Episode Report Card Aaron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT American Pie
By Aaron | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.30.2001
Neve checks it out, and gets a scare when Skeet Ulrich pops out at her. Well, who wouldn't be scared? After careful consideration, I decide to save my "skeet shooting" joke for later in the recap. The Skeeter steps inside, but before he can start to annoy me, there's a knock at the bedroom door. It's Sid's dad, and not only are we subjected to ham-fisted exposition of both Sidney's goofy closet-door/barricade system and her father's mysterious trip to "the Expo," but we have to endure crappy dialogue about Expos while we're at it (note to Canadian readers: that's NOT a baseball joke). Then Dad leaves, presumably heading over to the craft services table to fix himself a meatball sandwich, since he won't be back for another ninety minutes. Now Skeet starts to annoy me. You know, I've just realized that Skeet Ulrich is basically your poor man's Johnny Depp, who is of course your thinking man's Christian Slater, who may well be the easily-amused man's Ethan Hawke. Of course, they're all just pale imitations of Jack Nicholson, or at least of Jack Nicholson before he himself became a pale imitation of Jack Nicholson (with a girlfriend who's a pale imitation of a girl). Skeet launches into some self-referential pablum about The Exorcist, and TV censorship, and PG-13 versus R and how it all symbolizes the fact that Neve won't have sex with him. Williamson gets so desperate for film-related terms with double meanings that he actually uses the phrase "raw footage" as a euphemism for sex, whatever that's supposed to mean. Anyway, they mack, points on the back-end-style. After a bit, she kicks him out, and as he leaves I finally realize that the music in this scene is Blue Oyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper," played at what sounds to be about one-fifth normal speed. Oh, and as the Skeeter climbs out the window, Neve flashes him. How come Joey never gives us a gift like that when she's climbing out the window? Next day. Nifty tracking shot of Sidney arriving at school and passing a herd of reporters on the front lawn. Sharp-eyed viewers (or viewers clued in by the commentary track) can spot Linda Blair playing a reporter in the background. Pan up to my Friend and yours, Courteney Cox, playing the preposterously (as well as unoriginally) named Gale Weathers. She gets a quick blurb in, and then we're back to Sid and Rose "Mom, Dad -- meet Marilyn!" McGowan who, while never appearing in a Poison Ivy film, has managed to play the titular character in such screen gems as Devil in the Flesh and Jawbreaker. Rose fills Sid in on the demise of Drew, telling her that she won't be sitting next to Sid in English class anymore.Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19Next