Episode Report Card Gustave: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All about Todd
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.01.2002
I can't believe that this Mountain Dew ad just dissed Sunday morning Christian cartoon Davey and Goliath. Someone's going to hell. Oh, and you know how there are those ads for products of no particular brand name, like "Got Milk" and "The Incredible Edible Egg," that are paid for by some industry council in order to promote something that everyone is starting to think is bad for you? Well, now there's one for cable. No, not for any cable company in particular like Time Warner or Cablevision. It's for cable as an institution unto itself. And even stranger is that there's this couple with two young children recounting how they switched back to cable because their satellite dish was always on the fritz, and they are of mixed race. I'm racking my brain trying to think of another commercial featuring an interracial couple, and I can't. Is this the first interracial couple on a commercial? Jeez, I find it hard to believe that they've had gay guys on IKEA commercials since the last decade but they're only allowing interracial couples now. Oh, and Burt Reynolds is on the X-Files. I'm sure someone is taking all of this as signs of the apocalypse.
The time is 5:30:24 PM. Klockwise from the top left, FATB tries to reach LittleTerrorBrother again, Palmer paces, and Bride takes her "exam." Nina and Kiefer are on an escalator on their way to the appointed meeting place in front of some shopping center. Nina goes over some new "whatever technology" that will keep Kiefer in kommunication with the back-up teams. Xander calls Kiefer's cell. He's got some bad news. Someone named "Teddy Hanlin" is the only "back-up" he can find for Kiefer. Uh, what happened to the dozens of people who were a part of Operation Vagina? Kiefer tries to call the Safe House again. Again, there's no answer. The escalator arrives at their floor, and Teddy Hanlin is there at the top to meet them. Oh, and the reason that Teddy Hanlin isn't Kiefer's ideal back-up man is because Teddy's old partner was one of the dirty agents that Kiefer put away before. How do we know this? Because Teddy's very first line of dialogue is, "Hey Kiefer, I haven't seen you since you put my partner away." Nina tries to run some interference. Kiefer attempts to ignore the subsequent taunting personal remarks that Teddy keeps making, including a veiled threat about "target confusion." This guy who is playing Teddy looks like he's reading his lines off a cue card, he's so bad.
Soul Patch enters the Kiefer Kube and tells Mason that a woman matching Bride's description was seen wandering around Griffith Park. Hey, that's the same park that Theo taped Kreepy Karl in. Xander has Soul Patch dispatch someone to the park to look for her. Soul Patch is already on it.