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By Niki | Season 1 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.02.2000
Jessie goes to grab her jacket from the coat rack and ends up next to Paul. He ignores her when she speaks to him, and simply walks away. Apparently Paul is a really sore loser, especially when he loses to a girl. His mother must be so proud.
Later that night, Jessie is studying for her black-belt test while Karen flaps around the kitchen making dinner. We are supposed to notice how off-the-wall she is because she's leaving the stove on, and she's running back and forth, and she's not really paying much attention to Jessie's questions. Eli's coach calls to find out why he skipped practice, but Karen knows nothing about it. Jessie gets frustrated with studying her tae kwon do books and says she thinks she may fail the test. Karen distractedly answers that maybe she should stop jerking around then. I don't think this response is what Jessie had in mind.
Eli comes in as Jessie leaves the kitchen, and Karen asks why he missed practice. Eli tells her not to worry about it, and she says she's not. She just wonders why he missed it, and maybe where he was. Oh, well, as long as you're not worried....Eli asks if she's okay. He can tell something's different too, but he can't put his finger on it. Thank god -- it would be a little awkward to watch him grind his mom the way Naomi did. He just points out she's not as organized as she usually is.
Black-and-white Karen butts in to share way more than anyone ever cared to know about her underwear. She's a "rotater," which means she always puts the freshly washed underwear to the bottom of the pile so that it all gets worn equally. She says it makes sense if you think about it. Hey, I'm not arguing with her. I'm too busy processing the fact that she can actually get underwear to fit over that rather large pole that's always up her ass. Maybe she has it specially made?
Close-up of a pot full of gooey stuff boiling over on the stove. This little image is meant to reinforce the fact that the underwear-rotating side of Karen is a little lost at the moment. Karen rushes to grab the pot.
Black-and-white Karen then comes back to clarify her point about the underwear, just in case we got the idea that she's uptight or something. Which is uptight in its own right. She lets us know that she's not a "strict rotater." Sometimes she takes out her favorite underwear first. Whoa now, that changes everything. But does she know what a slippery slope she's on? One minute you're wearing your underwear out of order, and next thing you know, you're swiggin' whisky from the bottle and holding up the Hasty Mart with a sawed-off.