Episode Report Card Niki: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Can you say "anticlimactic"?
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.06.2001
Judy juggles a bag of groceries and struggles to open the back door. Is it like a rule at Manning Manor that no one shall enter through the back door unless they're simultaneously wrestling a bag of groceries? Judy drops the bag on the island and announces that she "got every kind of bagel known to man." Lily peeks in the bag and asks, "What's that?" Judy tosses the plastic deli container onto the counter and says, "Whitefish. I have no idea why I got that." Me neither. Who buys fish as an impulse purchase? They don't even keep it near the register. Which is good, obviously. Judy tugs off her coat and mutters that she didn't sleep very well. Lily says that she didn't either. At the same time, they both announce they had the strangest dream. Lily says she dreamt that "this huge truck just drove through our living room without any warning." Lily stares off, pondering its implications. Judy asks, "No train in the tunnel?" Ew. She bitterly mutters that she dreamt the world ended, and she was somehow responsible. Judy, get thee to Dr. Wise-ass. Seriously. I mean, I like you and everything, but the whole long-suffering, low self-esteem thing just isn't healthy. Lily jumps a little, jolted by the memory that the truck in her dream was a moving truck. Huh. Maybe she should worry about falling anvils instead of out-of-control trucks. Without missing a beat, Dr. Freud -- I mean, Judy -- asks, "And how is Rick?" "Completely awkward," Lily answers after a minute.
Grace comes flying into the kitchen, all decked out in a sassy wraparound shirt and makeup. And with her hair actually down. Around her face. She looks really good. Judy thinks so, too, and tells her that. Grace fights back her smile and tells Judy that she's working at the restaurant. "As a hostess," Lily adds. "As a person who seats people," Grace politically corrects her. Grace complains that she doesn't even know why she's doing it. "Because you made a commitment," Lily heavies. Grace knows. She just has a lot of homework and other stuff to do, too. She says she thinks she should just give Jake his present and leave. Lily points out that it was Grace's idea in the first place, not Jake's. Grace relents and says she'll go. She grabs the deli container and asks what it is, because we haven't gotten nearly enough mileage out of it yet. "Whitefish," Judy says. Grace tosses it back like it bit her. I still don't understand why Judy picked it up in the first place. I mean, it's a white, slimy chunk floating in liquid. ["I like whitefish, myself, but it's definitely an acquired taste." -- Sars] "Grace!" Lily whines, having been splashed by said fish liquid. Ack.
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