Episode Report Card Djb: D | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Love Pope
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 08.01.2000
The Em City TV tells us that authorities are still hot on Alvarez's non-trail. Just at this moment, Hill happily observes, "Look who's out of the hole," just as Busmalis walks back into Em City to raucous applause. The careful observer will note that one of his numerous hammy responses includes, "Anybody here from Cleveland?" which is a very funny and necessary respite from the writhing sadness which has overtaken me for the better part of the last hour. Deep sighs everywhere Chez Djb. Over in the cafeteria, Busmalis tells his arbitrary audience of Rebadow, Stanislofsky, and Hill that though he had no money and no coat, it was truly an amazing experience to be free for a few hours. He even stopped "in the middle of the street and did a little dance," which he then rises to indicate, moonwalk-style. It is, it cannot be denied, a funny little dance. That moment of letting one's guard down when you're a seventy-year-old on a prison break is when they usually catch you. And so they caught him, outside of Miss Sally's house. All this talk of the outside world prompts a discussion of being free. Busmalis asks what Rebadow misses most, and the old man (no, not him. The other one) responds, "I have nothing to say to you." He gets up from the table and leaves. Trouble in geriatric paradise?
Cut to later that night, the two in their pod. Busmalis observes that "this silence is grueling" and wants to know why Rebadow is so mad. Rebadow counters with the spurned lover stand-by of your-not-knowing-makes-it-even-worse, and I notice that without his little hat on, Busmalis resembles Rebadow quite strongly, and that the two of them together look more than a little like the two crusty old guys who sit up in the balcony and hurl sarcastic comments about the hijinks taking place on stage on The Muppet Show. ["Waldorf and Statler, two of my personal heroes." -- Sars] Rebadow is pissed off that Busmalis never told him that he was digging another tunnel, and didn't ask him to come. Busmalis frets that Rebadow would have slowed him down. Rebadow insists that he's as vital as ever, and that he "even killed a man." Busmalis is happy for him. Busmalis feels bad. Up in the balcony, Busmalis would say something like, "Say, this show sure has a lot of rough moments going on in the shower." And up in the balcony, Rebadow would respond, "Taking a shower there is like watching it on TV. I've never seen a bigger pain in the ass!" Then they'd crack each other up with many the "ha ha" and even more of the "ho ho." Up in the balcony, there are happier times.