In other news, Phoebe's back at Berkeley, despite the fact that she announced her intention to return to school only a week ago, because this show sucks, and I want to die. She also has a no-nonsense professor who spends most of the episode calling Phoebe on her crap, which is very enjoyable indeed. This makes the professor's ultimate capitulation to Phoebe's many supposed charms all the more disheartening. Sigh.
Imaginary Fiends
When the freakish, dead-eyed, and normally mute Psycho starts babbling away at the walls, Piper concocts a poorly considered spell in order to get inside her wee sociopath's head. Somewhat predictably, the spell misfires, instead summoning the twenty-five-year-old version of her elder son from the future. Yes, Mangy Jesus is back, only as he's apparently grown up good this time around, he's not so much the Mangy we know and love as he is a faded carbon copy of the drearily dull pantywaist his father's been for the last seven years. Thank God his tiny self's actually been consulting with an invisible demon who soon curses the brat's teddy bear, in the process transforming Prissypants Jesus back into his big, bad Mangy self. Mangy quickly gathers himself a posse of dark demonic hipsters and conspires to gain control of the Book of Shadows. Because this threatens to become an interesting storyline, Mangy must of course be saved from himself by his family, and it involves tears and professions of undying filial love, and it's all terribly anticlimactic and gross.