Despite his doubts, Sethala brings the care package to Ryan's evil lair and invites him to dinner at the Cohen residence. Ryan says he's too busy, as he checks his schedule:

NAP: 3 -4 pm
CAGE MATCH: 4-5 pm
BROOD: 5 - 7 pm
SHRINKY DINKS: 7 - 8 pm

Seth isn't taking no for an answer, however. He makes the very good point that if Ryan shows his bruised face for dinner with Sandy, his eyebrows, and Kirsten, all three of them will get off his back for a while. The thought of shaking the Jewish/WASP guilt for a few days is appealing to Ryan, so he agrees to the peace treaty.

Back at Brown, Summer is trying desperately to get students to care about Chickens and to inspire chickens to fly, when she gets a phone call from Taylor. Zut Allor! Paris est tres fantastique! However, when Summer abruptly gets off the phone, we find that Taylor isn't in Paris at all, but simply at the diner on the pier of Newport. Quell Surprise!

The Cohens are waiting for Ryan, but it soon becomes abundantly clear that his rescheduled Shrinky Dinks got the better of him. Story of my life, man! Sandy's eyebrows order him to head over to Chino Cheers and check on Ryan, but Seth says that he'll check on him, because Ryan probably isn't too keen on a Sandy Cohen pep talk right about now. Sandy checks with his eyebrows, who deem this an acceptable response, and allow passage to Seth.

It seems that it wasn't the Shrinky Dinks that kept Ryan from the Cohens Mitzvah, but rather a cage fight. Against The Undertaker! Okay, not The Undertaker, just some big guy, who Ryan requested to fight. Alright, it's not too subtle, the whole Ryan getting pummeled so he can FEEL SOMETHING! FEEL ANYTHING! But for some reason it works. Seth walks in on this and his dainty frame cringes at ever punch Ryan takes.

After the fight, Ryan rejects both his payment for getting pummeled and Seth's friendship. I can't tell which is sadder. Ryan tells Seth the Cohens will be better off without him (Dude, while that was true maybe 4 years ago, that ship has mother f-ing sailed). Seth informs Ryan that he isn't going anywhere without him. Ryan, showing true jerkitude, asks Seth if he's willing to fight him for it, and gives Seth a shove. I think that Seth should've at least gotten a punch in, especially after seeing Ryan fold like a little bitch in the cage fight. Seth doesn't and is sent on his merry, non-confrontational way.

Earlier in the night, Kaitlin is on the pier smoking a jay while the twins are doing her homework. It's hysterical, for realz. You know why, because it's not done in a "look at her, she's a bad girl" kind of way. Like when Valerie moved into the Walsh household, sparked up her blunt after acting all goody goody with Cindy and Jim and then called the 90210 gang a bunch of avocado heads. This was just a bunch of kids hanging out doing what kids do. I love it. While she's complaining about the weak ganja the boys scored for her, she spots her step daddy on the town with the ex-step monster. Ruh Roh.

That night at the ranch, Dr. Roberts finds Julie trapped under an entertainment center she was trying to move, but didn't realize was a built-in unit. Oh Julie! Kaitlin takes this opportunity to question Dr. Roberts about his whereabouts earlier, and he relies on the old Plastic Surgeon standby: Emergency Surgery.

This issue is resolved when Kaitlin lays her information on Dr. Roberts out bare, requesting the expensive boots we see her putting on earlier in the episode be purchased for her in exchange for her silence. If Julie wasn't in a drug-induced walking coma, she'd be so proud!

The next day, Sandy and Kirsten press Seth for information on Ryan, but he cagily gives them only half-truths, like explaining Ryan's bruises as a series of shaving accidents. He tells them that Ryan might need a little more time to get out of his cage and into their car. Ooh Ooh Yeah Yeah. I love Billy Ocean.

After Seth saw Ryan the previous night, he called and left another message for Summer telling her about the dire state of things at home, interrupting Summer's jam session (she played the, umm, wood blocks, while Che was on the massive Hookah) with her new friends. She immediately flies home and the next day is waiting for Seth when he gets to the comic shop. This is followed by a painfully awkward hello. I guess it's hard for them to get back into the rhythm of their relationship so abruptly, especially with everything going on. This, for once, doesn't seem like a machination by the writers to split these two up (and by machination, I mean Anna. Or Zach.). It seems that this is the first Seth is seeing of Summer 2.0, the Environemntaltron, as she is going on and on about the expensive leather boots in the window (the ones that Dr. Roberts hushes Kaitlin up with - nice touch) that could feed thousands of Angelina Jolie's kids and yelling at Seth for not recycling. Summer had an entire flight back to Newport to concoct a plan, which hopefully doesn't involve painting a room with a Paris setting. Phase one is Summer's responsibility: Get Ryan to the comic shop. Seth suggests that before they take on this project, Summer go home and get settled, but it's obvious that home is the last place Summer wants to be.

Posted by Umnata on November 6, 2006 11:00 AM