Episode Report Card Kim: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Boooz
By Kim | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 11.06.2001
Javier announces that he needs a "secret hideaway" for a few days, because Samuel is taking him for granted. Javier plans to make Samuel face "the holidays" alone, and see how he gets along. Javier is also holding a small potted plant, for some reason. Felicity asks what precipitated this. Javier explains that he tried on his Carmen Miranda costume, and Samuel commented that Javier wore the same costume the year before. Javier is incensed that Samuel couldn't remember his last costume. Felicity and Elena exchange guilty looks, and Javier says that it doesn't matter if they forgot -- they're not married to Javier. Javier thinks that Samuel won't survive two hours without him. Felicity is sure that Samuel will call any minute, and Elena says that if Samuel doesn't, she'll go over there and kick his butt. She could, too. I think Elena should have starred in Alias instead of that Platypus Girl. Javier is cheered by this display of support, so he calls for a group hug. The girls oblige, giggling. Javier complains that they're not really hugging, so they hug even harder. Aw. They still didn't explain the plant. I guess it was Javier's version of the bandanna on a stick that little kids take when they run away from home. In the comics.
Ben is at (I assume) an Al-Anon meeting. Hey, remember how Ben started going to those? With Molly? And that it's never been mentioned again until now? Ben tells the group that he made the decision to be pre-med, even though he's never been a strong student. No one thought that Ben could do it, and Ben tended to agree with that assessment, until something happened in Chemistry class that changed his mind. Okay, so this is a framing device. Why didn't they open the show with this? I don't know. Flashback to Ben taking a test in his Chemistry class, looking frustrated. Later, Trevor and Ben leave the class, discussing something which concludes with Ben declaring, "What a dick!" in reference to Professor Snark. Even later, Ben and Felicity lie in bed together. It's a very arty overhead shot that nicely shows off Scott Speedman's arms. I'm just saying. I'll take that over the Arm that Stomped Tokyo any day. Anyway, Ben is complaining to Felicity that Professor Snark said that benzenes wouldn't be on the test, and then there was a whole section on them. That does suck. He is a dick. Felicity tries to come up with an explanation as to how that could have happened, like maybe Ben misunderstood, and Ben thinks that she's implying that he's an idiot. Ben reminds her that o-chem is used to weed people out. Felicity contemplates that, and then asks what she can do to help. Ben replies, "Nothing."
Sean and Meghan walk down the street, arguing about returning the bath towels that Sean's Uncle Elliott bought them. Sean wants to keep them because they are made of Egyptian cotton. Meghan wants to return them, because the initials are wrong -- she's keeping her last name. So why can't they just exchange them for new towels with the correct last name? I guess then these two wouldn't have anything to argue about. Oh, but I know that's not true. Some woman takes a picture of Meghan, and then explains that she's a reporter for some teen magazine, out to spot the next big thing. Apparently, the next big thing is Meghan's shirt. Like she would just take the picture without asking first. Sean explains that Meghan made the shirt, which features tube socks as sleeves. Isn't that basically what Britney did during the Super Bowl halftime show this year? The reporter asks Meghan to sign the release form, but Meghan isn't interested. Sean is, but Meghan pulls him away.