Episode Report Card Djb: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Large And In Sarge
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 08.07.2004
David and Nate sit in The Sad Room listening to the Marshall daughter explain that her father had always planned to drive himself to the funeral home. Her mother sits beside her, responding to Nate's heartfelt "unbelievable" with, "Not if you knew him...He would always do what he said he would do. You could always trust his word." His daughter agrees, remembering, "He never wanted to burden us with anything." Rico, not seeing much of himself in their descriptions of a wonderful father and husband, burns with the pain of guilt before he starts with burn with other kinds of pain, I have no doubt, telling them, "I'm so, so sorry." They thank him for his sympathy as Rico all but bursts into tears, and Nate takes this opportunity to add in a way that I don't totally understand but which cracks me up anyway: "I'm really sorry, too." The poor Marshall women have to break Rico and Nate out of their own thoughts, a marvel for two women who suddenly live in a world filled with men who always want to burden us with everything, reminding them they'll be back for the service on Tuesday. James Dubois Marshall invented Tuesday.
George sits in the living room staring off into space and musing on an exceedingly long sentence beginning with "Who are the ad wizards" and ending with "Pig in the City," with lots of other words in between. Ruth enters and looks at him for a second, noting, "You look busy." He tells her that he's "contemplating," which is a word in "Old" that means "dying of Alzheimer's." She takes a brief guilt-trip into the room in responding, "You busy is so different from my busy." Your busy involves much more passive-aggressive nagging about how not busy he is. She asks him what's next on his "packed agenda," and he tells her that he's got "papers to grade, yard work, I should really finish that article." For The New England Journal of Zzzzzzzz. You should subscribe. I usually read my copy while sawing wood in a thought bubble. Ruth turns the topic toward the fact that George is heading for a new Lolita, introducing it thusly: "It was nice of you to talk with Claire's friend this morning. I guess that goes on in your classroom all the time." I guess Ruth went to school with a lot of suggestive Police songs.
Keith stands stock still at a plush house party while "doom doom doom" music pulses on the soundtrack. Celeste sits on a couch conducting an interview while Keith looks on a fair distance away. His peace of simply doing his job, protecting Celeste -- from, I don't know. The cavity creeps, maybe? -- is soon to be interrupted by the stumbling arrival of Javier The Homo-Hating Homo, who stumbles over swigging directly from a bottle of champagne. He's totally one lampshade on his head away from falling headlong into fourteen early Mark Harmon movies. And that is a fire-able offense, no? Keith rescues the bottle from Javier's grip, causing Javier to wishfully ask, "Who are you, my wife?" I always pictures Keith as being more typically the husband figure, though that preconception is loosened somewhat in an upcoming scene, if you know what I mean and I think you do. "Whip it out," Javier insists while Keith stares straight ahead and Celeste stares at both of them and the shot sheet gets longer and Leon's getting larger. Javier asks about "this boyfriend" of Keith's, asking, "You love him?" Yes. "Is he sexy?" Mmmm-hmmm. "Big dick?" Excuse me? "Me, I gotta biiiiig dick...you know, you could really help me out. You know what I'm sayin'?" No, I find your clever subtext totally impenetrable. Keith shoots back, "Javier, I don't treat my man the way you treat your woman." He tries to pack Javier off, but he fights back all loose-armed and drunkenly -- one might go so far as to say swishily -- asking, "You don't think I'm sexy?" Keith pushes him further out, and Javier tries once more, adding, "You should check out my dick before you say no, man." Well, it's a better pick-up line than "You'd look like Tobey Macguire if you went to the gym," which someone actually said to me while I was AT THE GYM, but it still doesn't work.
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