Episode Report Card Demian: F | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT "Pointless Filler Episode Number 128"
By Demian | Season 6 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.13.2004
Raige and Phoebe enter the hotel's low-ceilinged lobby, where one of Phoebe's fellow alumni greets her warmly. Raige has removed the jacket, by the way, and while the pale lemon-yellow shade of her chiffon dress does nothing for her skin tone, the dress's appealingly feminine style hugs Rose McGowan's curves in all the right places. Pity they couldn't have gone with a darker, more flattering color on the thing. The two amble over to the registration desk, where Phoebe's greeted by a sneering Hey! It's That Gal! by the name of Mary-Pat Green, whom I immediately recognize as the lesbian pastor of David and Keith's gay-friendly Episcopal congregation on Six Feet Under. Needless to say, she's playing Phoebe's former gym teacher. I want to kick Brad Kern until he's dead. Also, this "Miss Hickok" seems entirely unaware that Phoebe's now an advice columnist, which is ludicrous given All The News That's Fit To Fuck Me's habit of plastering the Bay Area with billboards prominently featuring Phoebe's horrific rictus, but this show is ass, so whatever. Mary-Pat passes the gals a couple of nametags and disappears for the rest of the episode. Raige sotto-voces an insulting remark about Mary-Pat's mannishness, or something, and the two enter the reunion proper.
Dreary early-'90s Lite FM R&B drones on and on above the crowd within the hotel ballroom as Phoebe anxiously eyes her former classmates, all of whom appear to be in their mid-thirties. A dizzy if well-meaning twit by the name of Ramona Shaw barrels into the frame to fawn over Phoebe and giggle at the memory of the night the Feebs locked her in the trunk of a car so Freebie could have sex on a country club golf course with that Todd guy. So, Ramona's pretty much the Camryn Manheim character from Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, only without the camera and the extra three hundred pounds, and I suppose that's all anyone needs to know about her. Yawn. Wake me up when anything about this plotline becomes important. Shame, really, because the actress playing Ramona is not unappealing, and she's sure as hell giving it her all, but seriously, people: Snore. That Todd guy ambles over to remind Phoebe of the time they broke into the principal's office back at Baker High so they could have sex on the guy's desk, and my, but Todd's a tall drink of water, isn't he? A tall drink of boring water, that is. He still looks like a dentist, even though he claims he's a personal injury attorney, but I suppose that works as well. He's also married to another of Phoebe's former acquaintances -- a "Paula" who has yet to appear on screen. Raige inquires as to Rick Gittridge's whereabouts. Todd informs the ladies that Mr. Rick is cooling his heels at the San Francisco County Jail, awaiting trial on an armed robbery charge. Phoebe's shocked and appalled. I'm tired.