Episode Report Card Demian: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Shannen sings!
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 24 | Aired on 01.19.1997
Back from break, we’re thirty-six minutes away from the blessed end of this crap, and they’re finally getting to the point where Chloë destroys Shannen’s reputation. Jesus. Chloë informs the Swedish Professor that Shannen plagiarized her qualifying short story from Joyce Carol Oates. See, when Sly Chloë nicked Shannen’s manuscript from Club Rendez-vous, she left the title page intact, but replaced the text with "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Or something. I don’t know from Joyce Carol Oates. Chloë twirls Shannen’s good-luck totem between her fingers as she lies and lies and lies some more. Shannen thinks the Swedish Professor is "clueless." Shannen refused to confess. Shannen threatened Chloë with bodily harm when Chloë announced she would tell the Swedish Professor herself of Shannen’s transgression. Big scary close-up of Sly Chloë’s lying lips. Big scary close-up of Sly Chloë’s lying eye. The Swedish Professor flares a nostril. Cut to the classroom. The Swedish Professor presents Shannen with the evidence of her purported transgression and announces that a disciplinary committee hearing will be held to determine her guilt. Shannen frets that she’ll lose her scholarship. He tells her she should have considered that possibility before fobbing off a bucktoothed recluse’s work as her own. House Delta. Shannen storms up the stairs to the Suite of Madness. "Where’s [Chloë]?" she barks as she trundles past Paige. Upon hearing that Chloë’s out, Shannen wrenches the doorknob. "You can’t just barge in there," Paige protests. "It violates house rules!" "Violate yourself, Paige!" Snerk. Nothing involving Paige can ever be wrong. Shannen digs first through Chloë’s backpack, then through her desk. She finds a damning collection of Oates short stories, as well as the marred photograph of Shannen and Simon dancing at the Sweetheart ball. Chloë has replaced Shannen’s head with her own. "You’ve been after me from the beginning," goggles Shannen. Yeah, duh. Suite Shannen. Chloë slams her way in for what she believes will be the final confrontation. Shannen presents her with the marred photo. "That’s a pretty sick thing to do to your own picture," Chloë sneers. Psycho Chloë digs in with the you’re-afraid-to-compete-with-mes and the you-can’t-stand-losings and the your-boyfriend-couldn’t-get-it-up-for-yous and the he-called-you-Missionary-Womans and somebody please poke me with a stick when this is all over so I know to get up off the couch and tumble into bed. Shannen hauls off and smacks her. Chloë’s screaming has attracted a crowd. Unfortunately, they manage to see nothing but the slap. Chloë pretends she said and did nothing to provoke either Shannen’s violation of her privacy or this physical attack. Paige orders Shannen out of House Delta while Chloë wails and moans. As Shannen scampers down the stairs, Alison attempts to follow. Much as she did with Simon earlier, Chloë snits, "No! Let her go."Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25Next