Episode Report Card Kim: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Docuventary
By Kim | Season 1 | Episode 19 | Aired on 05.03.1999
Noel tries to read again but, after a few more moments of awkward silence, tells Felicity that it isn't going to work. Felicity asks what he means, and Noel says they're both sitting there pretending nothing happened. Felicity says she wasn't pretending anything, and Noel says that he was, and that he can't. Felicity says that Eli didn't mean anything to her. Noel says that might make it worse, and that he's not trying to make her feel guilty because he knows he hurt her, too. Noel says that he doesn't have the capacity to start over and be friends again. Felicity quietly says, "Oh." Noel apologizes and says he can't be a very good friend right now. Felicity looks upset, then gathers her books and walks out. DocuCam. Felicity walks out of Noel's room. Sean asks if he'll talk to her now, and Felicity tells him to get away from her. Sean tells the camera, "We'll get her tomorrow."
DocuCam. Establishing shot of Kelvin Hall. Sean asks Darryl, that male R.A. from another floor, what he thinks about Felicity and Noel. (Darryl was Brian Krakow's R.A., if that helps you place him.) Anyway, he says if he were Noel, he could never forgive Felicity for "getting down with another guy." Sean points out that Noel went off with Hannah first. The R.A. says that Noel "didn't get down with her," and he thinks that "Felicity's out." In another interview, Sean asks Ben how it feels to be replaced by Eli. Ben doesn't know what Sean is talking about. Sean says it used to be Ben or Noel, and now it's Eli or Noel. Ben says, "So what?" Sean asks Ben if he's jealous, and Ben says he's not. Twice. He totally is! I hope.
Noel prints out a graphic for the docuventary. There's a knock at his door, and he yells, "Richard, go away!" It cracks me up that he apparently yells that anytime there's a knock at the door. Anyway, it's not Richard; it's Guy. He invites Noel to go to Conan O'Brien with him. Noel thinks it would be awesome, and asks how many people Guy asked before him. Guy says he didn't ask any men, but he asked twelve women. Noel smiles and puts on his coat. Guy asks where he's going, and Noel says, "Uh, a hypnotist." Guy says, "Oh. You know, you said that like it was a normal answer." Noel says he'll explain it to him on Tuesday, when they go to see Conan. Guy reminds Noel to wear something cool in case they get on TV. I don't think Noel owns anything cool.
Felicity presents her research proposal to McGrath in his office. Her thesis is that love is a genetic condition. What? I don't know. Felicity tries to explain it, but it still doesn't make much sense to me. She says that maybe we're all genetically preprogrammed to connect to someone else who's programmed in a compatible way. That sounds dangerously close to soulmate territory. McGrath asks if she subscribes to the theory. Felicity says she doesn't know, but she thinks it's interesting why some couples stay together and some break up. She wants to do "theoretical genetic analysis" of forty couples: twenty that have been together for ten years or more and twenty that broke up within two years. McGrath blahs about genetic markers and Felicity makes one last plea to partner with Elena. McGrath snots that if she'd come to class, they wouldn't be having this conversation. He softens, "I know this is a silly lesson to you, but it's my lesson to teach." And his point is? Shouldn't his goal be to help his students learn as much as possible about the subject matter? If he knows it's a silly lesson, why not give up the ghost already and just let her partner with Elena? Especially if Elena doesn't mind? Whatever.