Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 66 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Piste Off, Or: The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 02.18.2014
Aria: "Hey, how do you know that?"Ezra: "...Know what?"
REAR WINDOW
Emily: "Mr. Fitz, more coffee? No? Can I just awkwardly drop this entire full dish tub on the sidewalk like some kind of incompetent laxbro instead?"
Her phone rings! She is so dumb, she answers it. What a dummy! Doesn't she know that Ezra is A and he's sitting right there?
Emily: "I can't talk right now about our friend Alison DiLaurentis who faked her own death and now needs some skull twin lasagna bean money that we will bring her to Ambrose Pavilion at the Zoo tonight just around closing!"
Nailed it. Hanna, and a relatively with-it Spencer, hilariously direct this performance from a nearby vehicle, watching Ezra respond by making his furious Mr. Hyde faces at Emily's rear end this entire time. Once Ezra's antennae are fully erect, they bounce.
LOVE IS THE DRUG
Aria and Spencer both go frequent-flying, in an intertwined scene that puts Spencer on the phone exhausting every outlet, while Aria drives the variable distance to Murder Cabin so she can exhaust the possibilities of Ezra being A. Since they already went head-to-head with their "my addiction is less grave than your addiction" thing once already, it's neat to see this mirrored back-to-back like this.
Spencer: "Whoo! Not having drugs on my person is making feel zoned out, sweaty, woozy and unbalanced. What would help that is, some drugs. I need them pills!"
Pharmacy: "Mrs. Hastings? You have already called in seventeen refills on this today."
Spencer: "Gotta go! Andrew's on the other line, ready to hook a sister up!"
Meanwhile, Aria looks particularly fetching as she deer/headlights her way toward the murder cabin, shaking and horrified, and then she notices a new burglar alarm that I guess he just put in today. She tries every writer she can think of, also the words "Ezra" and "sonnet" -- because come on, girlfriend has no illusions about what she's saddled with -- and then hits on... B-26! I laughed so loud. The Gold Falafel Award goes to...
Think about it. You got Ezra who supposedly uses this cabin for his writer activities and he's like, "What is the best thing for this code?" and immediately it's, "My only piece of writing to be actually published!" Meanwhile Aria's train of thought is simply, "What are some things about me... Got it." Her favorite Jeopardy category of all time, herself, intersecting exactly where...