Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 5 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Papa Was A Rollin' Stone...
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.25.2005
A knock at the door interrupts the rising tension, and Keith answers it to find a sharp-looking Duncan, whom he says is a "gentleman caller. You got the emphasis on the 'gentleman' part, right?" Duncan's nervous acknowledgement is hilarious, and brings to mind Icetwin's similar Homecoming-related anxiety. It almost doesn't seem worth the stress to take Veronica, but maybe she gives really good afterparty. Keith asks Veronica to tell Wallace he's pulling for him, and Duncan good-naturedly notes that he's not feeling the Mars family love. Veronica: "Oh, come on. It's like rootin' for the Yankees." Not exactly -- Duncan at least won something only a year ago. Keith asks Veronica if she wants the CD, but after a long moment, she tells him no. Wow, good for her, turning over a new leaf! And with only a few minutes left in the episode, what could possibly go wrong with that?
The Faders are playing "No Sleep Tonight" at the dance. That certainly seems appropriate. People are...in a conga line? Okay. ["Proving that not everything is automatically bad-ass just because it was on a Clone High." -- Wing Chun] Jackie walks unsteadily and looks around vacantly; either she helped herself to whatever was in that bottle, or she's given Celestia another home now that Anne Heche appears to have settled down these days. Veronica and Duncan dance adorably.
Later, the Faders are playing a slower offering as Duncan tells Veronica she looks gorgeous, and kisses her. Aw. The moment is ruined when Veronica sees Jackie across the room with her arms around Logan and is all, "No. Freaking. Way." She storms over and pulls Jackie off Logan, and it does look to me like Logan is less trying to dance or get with Jackie and more just holding her up. That must have been a damn good waxing. Veronica snarls that she won't stand by and see Jackie break Wallace's heart. Jackie counters by telling Veronica, "You really can't make up your mind, can you? Just pick one of them! How many guys here do you expect to want only you?" Jackie's accompanying hand gestures seem to indicate that she was referring to Duncan and Logan, but Veronica can't focus on that now, since Wallace has seen this whole encounter and is looking balefully at her. Logan has a horribly dubbed line asking where the afterparty is, and he sounds like he's trying to break the tension rather than feed it. Veronica chases after Wallace, but he's gone. If only there were some sort of common area where all the students put their cars! Duncan tells her that Wallace will be all right. Since you'll be considering careers soon, Duncan, maybe I can save you some hassle by suggesting you cross "advice columnist" off your list.