Episode Report Card Demian: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Enter The Stench
By Demian | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.17.2001
"Piper, look out!" screams Phag, but the warning arrives too late. Not Cho slams Piper through a table, then draws his sword. Phag responds in kind, unsheathing the purloined dagger. The blade glows green in her hand. Not Cho recognizes it as the Dragon Blade; they start hacking away at each other. Rose and Alyssa trundle in from the hallway in time to see Not Cho slicing his way into Phag's forearm. She drops the dagger and staggers back against a wall. "Phoebe!" Piper yells. "Stop him!" Alyssa leaps to spin helplessly in mid-air about three feet off the ground. Yes, she's yodeling. Not Cho grabs the dropped dagger, back-flips onto the counter, and vanishes into the dishwater in the sink. The vanishing-into-the-sink bit was sort of cool. Rose drags Alyssa out of the air as Piper rushes to Phag's side, calling for the Dolt. He orbs in and moves immediately to make with the special tingly touch on Phag's arm. Piper wheels on her sisters, barking out, "You two! Follow me!" She stomps out into the sun porch, the errant Ps trailing meekly behind. The truth quickly comes out, with predictable results. Piper blows her top. "Oh. My. GOD. You. SWITCHED. BODIES?" Yes, Piper, they did. Now shut up and get over it. God knows I was over it five seconds after it happened. Alyssa and Rose reassure her that they now have the ingredients necessary to reverse the spell. Piper suddenly lights up with a brilliant idea, but for the moment chooses to remain mum about the details. She orders everyone back into the kitchen.
Once there, Alyssa quickly whips up a recreation of the original mixture. Piper asks if she's certain no other ingredients are needed. "Just the powdered toadstool," Alyssa breathily shrugs. I do not even know why I'm bothering to ask this, but the order in which ingredients are added to a potion is important, correct? If so, would the crackheads in charge of continuity please refer to the original scene of the body-switching? Powdered toadstool was the second-to-last ingredient before the changeover, with the anthrax being the last. Got that? Jackasses. Rrrgh. Anyway, Alyssa grabs a pinch of whatever, clasps hands with Rose, and the two recite, "I want to be me again" before Alyssa dumps the powder into the pot. Explosion. Puff of steam and smoke. Glowy Tints moving hither and yon. You know the drill. Once Phoebe and Raige are back to themselves again, Piper reveals the brilliant idea she had out in the sun porch. Piper proposes she switch bodies with Gold-Tooth Charlie, as he is "the only person who knows how to enter Limbo." Um, not true, Piper. There's also Not Cho, but I suppose I can understand why you wouldn't want to swap with him. The Dolt debates the merits of the plan with Piper, finally agreeing with her that they have no other options. Piper grabs a pinch of the powder and states, "I want to be the Zen master." Well, that's certainly dodgy. She couldn't summon his Glowy Tint by name? She could end up in Thailand being so non-specific. Anyway, she dumps the pinch into the pot. Explosion, puff of steam and smoke, Glowy Tints moving hither and yon.