Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 3 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Smiling Faces Sometimes
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 08.21.2012
Aria and Wesley share a haunted look, because now what? First of all maybe he could give her some clothing tips, because he looks 100 percent perfect. You gotta be a special kind of a person to pull off white dungarees.
TRUNK SHOW
Cece Drake cheers when Paige and Emily arrive, both looking fairly adorable, and Cece and Spencer are both pretty obviously weird toward her.
Paige: "Hi, Spencer, can I help you?"
Spencer, voice unnaturally high: "Um, okay."
They stack rings and things on and around the TRESemmé© products, and Paige does a great job of reaching out. Talking about her personal style and her confidence and stuff, really being sincere and balanced and sweet.
Paige: "Spencer, I want a fresh start with you because Emily is changing my life and I..."
She immediately breaks the pinkie finger of a mannequin hand she's fussing with, and everything goes back to awesome and creepy again.
BIRTHDAY
Aria: "Please don't kiss me in front of your little brother. We have lies and secrets now."
Aria and Wesley head away from Ezra's Hootie and the Blowfish to gossip about him. Wesley's idea is that Maggie's still following the arrangement, which confuses things further: If she lied to Ezra today to stay with the deal they made, it could have financial ramifications for little Malcolm. Wow! They are like a superduo of figuring things out. I like it when Aria and Wesley figure shit out together. I wasn't hugely into Wesley when he showed up, then the night of the UPenn thing he was pretty cool, but I think that, as of this episode, he might be a new favorite thing about the show.
TRUNK SHOW
Spencer: "So Paige was either being her usual sweet, awkward self, or she was being her other usual self that is scary and unhinged. It is so hard to tell on this show."
Hanna: "Are you saying she threatened your fingers?"
Spencer: "That, but also I think she's buttering us up so she can murder us."
Hanna: "Quick, what's the craziest thing we could do right now?"
Spencer: "Steal her purse and look for that knife in it, I guess?"
Hanna: "Yeah, that's good. Real crazy and sketchy."
They do -- this whole knife thing came out of left field even more than usual, did it not? -- and I think they find it, or at least something that makes them squeal... And Emily comes out looking smashing, goes from overjoyed to pissed as hell in three seconds, yells at both those bitches, and takes off. Paige sort of follows in her wake, looking all kinds of guilty. Spencer does not give a shit about any of this, because she just found something (what is it?) in Paige's purse, and filched it, so she's happy as usual.