Episode Report Card Aaron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Deft, where ith thy thting?
By Aaron | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 06.30.2001
Back at Brenda's, Nate uses his key to let them in. "So, you're not too freaked out?" she asks him. "A little, maybe," answers Nate. "It certainly makes David more interesting." Brenda, of course, was talking about giving him a key. Get it? Suddenly, Elton from Clueless appears at her bedroom door, looking significantly hairier and much more naked than the last time we saw him. He poses in the doorway, telling her that he had to use her shower because the water in his building was out. Well, that's good to know. And here I thought putting him in a towel might just have been a cheap excuse to let us see if he has a tattoo or not. Brenda leaves to "make a cup of tea," and as she passes him in the doorway, Elton asks for a cup too, and puts a finger on her breast while he says it. Once the boys are alone, Elton introduces himself as Billy, and asks how long Nate has known Brenda. Nate seems to be at a loss for words, so Billy asks his question for him: "Who am I, and why am I in your girlfriend's house practically naked?" He explains that Brenda is his sister, only he keeps smacking himself in the head and alternating between "sister" and "mother." They continue to mark their respective Brenda-turf for a few moments, and then Billy shuffles off to get dressed, putting his finger to Nate's chest as he goes. And hey, what do you know? Billy does have a tattoo, right where Brenda's is. Only his says "Isabel." I mean, who would have thunk it?
Cut to Cybill's funeral. We pan up past some flowers to a poster for one of her films, a motorcycle-themed romp entitled Easy Slider. In the back, Nate fulfills his contractual obligations for the week by asking Rico what devious trick he used this time to fix up the corpse. Rico fulfills his by making yet another KFC reference, and then admits to having used two cans of cat food to prop up her breasts. Yeah, I don't know how that works either. But then again, I'm not the MacGyver of die Einbalsamierung. Some guy named "Larry Wad" steps up to deliver a eulogy. We pan over the audience, and I notice that the casting director has done an excellent job of picking extras who look like they could be porn stars without being too obvious about it -- lots of women with short skirts, and that sort of thing. Larry reminisces about the first time he met Viveca, when she was the "fluffer on Dirty Larry III." "She was friendly. She was eager. I can honestly say I've never received a better blowjob in my life." At this point, Ruth wanders down the stairs and starts listening in on the ceremony. Back inside, Sandra Oh (on loan from Arli$$) is speaking. "I met Viveca on Deep Diving, and I had never gone down on a girl before, so naturally I was nervous. But Viveca was really warm, and relaxed about it, and she really put me at ease. Well, her and the two Xanax she gave me." I just want you people to know, I'm actually bleeding from all the jokes I've bit my tongue on in this paragraph. Ruth can't believe her ears, and she rushes off to find Nate, who is reading Brenda's book. "What the hell is going on in there?" she asks. Nate explains about the porn stars, and throws a bone to continuity by mentioning that the profit from the service will be enough to fix the air conditioner. Ruth calms herself a bit, adding, "I'm just glad your sister is in school."