Episode Report Card DeAnn Welker: B- | 297 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Taste the Rainbow...
By DeAnn Welker | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2009.10.12
Claire and Gretchen show up late for rush, thankfully keeping us from having to listen to Becky's whole spiel. They enter at the end of said speech, when she says it's now time for her favorite part of rush: speed-dating. She walks between Claire and Gretchen and divides the group right between them. I'm not sure what purpose this serves, but I guess it will make it so that they don't get to speed-date each other? You'd think that would be true if they were in the same group, especially based on what happens during said speed-dating. Before we get to that, I'd like to point out that Claire's been in school for a while now and rush should already be over, since it usually starts before school does. But this isn't Greek, so I'll cut it some slack. We get to see Claire as if we're the person speed-dating with her, as she says this might be the scariest moment of her life, and her mom raises professional show dogs. Before you ask why, then, we have only ever seen Mr. Muggles, Claire corrects herself: "Show dog." She doesn't have a boyfriend, hasn't ever. Her dad works for the government or paper or something. Then girls begin to already know stuff about her, and they all found it out from Gretchen: former cheerleader, lived in Texas. Claire's stuck with Becky for the last round, who also says she heard all about Claire from Gretchen, and then adds that Gretchen's cool and "edgy." I don't think that's even meant to be a compliment. Claire looks at her stalker, clearly annoyed at the realization that she is, in fact, a stalker. Gretchen asking if she could cut Claire wasn't a clue at all, I guess.