Episode Report Card Niki: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Flirting with Disaster
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 02.06.2001
The camera pans up a rumpled bed, as morning light filters through a window in the background. It lands on Karen's sleeping face, just as she gasps awake with a panic attack. The lighting in this scene is most unkind, by the way. Karen wakes Leo with her alarmed, "Dear God!" She thought the kids were there. Leo reminds her that it's Thursday, so the kids are at Rick's. There's no danger of their finding Leo in bed with her and figuring out that mama gots to get laid. "I'm losing my mind," she groans, rolling over onto her back. Leo pounces, kissing her shoulder and proclaiming that the mind is an overrated part of the body anyway, especially in bed. He moves down her body, disappearing under the blanket despite Karen's mild protests. She wriggles uncomfortably, and her voice becomes stern. "Leo!" He pops back up, confused. "You want me to go slower?" he asks, always eager to oblige. He starts kissing her shoulder and back while Karen looks distant and bothered.
Cut to Judy and Lily at their favorite café. Judy says, "He did not! He called you an 'eclipse'?" Lily nods and sips her cappuccino. "He told me he's obsessed with me, Judy!" she says urgently, digging splayed fingers into her chest. "It's all my fault!" Judy pshaws. "It is! Because I flirted incorrectly!" Lily claims. Aw, she's so clueless it's almost funny. If it weren't so sad.
Rick, meanwhile, is pouring his heart out to David, which is always a wise move. "What, so you think they're getting it on?" David weasels. Rick says he doesn't, sounding offended at the suggestion. "What, you don't think it's possible for two people to meet at work and become physically attracted to one another?" David wheedles. Rick says he doesn't know why he's telling David this – David's supposed to be making him feel better. Uh huh. You'd really think Rick would have learned by now, wouldn't you? "Look, I can't help it if you can't accept the truth," David says matter-of-factly. "Work is sexy. Everybody knows that, including you." Right, because Rick erects buildings. I get it. Rick looks dazed. Either that, or he overdosed on cold medication.
Back to the Dilemma Café. "Did he kiss you?" Judy asks. No. But he did! "Did he try to?" No. Judy asks what Lily's so worried about, then. "God, I don't know!" Lily whisper-screams. "That I led him on...Maybe I did, you know. I didn't mean to," she says earnestly.
"I mean all this PC crap about how we're supposed to act at work. You think people would actually get up and go to work every morning if they actually thought there was no chance of having sex with their co-workers?" Um, I do. No offense to Wing and Glark, of course. ["Yeah, whatever. You want me." -- Wing Chun] "Lily is not. Having sex. With Graham," Rick asserts. David backpedals, "I didn't say she was." Of course, it's only so he can get more speed as he rolls over Rick one more time with, "I just said maybe she would like to."