Episode Report Card Niki: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Kind Of Blue
By Niki | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.11.2001
Cut to Lily and Rick reading in bed. Only, they're not alone. Those plucky guitars are in there with them. Rick stares at Lily while she stares at her book. There's another hiccup edit, so Rick suddenly works up the nerve to talk again. He's still going on about Sam, trying to convince Lily that Sam's really not a bad guy because he's related to Stephen Stills. Lily "mmms" absently without looking up from her book. Rick says that Sam used to go around in school asking girls, "Are you my Judy Blue Eyes?" Oh, like that's going to convince her that Sam's not a creep. Lily flatly points out that Judy's eyes are brown. Rick says he knows. "With little green flecks," Lily adds stonily. What is her problem, anyway?
Cut to a little later, after the lights are out in their bedroom. Lily's lying with her back to Rick, and he leans over to kiss her shoulder suggestively. "I'm way too tired," she groans. Oh, just do everyone a favor and take it, Lily. After another of those stupid time seizures, Rick's suddenly at her neck. She smiles and growls, "Mmmm, you know that makes me crazy." Yet another goddam hiccup, and they're giggling hysterically. I don't even want to know. Suddenly, it's all over, and they're cuddling together. Rick's right back to talking about Sam, which I have to admit, would make me mental if I were Lily. "He really liked her," Rick insists. Lily says she asked Judy at the time what she hoped to "get from a married man." Hmmm, what did you just get from a married man? Rick points out that "there are all kinds of married men." Lily yanks on the blankets and rolls over, muttering, "There's one kind when you're thirty-five and Judy." She adds that "if you want to be a wife, start with an unmarried man. Shop in that aisle." Rick bites his tongue.
Soliloquy Rick shakes his head.
"He is in that aisle. He's in that aisle. He's unmarried," Rick sings like a canary.
Soliloquy Rick rolls his eyes at his own weakness and then slaps his forehead for emphasis. He manages to throw himself backward off the Stool. I think it's safe to say that no one watches this show for its physical comedy.
Rick flips on the bedside lamp as Lily rolls over with a look of shock. More plucky guitars. Lily's eyes demand an explanation. Rick waves his arms and lamely says, "He went to Rome. He looked at feet." "'Feet'?" Lily echoes. Rick begs her not to tell Judy, because he thinks she'll be mad at him for keeping Sam's new status a secret. "She hates me as it is," he adds.