Episode Report Card Owen: D | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Animal Pragmatism
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.09.2000
Halliwell Manor. Parlor. Prue, in a tank top, Daisy Dukes, and really cute polar bear slippers, is curled up in an armchair, trying to scare up a friend on the cell phone to do something with. No responses. She looks over at a vase on the left side of the fireplace mantle. Cut to Prue looking dissatisfied. Cut to the vase on the mantle, now sitting on the RIGHT side. Prue telekinetically moves the tchotchke to the left, then back again to the right. Why do I notice this continuity error? I'm as bored as she is. And I GET IT. The cell phone rings. It's Phoebe, calling from campus. She asks how Prue's "doing." Prue admits that she's "not good," and wonders how Phoebe "managed" alone in the house for so long. Phoebe, not really answering the question put before her, because she's a moron: "That house is only big enough for one home-bound Halliwell." She adds that she's on the way to class, and asks if her study group called. They stood her up for "section." Prue tells her no one's called. Phoebe notices Pig Boy run in front of her towards a food vendor's grill. Pig Boy grabs a handful of hot dogs and throws them in the air, exclaiming, "Run, my brothers! Run free!" She giggles, because this is high comedy in Phoebe Halliwell's America. Prue asks Phoebe to meet her for lunch. Phoebe declines, and ends the phone call. Suddenly she spots Rabbit Boy attacking a co-ed and runs over to them. She taps Rabbit Boy on the shoulder and asks if there's "a problem." Pheebs has a B&W psychic vision of Snake Boy biting a girl in the neck. She snaps out of it and kickboxes Rabbit Boy to the ground, away from the girl he was accosting. Rabbit Boy, clad in that jeans and suede vest look that Bono could never really pull off (and what was suede doing in Bedhead's laundry basket?), runs away from Pheebs. Phoebe bolts across the campus after him. Rabbit Boy jumps twenty feet up onto an embankment wall and looks down at her. Phoebe gapes. Note to Alyssa Milano: The title role of Buffy The Vampire Slayer was cast four years ago with an actress named Sarah Michelle Gellar. You can stop auditioning now.
P3AD. Prue, now clad in tan stretch pants and an unbuttoned red linen shirt tied under her unfettered bosom, walks dejectedly into the club. She spots Piper making a bow out of red ribbon and jokes about "canceling [her] Martha Stewart subscription." Prue plops down on a divan to watch Piper work, and asks her if she can help. Piper thought she was "doing nothing." Prue says, "I'm done." Piper: "You can't finish doing nothing." Prue: "So how can you know when you're done?" Piper interrupts this Family Circus School of Philosophy to get Prue's help tying the bow on Dan's Valentine's Day present -- a book on San Francisco architecture. Prue wonders what Piper got Leo. Piper didn't think about getting Leo anything. Phoebe suddenly bursts in, blathering about the premonition she had and how she witnessed Rabbit Boy jumping over a wall. She senses a job for the Charmed Ones. Piper whines and reminds the lazy Ps about her Valentine's Day plans with Dan, holding up the book for Phoebe to see. Phoebe: "Oh honey, is that what he got you? Nice, but a bit impersonal." Piper plotzes. Phoebe sticking her other foot in her mouth: "What did you get Leo?" Piper throws ribbon at her sisters.