Episode Report Card Aaron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT American Pie
By Aaron | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.30.2001
And just when you think it can't get any worse than having a gerbil shoved up your ass, it's time for the video store scene. If you watch this part closely, you can actually see Kevin Williamson in the background, waving a sign that says, "Look at me! I'm clever!" Randy is stocking the shelves. Some girl comes over and asks -- wait for it -- for "that werewolf movie with the mom from E.T." Oh come on. Did you really think he could resist the Spielberg reference? I mean, duh. It's axiomatic. Lillard shows up, and starts bantering with Randy about the murders. Randy rants on and on with reference after reference until he finally mentions that the cops would "save a lot of time if they just watched Prom Night." Prom Night, by the way, should really be subtitled "I Know Who You Stole From Last Summer." I must once again admit that Lillard is cracking me up. He also thinks Sid's dad is the killer, until Randy goes all meta on our asses and announces that Dad won't show up until the last reel, beaten and bloody. By the way, this whole hyperactive-annoying-movie-buff-who-works-in-a-video-store thing was done first (and much, much worse) by Quentin Tarantino. Randy tells Lillard that he thinks Skeet is the killer, and (of course) Skeet materializes behind him and attempts to be menacing. Whatever. Dullness, thy name is Skeet. Now we're outside. Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" (and in the battle of semi-obscure singers named Nick, I prefer Cave to Drake) plays over shots of frightened townspeople and closing stores. I half expect to see Frankenstein come walking down Main Street followed by a mob with torches. Instead I get Sid, Rose, and 10-10-2Dewey, which you'd think would inspire a mob with torches, but I guess not. They discuss who should play Sidney in the movie. 10-10-2Dewey sees her as a young Meg Ryan. Uh, okay. I guess I should just be happy he didn't say Courteney Cox. Neve thinks (correctly) that it'll be Tori Spelling. I figured it would be Cloris Leachman. Rose and Sid head off to the grocery store. Neve launches into some self-analytical blither about how pretty much everything symbolizes the fact that she won't have sex with Skeet. She describes herself as a "sexual anorexic," which is fortunate, since Wild Things made me feel slightly bulimic. Rose says she's too good for Skeet "and his penis," and I don't care how cold the water is now, because I may never be clean again. Oh, and Rose, sweetie? The gerbil was too good for Skeet.Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19Next