Episode Report Card Niki: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Baby Blues
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 01.09.2001
On the Stool, Grace shares that sometimes she feels like "everybody in the world is like living, and [she's] just watching it happen." Tell me about, sister. I write about television.
Back in the bathroom, Grace looks flat-out wigged and walks away. Lily calls after her.
Meanwhile, at the Sammler pad, Rick's zonked in a chair in the living room, and Eli's trying to sneak in. Oooh, it's that blue hair, I tell ya! It's the devil's toll! Rick stirs and calls out Eli's name. Busted, Eli sighs and says hello. Rick reminds him to ice his ankle. "Right," Eli grits. What the hell is he so pissed for? He just got away with staying out way too late. He heads to the fridge for a drink, and Rick follows, asking him basketball questions. Rick flicks on the kitchen light and gets an eyeful of Eli's Smurfalicious locks. He asks what happened to Eli's hair. Eli glowers and says he put some color in it. Rick asks if it's the kind that washes out. "Eventually," Eli grits. Rick asks if it's something to do with Eli's band. You know, sometimes he's so Mr. Rogers that it pains me. Eli says he doesn't know and then hits the stairs.
The next day, Lily's flitting around the office of PagesAlive when Rick calls. "Is this Christie Parker's drop-dead-gorgeous assistant?" he asks, offering me the chance to reintroduce myself to my dinner. "No, it's her middle-aged evil twin," Lily answers. So when do we get to meet the good twin? Rick asks how she's doing, if she's okay. She's all business, interrupting him to deal with the goings-on in the office. Rick asks if they're still on for later, and she flippantly replies, "That's the plan!" She puts him on hold, and Rick looks like a balloon with a slow leak. After they hang up, Lily has a sad faraway look in her eye to match the one in Rick's.
Cut to the high school, where Eli's emerging from the athletics office. He's pissed and takes it out on the first locker he sees. "You must really hate that locker," says a voice behind him. From the way my skin creeps, I know it's Wannabe. She's jawing away on yet another hapless piece of gum as she gives him a mock lecture on damaging school property. Then she removes her gum and sticks it right on the locker. Oh, the defiance! She leans against the wall and asks if he needs her "to set someone's car on fire, 'cause [she] can do that." Yeah, you and anyone else with two brain cells, a pack of matches, and some lighter fluid. Eli moves to the other side of the hall, saying he doesn't want to talk about it. He leans against the lockers with his arms folded and proceeds to talk about it. He got suspended from the team. Wannabe crosses to Eli's side of the hall, saying the coach is probably just mad because Eli's a non-conformist. Of course he is. That blue hair is undoubtedly threatening to spark a revolution of controversial thought and anarchist action. It's striking fear into the hearts of the establishment!