Episode Report Card Maggie: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Greeks and Geeks
By Maggie | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.24.2000
Felicity and Elena return from mid-terms and both admit to not being able to "focus." Felicity feels bad about lying to Julie's mother and decides to call her back and tell the truth about Julie dropping out, but not about their suspicions about the drugs. Felicity asks if Mrs. Emrick's heard from Julie, then she apologizes for having lied earlier. Felicity tells Elena that Julie's mother is crying.
Victoria's Secret ad for their satin collection with writhing supermodels doing the shilling. Oh, here's a commercial for Bedazzled. How many devil movies are there these days? Sarah Michelle Gellar uses Maybelline colour Wear n' Go lip colour. An anti-drug PSA gives me a seizure. And, here's that Wendy's NASCAR ad, again.
At the loft, Ben sits on the couch enjoying a videogame and declares that "this Playstation 2 thing is a real problem." Felicity arrives, and he asks her how her exam went; she tells him it wasn't good. She tells him about calling Julie's mom, who "was very scared." Felicity says the call was scary because Julie hadn't told her parents about what happened with her birth father. It turns out that Julie's mother called back and berated Felicity for letting Julie go and not helping her. Felicity starts to cry, and Ben says that Julie's mom responded that way because she was upset. Felicity describes herself as a bad friend. ["Considering we're talking about Julie, Felicity was a good friend even to keep talking to her as long as she did." -- Wing Chun] Ben says that what happened with Julie was not Felicity's fault, and he cites what happened with his dad and the fact that the Ritter incident was not Ben's fault. He tries to reassure her and gives her a hug.
Docuventary clip: the PC Olympics are in two days and Knoll explains to Sean that since Tracy got a new laptop, he's going to screw up his old one to let Knoll practice resuscitating it. Sean's advice is to "let the Wookiee win." Knoll gives a fake laugh and sarcastically says, "That's funny. That's a good one."
At the dorm apartment, Knoll is working on Tracy's old computer and gets Windows to boot. He declares himself "Hercules, god of strength." Um. riiiiight. Tracy wants to know how Knoll did it, and Knoll says, "It's a little trick I learned -- it's called being a genius." Knoll wants Tracy to screw it up again and make it harder. Knoll opens Tracy's new laptop and Tracy warns him not to touch his "new Porsche." Cars, computers -- what will be the next phallic proxy for men? How come they never get all excited about vacuum cleaners? ["Dude, I think I got a little wet at the sight of that computer. It was as thin as an envelope! I want one! (Sorry.)" -- Wing Chun] It seems that Elena is writing her mid-term on Tracy's new laptop, and Tracy doesn't want Knoll to lose her work. Tracy fries the old computer and tells Knoll that if he can fix it, he's a "super mega-nerd." Knoll sits his already mega-nerdy ass down to give it the old college try.