Episode Report Card Demian: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Secretly INSANE Brody And The Warehouse Of Doom
By Demian | Season 7 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.15.2005
High atop the Golden Gate Bridge, the Dolt stares down a posse of ever-useless Elders before smugly confessing to his fabulous Avatarliciousness. The ever-useless Elders are shocked and appalled. Even more shocked is the Dolt, once the Elders as a group unleash massive sporks of electricity from their hands into his chest. Unfortunately, he doesn't dissolve into a spray of dust the way Stupid Uncle Phil did all those many episodes ago. The assembled Elders gape in dismay. "Face it," the somewhat crispy Dolt sneers, "the fate of the world is no longer in your hands." Pffft. Like it ever was in the first place, Dolt. These imbeciles could never handle your damn wife and her selfish, shrewish sisters. Forget about the fate of an entire planet. The ever-useless Elder posse pouts for a bit before orbing upwards as a group. Once they've disappeared, the somewhat crispy Dolt leans heavily against the tower, gasping for breath. Oh, I get it! He was being all manly, bluffing through his pain and stuff! Awwwww! Not. Drop dead, Dolt.
Manor. Piper, Mousy Debbie, Phoebe, and Ronnie The Loser arrive and head for the stairs, only to stop short in terror as Zankou lopes out of the front parlor to greet them with some sneers and taunts. He actually sneers at and taunts them long enough for Piper to call for the Dolt, which allows Zankou to...sneer and taunt at them some more. "Something tells me he's not coming to your rescue this time," Zankou smirks. There's an endless reaction shot to this news from the Manor Morons and their temporary houseguests until Zankou conjures a Flaming Ball Of Death that he bounces on his palm a couple of times before hurling it directly into the commercial break.
Hallway. Immediate aftermath. "We're gonna die!" Mousy Debbie screams as Piper shoves her out of the way, onto the stairs. Phoebe, meanwhile, has disappeared around a corner with Ronnie The Loser, allowing Zankou's Flaming Ball Of Death to pass harmlessly through the dining room until it smashes into what sounds like an entire set of dinnerware. Piper offers the hyperventilating Mousy Debbie a few quick words of advice before Zankou's next FBOD takes out the boxy post cap at the foot of the stairs. Piper scampers upwards as Mousy Debbie lurches towards the center parlor, just managing to place a lamp between herself and another FBOD. As she vanishes towards the sun porch, Phoebe and Ronnie The Loser have a hushed conversation of their own in their dining room hiding place before Ronnie correctly predicts the path of the next FBOD and drags Phoebe to the floor. The FBOD in question explodes above their heads. As Phoebe congratulates Ronnie on a job well done, Zankou stalks towards Piper with yet another FBOD that he prepares to sling in her direction. At the last instant, however, Mousy Debbie gains control of the Hands Of Discontent and pops up to slam Zankou into a wall. "Did I kill him?" she gasps. "Not quite, but we'll take what we can get," Piper smirks, eyeing the somewhat wounded demon from the stairwell above. She calls once more for the Dolt, and apparently, this time Zankou can sense that the sometimes ex-husband is still alive. He seethes something vaguely threatening about the Avatars being "a threat to us all" before blazing on out of there.