Episode Report Card Owen: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Chick Flick
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.19.2000
Sidebar. If this is true, then Blackie's confrontation with Phoebe earlier makes no sense at all. Somehow he knew she was a witch, yet he followed her home anyway, knowing all the while that he didn't have powers in this reality. Why? Or maybe he followed Pheebs home thinking she was easy mortal prey, then "sensed" Pheebs was a witch when she answered the door. But then again, I guess he did have powers in our reality, because he flung her twenty feet through the air. Which is it, writers? Anyway, the lines are funny.
Just then, Billy runs up on-screen, calling out for Poodle Skirt Girl. Phoebe looks at him with awe. Billy confronts Blackie, harshing on him for "causing trouble." Blackie tells him to shut up. Phoebe: "HEY!" Billy notices Pheebs in the audience. Phoebe is amazed; he seems to be looking right at her. Billy smiles and says, "Hi." Phoebe greets him back. Prue reminds her that they're not at the movies for "a love connection" but to "kick some ass." Blackie: "Any idea how you'll do that? Or are you just going to [here he flicks his tongue around like a dinner-theater Hannibal Lecter] flirt me to death like your little tarty sister?" HA HA! Billy tells Blackie to "watch [his] language around the ladies." Blackie: "Is it the word 'sister' that bothered you? How about 'bitch'?" (Possible shout-out here, for obvious reasons; if the line had included any variation of "get one's bitch on," I would have known definitively.) The Ps all look very cross. Billy tackles Blackie angrily and they both tumble off the screen into the seating area of the theater. Piper tells Prue to "step in." She telekine-kicks Blackie's ass across the room. He flees out the exit. Cut to Billy standing there in B&W. He smiles at the Ps. Phoebe beams back at him.
Blahswell. That's still on the air?
Halliwell Manor. Attic. Prue, in a barely-there red tank top with a peek-a-boo cleavage cut-out between her breasts, jiggles over to a table with the BoS. She wants to find out how to "get rid" of Billy. Billy stands over to the side in B&W, asking plaintively, "Is there a point in this scene where someone explains my part to me?" Piper tells Pheebs to fill Billy in on the big, since she's the one who "brought a fictional character back for a play date." Heh. Phoebe, now wearing a completely new pair of black-framed eyeglasses, tells Billy that he's "in reality" now. Leo elaborates that the Halliwell sisters are "the good guys." Prue reiterates what the Ps know so far about the illusion demon, and wonders aloud what he wants. Piper fills her in on Leo's info about Blackie's desire to spread violence in society. Leo doesn't know the "how part," though. Billy starts to explain what he knows about the illusion demon, then suddenly wonders, "Where's the music in the second act that we talk over to build suspense and hide the exposition? Don't you just hate exposition?" HA HA! Phoebe cocks her eyebrow and agrees, "Don't even get me started." (Possible shout-out again, for obvious reasons.) Prue brings Billy back on topic. Billy tells the Ps that when Blackie shows up on screen during his movie the crowd starts to get agitated. Leo thinks that the demon must cast a spell on the audience while they're watching the film. Phoebe remembers that Blackie was in, not at, the movie she saw the night before. The gang figures out that Blackie goes into different movies to work the audiences up to a murderous frenzy; he probably chooses horror flicks since the audiences are predisposed to violence. (Owen, a long-time horror movie fan and pacifist, protests this notion vehemently.) The hard Ps and Leo get up to check out the local theaters. Phoebe lags behind to call Morris and fill him in. Prue suggests that Pheebs "do something" with Billy. What does she mean? Prue: "Add Technicolor to him." Pheebs smiles at Billy. Billy smiles back. We all know where this is headed.