on their deadened keyboards. Rory gives her a drum roll and tells her she's coming back to Yale. "You really need a drum roll for that?" Paris snarks. "Of course you're coming back. What are you going to do without a college degree, drive a forklift?" Why can't Paris and Lane have a spinoff? How much would you like to see Paris face off against Mrs. Kim? Rory just asks Paris to keep her eyes open on a place for her to live, and they hang up. Waste of Paris!