Episode Report Card Joe R: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Free Goat
By Joe R | Season 1 | Episode 2 | Aired on 08.14.2005
That night, Nancy's sitting in her living room with a fat stack of cash that's getting less and less fat as she portions it out for bills. Silas comes downstairs to bitch about the phone service getting cut off; Nancy fronts like she's going to go pay it online (by, what, shoving a $50 bill into the DVD drive?), but she can't even do that because the DSL hooks up through the phone. She gives Silas $50 to not give her any grief about this, which even I could have told her was wasted money. Once he hears that Quinn has been shipped off to Mexico, or so Nancy says she overheard, Silas starts bratting that she was probably trying to call him and this whole family is bullshit! He crumples up the cash Nancy just gave him, calls her a "fuckin' mess," and storms off. Hey, she's not the one falling to pieces over goddamn Quinn, of all people. Lupita shows up and tells Nancy she thinks she has the menopause, oh, and also, she never got paid last week. Nancy tries to shake her off by asking if she's mistaken, but Lupita's sure. Nancy holds up her shoebox of cash and Lupita clears out the last of it.
Elsewhere, Shane's up on the roof, watching a tape he made of his dad on his video camera, and oh, is it ever sad. In the video, Shane's bugging Judah about birthday presents and breakfast and whatnot, and then he asks if Judah thinks he's weird. Judah's like, "You're totally weird, but you're awesome." Shane keeps replaying the part where Judah calls him "the amazing, unbelievable Shane Botwin." Sad!
Hodes House. Celia and Dean are getting ready for bed in front of their twin bathroom mirrors. It's taking everything Celia has not to stab him in the heart. She does take special notice of Dean examining his own hairline, and when he obliviously asks her if it'd be safe to take two Ambien, she suggests he take the whole bottle. He gets this perfect "what's up your ass?" look on his face, which: it's no fair to make a tennis racket joke if I set myself up, but knock yourselves out. After Dean heads off to bed, Celia sneaks a cigarette, paces, and finally grabs the hair-clippers and gets to working. Cut to the breakfast table where Isabelle is staring out the corners of her eyes at her dad's freshly-shaved head. "Did your hair go to boarding school in Mexico too?" she asks. Dean angrily puts a hat on.
Agrestic High. (School.) Celia's on a ladder trying to staple a poster to the wall while Silas whinily bitches at her to tell him where Quinn is. Silas actually uses the phrase "threatened by your daughter's sexuality," which makes it doubly satisfying when Celia informs him, in order, that 1) this is the first she's heard of their having sex, 2) Quinn got shipped off for reasons having nothing to do with Silas or her sexuality, 3) no, she doesn't have to explain to Silas what those reasons are, and 4) Quinn had a day and a half before she left for "Casa Reforma," and during that time, she downloaded 2,000 songs to her iPod and dyed her hair pink, but she didn't once think to get in touch with Silas. Celia, be my friend! "The only person Quinn cares about is Quinn," Celia says, darkly. "She takes after her father that way."