Episode Report Card Niki: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Where's That High Road?
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 12.18.2000
Grace is at Jake's place, pacing around and looking at some book. Tiffany opens the door and is surprised to find Grace there. Grace asks if Jake isn't at the restaurant. Tiffany starts to say she just came from there, but stops herself. Grace asks what's wrong. Tiffany shuffles a few steps into the apartment and says, "Hi, Grace. I just...I just broke up with your father." She explains that she just came by to get some of her stuff while Jake's not there. Grace tells her to help herself. She hangs in the doorway while Tiffany packs her bag and admits that she doesn't know what she's supposed to say. Tiffany says that she's sweet, and that she knows it's been kind of hard for Grace to see Jake with someone who isn't Lily. She adds that Jake is an attractive man, and that's part of the problem -- women just want to be around him and it makes it hard to be his girlfriend. "I love your dad. I really do," Tiffany says. "I'm just not sure he ever saw me." Tiffany talks about reaching a point with a guy when you realize that it's not about you or even how he sees you -- it's all about him and his dream of the ideal. She says that guys are just using you, to make themselves feel more attractive, and it's not a very nice thing to do.
Grace sighs guiltily from the Soliloquy Stool. Then she tries to convince herself that she did not do that to Spencer.
We see Grace in school the next day as the bell rings. Wannabe's in the seat next to her, asking what Grace is going to do. Grace says she'll tell Spencer the truth. Wannabe says that guys expect rejection -- "it's part of their genetic code." Then she very thoughtfully says, "So, Pace likes me, huh?" Spencer comes bounding into the classroom, yammering excitedly about some tape he wants Grace to watch. Wannabe watches for a second, then leaves. Grace tries to interrupt him a couple of times with no luck. Spencer is in mid-babble about some chick in the movie whom he thinks Grace should model herself after, because she'd get a lot more attention. "Excuse me?" Grace says. Spencer explains that if she styled herself like this character, she wouldn't have to worry about whether guys like her. He says he knows what goes on inside Grace's head, and she says that's a joke. He gives her a for-instance to prove his point: that Grace wonders how she'll ever get a cool boyfriend if a dork like Spencer is her boyfriend. Grace looks stricken. "Am I wrong?" he asks. Grace scrambles and says, "You're not my boyfriend." "I know I'm not," he laughs. "Then what are you talking about?" She tells him that she doesn't want a boyfriend right now. "Who's asking?" he says. Laughing, he facetiously tells her that he just wanted to use her and discard her, and then he asks if she's going to watch the video with him or not. He tells her to broaden her horizons and then keeps challenging her taste in movies as they leave the classroom.