Episode Report Card Demian: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Shannen sings!
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 24 | Aired on 01.19.1997
Library. Shannen asks for all articles related to the "Hartford Crash of 1982." Yeah, it sounds like a Reagan-era insurance-industry shake-out to me, too. Outdoor café. Shannen presents Chloë with the evidence that no Armstrongs were aboard the Hartford plane. Chloë snarls at Shannen to "stop harassing" her and leaves. Shannen calls out a promise to uncover all of Chloë’s lies. Guitar Shop. Nick asks for the plate number on Chloë’s jeep. Shannen provides it for him -- "ROW 3511," for those of you toiling away on Friends ‘Til The End fan fiction and websites -- but reminds him that the Department of Motor Vehicles doesn’t release plate information to the general public. Nick’s cousin is a dispatcher with the LAPD. Shannen asks Nick why he’s being so helpful. Again, duh. He wants in your pants, you moron. Actually, the reason he gives is "to guilt [her] into entering the contest with [him]." Shannen smirks that that shouldn’t be necessary, as she’s just that moment decided to do so. Club Rendez-vous. The band, with a new drummer, rehearses a song with Chloë in lead. From the stage, Chloë spots a couple of detectives entering to conduct a follow-up interview with the manager. She wigs. She jumps down to the main floor and fires up a cigarette, bitching about the song they were performing. This shatters Slammin’ Sammy’s fragile ego, as he wrote it for her. She wants to perform "Stop." Simon reminds her that "Stop" is Shannen’s song. This enrages the nutcase momentarily. She calms down considerably after the detectives leave the bar area. Chloë Temples, "If I do this one really really good, will you let me sing [Shannen’s]?" Sammy stalks off in disgust as Simon rolls his eyes and retreats back to his guitar in frustration. Sorry, sidenote time. Temple: [TEMP-ul] (v.). To babytalk one’s way through a trying situation. Used primarily in conjunction with blondes, either natural or processed. Ex.: The coiled-haired moppet Templed, "I may be an orphan, but I can tap-dance. Will you be my daddy?" Trailer park. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Shannen Doherty has gone back to her roots. Actually, this isn’t Memphis. It’s Palmdale. Shannen and Nick have traced the registration from the Jeep Of Insanity to one of the double-wides. That Chloë -- she’s none too bright, now is she? Nick offers to head into the trailer with Shannen, but she insists she can handle it on her own. I, meanwhile, have been spending this time trying to figure out if Nick is cute or not. I suppose I shall have to leave that internal debate pending, as Shannen has reached the screen door of the double-wide in question. Lo and behold, Mommie Harding answers Shannen’s tentative knock on the doorframe. Mommie Dearest is wearing a blue caftan with floral embroidery at the neck. Because she’s insane as well. Mommie Dearest invites Shannen in to worship at the base of the Tonya Harding Memorial Shrine she’s set up in her daughter’s honor. She urges Shannen to help herself to a place on the sofa, and passes her a scrapbook. Shannen learns on the first page that Chloë’s real name is Suzanne Boxer. As the Def-Psycho-Jam Full-Length Trance-Dance Remix of "Beautiful Dreamer" plinks away on the soundtrack, Shannen flips the pages to find a photo of herself as Little Nancy Kerrigan with Young Tonya at the SoCal Youth Talent Show Of Doom. Shannen absorbs the implications of this while Mommie Dearest prattles on about not seeing Chloë since "she was released from the hospital last summer." "Did I tell you?" she adds. "She starred in their Christmas pageant. Every year." Snort. Long story short, at the tender age of thirteen Chloë pulled a Showgirls and shoved some girl named Armstrong down a flight of stairs after losing to her in another talent show. The Armstrong kid broke her neck and died. Mommie Dearest had Chloë committed shortly thereafter, even though Mommie Dearest continues to claim it was Chloë’s unhealthy addiction to performing that got her locked up, not murder. Shannen regards the insane mother of her insane antagonist for a moment, then "uh-oh"s us out to commercial.Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25Next