Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Touch Of Weevil
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 02.21.2011
Mona crawls right up Hanna's sweater about her feelings towards Caleb, and Hanna confirms that she is feeling very much out of her depth after this morning's shower time, and so begins the great campaign of her being super weird to him.
Speaking of weird, how about Aria trying to be Ezra's girlfriend, Ezra's stage manager, an innocent schoolgirl and specifically not Ezra's girlfriend? Imagine how well that's going to go, and then double it. The whole time Mona's being a dick to Aria and trying to send her to the "vendy" (ugh) for snacks, and just when you think Aria's going to have a big disclosure meltdown ("And I'm pregnant with his child!") Ian wanders into the practice room for no reason whatsoever and then turns around and walks out again.
(All the girls simultaneously have a flashback we've never heard about before -- this episode is kind of shitty in some ways, now that you mention it -- where Hanna in particular was crushing on Ian. In this flashback, Alison gave them fake IDs and snuck them into a party at Ian's frat house, where he took a very drunk girl upstairs looking trés rapey, and then all the girls split up so that Alison could get nefarious while the other four stood around looking gawky and dorky and totally sticking out hardcore. Which part is actually pretty fun. The whole flashback is awesome, like when Hanna says she's old enough to kiss Ian because she's 26 and Spencer's like, "Take a math class, you're 21.")
So they get on Spencer about how she should have told Melissa long ago that Ian was jeepin', and she's like, "I crashed your boyfriend's frat party with a fake ID, yeah. That would have turned out well for me." They point out that know she is knocked up with his Bad Seed devil-baby, and Ezra interrupts to ask Hanna why she thinks the childlike janitor-Toby believed the accuser in the play, and because Hanna never knows what's going on but especially right now, Aria jumps in and explains that and compares it to quote "when we were reading Shakespeare and Ezra talked about the fools and how they can get away with saying things..."
At which point she realizes she just totally called him Ezra, and the whole room just heard it, and everybody feels super weird because for half of them, poor Aria, but for the PLLs and maybe some other insightful people (maybe A is IN THE ROOM!) it's a whole other problem. Any other episode I would question Aria here, like maybe this is the Freudian slip where everybody knows that she wins because she's with Ezra, but I think it's really just so everybody can stare around all mysterious like always.