Episode Report Card Kim: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Happy Birthday
By Kim | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.26.1999
Cut to Ben anxiously watching the game on television in the loft. Sean walks out and asks Ben how his head feels. Ben distractedly says that it's fine, trying to concentrate on the game. Sean asks who's playing, and Ben tells him to hold on. The announcer on the TV says that Latrell Sprewell made a three-pointer to win the game and Ben celebrates. Sean asks if he's okay. Ben says he is, and that if Sean doesn't mind holding it for a bit, he'd like to write him a check. Sean asks if the phone rang while he was in the shower. Ben says it didn't. The phone rings, and Sean answers it. It's Chloe, canceling on him. Ben asks what happened. Sean says that the computer card catalog crashed again, so Chloe has to stay late. Ben says he's sorry, but Sean claims that it's better, and tries to laugh it off. Ben looks at him sympathetically.
Ugh, Julie is singing at Epstein Bar. They couldn't afford to get all the original songs for most of these episodes, but we get to hear every note of this? Anyway, the camera pans around to reveal Carol listening to Julie sing and dodging the falling anvils because the lyrics are all, "I deserve a little bit of you." The set ends, and Carol tells Julie that they have to talk. Julie says sulkily that she understands. Carol knows it wasn't fair, but that Julie will understand when she hears about it.
Cut to Carol and Julie sitting at a table as Carol explains that she got pregnant with Julie at seventeen, the first time she had sex, and that Julie's father never knew about it. Carol says that her parents were wonderful and supportive as long as she agreed to give up the baby. Carol says that years later, after college and graduate school, she ran into Julie's father again and they had both grown up, so they started dating. And got married. So Carol's current husband is Julie's father, and he doesn't know. Julie says, "You married him, and you never told him about me?" Obviously. Duh! Carol says she wanted to, but that she was afraid and ashamed that she'd given Julie up. Julie says that she wants to meet him. Carol says she can't. Julie says that she's Tom's daughter, and that Amanda is her sister. Carol looks terrified, and says that if he finds out the truth, it has to be on her terms. Julie says that it's not just Carol's life that is being turned upside down. Julie concludes, "God, you know, I can't believe you!" and stomps out. Carol looks like she needs Sean's headache-curing invention. Julie has that effect on me, too.