Episode Report Card Aaron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Deft, where ith thy thting?
By Aaron | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 06.30.2001
s that the act of observation changes that which is being observed." She's right, albeit annoyingly so, and now I'm regretting not having made a Schrodinger's cat joke back in the opening scene when I had the chance. Brenda's not through yet, though. She tells Nate, "And now you're going to read that book and think that you know me. But you know what? You don't." "You're right," he replies, "because you won't let me." Having both scored with their verbal barbs, the argument goes quiet for a moment as Brenda lights up a joint. "Okay, fine," she says. "What do you want to know?" Nate's first question is whether or not Brenda burned down that house, and she cracks up laughing when she hears it. "Well, what am I supposed to think?" he shouts. "You put my brother and me in the bus that killed our father, you get weird phone calls from screaming people that you won't explain, and now you want to make me feel stupid for being suspicious? Well, give me a fucking reason not to be!" Humbled, Brenda whispers, "I just want to know what this is for you." Nate sits back down and praises their obvious "intense sexual connection," before saying he'd like the relationship to continue. That can only happen if she trusts him, though, and at long last he says that she can. As they hold one another, we pan down to her book, which is entitled Charlotte: Light and Dark, and is not written by either of her parents.Okay, raise your hand if you've actually played Scrabble at least once in the past ten years. Sars, you don't count. Anyone else? Didn't think so. So why is it that every show I recap has to feature stupid people playing Scrabble? On the other hand, this is excellent advance hype for The Claire & Meadow Show. Borelai spells out "rake," pulling down a triple-letter score on the "K." See? It's totally the best letter. Claire rolls her eyes and uses the "E" in rake to spell out "hell." There's a moment of awkward silence as everyone looks at Ruth like she's the worst mother in the world, but then Snory gets a big smile on her face and adds an "O" to Claire's creation, making "hello." Oh, all right. Ha! Maybe the writers aren't total poo asses after all. Ruth studies the board for a minute, and spells out "deft." "Deft? What's that?" asks Snory, and Borelai explains that it used to be a brand of laundry detergent. Ruth corrects her to say that it's actually a word. When asked to use it in a sentence, she comes up with: "He deftly juggled his responsibilities." Claire's contribution, however, was the real winner: "Deft, where ith thy thting?" Heh. I'm a sucker for Biblical wordplay.