Episode Report Card Maggie: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Christening
By Maggie | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.03.2000
Later on, Ben has his head under the kitchen sink, trying to fix it. Neighbour chickie appears at the door wanting to use Felicity and Ben's tub. The apartment manager has told her not to use her tub because it could make the pipes "explode" but since she's a dancer, she really needs a "bath for [her] back." Ben lamely tries to stop her but she pushes her way in.
Sean and Meghan are making out at the loft and she notices that the videocamera is on. Sean denies it but it turns out that her only complaint is that it is positioned incorrectly. She gets up and moves it beside them after calling him an idiot. Sean bristles, "Don't call me an idiot, I'm a documentarian." Tomato, tomahto. Just then, Ben calls to whine to Sean that the "supermodel" neighbour is in his tub. Meghan overhears and bellows, "If that girl is in the bathtub, your ass is grass!" Ben says that he couldn't stop her. Sean sagely notes that "excuse is not going to work." Felicity arrives and Ben rushes off the phone to greet her. From the tub, the chickie introduces herself as "Brigitte Pasterchek" or something like that. Felicity takes Ben aside and asks, "What's she doing in our livingroom bathtub?" Ben wimps out and describes his ineffectual attempts to keep Brigitte out. Felicity cries that her plans for a romantic dinner have been foiled. Do you think Felicity is into romance? The argument escalates and Ben finally admits that he never wanted to move into the apartment. While they're bitching at each other, the phone rings in the background. Brigitte answers it and comes in wearing strategically-placed bubbles and nothing else. She hands them the phone and says, "They found Knoll."
Richard is now on the street telling Sean about all his efforts to locate Knoll. It turns out that he found out that Gnatalie has been hanging out with a guy called Leon. Quinn, ever the sharp wit, notes immediately that "Leon" is "Noel" spelt backwards. However, Llonk, is Knoll spelt backwards, and that's even more fitting. Richard gathers tout le gang, sans Ben, to go in search of Knoll. They discover him at yet another apartment, looking dishevelled, unshaven, and unkempt, not unlike Noel Gallagher. He's très boho manqué with his semi-bleached hair and a Red Bull in his hand. Quinn snorts, "As if he needs to be any more stimulated." Drinking Red Bull and vodka is all the rage with the club kids these days, so I guess this means that Knoll has left his buttoned-down days of creaming over Macuser special issues, far, far behind him. He ends up trying to hustle them out the door because he and Gnat have to pack since they're going away for the weekend. Felicity bitches about not hearing from him all summer and Elena complains about having to pack up their old apartment on her own. Knoll explains that they ended up spending a month in Cuba by way of Canada -- a second major shout-out. Gnat appears and says hey to Javier. Javier warns, "Don't 'hey' me -- are you crazy messing around with my friend's little head?" Knoll confesses that he's not planning to return to college.