Episode Report Card Deborah: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Arcadia the Beautiful
By Deborah | Season 2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.21.2004
Next they spy on him while he buys a sandwich from a vending machine. Judith takes another picture. Do you really want someone who'd eat a vending machine sandwich running your student body? I should think not. If you look carefully, when he pulls the change out of his pocket, there seems to be a little white pill in his palm, too. It seems like he picks up the pill with his right hand but then we don't see any more of it. It's possible he took it just before eating the sandwich; lots of medication has to be taken with food. Or maybe it's just a Tic-Tac. Do you really want someone who'd eat a pill or a Tic-Tac out of his linty pocket running your student body?
Lars is in a chemistry lab next. There are lots of bottles and beakers full of bright, colourful liquids. Uh-oh, here comes one of Frink's pet peeves about "science" scenes in TV and movies: "What's in those bottles? That's so highly unlikely. Most things you use in the chemistry lab are clear. You don't get a whole gay rainbow of colours." From the Never Took Chemistry side of the couch: "But this is prettier." All I get is a derisive snort. I surmise that maybe the people who tend to go into set design and prop management didn't take a whole lot of chemistry. Frink: "Chah, I guess not." Anyway, he's in class, and Joan and Judith are peering through Venetian blinds at him when his cell phone rings. Judith says, "He gets a call like that about five times a day." "A call like that"? What does that mean? How can she tell? I can't believe she could identify a ring tone from the other side of the window they're on, even if she's been hanging around him enough to learn he has different ring tones. Anyway, she thinks it's either his girlfriend or his dealer. He takes off to meet someone.
Outside, he walks through a big sandy playing area below a parking lot. Judith and Joan are sneaking around above him in the parking lot. Well, they're sneaking as much as anyone can sneak, wearing those noisy beaded scarves that Judith and Joan favour this year. Lars walks into a doorway where there's a guy standing and waiting. They talk for a moment and Joan tells Judith, "That's Teddy Marks. Total drug dealer." Judith: "Okay. Hand over the drugs." She's got her phone ready. As they watch, waiting for the deal to go down, Lars puts his hand on the side of Teddy's head and says, "I missed you." He pulls Teddy toward him and Joan and Judith watch in shock as they kiss. Judith's not too shocked to get the picture, though. Those of you who can't get enough HoYay! will be disappointed to hear that the camera is focused on the tiny image of Lars and Teddy on Judith's display screen, rather than the larger actual image of the boys. Judith takes the picture and when the camera beeps, the boys separate, startled, and look up: "Whoa!" Joan and Judith panic and run as Lars stares at them, wide-eyed. ["Aw. And I love him! I love my Dead Gay Colin!" -- Sars] Teddy runs off, too.