Episode Report Card Niki: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Wake Up, Little Susie
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.23.2000
B/W Grace says, smiling, that no one talked to her the first three weeks of class, not even the teachers. It was like she "wasn't even there."
Remembering what it was like, Grace glances at Jessie again.
B/W Grace continues: "I used to come home every day and lie on my bed and cry. That feels like so long ago."
Grace does a decent thing and offers Jessie a seat at their table, which she gratefully accepts.
"Grace?" asks B/W Jessie. "She's okay, I mean, I don't really know her. She's supposed to be a good soccer player, which is kind of intimidating, because I was thinking of going out for soccer. Course, she could teach me stuff." Yes she could, in some alternate universe where you're not her mother's boyfriend's daughter and she doesn't resent your presence.
Back at the table, Grace resumes the conversation she'd been having with her friends, saying, "My father wants me to live with him, too." Interesting. I wonder if Lily knows about this? G.I. Jolie launches into yet another speech about herself, staring straight ahead and bemoaning all the problems involved with living with her father, who is a bigger slob than she is, and whom she has to clean up after like she's his wife. Excuse me? This is 2000, sister, and we haven't had to clean up after our husbands (or boyfriends, or whatever) for a couple of decades now. You may think you're fooling people with that bad-ass rebel shtick, but honey, you don't even have a clue. Grace pipes up that she has "issues" with her father anyway. Nice continuity -- I'm glad the writers didn't let that slip away. "My father could never live by himself," one friend adds, while another gripes, "My father's never cooked a meal in his life." Wow, every kid at this table is dealing with split parents. Is divorce really that widespread? Doesn't anybody ever stay together anymore? Jessie smiles as the girls banter about their fathers, and she looks like she may want to contribute something, but she can't bring herself to pipe up. Grace says she wants to hear the CD that bad-ass shoplifted, but where? G.I. Jolie suggests the language lab, with the mocking question, "You don't go there to study do you?" Did I mention that she's irritating? You're a bad girl, you don't give a shit about the rules, we get it. Jessie watches with a lost look as the girls grab their stuff and head for the lab without so much as a backward glance, and she is alone again. She props her head sadly on her hand and stares disinterestedly at her tray.