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By Keckler | Season 1 | Episode 2 | Aired on 03.25.2001
Riley, Anna, and the Delia Twins are checking out their website, which looks suspiciously like another girly-girl site I am overly familiar with. "So, it's a catalog and magazine?" Anna is asking. "Mmm-hmm, a net-zine," DT2 tells her, "we have over 200 e-tailers linked to our site." "Girls read the articles, check out the stuff and place an order," DT1 says. If I squint my eye, look over my left shoulder, and take another swig of Caffrey's, DT1 looks like a bad reincarnation of Abby from Dawson's Creek. "Genius," Anna says, checking out the site. "Yeah," DT1 says, "except that now Mindy's trying to say it was all her idea." Riley looks at her: "Was it?" DT1 gives her a dirty look that would put my little sister to shame. DT2 says, "Can you say 'partnership agreement'? We already told all of this to Bentley!" Anna says they'd appreciate their going over it again with them. "So Mindy brought the idea stuff to you guys?" she asks. DT1 says Mindy knew the computer "stuff." I'd say that "stuff" is pretty much all of it, wouldn't you? Anna gets enthralled with some items of clothing on the site and squints at Riley, who squints back. Meanwhile, DT1 is nattering away: "And I don't want to be mean or anything but she's kind of a loser -- absolutely no idea how to dress." Oh, and that ensemble of a powder-blue Linda Evangelista blazer over a fuchsia satin blouse shows that you do? Anna is clicking items and dressing up an onsite Barbie-like colorform. "What's cool, what's lame, and between us? Bad skin," DT2 says conspiratorially. DT1 picks up the thread and stitches it a bit: "We did content, she did tech but then she gets all wigged out because we were interviewed by Seventeen magazine and the guy didn't include her." DT2 says Mindy went on her own and started grrrlzrule.net, and now their hits are down by thirty percent. Riley tells them she thinks they have all they need for now, and shows them out. Anna picks up a color printout from her DeskJet and says, "You know I kinda wish you hadn't shown us your site. Now I'm going to have to do some shopping." The Delia Twins exchange looks and snigger. "No offense, Miss Weller, but we target teenagers," DT1 says. "Yeah, but we could steer you towards sites for women your own age," DT2 says. They give Anna and Riley pitying looks and walk out.
Andy Moffat and PlasticMan discuss their case. Clearly, they have very different ideas when it comes to approaching the case. PlasticMan is domineering and annoying, and Andy Moffat is stuttering and unsure. They decide to post on an Internet bulletin board for cancer patients to see who else was given mathroline in the eighties. PlasticMan looks blank, so Andy Moffat says he'll take care of it. Shaggy slouches over, crunching on chips. "We should check out that new sushi place for lunch tomorrow," he tells PlasticMan, laughing. Why is he laughing? Is there something funny about sushi that I'm missing here? PlasticMan mutters that San Francisco has enough sushi places, and then asks Andy Moffat to have a "working lunch" the next day. Andy Moffat says he's meeting someone for lunch, so PlasticMan and Shaggy should go eat their raw fish. Riley walks in with Anna and groceries. They're bitching about their clients. Apparently they're nineteen, they use the word "e-tailers," and they both hate them. PlasticMan comments that Anna spends a lot of time there for someone who doesn't live there. Anna and Riley mimic PlasticMan while Shaggy asks, "Is somebody going to make some food?" All this chatter fades in the background (hey, even my closed captioning says that), and we zoom in on Andy Moffat's Poor, Unloved, Forgotten, and Gay face. Internal monologue: "I was constantly aware of them when we were in school, almost as if I couldn't get away from them," he says. Except that it's not internal monologue, he's at his shrink's. Why do they have to make the gay man the one who needs the shrink? PUFG Andy Moffat goes on and on about how they all seem natural together, but he's on the outside and can't relate. "I mean, they don't even remember we went to law school together," he says. His shrink asks if he's exaggerating and tells him he has to make an effort to connect. He says he's never included in their plans unless it's work-related, but he could live with that if he hadn't been put onto this case with PlasticMan, who intimidates him. He says he always lets PlasticMan take the lead even, if he knows he's right. The shrink asks what all this is bringing up for him. "How hard is that? High school, and he's one of the cool guys. And Anna and Riley and Edgar, they're all in his clique. The cool guys. And I'm still over at the geek table putting on Clearasil." His shrink tells him that he's not in high school anymore. "Life is high school," Andy Moffat says, providing us with our Deep Thought of the day.