Episode Report Card Owen: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Chick Flick
By Owen | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.19.2000
The Skulls. Now Gossip. The public clamor for Joshua Jackson flicks can't be all that loud, can it?
Movie theater. The screen still reads "THE END." We hear Piper's disembodied voice wail, "Prue! Do something!" The end-of-reel countdown begins. Prue moans, "Where are you? What can I do?" Her head slumps forward. I am so waiting for the episode where she does this and a passer-by checks for a Medic Alert bracelet and sticks a wallet in Prue's mouth to keep her from swallowing her tongue. Cut to Astral Prue appearing (fittingly) in the projection booth. The folksy old projectionist is snoring. Astral Prue tries to stop and reverse the film in the projector. She bitches, "Where the HELL is reverse?" Cut to the F/R switch on the wall. Prue spies it, and hits "R." The earlier scene with the docile Ps in the woods is shown in super-rewind mode. Flub Alert: Phoebe calls out, "Prue!" during this. Shouldn't that have been "Urp?" Cut to Prue hitting the "F" button. Phoebe and Piper fall down on their asses as the film shifts gears. Hee! Astral Prue disappears from the booth. Prue wakes up in the audience and ask her sisters if they're okay. The docile Ps get up off the ground. Piper tells Phoebe they need to "get out of here." They drink the "return" potions in their airplane liquor bottles and flee from the movie. The Ps reunite and hug. Blackie comes on screen and hisses, "That's right. Run away, little witches. These are the mighty Charmed Ones? Ooo, why don't we run in fear?" (Possible shout-out? These recaps are indexed as "Mighty Big Charmed" on Yahoo. I'm just sayin'.) Piper whines, "I don't know what else we can do!" Blackie harshes on her: "Ooo, aren't you supposed to be the perky one? You should really try not to be so negative."
Sidebar. How does Blackie know so much about the Halliwells? Sure it's open to debate if/how he knew Phoebe was a witch earlier, but how did he find out that Piper's the "perky" sister? Do the demons get together in some netherworld employee lounge to bad-mouth the Charmed Ones? Whatever!
In response to the demon's quip, Piper makes a stink-face. Hee! If I ever need a pinch-hit recapper, I'm calling Blackie. The demon asks the Halliwells if they're willing to admit that they've "finally met someone [they] can't defeat." Prue: "I don't know, you tell me." She telekinetically flicks the projector's On/Off switch. As noted on the boards, this is a real stretch of her power, since it's assumed that she can't move objects she can't see. Hence the need for Astral Prue in the projection booth earlier. Anyhow, the movie stops in the projector. Prue delivers the line Fraught With Meaning that Finlay hissed out earlier about a "subject" melting if "held in the light too long." Blackie is trapped on the filmstrip. It melts as he writhes in pain and disappears. The Ps are pleased.