Episode Report Card Deborah: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Growth Opportunity
By Deborah | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.07.2004
At school the next day, Joan -- wearing a brightly coloured striped t-shirt and an olive green cardigan -- is talking to the Charlie Brown tree: "You think you'll survive out here all alone. You're pathetic. You're me." Behind her, one of the smoking hangout types, a cute guy in a camouflage jacket, advises her, "It needs water. And…you should turn the soil." Joan sneers, "Why don't you, if you're so concerned, Foghead?" He replies, "It's your assignment, Joan. You asked for it." She looks only mildly surprised and then mildly annoyed: "This is a new look for you." He sighs a little, and gestures to his baggy denims, "Yeah. I mean, the jeans are really comfy." Frink takes the opportunity to elaborate on his theory that God just inhabits existing bodies, whereas I tend to believe that God just whips up earthly incarnations at whim. I tell him to save it for the commercial break, as I'm supposed to be paying attention here. Joan says she thought she'd have some help. Slacker God says he knows where she's coming from: "It's like, uh, everybody has something better to do. Until they're on a plane, and then they're all over me." Hee. I resemble that remark. Joan: "That means something, right?" Slacker God: "Totally." He tells her to pick up her tools and start turning the dirt. While she's grabbing a rake, he takes off for the bleachers. Joan sees him and calls, "Oh! You're leaving me, too?" He just gives her a Godwave. She starts whacking at the ground with a rake, muttering, "That's a fine way to run a universe."
After the commercials, Adam comes up behind Joan at her locker and says, "Hey." She's slightly startled and then warns him, "I'd stay away. I'm kinda caked with fertilizer, and we all know what that's made of." Judith's attitude? Adam -- like all the good ones -- doesn't care, and pulls her into a hug. He says she missed lunch, and he's brought her a sandwich. Joan thanks him and gives him a girlish smile. He says, "I'm sorry, Jane. I know you and Judith are friends, and I don't want to fight with her…but she's always ragging on me." Joan admits that Judith blew her off, too: "I just had this whole fantasy of how we would all come together and be, like, this one person with a lot of heads." Uh…no. Don't make me have to invent hydracide, because I wouldn't even know where to begin. Adam looks equally concerned. Joan admits that sounded "kinda freaky" but believes he knew what she meant. Adam says, "I'm sorry, I -- I really can't handle working with her." As they start walking, Joan says: "Yeah, I guess trying to drag everyone into this was ultra-dumb." Adam's surprised that she's not mad. She replies, "Adam, I don't even understand why I'm doing this garden. How can I be mad at you if you're not into it?" Adam: "It feels like there's so much stuff coming at us lately…like we're the indeterminate thing, you know?" Joan muses, "Maybe we should be our physics project." She thinks for another moment and says, "I planted something called impatiens, but they take as long as everything else." Adam laughs. Joan: "Funny, huh?" Well, especially since they're annuals. Who plants seeds for annuals in the fall? I couldn't tell you what growing zone Maryland's in but this just seems wacky to me.