Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Saving Karen...Not So Much
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.09.2006
Parker, wearing that horrid wig, tentatively enters her room and tells Mac that she left her a card with her numbers, in case Mac wants to keep in touch. Parkers tears up as she tells Mac she thought they were going to have a blast together. Man, every time Julie Gonzalo gets like this, I just want to cry. She is good. Mac perks up and tells her to stay instead of going with her horrible parents: "Stay here! I'll have your back from now on." Aww. Parker thanks her, and they hug. Over Parker's shoulder, Mac looks a little concerned, but she's probably aware that Parker's parents might not be as easy as Parker is. Oh, whoops again.
The clock ticks to 6:02, which cues the prisoners to whoop in triumph. Wallace brightly says that, now that it's over, the prisoners have to tell the guards what the address is. Logan tries to stop him, but Long Hair pipes up with the correct address. Logan, you should have shouted "LA LA LA LA LA!" over him. Sure, people would think you're crazy, but I doubt it would be the first time. Anyway, Kinney marches in and congratulates the guards on their victory. He explains that the guards who appeared to fall asleep were just pretending, and that once the prisoners had escaped, they moved the clocks forward. Eh. I mean, clever, sure, but...this experiment was supposed to be about real darkness, not Wallace's cunning and Rider Strong's excessive volume. I mean, it would have been a lot truer to the stated premise of the experiment if we'd seen Wallace and Logan flirting with anything uglier than eating pig's knuckles. Okay, that's pretty ugly, but still. The point is, which of these students is walking away from this experiment with any degree of surprise at how he behaved? The best part, though, is that Rider Strong wasn't in on Wallace's plan. Heh. Wallace salutes Logan.
Veronica's eating cereal when Keith arrives home with a "'Sup!" Veronica: "I'm not acknowledging that." On the one hand, it seems odd that Keith is so cheery, given how we saw him last. On the other, though, if that little greeting is subtly foreshadowing the return of Casey Gant, I'll forgive just about anything. Speaking of Casey, many posters pointed out how similar the A-plot was to that of "Drinking The Kool-Aid," a comparison with which I totally agree. After lying to Keith about what she's looking at on her laptop, a VMVO tells us that Veronica's learned this: Chip ("Diller" is his surname) has been in proximity to more than one rape victim, the Safe Ride Home is possibly a misnomer, and someone in the Theta Betas had the keys to Parker's room at some point: "It's a start."