Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C+ | 4 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Who Mourns For Saint Blonde?
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.06.2005
A nurse enters and tells Duncan and Veronica to shoo, but Meg asks Veronica to remain for a moment. Meg apologizes for her bitchy behavior in the season premiere, saying that she knew she was pregnant, and that it was hard to see Veronica with Duncan, but Veronica tenderly says that Meg doesn't have to say anything. Veronica, it's a nice sentiment, but you might not want to get in the way of Meg's words, if you take my meaning. Meg asks for a favor: if anything happens to her, Veronica must not let Meg's parents send the baby away to that institution, and above all, she can't let them keep it. Well, I'd imagine if Meg avoided having her mother suffocate her with a pillow, she's got to be safe, right?
Chez Mars. Veronica arrives home, and Keith tells her she's late. Veronica says that that was the idea, since if she came home late, there was less time for her day to get worse. Well, there's also less time for it to get bet...oh, I'm sorry. Sometimes in the recapping haze, I momentarily forget what show I'm watching. Keith asks if lasagna and ice cream would improve Veronica's mood, and she says yes, but warily asks why he's being so nice. He hands over an official-looking document as he asks if she wants chocolate chip mint or butter pecan. She rips off the perforated edges to discover that it's a jury-duty summons, and Keith sympathetically says he'll get both flavors. Yeah, that sucks, Veronica, but if you take my advice, you'll get it over with. It's a little-known corollary of Murphy's Law that, if you defer, the next time you get called will be twice as inconvenient. Credits.
An overhead shot of a jury room in fast time shows the jurors entering and taking seats as VMVO tells us that jury duty over Christmas break illustrates "a commitment to the sacred ideal of drive-through express justice." A graying middle-aged man stands and tells the group that the first order of business is to elect a foreman; he asks for volunteers, and apparently even the crickets and tumbleweeds wouldn't touch this job with a ten-foot pole. The dude then suggests, since he feels that it's an open-and-shut case, that they pick Veronica, so that she can learn about civic responsibility. I'm not sure I like his "how about you lead us, little lady" attitude, but it pales in comparison to some baseball-cap-wearing middle-aged doofus's smarmy vote of "Absolutely." I wonder if he even looked up from his copy of the latest Barely Legal to hear the closing arguments. ["Since it's The Todd, my guess is that he didn't." -- Wing Chun] Anyway, the vote is unanimous. Don't get used to that.