Episode Report Card Cate: C | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Bitch, bitch, bitch
By Cate | Season 5 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.26.2000
Ruthie and Lucy are in line at a record shop when Simon's bandanna-ed Flashdance friend steps up to Lucy. He says to Lucy, "Mm, look at you. You look like you need a man." There's a pause in there that the closed captioning mistakenly says is bleeped out. Unless you're watching the captioning, you'd never know, because Flashdance's head is turned, so you can't even see that he's saying anything other than what you're hearing. This makes it a little confusing when Ruthie says, "I think he called you a bad word, a really, really bad word." Lucy just looks stunned and uncomprehending, giving Flashdance the opportunity to say, "The little one knows what I called her sister, but the sister don't [sic] know. Or maybe she know [sic] it [sic] true." His dirtbag friends are highly impressed by this not-so-witty repartee. Lucy actually has a good comeback when she disgustedly says, "'She know [sic] it [sic] true'? Look, you ignorant little -- what are you, a pimp? Get away from me!" Flashdance complies, but slaps Lucy's ass as he walks back to his friends. They congratulate him heartily, now that Lucy isn't threatening him.
That reminds me of this time I was walking around one of the universities here and saw a group of four guys verbally harassing two women as they walked by them. The women looked intimidated and weren't saying anything. I didn't say anything either, but as I walked by the guys, I gave them a look of disgusted disbelief. They waited about ten seconds, until I had passed them, before they started calling me names. What kind of troll harasses women like that anyway? But if you're going to call women names, how much more pathetic do you have to be to wait until they've walked past before you have the guts to do it? Lucy starts lecturing the store clerk because he hasn't thrown the guys out. He's blase about it. Lucy moves over to another cashier. As he rings up her sale, Ruthie asks, "What's a pimp?" Lucy replies, "It's a man who hates women." Okay, true, but that's not of much use as a real definition, is it? I mean, don't even bring the word onto a Family Hour show if you can't explain what it means. The second cashier congratulates Lucy, and she goes off on a diatribe about what just happened to her. I'm not sure if the writers are trying to say that Lucy is angry, and rightfully so, or that she's a hysterical female busting on any available man. I tend to expect the worst from this show, but I'm trying to be more positive, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. The cashier just replies that since she is the one-hundredth customer of the day, she has won three tickets to something called a "39" concert. I guess it's a pop group comprised of three scantily clad women. I think they're fictional, but Ruthie claims to love them, so whether they're real or not, you just know they suck. Ruthie thanks the clerk and starts to leave with Lucy. They stop when they see Simon standing with Flashdance and another loser outside the store. Ruthie asks if it's Simon standing with the "woman-hater." By the way, the store is called Tunes, just like the title of this episode. Isn't that exciting? Yeah, okay, I realize it's not, but you can't blame me for trying to inject a little excitement into what's turning out to be a pretty dull episode.