Episode Report Card Niki: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Booklovers
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.30.2000
David pops by with a bottle of ketchup, as it turns out Lily's having a side of lunch with her whine (which can't be good for anyone's digestion). He asks when he gets to meet Crusty. Rick immediately puts the kibosh on the idea, because he knows that David is four. He's certain that David has built her up to some incredibly impossible standard of physical perfection, which Crusty will never be able to meet. "That is not true!" David insists in his own defense. "Some people do measure up. They just won't go out with me." Mark that down, people -- I think it's the first honest thing David's said in almost twenty-five episodes. Rick sensibly ignores David, speaking over his head to inform Lily that it's a defense thing David uses to keep people at a distance, and he should not meet Crusty. "Why, is she really ugly?" David asks with a smirk. "Oh, David!" Lily exclaims and then asks, "What is ugly?" I can't believe she's humoring him. She goes on to ask, "What is beautiful? What about Mother Teresa?" Oh, shut up, Lily. I see your point, but get with the real world. Inner beauty counts for squat, especially when it comes to guys like David. They all think they should be dating supermodels. David makes some lame joke about giving Mother Teresa his number. And then, by chance, he spots the newspaper Rick had been looking at, picks it up, sees the ad for Judy's club, and asks, "What's this?" Oh, no. Why is he interested in attending a function with thinking women? And shouldn't you have to be, oh I don't know, semi-literate in order to crash a book club? Somehow I don't think recommending Playboy and Hustler is going to impress too many ladies.
Cut to Jake at the restaurant, where the girls -- including Tiffany -- are doing homework. Tiffany informs Jake that she's studying for her bartending course since she's planning to replace the bartender, who's leaving soon. Don't you have to be, like, a grown-up to serve alcohol? Jake looks less than thrilled by this news, no doubt since it means she'll be hanging around the place all the time and she'll be dealing with customers even more frequently. As Jake staggers away, looking stunned, Tiffany asks the bartender, "So what are bitters, exactly?" Is this supposed to demonstrate that she's stupid? Because I don't know what bitters are besides, uh, bitter. And I took a bartending class.
Judy, meanwhile, is checking up on Will's progress in the alley. He shows her a pile of "rubble" and announces that it's going to be the fountain. Judy wants to know how, but I think it's less a question than a statement of doubt. Will answers her, though, saying it's the same as with everything: "You just do it." Judy sort of grimaces and nods her head, when a voice calls out "Hi!" It's Karen, who's poking her head out into the alley.