Episode Report Card Niki: D | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Sneaky Feelings
By Niki | Season 1 | Episode 14 | Aired on 01.30.2000
Cut to Jessie and Rick in his truck. He's dropping her off at Karen's place, and Jessie tells him to come in because Lloyd is there. Rick sensibly points out that Karen probably wouldn't appreciate his presence under those circumstances, and Jessie says he just has to see this thing Lloyd does whenever he sees her. He flashes finger pistols and says, "Hey, Jessie James," while -- click, click -- pretending to shoot her. Laughing, Jessie says, "It's so bizarre." Eli pops forward from the backseat to add that "it's really strange." The three have a good laugh at poor old Lloyd. Rick says that Lloyd is just trying to relate to them. Eli's not exactly sympathetic, saying that Lloyd's "really old." Rick points out that Lloyd is his age. "Yeah, but he acts like an old guy," Jessie says. Rick says they liked Lloyd "well enough when he took [them] to the Bulls game." Eli, warming to his role as Captain Sensitive, says, "That's because he had really good seats." Jessie concurs. Now that's gotta be a proud moment for a parent. Rick, of course, doesn't point out that they're being little assholes.
B/W Jessie inexplicably remembers what it was like when she found out Rick was moving out. Maybe it's to show us how innocent she is, so that there's some kind of tie-in to the whole Catcher thing at the beginning. Anyway, she says that she "was worried about where he'd sleep. [She] kept picturing him sleeping in all these strange places, like park benches. What if he wanted his pillow?" Sweetie, you're daddy's so soft I don't think he'd even miss his pillow.
Jessie pops back into the truck to give Rick his third good-bye kiss before running into the house.
Inside, we find Karen, Lloyd, Jessie, and Eli gathered around the table eating dinner. Lloyd is crossing his fingers and telling Eli that "if [he's] ever interested in military academy, [he] happens to be like this with Senator So-and-so." Disappointingly, no food or beverages are laughingly spewed across the table at the suggestion. Instead, Eli thanks him insincerely and grabs his plate, telling Karen that he has homework to do. Karen asks Jessie to get the dessert. "Hey, Jessie James, what's for dessert? (click click)" Lloyd asks, shooting his finger pistols. "Frrrruit," Jessie answers, grinning and firing her own imaginary pistols. I'm not sure if she's talking about dessert or Lloyd, though. When she leaves, Lloyd tells Karen, yet again, how much he likes her kids. He then asks what she's doing on Thursday because it's "Rrrrock 'n' Bowl" down at the alley. He's very excited as he relays the details, which include dry ice smog drifting over the lanes. Sounds tempting, but...Karen's got that pole up her ass, remember? She tells him that the kids will have homework, blah, blah, blah bullcakes, and when Lloyd tries to keep the idea alive, she tells him to just back off and let things happen naturally. She's a little nicer about it than that, but not much.