Episode Report Card Owen: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Heartbreak City
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 01.19.2000
I don't feel sorry for Winona Ryder getting wiped off the screen by Angelina Jolie at all. Winona exec-produced that flick and brought it on herself.
Sidewalk. XX talks to the paramedics about XY's accident, expressing her hopes that XY will die. In the background the Halliwell sisters and Cupid pull up in Piper's SUV. Cupid sees XY on a stretcher and guesses that it's the handiwork of Drowsy, since Cupid brought XX and XY "together" the night before. He adds to Phoebe that XY was "afraid to risk love" also. Phoebe, to her credit, tells Cupid to stop "picking on" her. Prue, who I notice has added a couple of Phoebe's plastic Wal-Mart flowers to the lone braid in her hair, asks Cupid if he knows where Drowsy is. Cupid feels that he's "close." Just then he spots Drowsy in the crowd. Drowsy runs away, with the Ps and Cupid in pursuit. Piper tries to freeze him, but he's too far away. Cupid orders the Halliwells to "do something, fast!" Shut up, Cupid. Prue collapses on the sidewalk, and her Astral Prue-jection appears in front of Drowsy. Astral Prue tries to telekinetically fling him to the ground, but her power doesn't work. So she picks up a two-by-four and whacks him in the stomach. Drowsy falls down in front of the Dumpster this episode's script must have been found in. Astral Prue disappears and Prue comes out of her trance in front of Cupid and her sisters. She tells the docile Ps to go get Drowsy, since she "slowed him down a bit." Then she does the Halliwell oh-so-energy-conserving-not hand-waving in front of her face gesture. The docile Ps and Cupid come up to Drowsy. Piper freezes him. Phoebe throws a bag of red dust on his coat. Drowsy melts into a puddle of black goo. Prue joins them, and asks if they "got him." Cupid says it "looks that way" but bitches that he didn't get his ring back. Shut up, Cupid. Phoebe tells Cupid to be on his way. Cupid wonders why Phoebe wants to get rid of him, as if he hasn't been oafish and obnoxious enough to everyone. Phoebe defends her "closed heart" by explaining that she just hasn't "been ready for love" with all the demon-fighting the Halliwells have to do. Cupid leers at Phoebe and assures her that she's "more than ready." Phoebe tells him to "just go." Word. He reiterates that he needs his ring. Without it, he'll have to stick around for the Halliwells to create a "travel" potion and recite an incantation to send him on his way. He singles out Phoebe for help with the potion. Phoebe wonders why her? Cupid burns her by reminding her that she's the only Halliwell without a date that night. Phoebe glares at him. The hard Ps walk away. Cupid and Phoebe walk after them. Drowsy emerges from the black goo, glowing ring on his hand first. He cackles, plotting.
P3 After Dark. As usual, there's a huge crowd gathered out front, surprisingly not carrying picket signs ordering the city to close the club due to lameness. Inside, Prue checks out Piper's new necklace. Dan explains to Piper that Prue helped him pick it out. Piper thanks them both, and necks with Dan, assuring him that he'll get more "thanks" later. Jack appears behind Prue, who's sporting another plunging neckline white dress which her breasts are hanging out of like hound dogs in the bed of a moving pick-up truck. Jack comments that he'll have to buy Prue a similar necklace, "if that's all it takes." Everyone titters. Jack suggests that they all find a table and order some food. Um, don't the Halliwells OWN THIS PLACE? Shouldn't Piper or Prue be playing hostess?