Episode Report Card Owen: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Chick Flick
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.19.2000
Street. The (not-so) lazy Ps see Blackie running into the revival movie theater, and run after him. Continuity Error Alert: Phoebe suddenly has that messenger bag on again. If they were so careful to show Prue grabbing the cardigan before they left the house, why didn't they catch this? Anyway, this is a quibble.
Inside the theater. The audience area looks deserted. On the screen, a B&W fifties horror flick is playing. A girl in a poodle skirt stands on a foggy forest set and calls for "Billy." Prue and Phoebe walk down the aisle. Prue bitches loudly about the ticket-taker making them pay to enter. Heh. The continuity editor seems to be doing some work tonight. A sole, bespectacled Movie Geek shushes the lazy Ps, because "this is [his] favorite part." Phoebe beams and exclaims, "Oh! Me too! This is where Billy comes on and --" Prue clutches Phoebe back to her side and reality. She asks Pheebs to come up with an ad-hoc vanquishing spell. Cut to Blackie trying pitifully to sneak down a row of seats at the front of the theater. Prue complains that "he's making a break for it." Phoebe offers this extemporaneous Hallmark Moment: Evil that has traveled near/ I call on you to disappear/ Elementals, hear my call/ Remove this creature from these walls. Cut to the Book of Shadows back at Halliwell Manor, weeping from neglect. I would love to see an upcoming episode where the BoS somehow gets out of the house and goes on a vengeful tear, and the Ps have to admit that they've been taking the tome for granted. Anyway, Phoebe's spell does the trick; Blackie disappears in a puff of smoke. Movie Geek thinks this is "the coolest thing [he's] ever seen." Owen thinks that's the saddest thing he's ever heard, and is flooded with pity for the Harry Knowleses of this world. Phoebe explains to MG that it's "all part of the show." Then she expresses her worry to Prue that the vanquishing was "too easy." But Prue gets all complacent: "Well, we're getting too tough for these guys." Hmm. Looks like somebody's gonna pay for their hubris, no? Cut to Phoebe in rapture at the events on the movie screen. A guy in a white letterman's sweater, black slacks, and penny loafers, presumably Billy, is holding hands and walking away with Poodle Skirt Girl. Prue grabs Phoebe and leads her out of the theater while covering her sister's eyes. Step BACK, Prue. Cut to the movie screen. Blackie appears in close-up, glaring at the departing lazy Ps.
Credits. Sure, there's Wicca on this show. If you mean the furniture in the sunroom that leaves little red welts on the actresses' behinds. Speaking of ass-chafing -- Greg Vaughan's still on the cast roster. All together now: WHY????