Episode Report Card Joe R: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT The Brick Dance
By Joe R | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2007.08.27
Nancy returns to U-Turn with the brick and the "lawn jockey" message, and U-Turn is incensed. He didn't send Nancy to pick up any pot, he sent her to pick up a kilo of "jack," which Nancy understands is a street term for heroin, which kind of makes her want to lie down at the thought of it. U-Turn says this is all Nancy's fault, though Nancy quite reasonably says not knowing what it was she was supposed to pick up makes it hard to blame her in this situation. "I did a brick dance for you, okay? I got a parking ticket!" He tells her to cut up the brick, move it, and bring him back $12,500 for it, which Nancy says is impossible. U-Turn, being U-Turn, doesn't so much care, and in fact he's also tacking on the cost of what he payed Guillermo for that jack he didn't get onto Nancy's debt. Nancy freaks out at this, saying she has kinds and bills and a life and how is she supposed to make ends meet if U-Turn keeps upping her debt. U-Turn looks her dead in the eye and says what many of us have said at least once or twice during the course of this series: "Get a fucking job!" And it's not so much that as the "a-doy" look in his eyes after he says it that makes me dismayingly note that I may love U-Turn a little bit. Just a little!
Court. The judge doesn't seem too inclined to let Silas off lightly for the camera theft, and actually wants to make an example out of him, but it turns out Celia, of all people, put in a good word, so all he gets is community service. Celia tries to get Nancy to talk to her on her way out of the court room, but Nancy just tells her to fuck off.
Boot camp. Poor Andy's had to shave his head and don fatigues and now stand in formation while some square-jawed drill sergeant does his best R. Lee Ermey. This doesn't look like a desk job. It turns out "desk job" is the lie they tell everyone, so it looks like Andy's well and truly fucked. So he's stuck between listening to Drill Sergeant jaw the usual "you maggots are nothing!" speech and the scrub at the end of the line with him yammer on about how great it will be to start killing some terrorists. Andy starts looking around the desert for some toads to lick.