Episode Report Card Maggie: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Booby traps and ballistics
By Maggie | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 11.01.2000
Docuventary clip: Felicity is sitting at a table in Dean & Deluca, holding a coffee cup and wistfully talking about how she used envision celebrating her twentieth birthday. She thought that she and her friends would go to a really "fancy restaurant in San Francisco," where they'd order escargot and drink cocktails.
Ben and Felicity are in her bed, and he wakes her up by kissing her repeatedly all over her bare arms, shoulders, and neck, as he wishes her a happy birthday. Felicity gives him the brush-off by telling him that she has to go to "epistemology." Ben tells her to skip it because "it's got a really stupid name." Ben, you know I love you, but you're a little on the dumb side and a little epistemology wouldn't hurt you. Felicity whispers that she can't skip because she has a test. They grapple a bit and then she gets out of bed. He gets a parcel wrapped in newspaper from his side of the bed and gives it to her as she packs books into her bag. She starts to say that he shouldn't have gotten her a gift, and he kisses her several times. Eventually, he runs out of the room and she picks up the phone and goes out to make a call. She calls Randy at the I Felta Thi frat house but he isn't there. She mentions that she called yesterday, and she leaves another message for him to call her back.
At the loft, we get a close-up of the fan in the wall whirring away above Sean's bed. He's already awake when Meghan wakes up and wants to initiate a little action. Sean begins to respond, but then he says that he's got a lot on his mind and that he's getting pressure from the network. He makes up an excuse about the camera breaking, and he runs off down the stairs.
Now Sean is in a doctor's examining room, and the white-coated male doctor is slapping on some rubber gloves. Sean is fully dressed, and the doctor asks him to "drop trou." Why is Sean is still wearing his clothes? Whenever I have to go to the doctor, the nurse comes in and asks why I'm there, and if any nudity is required for the examination, I have to change into a gown before the doctor comes it to see me. Felicity was wearing a gown at the health clinic. You'd think that pretty much every visit to a urologist would necessitate getting nekkid at some point. I don't understand why Sean is spared the indignity of wearing a gown. Anyway, the doc gives Sean's normal testicle a feel, and Sean thinks it "tickles a little bit." When the doctor grabs the other one, Sean winces in pain. I kept expecting that he'd have to turn his head and cough, but it was over fairly quickly. The doctor prescribes a course of antibiotics since he believes that Sean may have an infection in his left testicle. Sean is heartened and says he'll go to the pharmacy right away. The doctor says, "however," then pauses, and I smell a "but" here. Heh, I guess I know kind of what it's like to be a urologist. It's possible that it may be more than just an infection, and the doctor wants to do an ultrasound "to rule things out." Sean freaks and says that an ultrasound is "a waste of time," because it's only an infection.