Episode Report Card Aaron: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dead as Folk? No. Dead as Fuck? Yes.
By Aaron | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on 04.27.2002
And speaking of boring, Ruth and Nikolai are eating dinner and discussing their day. Business was slow, Robbie is lazy, blah blah blah, Ruth checked out the store's bookkeeping. Nikolai doesn't want her anywhere near the books, but Ruth insists that she has a financial stake now that she's paying his medical bills. Whatever. She does get in one good "language!" however, when Nikolai describes the possibility of his being audited as "bullshit."
Sitting in front of a roaring fire at his mother's place, Billy thanks Claire for being the only person who kept in touch with him while he was in "The Home For The Tragically Inappropriate." "Are you kidding me?" asks Claire. "Your emails were, like, totally brilliant. I saved them all. It's the only thing that kept me going." Now that HAS to be a shout-out, right? Right?!? Yeah, I know. But do me a favor and leave me alone with my delusions, okay? They chat about Gabe for a minute, and how Claire isn't at all sorry now that he's gone, and then Billy leans in to ask her for some assistance on a project of his. Claire and her giant oversized watch quickly agree to help.
Back at Brenda's Bitched-Out By Her Brother Boudoir, Brenda listens to angry rock and goes through her collection of illicitly obtained phone numbers. She seems to have a lot of them, which would indicate that we've been spared any number of scenes of public indecency these past few weeks. Thanks, Alan. And this time I mean it.
Suddenly, my screen is filled with the frightening visage of Leeza Gibbons, as she interviews David and Keith in their apartment. It's clearly a dream sequence, but what I can't figure out is why they went with Leeza over AOL Time Warner's own Deborah Norville. Someone in the product placement office is so getting fired for that one. The basic premise here is that Keith and David are the perfect couple, with a loving relationship and two beautiful children. Heck, they're even talking about having a third. "I think the key is to do everything together," says David. "From PTA meetings to the White Party in Palm Springs." My lack of L.A. knowledge prevents me from knowing exactly what the "White Party" is, but I think I've got a pretty good guess, and I'm sure that if I'm wrong, someone on the forums will enlighten me. It does, however, remind me of last year's TWoP Writer's Summit, which was held on the same weekend as something called The Leather Ball. Let's just say we fit right in. David is awakened from his dream by Keith, who's still whining about his lack of sleep. He also mentions that maybe David shouldn't stay over that night, because he's been there for six straight nights, and they might be moving too fast. David is quick to agree to leave, and doesn't really seem all that bothered by it. Of course, this display of non-doormat-ness turns Keith on a bit, and he grabs David's hand and leads him off to the bedroom. Fade to white.
Aaron: Aww. They're such a cute couple.