Episode Report Card Demian: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sin Francisco
By Demian | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.18.2001
Meanwhile, down in the parlor, Kenickie smokes himself in and lifts the box of Deadly Bath Beads from the coffee table. Way to secure potentially hazardous materials, ladies. Behind him, Phoebe bounces down the stairs, perkily announcing her imminent departure from the manor. Let me tell you, what she's changed into is only marginally better than what she originally had on. She's wearing a pink, white, and red blouse with a tropical floral pattern under a fuzzy dark red vest that looks like it was carved from the hide of a dead Muppet. She stops short when she spots Kenickie at the coffee table. Kenickie opens the box of Deadly Bath Beads and flings one into Phoebe. Phoebe sparks up all pink and staggers back against the wall. From the earlier color-coding -- not to mention the previews for this episode -- we're to know she just got hit with Lust. Prue, Piper, and the Dolt hit the landing at this point, and Kenickie tosses three Bath Beads into them as well. The colors that spark over them are violet, orange, and blue, so we know they've been decked with Pride, Gluttony, and Sloth, respectively. Kenickie smiles to himself and smokes out. Much spluttering from the freshly-afflicted four. Prue asks the others if they "feel any different." None of them does, so Prue orders the Dolt to consult with TPTB, pushes Phoebe out to her Ethics appointment, and hustles back upstairs to the BoS with Piper for more research.
Cut to Phoebe in her professor's office. While he natters on about "the dialectic" and how many lectures she's missed, Phoebe crosses and uncrosses her legs while drawing her hand across her face as if she's having a hot flash. The professor asks if she's all right. She answers in the affirmative. He concludes that if she doesn't turn in her late paper right away, he'll be forced to fail her, thereby delaying her graduation. "What do you have to say for yourself?" he asks. Phoebe, who's been fingering her dead Muppet during all of this, leers, "I'm not wearing any underwear." The professor goggles and asks if she's "making some kind of a joke." "I'm dead serious," Miss Phoebe If You're Nasty breathily intones as she rises slowly from the chair. "I've been a bad girl," she pouts, stalking up in front of her teacher. "A very bad girl," she amends. "And I'll do anything to pass. Anything." Miss Phoebe If You're Nasty grabs the professor by the lapels of his jacket and flips to the floor, pulling him on top of her. Thus beginneth the Wacky Hijinks, and it's about damn time. Cut to commercial.