Episode Report Card Demian: C+ | 186 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Welcome To Fantathy Thithtern!
By Demian | Season 6 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2003.10.26
Manor. Piper crosses to the Book of Shadows in the attic, Tiny Gay Chris balanced on one of her hips. The Book's blank. Piper bellows for Big Gay Chris and the Dolt, but of course receives no response. Fashion Fiend Mary and The Too-Tight Blonde wander in, wondering why Piper's screaming for her ex-husband. By the way, "Fashion Fiend Mary And The Too-Tight Blondes" is the name of my next drag-influenced queercore garage band. Piper fills them in on the fever situation, and the two guests immediately express grave concerns for Tiny Chris's health. The Too-Tight Blonde even offers to chauffeur Piper to her pediatrician. Piper foolishly insists she can handle it on her own, and bolts.
The bizarre quick-frame montage tells us that all Asian people in Chinatown are Hell-sent vectors of the SARS-like plague currently afflicting Tiny Gay Chris and must be destroyed. Especially those who drive school buses. Then, it shuttles us over to The Only Hospital In San Francisco, where Raige wanders aimlessly through the ER until a scorched and desperate woman latches onto her wrist. The crispy woman claims she and her daughter suffered a demon attack earlier that day. She stowed her daughter away somewhere safe, and now needs Raige to rescue the kid before the big bad demons find and fry "Susie," too. Raige, despite believing she's "landed in the Twilight Zone," caves and asks for directions. When we next see her, she's orbing into an alleyway that is neither dank nor forbidding. This one's sunlit, and while it is clogged with demons and debris, the overall ambiance is still a little too inviting for my taste. One of the demons hurls a Flaming Ball Of Death at a fleeing civilian. Raige calls for the thing with her orbing telekinesis and redirects it into the demon's chest. The demon promptly goes up like a torch and disappears. Raige darts into what must be a bar and heads down to the darkened basement, which is filled with stacked kegs. It's also the same set they use for the Manor's basement, as is immediately made apparent by both the staircase itself and the line of yellow tape they left on the floor from the beginning of that episode with the dragon. Idiots. Raige stumbles upon another demon and sporks him with a length of pipe. It takes a little while, but he, too, soon howls and wails and blazes merrily down to Hell. Raige coaxes Susie from her hiding place, and the two head upstairs.