Episode Report Card Maggie: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Christening
By Maggie | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.03.2000
Ben brings Sean over to see the Brooklyn apartment. Sean just shakes his head and repeats, "No, oh no." While they're there, the plumbing starts to get noisy. Ben gets some water from the tap and it is quite rusty looking. He asks Sean what to do. Sean asks how long Felicity will be out. Ben tells him that she's at a seminar and will be gone for a few hours. Sean begins to formulate a plan.
Javier reminisces on the street about his mother's wanting him to go to university ever since he was a child. On the day he was supposed to take the Spanish equivalent of the SATs, he went to the beach instead and broke his mother's heart. Since she is turning sixty-five in December, he's planning to give her his report card as a gift, assuming it is good. He contemplates that for a few moments and then decides that he has to leave to go study.
Felicity returns to the Brooklyn apartment with a sack of groceries and cleaning supplies. Ben and Sean's strategy to convince Felicity that the apartment is no good involves getting a huge television set. To me, this only proves that Ben and Sean are nudges, not that there's anything wrong with the apartment, except that the bathroom door is partially blocked by the TV. Felicity is less than thrilled about Ben's contribution, especially when he makes her wait out in the hall so he can surprise her. Instead of telling Ben that she doesn't like the TV, she says that they can watch romantic movies on it. Again with the romance, Felicity? Ben leaves and kisses her goodbye.
Over at the dorm apartment, Elena and Julie are painting the kitchen while Meghan regales them with tales of her parents catching her and Sean in their bed in Tuscany. They're having a grand old time and when the phone rings, Julie inexplicably jumps up on the counter and walks across it to answer the phone. The hell? It's Felicity calling to ask how things are going and whether Julie hates her for foisting Meghan off on them. Julie claims that they're having fun and asks how it is going at the Brooklyn apartment. Felicity, who is sweeping while talking on the phone, lies and says that things are going well. Julie asks if they've "christened the apartment yet" which I guess is her way of nosily asking if Felicity and Ben have done the deed yet. That Julie, so full of tact. Felicity tells her that they're going to do it that night. And again, she mentions romance. Okay, we get it, Felicity has stars in her eyes and can't see that the place is a dump.