Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT What Are You Doing With That Pepperoni?
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.14.2006
Casino. Keith is in the anchor position at a blackjack table. When the decision comes to him, he stares indecisively, and it would be awesome if there were a Jeopardy! slot machine within earshot that could editorialize here by playing its theme music. But we'll settle for the guy on Keith's right crabbing that he's agonizing over two bucks. Hee. Keith hits, but at that moment, Lobo's goon comes and gets him. Just as well he busted, then.
Pizza place. Corny takes an order from someone, and Veronica checks the list Carmen gave her and finds a match. Veronica has a throwaway line about the chains no longer delivering to South Neptune, so I guess they're still going with that whole class-warfare idea, and wake me up when that's important. Veronica asks if Corny's ready to be the bait, and he says that no one's better: "I'm what you call the master bait." Aw, it's kind of sad that that got by. Because that means the censors all finally went insane trying to keep up with this show, and it just was really never a fair fight, you know? Also, I'm starting to think Corny is best in small doses. Not that he's familiar with such a concept.
Lobo gives Keith pictures of Cook, which place Cook in the casino at 7:01 and 7:06. Keith asks if he can get a picture of Cook at 7:03. What he gets is a picture of Lobo's shrinking backside, which is going to be somewhat less helpful to the investigation...
...but, in the casino, fortunes can change quickly, as Keith pulls out his phone to make a call and finds he can't get a signal. An employee tells him he needs to go outside: they jam all the cell signals in a hundred-yard radius to thwart card cheaters. Keith looks happy enough that he'd probably drop ten bucks at the blackjack table, if he only had several hours to spare.
Masterbaition. Corny gets out of his car with three pizzas, looking considerably less jaunty than he was in the first scene. I suppose the "unmentionables" on a tasering mugger could be less arousing than he's used to imagining. Anyway, the mugger appears forthwith and tries to sneak up on him, but Veronica nabs him with a trip wire...
...and then he's waking up to find Backup growling at him. The mugger -- who's just a kid -- gets to his feet and takes off his mask. Veronica asks his name, and when he hesitates, she bites out, "Do you want to deal with me, or do you want to deal with Mr. Chompers?" Ha! I love Backup, but I may have to experiment with calling him "Mr. Chompers" from now on. Anyway, the kid's name is Arturo, and Mr. Chompers barks away as Veronica asks Arturo whom he's working with, since he couldn't have done the rim job all by himself. (Tee hee break! Okay.) Arturo says that he wasn't behind that particular theft -- he just figured he had a copycat. He calls Corny "Shaggy," which hee, and explains that he's proving himself to the bikers: "PCH is back in charge, lady." Yes, a freshman with delusions of grandeur is certainly enough to convince me of that. No wonder Domino's is quaking in its boots! Also hilarious: Corny continuing to clutch the pizza as if it's his firstborn. Veronica repeats the "lady" and flares the taser, and then asks about the blackmailing. Arturo makes it clear that he can't pronounce the word, let alone execute the concept, so Veronica cuts bait and shows him the tape she just made of their conversation...