Episode Report Card Owen: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Chick Flick
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.19.2000
Foyer. Billy and the Halliwells creep towards the front door. The lazy Ps have pushed Piper in front of them so she'll have to answer it. BWA HA HA! And possible shout-out, again. As Piper reaches for the knob, a voice barks, "It's Darryl." Everyone jumps. Piper lets him in. She tells him they're "too tired for pleasantries. Just tell us." Darryl reports more break-outs of violence at theaters across town, and some cinematic copy-cat slayings. Piper explains that a demon's involved. Darryl blanches at the "d" word. His pager goes off, so he heads back to the station. The sisters process for a bit. They need to find Blackie. Billy tells them that he'll be at the revival house that night because he travels from city to city in the print of Kill It Before It Dies. Prue decides to make the "midnight show his final performance." The hard Ps ask Pheebs to prepare some potions that will allow them to enter the movie and kill the demon, and also return to reality once the job is done. Pheebs looks sadly at Billy, and tells him that they'll have to leave him in the movie. Billy holds her hand and says that Phoebe "will always know where to find me." Aw. The gang gets up to prepare for the showdown.
Revival house. The theater is empty, except for a dozing Movie Geek. The Halliwells walk in. Billy holds Phoebe's hand. Poodle Skirt Girl, on-screen, pouts at Billy. Billy tells her that "these girls are here to help us." Phoebe passes out her potion, which looks like bottles of airplane liquor. Billy and Phoebe enter the movie first. B&W Phoebe calls out to the hard Ps in the audience, "Check me out! I'm retro!" Heh. Then Piper chugs her potion, while bitching that it tastes like ass-phalt." Huh? I have pretty dirty mind, but I couldn't figure out what off-color allusion she was making. Anyway, just then Blackie appears on the set with the docile Ps, Poodle Skirt Girl, and Billy. A melee ensues on screen. Before Prue can down her potion and join them, Movie Geek wakes up. I guess Count Blackie-ula brainwashed him into being his Renfeld, because he starts to assault Prue. Prue telekinetically flings Movie Geek against the wall of the theater and knocks him out cold. She looks up at the screen. Blackie is warning Phoebe and Piper that they're "out of their league and out of their world." And they'll be sorry "once the movie ends and [they're] still in it." Prue calls to the docile Ps to get out of there quick, because the denouement music is swelling. Phoebe and Piper rush up against the imaginary "fourth wall" of the movie screen but can't penetrate it. The screen goes black. Prue gapes. A title reading "THE END" appears. But is it?