Episode Report Card Aaron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dead Again
By Aaron | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 03.02.2002
Later on, Nate sits on the basement steps and calls Brenda. He's trying to make plans to come see her, but she's just too busy. If by busy, of course, you mean "lying in bed and too depressed to get up." Nate tries to be as understanding as possible, but you can see that it's wearing on him. "I just…I'd really like to be with you at this moment in time," he says. Aww. I've played the Nate role in enough of my own relationships to feel nothing but sympathy for the guy here, so I'll let this scene pass without so much as a single facial hair crack. Sometimes I wonder why it is that I'm always attracted to the moody mean girls. Oh, wait. Hi, Mom. What's up?
Anyway, Nate hangs up with Brenda and heads into Rico's Body Shop, where young Rico is just unpacking Li'l Miss Slash 'n' Sniff's corpse (StC = 1,632. That's good enough for an A- this week). Rico, as is his wont, quickly asks for a favor. He needs Nate to take the body down to the crematorium, because he's busy with all the kids at home. You know, I've got to be honest here. Everyone in the forums is all about how Rico is so valuable, and the greatest employee ever, and how the Fishers are crazy if they don't pay him what he's worth. Personally, I think he's a lousy employee. He can't sell for shit, he's always asking for time off and special treatment, and he constantly holds the threat of quitting over their heads. I'd have fired his ass last season and brought in The Red-Headed Jew. Oh, my God. I'm think I'm finally becoming middle management. Yeah. It's time to quit my day job. Nate wisely refuses to grant Rico's request, and then an important future plot point swoops out of the sky and informs us all that Rico hates drug users. Nate shares a tender emotional moment with the nubile, naked corpse on the slab (Ew. Not like that), and then we fade to white.
Lazarus: Uh, did he just make a necrophilia joke? Because that was totally uncalled for.
Alan Ball: Well, she still is kinda cute.
Lazarus: Yes, but you're forgetting one thing.
Alan Ball: What's that?
Lazarus: John 11:39: "Lord, by this time [she] stinketh: for [she] hath been dead four days."
Alan Ball: Good point. On the other hand, I'm just happy he's made it this far without any jokes about that place in Georgia.
Lazarus: Yeah, and you know, I don't get that.
Alan Ball: Well, really, who does?
Lazarus: I just can't figure out why the hell would anybody want to be cremated in the first place. I mean, there's always a chance, right? Just look at me.