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
Question 1: Why did Alison think Toby was a peeper, leading her to blow up his sister-with-benefits?
Toby swears that he was never a peeper, that Ali in fact made this up quote "because she thought she had something on me... she didn't understand what was really going on, and she used it against me anyway," which I'm presuming means she knew that he was being sexually abused by his sister and assumed it was the other way around, because of how usually it is, but also: How does that answer the question?
"Why did she think you were a pervert?" Because she knew I wasn't is not the answer to that question. Although it's Toby, so we'll give him a pass and just cut to the exposition, since clearly he's the key to cracking this whole thing and thus is forced by the narrative to speak as cryptically as possible at all times. Anyway, iffy dialogue for awhile and we revisit how Spencer crazily and intensely thought he killed Alison, just like the rest of the town, but now she would prefer to hold his hand and think about the mysteries of the mystery and also making him into less of a freak.
Ezra starts shit with Aria, basically, and acts pissy because of finding out that she was looking into California colleges, but can't say that out loud because he'll look as petulant as he's being, so finally in the absence of the actual conversation he's like, "Maybe I'll quit working here and go work with your dad at the college, how would you like that?" Although I guess that would also allow them to keep dating, is what he might be thinking, just as people, but of course Aria sees it as this gross betrayal and also like she's crushing his mojo, and it's just the same old song with them, so then Mona comes in and interrupts with more of her bullshit.
Caleb, when he sees the stolen Jenna phone and the ten-miles-of-bullshit look still plastered to Hanna's face, says the following awesome things: "Where did you get this, the year 2020?" It's for someone who can't see. "Okay, well someone who can might need to call NASA to turn it on." You have an hour. "Stealing a blind person's phone? That's sick. What do you like to do for fun on the weekends, break old ladies' hips?" And then later on when he says he can't hack it, dumb old Hanna is actually surprised that he deduced it was Jenna Cavanaugh's phone, like, of all the many blind kids boppin' around their school, how did he know? Is he A?
More trouble between Ezra and Aria, Aria fucked something up or didn't. I mean, I hate to gloss over it because the acting is incredible as usual, but I don't know what to say. You know how they're a couple of gaywads? They do that some more. Mona is an all-purpose bitch some more. Aria allows herself to evince annoyance. Ezra looks like he's about to dump her. But it's only when he questions her stage-managing abilities that Aria kicks everybody out of the room, because... Of course that's her breaking point: Doubting the new skill she invented yesterday.