Episode Report Card Djb: D | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT In The Claire
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2000.08.30
Faith restored by the platitude-filled fortune cookie that must have come with her Moo Goo God Pan combination plate, Sister Pete returns to her office and tears up the papers. Can I get a Hallelujah? I thought so.
It's oral, but it certainly isn't pleasure. Claire has O'Reily's back arched again in a bathroom stall, and when he's finished with his business, he quickly turns the conversation to their relationship and the fact that it needs to end. Too late. I find him completely disgusting by association now. Nyah. ["Word. It's over." -- Sars] The cracks begin to show. Is his hairline receding? And what's that scar I probably used to find strangely seductive? Anyway, he tells her he wants out and she vetoes immediately: "What is this, O'Reily? I'm sucking your dick so much you're losin' your balls?" Thanks for that. She tells him that all this is not over until she says so, sets the agenda for "same time tomorrow, cunnilingus," shoots two squirts of some Binaca-like product into her mouth, and is gone. Ah, the tantalizing taboo of prison love. And while I'm at it, a few sit-ups wouldn't exactly kill him either.
Ooh, gambling! Hill wants to tell me all about it. Why not check out Sars's latest Tomato Nation piece on that and other matters of close association? Hell, go MBTV-sister-sites crazy. You're darn well bound to find yourself tons more. Oh, what's that? You say that Hill doesn't have an MBTV sister site to his name? Ah, well. No words for Hill, then. Moving on.
Busmalis is on hospital cleaning duty when he spots Rebadow in bed. A giant scar takes up half of Rebadow's head from the surgery to remove the benign tumor, but he expresses dissatisfaction with the scar. Busmalis calls him "vain," and Rebadow doesn't bet to think this song is about him when he responds, "Don't get insulting." No, Busmalis clarifies, "vain is good. When you got out of the hole you were kind of dragging. But vain means you still feel alive." Then he went crazy and tried to kill his best friend and he had a dream there were clouds in his coffee, clouds in his coffee. Then Busmalis does the really cool thing and places his lucky hat on Rebadow's head (right over a scar for major head surgery, like ten minutes after it started to heal, but whatever), and I have to admit I get a tiny bit choked up by the site of men over sixty-five bonding over something besides chronic incontinence or a woman under thirty. But my brief ebullience quickly recedes in the reality that when the hat comes off, I have absolutely no idea which one is Statler and which one is Waldorf. Busmalis tells Rebadow, "I'm glad you're breathing." At least I think it's Busmalis. I'll bet you think this scene is about you. Don't you?