Episode Report Card Alex Richmond: C- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Judge Ling
By Alex Richmond | Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired on 11.04.2001
John, tie around his head à la Frank Stallone, has his fists pressed together and is staring in the mirror, quivering with exertion. Coretta has a draft to drop off. Shall she put it on his desk? John manages a "yes!," his voice strained. Coretta, clearly freaked, asks for a minute when he's free. John gasps and releases his fists. He's doing "isometrics, an anti-aging technique." Coretta, not much less freaked, begins. She heard him refer to his life as "loveless." Would he like to meet someone? John looks interested, in a muted way. Congrats to Peter MacNicol for winning the Emmy, by the way. Who'd have thought his dedicated work would ever be rewarded? Usually the most deserving person doesn't win. And you can interpret that in any way you want to. Coretta shares that she paid her way through law school by doing "men makeovers." Would John like one? She says she doesn't remember the first time she met John, and that first impressions are important, and that John doesn't make one. Wow, way to talk to your boss! Did she make partner already? John passes on the makeover idea, then tugs on his jowls in the mirror, stopping only when Coretta re-enters to check whether he's looking at the draft she left. He gets right on it.
Dame Edna is going. OFF. The phone " leaps off the table and assaults" her when she's "home from a busy day." She turns the ringer up "so the help can hear it." She lives in a co-LOW-nial home. She just loves the word "co-LOW-nial." It reminds her of frankfurters. And did you know frankfurters are made of intestines? I swear I am not making this up. Hot Guy Ray thinks it's a joke. It isn't, it's Dame Edna. She asks whether Ally "lives in a co-LOW-nial home, and LOOK at how the clothes just HANG off [her], [she's] LOVELY!" Ally makes a pleased/amused face. I'm pleased Ally is finally wearing a jacket over that sweater.
Ling is being fitted for a purple robe. Nelle is like, "No way are they going to let you wear that." Ling isn't planning on asking, she's "just going to take the bench and look stunning!" She looks like a doctoral candidate. Where's her flat hat? Nell looks dubious, but Ling says she doesn't have to be fair to be a judge. Since we live in a litigous society, it's her job to make the people who are being stupid look stupid. Hey, kind of like a recapper's job! Nelle giggles, amused. Me, not so much.
The bar. Four geeks in glasses are singing. Jenny, Ally, and Glenn enter, arguing over how much of a disaster the deposition was. Ally and Glenn are together on this -- not on that! On the fact that the deposition was a disaster. Jenny thinks that in court, Dame Edna will be "less grand and ultimately winning." "Winning," yes. "Less grand"? Not on your life. Ally agrees to try to think positively. Jenny is all, LOVE her! Jenny? Put a sock in it.