Episode Report Card Shack: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jock Trap
By Shack | Season 4 | Episode 26 | Aired on 07.23.1998
At lunch, Steve sits alone at the cafeteria, because looking like a male supermodel brands you a total outcast in the high-school social strata. Stoner Boy, accompanied by his friend, Albino Stoner Boy (no kidding), wanders up and asks if they can join him. Stoner Boy introduces himself as Gavin and Albino Stoner Boy as U.V. Obviously, that's somebody's idea of an ironic joke. Somebody with very little sense of humor or irony. Gavin tells Steve about how he and U.V. smoked a joint during gym; then he attempts to flirt outside his clique by talking up Lorna, a blonde Heathers type of girl. She tells him to drop dead and walks off. So, apparently, somebody decided that the target audience for this film would be the home-schooled, visiting space aliens, and people trapped in sensory deprivation chambers. In other words, people who have never been in a high school in their entire lives, because Gavin spends the next fifteen minutes describing, in loving detail, all the various cliques. Yes, we know, people: you've got your jocks, your motorheads, your skaters, your popular kids, your nerds. Let's move it along. I'm not interested in watching High School Stereotype Theatre. Less chatting, more bleeding. This lengthy and remarkably unnecessary exposition serves only to get Gavin to talk about the "Blue Ribbons," a group of the popular kids who go out and hold bake sales and serve the community. They tend to wear blue clothing or letter jackets and look pretty much like any popular clique at any high school, anywhere. Trent, Lorna, and Andy are all Blue Ribbon members. Gavin and U.V. hate the Blue Ribbon kids, which again is pretty typical to any high school, anywhere. Lunch ends (their lunch period lasts five minutes?), and Gavin leaves, telling Steve, "Welcome to my nightmare." Awww, poor Gavin. Thank god he's there to help me understand what it's like to be in high school, because I wouldn't know, as I'm nothing more than a complicated computer program designed to write snarky recaps and have never had any dealings with the educational system. At the end of the day, Steve witnesses two Blue Ribbon guys harassing a student. The guys make some noise about helping the boy study math, but he's clearly intimidated. When they see Steve, they smile big, fake, bully smiles -- you know, the ones that have nothing to do with being happy and everything to do with showing somebody how sharp your teeth are, so to speak -- and give him a friendly greeting. Steve responds neutrally and leaves.Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20Next