Episode Report Card Aaron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Botticelli
By Aaron | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 04.26.2003
Back at The Fortress, Arthur abruptly announces that cuddle time is over, and he needs to return to his room. Ruth is disappointed by this, but at least this time she manages to actually ask him to stay the night. "Oh no, I couldn't," he answers, with just enough embarrassment to indicate that he knows what he's passing up. "Aunt Pearl used to put clothespins down there. It's not pretty." Ruth dejectedly hands over his glasses, and the ever-gentlemanly Arthur thanks her smartly for a lovely evening before he departs. Once alone, Ruth drains her entire glass of wine. Fade to white.
Fade back up on David, Keith, and Threesome Guy packed like sardines in a bed. Threesome Guy obviously has more experience with this sort of thing than the Sarge, because he immediately hops out of bed and starts getting dressed so he can beat a hasty retreat. Unfortunately, it takes him so long to get dressed that I begin to wonder if "Threesome Guy" is a definitive enough nickname for someone important enough to merit so much blatantly bare-assed screen time. So, in honor of his only defining bit of characterization, I've decided to dub him "No Underwear Man." Oh, wait. Keith did say he was tall. Okay, so Tall No Underwear Man runs out of the house like his ass was on fire, while David and Keith both pretend to be asleep.
Hey, look! A funeral! Well, that was certainly unexpected. Nate and Rico nod at the DGDJ's ex-boyfriend as he departs after the service, and then they take a quick moment to reemphasize all the respective ways in which his life was merely all about them before starting to put the chairs away. "She was doing fine, she was on the right medication," insists Rico. "She did it because he left her." "It's depressing how deluded people are about what love really is," replies Nate, continuing, "It's not like someone else can change who you are. Like this woman, Melinda. That guy was the only good thing in her life? And he didn't even seem that great to me." I'm not really sure what he means by that, but I'm just going to assume it's somehow relevant to his relationship with Lisa. "Even so," admits Rico, "I wouldn't want to be him right now." "Yeah, me neither," agrees Nate, as they both stare at the coffin. I think these two really need to a start a support group for guys with crazy girlfriends. I know I'd join.
Despite the fact that, earlier in the episode, she couldn't even remember what she made for dinner the night before, Vanessa has now returned to a job where she's responsible for delivering life-saving medications to patients in dire physical condition. Yeah. That seems smart. The sole purpose of this scene is to allow Vanessa's nurse buddy to make a prescription of her own, as she assembles an illicit collection of pills and insists that Vanessa give them a try. Incidentally, is Justina Machada pregnant? Or did she really gain that weight just for the character? And why is she in the end credits when Ben Foster gets to be up front?