Episode Report Card Erin: B | 398 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT So, This Time It's "Stop The Plague, Save The World"?
By Erin | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2007.11.05
Bennet Bungalow. Claire's sweetly sleeping as the camera rotates over her bed. Her cell phone buzzes with a message. It's West, texting to ask her if she's eaten breakfast yet. She texts back that she just woke up and he instantly replies that it smells like she's having waffles. Claire's like, "How the?" She gets up, leaving tonight's episode title in the dent of her pillow. She runs downstairs and asks her mom if she made waffles. She didn't. But West was kind enough to come over and MAKE THEM FOR HER. At her house. The house where her father is. The father who's not supposed to know she's dating. The father who abducted West and branded him with the Double Lines of Doom. But aside from all that, how fucking creepy is West? He shows up, uninvited, and just starts...making fucking waffles? Did he bring his own Bisquick? And eggs? Or did he just appear with a fucking waffle iron all, "Hi, Claire's Mom! You don't know me, but I flew your daughter to a beach and made out with her and I'd like to whip up a batch of waffles in your kitchen if that's cool with you!" What the fuck?
Claire's pretty much with me on this one as she looks over at West, who's playing with Mr. Muggles, and looks at him like, "Bitch? What the hell are you doing here???" Mr. Muggles: "I know, right? It's weird. I don't trust him. Any guy who would show up just to play with me is clearly fucked in the head. Also? He gave me waffles. I'm not supposed to HAVE waffles. I am in TRAINING. I hate this guy. Break up with him immediately." West is like, "Hope you don't mind but I wanted to make you breakfast!" And Claire is like, "Mind? Why should I mind? You only INVITED yourself over to MAKE ME BREAKFAST like that's not WEIRD at all or, you know, RUDE." West and Mrs. Bennet act like there's nothing at all bizarre or intrusive about his showing up to craft morning nourishment in a stranger's home while Claire looks at both of them like they have Fruit Loops coming out of their ears.
Mrs. B calls for Lyle and walks past Claire, whispering that West is adorable. Sure he's adorable. FOR A STALKER WITH BOUNDARY ISSUES. The second her mother leaves, Claire lays into West for coming to her house when she explicitly told him not to. He ignores her anger and says he wanted to show her something. The "something" is an article about the Cheertator getting suspended for seeing a "boy who could fly" and a girl who fell to her death. West is oddly thrilled about this article and says that it means they're infamous. At this point, Claire is like, "Why the fuck am I dating this guy? He stalks me, he's excited about BEING IN THE PAPER, my mother loves him -- he's clearly a serial killer."