Anatomy Of A Rumor

S01E05

Cut to hallway shot. Some girl grabs another by the arm and pushes her out of the way fiercely, as if to say, "Don't go near Meghan, you'll catch pregnancy." Meghan tucks her hair behind her ear to show she's uncomfortable. She's on a dolly, and she moves through the school as if floating while more people stare. One guy walks in front and rubs his chin while shaking his head: "Damn," he remarks, like a Backstreet Boy. A girl turns the corner. It's Meghan. But she's nine months pregnant. Non-Pregnant Meghan is shocked. Color fades to over-exposed film as Pregnant Meghan shakes her head in shame. The school kid extras don't know which Meghan they are supposed to look at because the director hasn't told them where Pregnant Meghan is going to be superimposed. Pregnant Meghan walks to the hall door, turns around and touches her tummy. Non-Pregnant Meghan turns around as the color comes back and touches her tummy as well. EVERYONE IS STARING. EVERYONE IS STARING. EVERYONE IS STARING AT MEGHAN. She tucks her hair behind her ear to show us she got caught in a dream and walks on with her books over her chest. Lo-jacked Kenny approaches her. "Hey, sis," he says, obviously the only person in the entire school unaware of her pregnancy. Meghan walks on and Kenny walks over to Rebecca. They give each other dap and he keeps walking as he explains to us that it's been five weeks of extremely platonic joy and if he has to go another week he'll go blind.

Pamie: Did he just say he'd go blind?
Pamie's boyfriend Eric: Yeah, it's an old expression about jerking off.
Pamie: I know what it means! I just thought he was fourteen, and this was a family show.
Eric: Fifteen.
Pamie: You've been paying attention.
Eric: Shut up.

Kenny decides to get advice from Cameron. He walks into Cam's detention room and sits down. Kenny offers to help Cam get his skateboard back. In another shot from Van Halen's glory days, the detention teacher is asleep with the word "silence" underlined on the chalkboard behind him. Kenny tells Cameron he can get the skateboard ban lifted. "And the, uh, what's-in-it-for-Kenny part would be?" Cameron asks, making this the third question in fifteen minutes asked in this fashion. Kenny asks for Cam's help in "getting Rebecca." Cam asks, "You mean the neighbor chick with the perky --" "Yeah, we're getting kinda close." "Really?" "That's so hard to believe?" Kenny asks as he delivers his best James Bond. "I guess we'd be like the Green Team," Cam says. "Yeah, it might be cool." "All right, don't get all clingy," Kenickie says. "All right," says Zuko. "Let's do it," says Cam. Kenny exhales. He raises his hand to give Cameron dap but is denied. He gets up to leave and the detention teacher yells at him to sit down. No one leaves detention. Meghan walks by the door because her magnetic force field was too great and she had to be near her brothers. She wears her confused hair. Kenny sits down in detention. Wah-wa-wa-waaaaaaah.