Episode Report Card Joe R: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dead In The Nethers
By Joe R | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 09.11.2005
Back home, Lupita frantically searches the kitchen for weed. Andy must not notice her from his perch on the couch because he's busy calling up Sharon and making a lame "my girlfriend broke up with me, and I'm tempted to smoke" ploy so she'll see him.
VIP area. Nancy's talking to the pimp dude, whose name is Tusk. He's clearly a dealer, and a pretty big deal, at least at this club. He asks if Nancy's selling or buying, and she introduces herself as the "suburban baroness of bud." Nancy is seriously holding her own with this guy, and she looks like a million bucks besides. They end up bonding over their kids -- his family is in Atlanta, where they won't get killed. He asks about her husband, and she says how Judah's dead and nowadays she runs around all day and has no one to talk to. Tusk tells her she's getting by.
Lupita's search for bud continues, unsuccessfully, in the bedroom. Shane's still a ball of energy, and he asks her if she wants to build a pillow fort. Figuring if she hasn't found it by now, it's not there to be found, Lupita goes off to find more pillows. And it's there, inside one of the pillows from the closet, that Lupita finds a big bag o' weed.
Andy's convinced Sharon to come over (or to let him come to her place, it's tough to tell), and he spins a bullshit yarn about his ex (Valerie or Veronica, he can't keep the name straight) and how they had dynamite sex while high. Sharon falls for it (moron) and says she gets it: she can only climax if she's high.
Outside the club, Nancy spots Celia and Conrad doing it in the back of an SUV. This triggers a Sexy Time montage, where we cut from Celia and Conrad in the car to Andy taking Sharon from behind to Silas and Megan having sex by candlelight.
Much later, Andy's laughing his ass off at Shane's terrorist video and tries to show it to Nancy, and she finally, finally takes three seconds to pay attention to the weird-ass shit her kid's been up to. Nancy tallies up the mountain lion thing and the gangsta rap thing and now this and wonders what the hell she's supposed to do with Shane. Andy reassures her that this is just what little boys do, especially when they want attention. Though I'm not sure Nancy should be comforted by the fact that Andy did similarly fucked-up things in his youth. Because...Andy. Look how he turned out. Anyway, as Nancy's heading for the stairs, Lupita passes by, hands her the incriminating pillow, and cheerfully requests a raise. Heh.