Episode Report Card Aaron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT American Pie
By Aaron | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.30.2001
Suddenly, Munch leaps out of the closet behind her and lunges at Sidney. By the way, that whole little closet/lunging thing? Stolen straight from Halloween, shot for ripped-off shot. On the one hand, I'm offended by such wholesale thievery. On the other, I am starting to develop a grudging respect for -- gasp -- Kevin Williamson. As someone who quite clearly has more than a passing admiration for the pretentiously clever, I do have to give him some credit here. He's essentially assembled an entire movie out of off-the-shelf components, and for the most part, it works. It really is kind of clever. Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm fired. Let me just finish up this recap and I'll go clean out my desk. And I was just kidding about the clever part. It's actually pretty much a lame and hackneyed sort of thing to do. Anyway, Munch tackles Sidney. They fight, and as a cat gets fed tail first into a salad shooter on the soundtrack, Sidney runs up the Steps That Government Subsidy Built while the Masked Munch In Hysterics On a Cell Phone (MMIHOCP) chases after her (tm Ace, Sep, Sars, Djb, and Jessica respectively). Once upstairs, Sidney heads into her room and engages the closet-door force field, or whatever it is that we're supposed to believe keeps the killer at bay while she tries to call the cops. Somehow, she manages to get a busy signal from 911. She must be a Verizon customer. Instead of, oh, I don't know, maybe climbing out the window or otherwise trying to escape the knife-wielding maniac at her bedroom door, Neve chooses to take this opportunity to log on to the internet and check out Sars's piece on dealing with offensive male behavior. Apparently, she gets a few good tips, because she surfs on over to www.10-10-911.com and attempts to talk with a dispatcher via what appears to be some sort of magical DOS-based chat system. Or maybe it's AOL. Either way, it's nasty. Why is that no Hollywood movie EVER has been able to portray the internet with even the slightest shred of realism? By the way, Munchy McMoron is still banging on the door, trying to get in. Finally, he gives up, but before I can go back to being annoyed about the internet thing, Skeet climbs in through the bedroom window and my annoyance gland -- which has already swelled to the size of a small grapefruit -- ruptures, sending me to the hospital (Sars, please see attached invoice for medical and carpet-cleaning expenses). Skeet manages to calm Neve a bit. As they hug, Contrivance climbs in through the window behind them and drops a cell phone out of Skeet's pants. For the love of God and all things holy, let me never again type the phrase "out of Skeet's pants." I'd like to take a shower after that one, but Contrivance used all the hot water. Anyway, Neve sees the phone and gets all freaked out again. She disengages the force field, sets phasers on stun, and runs out of the room.Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19Next