Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Men Are Pigs...
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.13.2006
Veronica goes to check on Meryl, who's beside herself with worry. She tells Veronica that Sully's Physics class was working with lasers, and babblingly wonders whether he could have made some technological discovery that forced him to go on the run from "sinister forces." It seems likely that she's overestimating his intelligence by not a little bit here, but to be fair, the only time we actually meet Sully is after he's had some head trauma. Anyway, Veronica -- with far more patience that I think I'd be able to muster -- explains Occam's Razor as the theory that advocates the idea that, when faced with multiple explanations for a phenomenon, "we should embrace the least complicated." I think William of Occam was just looking for a clever way to get people to shut up. Which in turn makes me wonder why he was never canonized. Anyway, Meryl sort of takes Veronica's point, but says she'd be happy if Sully's dumping her were all this was, because at least then she'd know he's okay. Veronica does not get to display her "Does Not Compute" face, though...
...as some royal douchebag with assy long hair struts in and introduces himself as Sully's roommate Glenn -- "the man, the myth, the legend." Well, I'll grant that when even someone as nice and clueless as Meryl is completely repulsed by you, you can claim being legendary in certain respects. Glenn, by the way, is being played, just about unrecognizably, by Charlie Weber, whom Buffy viewers will remember as Season 5's Ben, Glory's mortal alter ego. Also, many people on the boards opined that he's basically doing a K-Fed impression, and it's hard to imagine that they could be more right. Anyway, Ben/Glenn says that he saw Sully the morning of the previous day, but Sully asked him to clear out for the weekend so that he and Meryl could have some privacy. Also, Sully apparently was going surfing, and the idea that Sully surfs at all is news to Meryl. Glenn wraps up by saying that he came back because his stepmother confiscated his Xbox ["he has a stepmother who takes shit away from him? Wasn't this guy convincingly old enough to play a doctor FIVE YEARS AGO?" -- Wing Chun], and besides, he figured maybe Sully wouldn't need the room after the "knock-down drag-out" that he and Meryl had on the phone. Veronica gets all up in Meryl's face about how much trouble she went to explain Occam's Razor, and this is the thanks she gets?
Mars Investigations. Harmony enters, and she and Keith banter a bit about the fact that Keith apparently has not made himself available over the phone of late. He's happy but guilty about seeing Harmony, and she tries to ease his burden by telling him that she and her husband haven't had sex in eight months, and that she's going to leave him. Well, that is an awfully long time. I mean, thinking about it solely in terms of world of Neptune, when Harmony and her husband last had sex, Mac was still on the show! Keith thinks Harmony's idea is crazy, but she thinks sticking out a loveless marriage is the insane notion. They agree that they're both feeling some complicated things, and Harmony invites Keith to Palm Springs for the weekend. Because there's nothing better for working out your complex life decisions like a few days of screwing like bunnies. Older, somewhat wrinkly, and blessedly off-screen bunnies. Keith kisses Harmony...