Episode Report Card Joe R: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cankles
By Joe R | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 10.21.2007
Meanwhile, at the Majestic city council, Doug is in the middle of ranting and raving about the fact that the old Agrestic city council members no longer hold those positions anymore, and thus the sweet, sweet kickbacks of corruption are no longer available to them. The head councilwoman -- Doug calls her "Carilli," but I don't know if we catch her first name -- is seething with hatred, which is a normal reaction to Doug, and demands that he watch his language. Doug's response to that, of course, is "Fuck you!" In fact, every time Carilli says something Doug doesn't want to hear -- like the fact that the Agrestic city council is no more because Agrestic is no more -- he curses up a storm, and she just gets angrier and angrier. I give them one full episode before they're doing it. So anyway, the corrupt fat cats of Agrestic "looking to feed off the tit of local government," per Doug, are thwarted, and Celia's off to the side, looking embarrassed for everybody. Carilli finally says there's not much more to discuss, then tells Doug they're not finished looking into his shady dealings with Aguatecture. Doug calls her a "sanctimonious Jesus freak" and then calls her out for having cankles. He and the rest of the Agrestic lemmings chant "Cankle bitch!" at her as she rushes out of the meeting room with the rest of the council. Doug continues to scream at her, and at one of her male colleagues, who he accuses of having "man cankles...MANKLES!" Hee hee.
After the meeting, Celia tells Doug that they need to have a word. Doug: "Okay. How about 'die'?" Heh. But Celia's no dummy, and she makes the connection from Nancy name-dropping Aguatecture earlier to Doug's involvement in it, as was articulated here. Doug asks her what she knows about it, and Celia stalks off saying, "Not enough."
Botwins', where Silas is in Nancy's bedroom trying to convince her to fire Tara because she's "untrustworthy." Oh, of course he is. Whiny little shit. But here's where, for the first time ever, Nancy's monstrously crappy parenting actually comes all the way around to being good for the kid, because she refuses to fire Tara on account of her being Nancy's top earner and all. She tells Silas that when he starts bringing in Tara-sized money, he can start making demands, but until then he's just going to have to suck it up and deal. Awesome. Then, however, she downshifts into Mom mode and tells Silas she sorry that "little bitch" broke his heart and that he's too good for her. And also he could use a haircut. Uh...good work, Nancy! It feels weird to say that.