Episode Report Card Niki: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Unfinished Business
By Niki | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.05.2000
We cut to Lily at her computer working on the synopses with Phil hovering over her shoulder correcting spelling mistakes. He's offended that she "has to prove herself to these people" and wonders "what are they, blind?" Well, you know, Lily's hair may be fabulous, but it's not going to correct those punctuation problems, now is it? Grace comes in to get Phil to drive her to rehearsal and he starts spouting Shakespeare again. I suspect he only knows those two lines because he keeps using them over and over. Much hilarity ensues as Judy enters the room and joins Grace and Lily in making fun of Phil.
Black-and-white Lily interrupts with this observation: "If you ever want to see how you were raised, just watch your parents with your children."
Swelling with pride, Phil is insisting he is going to watch Grace perform whether she likes it or not.
Watching Phil with Grace, black-and-white Lily remembers he "was always so BIG. So much fun. I never realized how much he bossed everyone around."
Grace takes charge of the scene in the living room, zipping up Phil's jacket and telling him they're leaving right now. Phil makes a joke about how she treats her elders. After they exit, Judy flops onto the couch with Zoe, and Zoe tells her she has beautiful hair. Judy says "Thank-you dahling, but it's [Lily] who has the beautiful hair." Does Sela have some new line of hair care products or something? It's the only explanation I can think of. Zoe mentions that Lily's been interviewing, and Lily shoos her out of the room to take a bath. Judy and Lily then demonstrate their happy, sisterly bond as they talk about Lily leaving the bookstore. Judy fake grumbles that Lily was bad in the bookstore anyway, always flirting with customers and giving away books. Lily says she's not giving Judy the store, and Judy jokes that Lily just wants to profit from the sweat of her brow. "Yeah, all three dollars" Lily quips. She tells Judy that she interviewed at "Pages Alive." "Dot com," Judy adds, impressed at how "cutting edge" it is. Lily complains that her "life is off the map" and she has "absolutely no money" between lawyers and all the rest of the divorce crap. Then she utters the words that in TV-land automatically condemn her to calamity: "[She] just wants one week when nothing happens." Fat chance, this is a "powerful episode," remember? The scene ends with yet another demonstration of warm and fuzzy familial love as the two engage in a squealing, giggling pillow fight.