Episode Report Card Djb: D | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT In The Claire
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2000.08.30
Geriatric pod. Rebadow is wearing a red-and-blue-checkered sports jacket and bow tie ensemble that I think you're probably lawfully forbidden to wear unless showing intent to break into a rousing four-part rendition of "Hello, My Baby" at a moment's notice. Hill "On Wheels" (geddit? I just thought of the nickname and, well, I didn't feel like waiting until January to use it, so...) expresses a baffled level of incredulity equaled in this world only by me when he subplots, "Miss Sally [buxom children's show host] is really coming to Oz?" Um, eh? This sounds like a great idea. The best, in fact. Rebadow tells Hill that she was so impressed that he went to her house when he broke out of prison that she came to visit him. Wacky "you look mahvelous" banter ensues and Rebadow is off.
Visiting room. A blonde woman with confoundingly sizable (I have no use for this or any variation on this word like, ever, so I'm gonna dig real deep and go once more time with ) knobs waits across the table. Rebadow gives her flowers he has brought, and she returns the favor with a gift of a Miss Sally hat. He deadpans, "There are guys in here who would kill for this. Literally." She laughs. And so he takes this opportunity to point out that the real-life Sally does not look, act, or laugh the way she does on TV. Curious. And so the Sally doppelganger has her cover blown, and this "Norma Clark" admits that she is a just a secretary at the television station that airs the show. Turns out Norma infuriated the real Miss Sally when she suggested that the star might want to visit this stalking prison lunatic (just as the empathetic David Letterman was so often to be found weeping on the cell floor of his stalker, face to the bars and quietly sobbing, "If only these walls were not here to keep us apart. And then there was the whole trying-to-run-me-down-in-your-car thing"), so Norma decided to try out a wig and pasties and see if she couldn't make a go at the ruse herself. She couldn't. Rebadow promises that he will keep writing letters, only this time, "I'll write to you." She thinks that would be swell. And even if their relationship should suddenly find itself in the pantheon of great television entertainment, I will still maintain that this was a pretty stupid way for it to get itself off the ground. I have nothing to add to that.