Episode Report Card Niki: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Second Time Around
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.01.2001
We return just as Lily's stepping into Booklovers to deliver Judy's wedding shoes. Looking at Judy's face, Lily says, "What? I told you they were purple." "Mom's not coming," Judy says. Lily sags. Judy explains that Babs heard a bunch of storm warnings and got all nervous about flying. Lily's about to go off, but Judy quickly interrupts before she can get going: "It's really that Dad's not here." She says that Babs is worried that people will pity her. "Aaron's still coming to the rehearsal tonight, right?" Lily asks. Judy nods. Lily adds, "I really need him to walk me down the aisle." Judy fogs up, and says, "Sometimes I really miss Dad. I mean, don't you wish you could just talk to him sometimes, so he could know how we are, what we're doing?" Lily looks at her, feeling the irony as Judy walks past her, accompanied by the tinkling sounds of fairy dust. And voilà, there's Phil, eavesdropping again. "I talk to him," Lily confides, and Judy says, "See, I could never do that! I'd feel too stupid." She bends over to fix a display, and Phil leans in and kisses the top of her head. I cry. I can't believe it, but they're actually getting to me with the Ghost Dad stuff. Judy looks over at Lily, marveling at how different they are, and confesses, "I really admire what you're doing." "Throwing a reception I can't afford?" Lily asks dryly. Judy says she admires that Lily is willing to "accept Rick," to see his flaws and mistakes and want him anyway. Judy says that she doesn't do that: she uses faults as a reason to move on. Lily looks thoughtful for a second and then says, "At least you're not afraid to be alone." Judy looks at her, about to throw the bone back in Lily's face, but Lily goes on, "Do you realize I have never done that? I went from Daddy to Jake, and now from Jake right to Rick. I mean, let's be honest here: I've never been without a man!" She tells Judy that she thinks she's "really brave." Judy takes it as a compliment and smiles to herself, conveniently forgetting that all she ever does is complain about being single.
Later, at Manning Manor, Lily, Rick, and the gang are moving furniture around in the living room, as Rick rattles on about this being the only time before Sunday they can "do this." I'm not exactly sure what he's talking about: moving the furniture, or having the rehearsal. He notes that Judy and Babs and Aaron aren't there yet, but he thinks they should get started anyway. Lily informs him that her mother isn't coming, and that Judy and Aaron will probably be late. She bellows upstairs for Grace to come down.