Episode Report Card Maggie: D | 398 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Booby traps and ballistics
By Maggie | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2000.11.02
After the opening credits, Theodore Geisel spins in his grave during the trailer for the Jim Carrey abomination, The Grinch. I really see no need for live-action versions of cartoons, especially one as superb as How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I hope the ghost of Boris Karloff haunts Jim Carrey for the rest of his days. Victoria's Secret satin collection is specially priced for the holidays. What holidays? November 1 is All Saints Day -- is that what they're talking about? They can't mean the Christmas holidays, can they? That's not for another month and twenty-four days, fergodsack. Oh, the I-zone Pocket Camera and sticky film from Polaroid. Can I just say that I bought one not too long ago, and it is a piece of crap, and I've never been able to get it to work? I'd just return it, but I bought in Chicago. Polaroid sucks. There are cheap-ass boots and shoes at Payless. I've pretty much never had a bad experience at Payless. Did you know they have some funky handbags there, and they're really cheap? Okay, here's the stupid Wendy's commercial with the sitar music. Why do they only show that one and the NASCAR one in this time slot? Man, you'd think I'd realize by now that there's no such thing as a good Wendy's commercial, so I should just quit hoping for one.
Docuventary clip: Felicity is sitting at a table in Dean & Deluca, holding a coffee cup and wistfully talking about how she used envision celebrating her twentieth birthday. She thought that she and her friends would go to a really "fancy restaurant in San Francisco," where they'd order escargot and drink cocktails.
Ben and Felicity are in her bed, and he wakes her up by kissing her repeatedly all over her bare arms, shoulders, and neck, as he wishes her a happy birthday. Felicity gives him the brush-off by telling him that she has to go to "epistemology." Ben tells her to skip it because "it's got a really stupid name." Ben, you know I love you, but you're a little on the dumb side and a little epistemology wouldn't hurt you. Felicity whispers that she can't skip because she has a test. They grapple a bit and then she gets out of bed. He gets a parcel wrapped in newspaper from his side of the bed and gives it to her as she packs books into her bag. She starts to say that he shouldn't have gotten her a gift, and he kisses her several times. Eventually, he runs out of the room and she picks up the phone and goes out to make a call. She calls Randy at the I Felta Thi frat house but he isn't there. She mentions that she called yesterday, and she leaves another message for him to call her back.