Episode Report Card Aaron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Death be not proud
By Aaron | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 06.23.2001
Brenda's Boudoir. Which, I'm sure, has had many repeat customers. That may even explain why Brenda apparently refuses to sleep in her own bed. Anyway, it's the morning after, and she's wondering if she should make a peace offering to Nate's mother. When he tells her it'll just make things worse, she unleashes another torrent of psychoanalysis, something about burying feelings or some such. Have I mentioned that TiVo has great fast-forward capabilities? Nate replies that it's better than "examining every fucking moment until all the joy is drained out of it." Yeah. Welcome to my world, buddy. And while you're at it, get your hands out from under the sheet where I can see them. There's some awkward silence at this point, and then Nate invites her to join him on the bed. "Sex does not solve everything," she tells him, and while it's true that it may not be all that helpful with, say, the Pythagorean theorem, it can and does solve most other problems. Viva la sex, baby!
Formaldehyde Fortress. Only it's time for yet another confession. As those of you who subscribe to the mailing list no doubt already know, I didn't make my midnight deadline. The preceding paragraph was written at 1:30 last night, and I'm picking up now on Sunday afternoon. I'm a bad, bad recapper, and I hate myself right now. Okay, not really. I'm just disappointed. You know. Anyway, I'm rapidly reaching the point where Sars stops thinking about firing me and starts considering ways to have me summarily executed, so I'll just move on. I will, however, say this to those who haven't signed up for the mailing list yet: what the hell are you waiting for? Things like this are just one of the many perks of membership. Plus, just wait until you see the free gift you get for signing up. [Legal note: There is no free gift for signing up.] Anyway, Nate comes in and finds Claire watching The Partridge Family, presumably as an ironic commentary on the Fisher's dysfunctionality. Except there's nothing really functional about Danny Bonaduce. Susan Dey, on the other hand, was the TiVo of her day. Anyway, Nate asks Claire if she's all right. Her response: "My pimp is threatening to beat me up because I can't turn enough tricks, and what's worse is he's threatening to take away my smack. It's hell." Nate wants to know why she always has to be such a bitch. "Why do you always have to assume I'm in trouble?" she retorts. "Like you guys are such shining examples." Damn, even with the meager four lines she got this week, Lauren Ambrose is still the best thing about this show. Marry me, Lauren. Or don't, considering how much trouble my last wedding reference got me into.