Episode Report Card Djb: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Drowned World Tour
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 06.12.2004
Idle unpleasantries meet us at the other side of the service as well, when Lisa's annoying blonde friend Dana and her husband Todd ask where she's going to have her final resting place. From a lingering Barb's response, the friend knows that the mausoleum is in Idaho, which is several steps ahead of me, seeing as I'm not even up to snuff with the whole mausoleum geography thing to know how to spell the name of the mausoleum. Me? I thought it was in France.
Claire and Russell sit in some wonky anterior chamber in the back of the funeral parlor where they often put people who are about to cry reeeeeeeeeeeeeally loudly. Claire asks Russell what he's up to, and he replies honestly, I'm sure, with, "Making bad art. Saying stupid things." Ew. Like "Saying stupid things." Shut up, Russell. A pause ensues that finds Claire waiting out the stupidest thing Russell could say before rocking out with some measured stupidity of her own: "I got an abortion." Well, it shut Russell up. So it can't be all bad. He asks her when, and he levels that it was right after they broke up, so he wisely reasons, "We got pregnant. You had an abortion. And it was mine." She corrects him, "Ours." He asks why he's telling her now, when there's nothing he can do about it, and she asks what he could have done. He "could have comforted" her. "With what?" she asks. "Flowers? Balloons? Believe me, you'd already done enough." Silence pervades for another moment, and Russell asks for a moment "to get used to the idea of living with this for the rest of my life." She asks if he's kidding, and he bellows that "it's fucking sad." He asks if she cried, and she tells him that yes, she cried quite a bit, actually. Cromwell comes in to play the role of ineffective stepfather, and leaves when he learns he cannot be of much assistance. Sigh. Four legs think he's good, two legs think he's bad. Poor Cromwell.
Nate, David, and Rico stroll like Reservoir Dogs alongside the house, David asking if Nate wants company at the crematorium. I do believe he does not, because it's all a big tap dance with "Me And My Foreshadow" anyway at this point. Rico tries to hammer that home for us, telling Nate he can go the following morning and pick up the ashes. Nate declines this offer as well, and says he's happy to being them himself. Rico climbs on a stepstool to give Nate a hug, and Nate hops in the van and takes off. Because this episode was written by Edgar Allan Poe, is why.
Rico drives past hookers and becomes titillated. Religion didn't cure him? Balderdash!