Episode Report Card Niki: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT 'Til The One Day When The Lady Met This Fellow...
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.13.2001
"Well?" Lily asks, looking expectantly from Zoe to Grace. "Well, what?" Grace asks. Lily asks if they're surprised. "Mom. Du-uh!" Zoe teases, her arms folded just like Grace's.
Eli asks whether his band may play the wedding. Rick's no is quick and forceful. Eli pleads that they really need the gig. Rick says he'd like to know how Jessie and Eli really feel. Eli says he really feels like they need the gig. Heh. Except, I can't believe all the kids are taking it this calmly. My mom remarried when I was sixteen, and I bawled like a baby. When they told me, during the ceremony, through the dinner afterward. I'm just saying. This is the most well-adjusted reaction I can imagine, and I can't believe at least one of the kids isn't reacting a little more negatively to the news. Especially since they're mostly adolescents, brimming with hormones and emotions, and going through their "me me me" phase. But I digress.
Lily's going for the hard sell, looking for a more giddy reaction: "So you've been wanting Jessie to move in, and now she will!" Zoe just looks at her, while Grace asks, "They're moving in here?" Her and Zoe's arms are still firmly crossed. Still, no outburst. Their reactions are strangely subdued.
"We're moving in there?" Jessie asks. Rick says at least for a little while, since they can't all "fit in here." Jessie is amazed that they're not getting a new house. Rick says they can't afford it. "Gah. I thought we were getting a new house," Jessie mutters, disappointed.
"Where are they all gonna stay?" Zoe asks, wrinkling her nose. Lily says that everyone will just have to figure it out together.
"So, is it all right if we all have dinner over there tomorrow night? Celebrate?" Rick asks with forced enthusiasm. "Sure," Jessie answers, sounding like ginger ale that's been left out all night. Eli agrees, too, nodding his head and fishing cereal out of his teeth with his tongue. Deflated.
A horn honks outside Manning Manor, and the girls race around grabbing bags -- happy, no doubt, to be rescued. Lily's rambling that she doesn't "want to make a big deal out of it, but it is a big deal, isn't it?" Grace assures her that it is. Zoe congratulates her and Grace follows closely behind before they race out the door. Lily watches them, touched, and murmurs, "My girls."
Cut to Lily entering the almost deserted Phil's and looking around, stunned. Tiffany spots her and asks how she is. Lily says she's fine and asks how Tiffany's doing. "Well, that's a good question, isn't it?" Lily quickly tries to say something about the trauma of the hostage situation, but Tiffany's way over that. Tiffany giggles and says she was actually talking about "more recent news." Lily clues in and says she "can't believe the girls already --" Tiffany cuts her off saying it's okay, soon everyone's going to know, and she can't imagine how weird it is for the girls, and she knows it's weird for Jake, and Lily can't imagine how weird it is for Tiffany. Lily jogs her head and narrows her eyes. "Weird for you?" she asks. Tiffany says, "Yeah. Have you ever been in this position before?" Lily looks puzzled and says she has, when she and Jake got married. "Oh my god, this happened to you?" Tiffany asks. Lily is at a loss. "Before you were married?" Tiffany adds. "When we were married," Lily says. Tiffany can't believe that Jake never told her. Lily doesn't understand: "I thought you said the girls told you." "That you were pregnant when you got married?" Tiffany asks. "What?" Lily screeches. They both announce how confused they are and finally sort out that Lily was talking about her engagement and Tiffany was talking about her pregnancy. Wah wah. "You're pregnant!" Lily exclaims in disbelief. Jake interrupts with a chipper, "Hi girls!"