Episode Report Card Deborah: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Casper, The Friendly Ghost
By Deborah | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.19.2004
Back to the park, which is really more of an concrete playground than what I would call a park. Joan approaches the girls again, and Casper stops jumping: "Snow White's back. Better check yourself, yo." Joan says she just wants a chance to jump. Casper: "So why don't you find someone your own speed at the playground?" Joan: "With you." The girl I've decided is Maliya says, "Someone wake this little sister up -- she's dreaming." They all laugh. Casper tells her friends to start turning the rope for her again -- but before she can jump in, Joan does, and manages to keep going. I've read that Amber Tamblyn learned to jump just for this episode. Pretty quick study. I'm sure she never knows what skill she's going to have to master -- or convincingly fake -- next. Casper looks dismayed to see that girlfriend actually does have some skillz. Joan misses a jump and stops. With that broad smile she always has whenever she does something that surprises herself, she says, "That was amazing! It was like being in an eggbeater." She laughs. But Casper's pissed, and gets up in Joan's grill: "I said no. You don't belong here." Nikki says, "Chill, Casper. She hung on. She's all right." Maliya also tells her to chill. Casper tells them, "Double it up." To Joan: "Don't get me tied in these ropes -- I won't like that." Casper jumps in and after a moment tells Joan, "I'm waiting." Joan manages to jump in and keep up with Casper, who tells her, "Don't look at my feet. Look at my eyes! Link eyes!" Joan does. Casper: "One foot!" Joan complies. Nikki: "Go, Snow White!" They stop jumping and Casper bangs fists with Joan, with only a slight grudge. Maliya tells Casper she'll see her tomorrow. Joan doesn't understand why they're stopping. There's a siren in the background as Casper explains that the cops shut down the park at sunset. Nikki asks Casper, "You fixed for food?" Casper: "Always!" Nikki and Maliya exchange looks as they wander off. Joan says, "You can eat at my house." Casper: "You think we [sic] friends now, Princess? You think we got something in common?" Joan: "Well, we did when we were jumping. It's like we were the same person in there. Come on, my mom always makes way too much food anyway. Come on." Casper doesn't argue, but lets herself be dragged along. She must be pretty hungry.
Rebecca is telling Kevin about someone named Michelle Turner: "A violinist who developed musical therapy for autistic kids." It's music therapy, not musical therapy. There are a whole lotta pissed-off music therapists out there now. Okay, well, at least two that I know of. Rebecca hands Kevin the book Turner wrote. She wants Kevin to write a profile of her, explaining that a profile is more personal than an interview: "We'll get to know her through your eyes." Kevin: "Which begs the question: why would anybody care about my eyes?" Rebecca: "She's been working with disabled kids for years. You'll be able to add a perspective nobody else can." Kevin: "You're not giving this assignment to me because we're..." He puts his hand on hers, adding, "You know?" Rebecca says she's not. Frink and I are just flipping out that, despite how incredibly careless and overt they are, there seems to be no reaction whatsoever in this newsroom. In any workplace that would be weird. In a room full of journalists, it seems downright wacky. Rebecca adds, "Not that it hurts...but no." Kevin laughs, holding onto her hand as she goes.