Episode Report Card Niki: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Chew on This
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on 12.04.2000
We return from commercials to find Rick face down, hugging his pillow, with his hair all scrumpy. Lily comes in and leans over him, trying to wake him up by saying his name repeatedly. How is it that no one has killed her yet? She's the most irritating morning person ever. Oh, but we get to see her with her shirt open and her black bra hanging out, so I guess that's supposed to make it tolerable. "Oh, my bed is warm, my pillow's deep; today's the day I'm going to sleep," Rick mutters groggily. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a new mantra. Lily tells him he has to get up -- "up, up!" -- and again, I wonder how it is that she's still breathing. She heads for the bathroom, asking what Rick is avoiding. "I have to go to therapy with my wife," he sighs. Hello! Lily pops back in from the bathroom. "Your what?" "My ex-wife." "You said 'wife.'" "I said ex-wife," Rick insists. "No, you said 'wife,'" Sela and her angry abs insist. She crawls onto the bed and leans over him, taunting, "You made a sli-ip!" But her voice doesn't sound too amused. "I want you to discuss this with your therapist," she orders. Shut up, Bossy McShirtless. He's in therapy to help his kid, not placate you. "Just not in front of Jessie," she adds and goes into the bathroom. Rick groans that they're going alone. She pops back out from the bathroom. "You're going alone with your ex-wife to see a therapist?" she demands. Rick tells her that Karen may be representing the opposition to Atlantor. Lily can't believe it. "And you have to go with her to therapy?" She swings around disgustedly, with enough force to send her wet hair flying, and sweeps back into the bathroom.
And, speaking of therapy, we cut to Rick and Karen alone with Dr. Rosenfeld. He solemnly informs them that he realizes "[they] couldn't agree enough to stay married, so [he doesn't] expect [them] to agree on everything [there], but [he] needs to know what [their] disagreements are, and how vehement they are." Rick brings up the legal battle. Karen clenches and cuts him off because she doesn't think it's the appropriate place to discuss it. She blindly tells the doctor that the "political situation" has "nothing to do with Jessie." Aside from the fact that Jessie gets to see her parents argue frantically, that is. They bicker and snipe while Dr. R. sits there, Buddha-like, watching them. Only his eyes move, following the volley of their argument. He finally interrupts to ask if they can give him some hint as to what they're talking about. Reluctantly, Karen fills him in on the particulars of the situation.