Episode Report Card Niki: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT It's The End Of The World As We Know It...
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.10.2001
Cut to Rick at his apartment, writing a shopping list. He writes down a few grocery items and then skips down toward the bottom of the page and writes "shredder." Does he really need to put that on the list? Like there's a chance he'll forget it? We hear Jessie and Lily in the background, coming down the stairs and discussing dresses. Rick stares at the list and then scribbles over "shredder." Oh, see, now we know that he considered doing something shady and then changed his mind. And it wasn't contrived at all. Lily presents Jessie in a slinky long dress and says, "Doesn't you daughter look beautiful?" Rick agrees that she does, and voices a protest over the menu for the wedding reception. From the another room, Eli calls out that they should just have pizza. Lily says that they can have pizza for the kids. Eli appears and asks, "Are we getting paid, or what?" I have no idea what this means until Jessie teases, "Can we pay you not to play?" Hey, I'd kick in for that. ["I'm in for twenty." -- Wing Chun] There's a knock at the door, which everyone ignores. Lily says that since Eli's band is playing at the reception, Jessie can invite some friends if she'd like. Jessie declines the offer, taking a seat next to Lily, and says she didn't know that planing a wedding would be such a big deal. Rick asks whether anyone is going to get the door, but ends up getting up to do it himself. Eli and Jessie tease each other about getting married, and this leads to the name that no one dares speak: Wannabe. As long as no one repeats it three times, I think we're safe. Lily is surprised to learn that the "love" in question is "Grace's friend, Carla." She says that Wannabe is "so lively." Yeah, if by "lively" you mean "annoying and pretentious and foul-mannered." Which, given her tone and expression, I think she does. Jessie says it a little more plainly and yet still is too kind: "She's bizarro." Eli retorts, "No, that's you." Ooh, that had all the burn of two wet sticks slowly being rubbed together. Eli sidles up to Rick, who's scanning a letter, and asks whether Rick will read his essay. "When you write it, I'll read it," Rick snaps, flicking the paper away from Eli's view. Jessie and Eli head upstairs, and Lily turns to ask Rick something. She notices his expression and stops herself, asking, "What is it?" She smiles mildly, blissfully unaware. He tells her he's been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury about the Atlantor project. Lily is stunned speechless. The Chords of Impending Drama lead us out to commercial.