Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Murphy's Luck
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.29.2000
I'm running out of things to say about these tired old credits, so I'll use this space to praise the writers who come up with the episode titles. I mean, "Murphy's Luck"? What a witty burlesque on the term "Murphy's Law"! I can only aspire to such cunning wordplay. It's all so humbling.
So this week's ep is sponsored by Aleve, and the first commercial is about this obnoxious woman who's writing the company to exult in how she foisted this pain reliever on all the women along the route of this charity walk she was in. Seems this unctuous twit took pity on all the walkers who didn't use the wonder drug Aleve and made them admit their deep shame and apologize for using substandard analgesics. So at the end of the race, everyone was shouting, "Aleve! Aleve!" at her -- get this -- like it was her name! Or were they really shouting, "Leave! Leave!"? Hmm. I bet the latter.
As we're led to believe that this show is filmed in San Francisco, that "Lucky Ones" song by Bif Naked (that was played while Buffy regretfully created the beast with two backs with Parker Unibrow on BtVS earlier this season) is shilled over the WB Music Emergency Broadcast System. Cut to Halliwell Manor. Kitchen. Piper "Leo Loves Me, This I Know, Because the Writers Tell Me So" Halliwell is scribbling on a notepad. Phoebe "Dr. Joyce Bothers" Halliwell, in a "Ming's Tattoo" baby tee and baggy-ass combat fatigue pants, enters the room. She wonders why Piper's not doing "inventory at the club." Piper expositions that she's dawdling at the manor, trying to figure out what to tell Dan. Phoebe asks, "About what?" because I guess someone shook her very violently and erased her Etch-A-Sketch brain since the last episode. In lieu of a "last time on Charmed" montage (which wouldn't cost much money at all, Aaron Spelling -- I'm just saying), Piper explains the intricate dynamics of the Dan-P-Leo triangle for the kazillionth time. Phoebe wants to make sure that Piper's not writing Dan a "Dear John" letter. Piper: "No, he deserves more than that. A lot more." Word. Owen hopes the word "more" entails a procedure involving tar, feathers, torches, shotguns, pitchforks and a mild suggestion for him to leave town on the next boxcar. Phoebe expositions about Piper's love for Leo, who gave up immortality for her. Yes, but Piper has some recent worries about Leo; he seems "restless." Phoebe admonishes her for "thinking too much" and trying "to predict the future" -- that's Pheebs's job. Then she pets Piper's head and tells her to "just follow her heart." Piper wonders what she'd do without Phoebe. Owen supposes that Piper might do a lot less laundry, cooking, and cleaning, but instead Phoebe baby voices, "Thuffah endwesswee, noh dowt!" Piper's stomach churns and she makes a quick exit to go to the club. The docile Ps declare their love for each other as they part.