Episode Report Card Niki: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Mystery Dance
By Niki | Season 1 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.06.2000
Sam leaves, but comes right back in. He strides purposefully to the counter, like maybe he's going to tell her off for being rude, but instead he says, "I have not been able to get you out of my mind. I don't know what to do about you." Shocked, Judy makes some lame-ass response just before they start kissing.
Cut to black-and-white Judy for her take on the situation: "Sometimes things just happen. Sometimes things...you know...work out. You can't explain it." No, but thanks for the valiant effort.
Rick and Lily are in her living room, and he's giving her a massage while she bitches about having to do a household budget for the mediator. She just can't sort out all the expenses (doesn't she run her own business? hasn't she been running the house for a few months now? what's the problem?), and she doubts that the mediation will work because the last time she and Jake went they ended up screaming at one another and had to end the session. She then tries to kiss Rick, but he pulls away. She asks if he didn't want to kiss her. He says, "No, no, I did, I did...but something went through my mind." "What went through your mind?" Clueless -- I mean "Lily" -- wants to know. She says that maybe there are some things they need to talk about (ya think?) so that they can move on. Rick is reluctant. Lily suggests that they "just need time together. To be with each other." They share a big fat kiss and then Lily swings around again so that Rick will continue rubbing her back (her idea of being together, apparently). She remembers that she was supposed to ask him about his friend Sam, because Judy might be interested in him.
Cut to Judy and Sam standing outside her building, looking giddy. He gives her a postcard he stole from her shop (if he didn't steal it, it wouldn't be a surprise), and she pronounces this gesture very sweet. He says he wants to tell her something, but he hesitates and shoves his hands in his pockets in a classic defensive maneuver. He chickens out and simply leaves.
We next see Judy soaking in a bubble bath, with a goopy green mask on her face and lots of candles lit around the tub. The phone rings. It's Lily, who wants to know whether Judy did her chores at the store like a good girl. Judy tells her she took care of them and then some, and Lily is duly impressed. She even tells Judy she's proud of her. Lily is riding an exercise bike and flipping through a catalogue while talking. She mentions she asked about Sam, which perks Judy up. Cut back to Judy just in time to hear Lily say, "Married...'very married,' whatever that means." Judy's mouth falls open and she slumps down in the tub. She sputters, "I've uh...I've just...got to get my...mask off." Lily comes close to perfecting her clueless routine and fails to notice the effect her news has had on Judy. They end the conversation and Judy, wide-eyed, slides all the way underwater. Maybe she should add "very married" to her list of signs that a guy's not right for her.