Episode Report Card Daniel: B | 583 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Dyno-mite!
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2005.10.12
Flashback to Hurley, in his Mr. Cluck's finery, standing behind the counter, staring some more at his lottery ticket. You know, I can see not cashing a lottery ticket right away. There's a lot of shit I'd have to work out. But I have to think that one certainty would be that I wouldn't be putting on a damn hairnet again, should I work a job that required one. But there's Hurley. One of his co-workers, the new guy, is trying to get his attention. Noticing that Hurley's spaced out, the co-worker, played by DJ Qualls (I'm confused. Is this guy a DJ? Or are those actually his initials?) asks him if he's okay. Hurley says he's fine, but that's about to change, as the boss yells, "Reyes! My office, now!" from off-screen.
Interestingly, the boss is played by the same guy who played Locke's asshole Dave Grohl-look-alike boss Randy from "Walkabout." Only, with the different hairstyle and lack of facial hair, he doesn't look like Dave Grohl; more like…a little Josh Charles-esque, actually. He asks Hurley if he's got anything he wants to tell him, in the manner you do when you know something and you want someone else to confess. Hurley says he doesn't, and Randy II asks if he's sure. Hurley is. So let's go to the tape: surveillance footage from last night, with Hurley sitting down, reading a magazine or something, and helping himself to a piece of chicken. He could even be doing it absentmindedly. Well, eight pieces of dark meat worth of absentmindedly, which is what Randy II says Hurley owes the company. "I didn't eat eight pieces!" protests Hurley, and Randy II asks if he wants to watch the whole tape. And while they're on the subject of Randy II being a total douchebag, stop wasting napkins, Hurley. It's two per customer. Randy II goes on about how "Mr. Cluck's" isn't made of money, and he isn't made of money, and Hurley isn't made of money, because if Hurley is made of money, then maybe he shouldn't be working here. And here's an anvil made of money being dropped on Hurley's head, so when Randy II asks if Hurley's got a problem with that, Hurley quits: "Dude, I quit."