Episode Report Card 13 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT The Biggest Deal There Is
By Maggie | Season 2 | Episode 23 | Aired on 2000.05.24
Knoll is strolling down the street and he runs into Natalie, who is standing outside smoking a cigarette. Knoll passes her than asks if she is there for the wedding dinner. They establish that they will both be attending and Knoll asks if she is waiting for someone. Natalie tells him that she's just out having a cigarette. Knoll tries to be all Rico Suavé and says that if he knew her better he would tell her to quit smoking. She says that if he knew her that well, she'd tell him to screw off. Hey, don't let the fact that you just met him stop you from telling him to screw off, nobody else does. They exchange a bit more banter then introduce themselves. I guess Knoll is now officially over Ruby.
The loft is full of people sitting at several tables and chairs. How gracious of Sean to host this shindig. Everyone is eating and drinking. Richard is torturing a guy sitting next to him with his idea for fillerupnow.com, "they bring the gas to you." Every time Richard appears, he brings me gas. He can list that on his résumé, right under vomit-inducing, which he nailed in last week's episode. At another table, Julie sits morosely and Javier is heard to say, "I miss the Dinah Shore Show." Me too! Actually, I don't exactly miss it, but I'd love to see it again. What is Charles Nelson Reilly doing these days, anyway? Knoll tells Natalie that he is originally from Boston and asks if she's ever been to New York before. Ben and Felicity just look at each other. Tracy and Elena squabble about their summer plans. Sam hisses to Javier, "I can't believe you didn't tell me you're doing that." Javier says, "Well, I didn't want to say anything in case it didn't happen." Samuel says, "But it did and it is going to change things."
Meghan is talking to people at her table and Sean gets up and leans over her with a basket of garlic bread and asks if she wants some. Knoll says that he'll take some and Sean stands staring at Meghan. Felicity clinks her glass to get everyone's attention and goes and stands by Javier to make a toast, in her capacity as best man. She bleats on about him being the biggest romantic on the planet. Samuel concurs, and kisses Javier on the cheek, and everyone ooohs and ahhhs. Meghan asks Knoll if he's going to eat his garlic bread, he says no, so she grabs it. Felicity says, "Javier sees the best version of life, I think that's why we all love him so much." Someone in the crowd says, "Very nice," and Felicity glances at Ben. She takes a breath, then talks about how deep Samuel's and Javier's love is and how rare it is. Continuing on in the same vein, she further praises their relationship in an attempt to jab Ben about their relationship. Ben jumps up and says he wants to add something to the speech. Felicity says she not done, but Ben keeps going anyway. He talks about when Javier's visa was up and how he and Samuel made sacrifices so they could stay together. The whole thing escalates and stops being Javier and Samuel and starts being about Ben and Felicity. They take their argument into Ben's room. He says he was trying to be supportive and she counters that he was indifferent. He moans that she chose a job over him and she complains that he wants slow things down. He claims that he only said that because he thought that was what she wanted. She says she only agreed to it because he was freaking out. At that point, Ben grabs her and they start kissing. They start undressing each other and fall onto the bed. Felicity's voice-over states, "The first time Ben and I had sex, there were forty people in the next room, and no one knew what we were doing." But, everyone did know what they were doing because they were all turned in the chairs, looking toward Ben's room. Javier gets up and asks everyone to start talking "so it's not so obvious we know." Conversation resumes. That is the tackiest thing ever! Maybe they should have just gotten it on during any of their other marathon snogging sessions that they had in private instead of embarrassing everyone at the party. Kids today.