Episode Report Card Jessica: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.05.2002
Liberty Hell's Kitchen. Joey bellies up to the bar. "Miss me?" she asks Oliver. "How could I, when I've been waiting on you and your friends all night?" he responds. Joey agrees that this is a good point. She wonders if he'd like to go out with them after the bar closes. "I don't know, we could…" she begins, and then Audrey stomps up and demands a beer for the stage. Oliver turns her down. Audrey whines that no one cares if she's underage. Joey looks mildly alarmed. "It seems to me that you're already wasted," Oliver tells Audrey calmly. "And whose fault is that?" Audrey slurs. "Um, yours," Oliver tells her. Audrey points out that he's the one who served her. "And now you'll have to listen to yourself sing sober. Sorry," Oliver tells her. Wow -- that line was way more subtly snarky than I realized the first time I watched this. Joey smiles wanly at Audrey and widens her eyes in a "shut up" kind of way. She then shoots Oliver a careful smile and tries to talk him into giving Audrey another drink. Which is so not cool of her. Oliver reminds Joey that their asses are on the line if they get busted for serving underage people. Or has she forgotten, since she's not working? "What are you talking about? This is a college bar," Joey chirps with fake cheer. "I mean, you never cared before." Oliver informs her carefully that he cares when an underage girl gets wasted and trashes the place on his watch. And he's cutting Audrey off. "Well, somebody needs to get laid," Audrey slurs maturely. Joey shots her a dirty look. Audrey explains drunkenly that Oliver clearly takes his job too seriously. "What's it like, looking down the barrel of a gun and seeing a janitor's uniform and a bus pass?" she asks Oliver snidely. And that was the day I stopped liking Audrey even a little bit. That was inexcusably snotty. Oliver just looks at her calmly, and Joey, although she looks horrified, says nothing in his defense. "You'll get me another beer, won't you sweetie?" Audrey asks Joey. "I'm thinking no," Joey says very forcefully. Audrey rolls her eyes and bitches that it's like the bar is being run by "Donna Reed and Mr. Rogers." She slams her empty down on the bar, where it shatters. Glass flies everywhere. Audrey laughs and laughs. Oliver demands that Joey get Audrey out of the bar, now. "Did you not just witness my magnificent force?" Audrey twitters, looking at the mess on the bar. Joey's about to grab her, but Emma elbows her way through the crowd just in time. She pushes Audrey toward the stage; they've been warming up for half an hour. She steers Audrey away from Joey and Oliver. "I'm not her keeper," Joey finally shrugs to Oliver, as Audrey drunkenly climbs on stage behind them. "No, it's worse. You're her friend," Oliver says.
So, the band starts and Audrey begins to murder "One Way or Another" by Blondie. But not before Audrey yells something about how "the establishment" doesn't want them to have a good time and wonders "who wants to help stick it to the man?" Oh, Audrey. The Man bought your way into college. Oliver and Joey exchange looks as my phone rings again.