Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Neverland
By Sars | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.04.2000
Ding-dong! It's Ethan, ringing the bell at McPhee Manor. Jack throws open the door, and the two guys hug and exchange good-to-see-yous. A moment later, a car door slams. Uh-oh. "Dad," Jack says, dismayed. "You're home early." Angry, his face devoid of emotion, puts his hands in his pockets and asks to see Jack for a minute. Jack comes down the front steps, and Angry murmurs, "What's the meaning of this?" "No meaning, he's just a friend," Jack tells him. Angry says that Jack should have asked permission first, because now Jack will have to tell "that boy" to go home, and while I don't think Angry should just send Ethan packing, he's got a point about asking to have friends over first. Jack doesn't think so, since Ethan spent two hours on the train to come visit. Angry says that it isn't "a good weekend for guests," and Jack asks if he means not a good weekend for guests, or "for the kind of guests that I would have." Angry says he didn't say that, and Jack sputters that Angry meant that, and Ethan is just a friend, and he doesn't have to "justify" it to Angry. Angry remarks that Jack felt he had to keep it from him, and "it's not a good idea," and Jack retorts that he kept it from Angry because he knew Angry would react "this way." "My answer is no," Angry says, and Jack tells him he doesn't care what Angry's answer is, "because I'm not asking," and he goes on to say that he came back home with the understanding that he could live his life "free of judgment," and Angry tries to counter with the "while you're under my roof" card, but Jack interrupts to tell him that he only came home because of Andie. Angry looks hurt. Jack says he's glad Angry stayed home that weekend, "because if watching me hang out with my friends makes you suffer, then you deserve to suffer." Jack stalks back to the house. Angry broods in the driveway. The Strings Of Father-Son Discord sough in the background.
Okay, the Pepsi Challenge commercial with Ken Griffey, Jr. is cute and all, but for the record, I've seen the guy in action and he really does hit home runs that hard.
Fade up at, apparently, the Buzz Barn, and Pacey comes around the side of the house with Buzz, The World's Shortest Ten-Year-Old, on his shoulders. I cannot abide overly cute child actors, so let's just say that Pacey prepares to go on his way, Buzz tells him not to leave because his friends are coming over and he told them all about Pacey, Pacey says he can't stay, Buzz whines, Pacey says he's going camping, Buzz tries to invite himself along, Pacey nixes that idea, and Buzz sulks.