Episode Report Card Kim: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Happy Birthday
By Kim | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.26.1999
Meghan isn't sure how to handle the situation and asks if Felicity met her parents. Felicity says she just did. Walter invites Felicity to join them for dinner. Meghan quickly says that Felicity has plans. Felicity gets a devious look on her face. Meghan tries to prompt her, "You have that thing you were telling me about." Felicity, barely suppressing a giggle, doesn't respond. Meghan grabs something and uses it as a pretense to pull Felicity aside and inform her that Meghan's box is now on Felicity's side of the room. Felicity asks why, and Meghan says there was no more room under her bed or in her closet. Meghan concludes, "And if you look in it, I'll skewer you." Felicity is still trying not to laugh. Faye tells them not to have secrets, and guesses that they're talking about how embarrassed Meghan is to have her parents there. Felicity grins and says, "No, actually, we were just talking about this." She holds up Meghan's box. Faye asks what it is, and Felicity says that it's her "secret box," and that no one is ever allowed to look inside of it, including Meghan, which drives Meghan crazy. Meghan stares at the box like it's going to burst into flames. Faye and Walter look puzzled and concerned. Meghan meaningfully says, "Yeah, how nice that I completely and totally respect your privacy." Felicity rattles the box around and says that Meghan probably wouldn't even care what was in the box if Felicity didn't keep taunting her with it. Meghan gives a forced chuckle. Walter says that they're off to the Met, and Faye asks Felicity to consider dinner tonight. Felicity cheerfully says that she will. Faye stops on her way out and calls back, "Meggy?" Meghan looks horrified and Felicity looks incredibly amused as she continues to hug Meghan's box. Meghan grabs her sweater and follows her parents out the door, but not before giving Felicity one last death look. Felicity sighs and looks down at the box in her arms.
Julie has dinner with Carol at Epstein Bar. They sit in awkward silence. Nothing to say, or too much? Lynn stops by and serves their food. He asks Julie if she wants to play there Friday, because someone cancelled. Julie agrees. Lynn tells Carol that she has to hear Julie play. No, she really doesn't. Julie pretends to be embarrassed, but you know she's loving it. Carol smiles and Lynn leaves. Julie asks Carol when she got married, and Carol says it was 1986, when she was at RISD and her husband Tom was doing an internship. Julie says she can't wait to meet Tom, and Carol's face falls. She says that they have to discuss that issue. Carol gives a big speech about how proud she is of Julie, but that their relationship has to stay a secret because she never told her husband that she had a baby before they met, and she doesn't know if she can tell him now. Julie looks disappointed but agrees, because what else is she going to do?