Episode Report Card Pamie: A- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Luke Gets Drunk
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on February 9, 2004
More screaming. Kirk is chasing two kids through town, screaming into his walkie-talkie that the Morrissey kids have stolen the bonfire again. Luke walks into his diner and ask Cesar what he burned. Instead, he finds Liz, who's helping herself to the fridge in back. She's making a dinner for her, Luke, and T.J., her "guy," who is currently upstairs alone in Luke's apartment.
T.J. is cooking some chili. He's played by Michael DeLuise, who was somehow supposed to replace Johnny Depp on 21 Jump Street post-Richard Grieco, but wasn't even memorable enough to replace Peter DeLuise...who was still on the show at the time. Consequently, most of the time T.J. is on the screen, I'm distracted with thoughts like, "No. He can't look that old and have been on Jump Street. How old is everybody from Jump Street? Oh, shit. That's right. Johnny Depp is forty. That means he's probably like, forty-three or forty-five or...oh, man. He might be almost fifty. Then how old does that make Peter DeLuise? How old does that make me? I wonder when Stee will stop teasing me for once writing fan mail to Peter DeLuise. I can't believe I said that on Beat the Geeks. I can't believe I went on Beat the Geeks. I can't believe I lost. I was so robbed. Wow, Michael DeLuise looks old." Luke is openly rude to T.J., and -- as my mother likes to say -- has a comment for everything. Liz is so happy to have both of her guys in a room together. Are they having steaks and chili for dinner/lunch? That's weird/intestinally challenged. Liz introduces T.J. to Luke. T.J. wants Luke to guess what the initials stand for. Luke doesn't want to guess, but T.J. makes him, so Luke correctly guesses it stands for "Thomas Jefferson." Liz makes Luke sit for a little while. T.J. asks Luke if he'd like a beer. Luke: "You mean one of my beers from my fridge? Sure, why not?" T.J. brings Luke a beer. Liz gets excited easily, and is already making this situation more meaningful than it is by pointing out that her two favorite guys are talking, sharing a beer, bonding.