Episode Report Card Pamie: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Who Wrote the Book of Love?
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.03.2004
-- in Asher's class! They're debating whether political writing is the same as propaganda. Is one merely a discussion of differing ideas structured to present an intelligent ideologizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Paris waits anxiously by the classroom door. It is unclear whether she's waiting to talk with Asher or Rory. Asher concludes his class and the students lug their amazingly large course books off their desks. Paris runs up to Rory and says hello. Paris makes some excuse about laundry. Rory says she's tired of Paris using her in order to walk into Asher's class: "I don't want to be your beard anymore, Paris." Again, can't believe the promo guy didn't use that, then a shot of them kissing. Paris doesn't want Rory to leave until nobody's talking to Asher. Rory says that she's not going to be taking this class forever, so eventually Paris will have to come clean about her relationship with Asher. Paris says it's all going to happen soon enough, since Asher has invited her to come to Oxford with him this summer. Rory looks as shocked as we are: "So, this is really getting serious." Paris says it is and pushes Rory over to Asher's office so they can talk to him.
Luke is shifty in the bookstore. He walks over to Andrew to pay, but doesn't want Andrew to see what books he's chosen. He tells Andrew about how much each book costs. "That high?" Andrew asks. "They're your prices," says Luke. He then realizes he was reading the Canadian prices. Andrew asks if it's porn, and that's why Luke's embarrassed. Luke says it's not porn, but drops a hundred-dollar bill on the counter and leaves. Luke comes back in and asks for a bag. Want to learn a little about the craziness inside my head? Now whenever I see a bookshelf, on television, at someone's house, in a movie, at a bookstore -- I can't stop searching for my own book. Is it narcissism, or just retarded hope? I'm leaning towards the latter.
Luke's apartment. He grabs a boombox and opens the book on tape. He pops it into the player. "Love!" shouts the man on the tape, frightening Luke. "You want it? You can have it." I've never listened to these Men Are From Mars things, but Stee says an ex asked him to listen to it once and he got about halfway through the tape before he threw it out of his car window on the highway. The tape tells Luke that finding love will take work, introspection, and the ability to tell himself he's worth it. Luke sighs and crosses his arms as the tape tells him to say, "If I crave love, then I deserve love." Luke can't say it. The tape knew he couldn't. Luke tells the tape that he hasn't been hit in the head with the "Oprah stick," and that's why he doesn't want to repeat after a tape. Still, he opens up his workbook when he's told, which is more than I would have done with this cheese.