Episode Report Card Shack: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jock Trap
By Shack | Season 4 | Episode 26 | Aired on 07.23.1998
But sadly, that's not enough to get Chug to leave her alone. He pushes her back against some boiler and gets handsy and threatening, grabbing Rachel's boobs and telling her he could get away with anything because he's in the Blue Ribbons. Ratcatcher Porno is doing what he does best -- skulking helplessly in the shadows, watching things unfold. But suddenly, the boiler room is filled with the sounds of Uhura scanning an abandoned space capsule for life forms. One of the rats has turned on a Boombox Ex Machina that's sitting in the room somewhere. It has an immediate negative impact on Chug. He starts screaming and clutching his head as if the sounds hurt him. See -- jocks just don't like Star Trek. Rachel breaks free of Chug, grabs the CD, and makes her escape. Chug tracks down the Boombox Ex Machina and destroys it with his bare hands, shrieking and slamming it on the floor and punching it until it stops functioning. He calms down after the sounds stop; his hands are bleeding. He sees Ratcatcher Porno, but just calls him a retard before leaving. Humbled by Chug's scenery-chewing prowess, Ratcatcher simply responds, "Wow." Elsewhere, Steve and Lindsay are walking down a country road back to their home. Lindsay is encouraging Steve to try to fit in. It's not like he's even done anything approaching odd here. Maybe that's the problem. He needs to choose between violence and drugs, and so far he's refused. Steve notices that Lindsay is wearing a blue friendship bracelet and freaks out about it, demanding to know where she got it. She says they were handing them out at school and it's no big deal. So the Blue Ribbons are a street gang, then? All blue articles of clothing lead back to them? I guess they are a street gang, because here they come with some Boys in the 'Burbs drive-by menacing. A car full of jocks drives by slowly. They sneer at Steve, but greet Lindsay politely. Steve orders Lindsay to go inside. Steve walks over to Rachel's "manufactured home" -- in case you had forgotten that she was from the wrong side of the tracks. He wants to talk to her. She wants to show him the CD Gavin left for her. Apparently, living in abject poverty has not prevented Rachel from getting a fancy computer to play back the video Gavin burned. Gavin recorded himself on the CD, and he tells them that after he and Steve had their fight on his last night of stonerhood, he snuck back into the school and overheard Caldicott talking to some "wonk" and referring to the Blue Ribbons as "his children." Then he got upset and kicked the guy out of his office. I don't know how this information represents some pivotal discovery for these guys. They both knew that Dr. Caldicott was responsible for the Blue Ribbons and that whatever is wrong with them, he's involved. Gavin asks them to keep an eye on U.V., then cuts off the recording.Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20Next