Episode Report Card Shack: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jock Trap
By Shack | Season 4 | Episode 26 | Aired on 07.23.1998
Lorna continues to repeat "bad" and "wrong" as she turns to look at Steve. Blood is running down her face. She picks up a shard of the mirror and tries to attack Steve with it. He fights her off, and she has a brief seizure on the floor. Then she stops for a moment and just looks at Steve. Then she gets up, explains she has to go study for a test tomorrow, and simply leaves. Instead of heading home, however, she ends up strapped down to an examining table. Some chip has been removed from Lorna's eye. One of the doctors explains that the chip appears to be working fine, but "excessive stimulation of the pineal gland caused her dopamine levels to go through the roof." Perhaps I shouldn't have used the word "explains." We pan over to Dr. Caldicott, to the surprise of absolutely nobody, who puts his medical degree from the Doctor's University of Hooterville, also known as DUH, to good use and explains that sexual arousal makes them violent. The two of them toss a lot of fake medical-speak back and forth about what to do next. Dr. Caldicott decides to experiment on Lorna a bit and see if they can't fix the problem. Cut to another school day. Rachel walks over to her locker and watches Dr. Caldicott escort a new student into his office. They give each other the stink-eye. After a brief discussion with U.V. about the demand for his killer bud, Rachel heads to the boiler room for a cigarette. But when she grabs the pack from the hidey-hole she used to share with Gavin, she finds a CD case with an image of a skull and crossbones on the cover. Is it a home recording of Gavin's garage band, The Swollen Polyps? As she's staring at the disc, Chug slides into the boiler room, looking for Rachel and doing the creepy "come out, come out, wherever you are" shtick. Nobody who uses that chant has good intentions, ever. Rachel seems to know this. She sets the CD aside in the shadows and walks over to warily ask Chug what he wants. Chug wants to know if she'd go out on a date with him. Rachel giggles for a bit, thinking that Chug's kidding, but he's not. Rachel tells him that she won't, causing Chug to shriek, "WHY NOT?!" Again, that might have been a genuinely scary moment if it hadn't been given away in the commercials and trailers for the movie. Rachel is taken aback for a moment, but rallies wonderfully: "How about this? You couldn't repulse me more if you were made out of equal parts of shit and maggots!" Why can't Dawson's Creek be on HBO, so Joey can give Dawson a similar verbal beat-down?Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20Next