Episode Report Card Shack: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jock Trap
By Shack | Season 4 | Episode 26 | Aired on 07.23.1998
Mark Snow ratchets up the "Psychotic and Fugue in D Minor" as we cut to another school day. We're given a first-person view of somebody walking down the hall, with everybody looking at him in shock. Gee, wonder who that could be? Rachel, Steve, and U.V. are sitting together in the cafeteria. Rachel looks up, drops her jaw, and asks, "Who put the acid in my Spam?" The other guys look up and see that it's Gavin. Surprise! Not. Anyway, Gavin is different now. He's had a haircut, and he's wearing a sweater-vest and a button-up shirt, and we all know what that means. Nothing says "brainwashed initiate" to the popular clique like a sweater-vest. Rachel runs over to talk to Gavin and ask him what happened. Gavin says he's decided to apply himself, and he thinks he'll get better results hanging out with the Blue Ribbons. Rachel chases after him, but a Blue Ribbon jock tries to push her away, telling her, "This is rarefied turf; sluts need not apply." Dude, you're lucky she doesn't have a lunch tray right now. And -- "rarefied"? Shut up, moron. Rachel ignores him and follows Gavin, who's buying something from the Blue Ribbon bake sale table. Gavin blows her off again, and she sulks her way back to the table with the others. Steve decides to take matters into his own hands and attempts to chase after Gavin, but he's jock-blocked by Andy and another Blue Ribbon guy. They won't let Steve talk to Gavin. Steve tries to push past him, but one of the jocks pushes him to the floor. U.V. walks up to them to try to calm them down, but Andy grabs him and throws him down on a cafeteria table. Rachel runs up, pushes on Andy's chest, and asks him what his "maladjustment" is. In the meantime, all the other teens are fleeing the cafeteria like music critics from an O-Town performance. So everybody knows the Blue Ribbon kids are psychotic and dangerous. I would question the idea that people would prefer to have teens turned from slacker potheads to violent, bullying, judgmental loonies simply because they dress better, play sports, and get better grades. But, you know, it's probably the most realistic part of this movie. Anyway, Rachel goes over to check that U.V. is okay. Steve, though, has hit a rage of his own and takes down a jock with a cafeteria chair. But the other jocks are all over him, and they beat him down to the floor and kick him a bit for good measure. On the other side of the cafeteria, Ratcatcher Porno, busy mopping the floor, witnesses the whole thing.Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20Next