SPOILER Burton and Ernie

[pattycake]

Please stop reading if you don't wanna know more about this ep. I hate to ruin your anticipation.....






okay. well, let me say, that i am writing this based on my first impression of watching burton and ernie so my opinions might change after i re-watch this ep which (based upon the t.o. start tv guide!!!)wasn't originally on scheduled to air tonight in the toronto area. so imagine to my pleasant suprise and excitement when i was flipping through stations and i saw Alvin's back!!!!

i will stop here...coz i don't wanna ruin this ep for anyone.

but just to let you guys know, um, we get to see the man in civies!!!! CIVIES and an apron!!! AN APRON!! i nearly fell off the bed laughing when i saw him

the dinner party altough brief was very cute....James was teasing the poor guy about being whipped(sp?)

so before everyone on this board totally hates be for all of this i will shut up right now...

enjoy tonight's ep everyone!!!

pattycake

[frickbldglawyer]

:)just a little more......please!!!!!!
where's the dinner party? Lulu's house? Is Nick actually cooking? who's there besides James? I can't stand the wait.......

[juliana106]

Oh, more please!!!! ;D

Just the thought... Nick + apron = beautiful sight...

[jevees]

I´ll really apreciate a photo of him with the apron... please! I just don´t know when i´ll be able to see the episode... D
Thanks.... I´m expecting a lot Gin´s posts tonight!

[pattycake]

hi everyone.

i'm not sure if anyone else has posted this ep on the other boards(they probably have!) so in case i'm missing some details, um, you can just compare those with what i'm about to write. I'm gonna be jumping all over the place so please bear with me.

the show starts with alvin getting ready to leave LSP office until he hears noises, (lulu moaning LOL!) comming from the conference room. He slowly walks over, barges in turning on the lights. You don't see Lulu or Nick but you do hear their voices, so for those who were offended by last week's ep, rest assured there is none of that in this ep! (hmmm, don't know if that good or bad for me exactly...HEHEHE! )

You hear Nick saying "Hi Alvin!" to which a flabbergasted Alvin walks quickly to the elevator aplogizing and telling them it's no problem just to turn on the alarm before they leave! Eventually, Alvin is gone. Nick pops his head out the door smiling, then you see Lulu pulling down her skirt asking him if Alvin's gone and can't believe she let him talk into doing what they just did!

The next day, Burt is looking over Shannon book report and is concerned about her spelling and syntaxa and decided to enroll her in a private school. Shannon is obviously concerned. She doesn't want to to go.

Jake has a cute story line this week. He forces an old couple to sell their cabin claiming that its a liability to them so that he can buy it. He invites Nick to fix it up over the weekend by the reception office. Nick who is, as we all know, always busy says he can't. Gretchen the secretary overhears the conversation saying that the place he bought the cabin is where her dad used to take her fishing when she was a kid. Jake suprised suddenly gets the idea of asking her up to the cottage and Gretchen agrees saying that she could bring the fising gear along with her and teach Jake!

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Aunt Liz, Jeremy, Shannon, and Burt are having a nice dinner at her house Burt and Liz are talking when Shannon comes down the stairs and asks the two adults to come up 'coz Jeremy has a suprise for them. They find Jeremy hanging from the ceiling in his room. Everyone except Burton is concerned and tries to untie Jeremy from the rope. They end up in the hospital where Aunt Liz says, that that wasn't the first time Jeremy tried to kill himself. The doctor attending to Jeremy asks Liz if they can talk privately and before she goes, Burton advises Liz not to tell the doctor that Jeremy tried to kill himself before. After Liz leaves. Burton asks Shannon if she's okay. Irritated, Shannon says that what Jeremy tried to do was just a joke.

Eventually, Jeremy is release by the doctors and invites everyone to pizza at their place. Liz suggests that Nick come as well.




The next day, Lulu and Nick have a meeting with Alvin who is acting a bit passive agressive about this whole situation claiming that he understands and that next time they do decide to do it in the conference room they should lock the door. Lulu insists that it will never happen again but Alvin keeps on pressing the situation even offering the key to the conference room that is attached to some kind of blue wood block thingy....(sorry i suck at detailed description). Lulu clearly embarassed just takes the key, Nick this whole time is quiet. They leave Alvin's office just as James walks by with a silly grin on his face and asks that if he could use the conference room. Nick and James look at each other and chuckle. Just then Lori walks towards Lulu and says that its great what they have, and that love is great thing. Lulu finally has enough and asks Nick to her office. She tells him to leave the door open and proceeds to tell him that he should send her flowers to the office, take her on a date and they should have a dinner party for everyone coz she just had to endure getting a sex key from Alvin.

Next we see Jeremy thanking Shannon, Nick, Burton, and Liz for comming to dinner and now that his obligation is over that he is heading up to his room to look over his maps. Jeremy then says bye to everyone, calling Burton and Nick "burt and ernie". Shannon who somewhat concerned is told by Liz that she can follow Jeremy upstairs. Shannon goes and leaves the adults to talk. Eventually. Nick clearly bored goes to leave and Burton follows heading upstairs to get Shannon. As he opens Jeremy's door he hears Shannon screaming to stop and kicks open the door that reveals Jeremy and Shannon on the floor with Jeremy's hand up her skirt. Burton pulls them away and calls the police much to Liz's horror who has followed him upstairs.

At the police station, Lori and Burton listen to Shannon. Burton wants Shannon to talk to the police. Lori and burton step out just as Liz comes over and begs Burton not to let Shannon press charges against Jeremy

Jeremy is place in the mental hospital for observation for 24? hours.

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Next day we see Shannon and Burt again having breakfast. Shannon has made breakfast, Burton is touched and she has a change of heart and decided it might be a good idea for her to go private school as Burton suggested. Burton says okay and says that maybe it might be too soon and decides that maybe they should spend the day together and talk to Lori as well.

Later that night, we see Nick and Lulu in the middle of a poetry reading--date. Nick is like a fish out of water, sticking out like sore thumb! Mercifully, his cell phone rings. He says he has to go because of a family emergency. The scene cuts to Nick rushing out of his car to Liz's garage where Jeremy has locked himself in the car to kill himself. Frantically he takes the spare key to open the car, wrestles Jeremy to the back while Liz drives them to the hospital.

Nick and Jeremy are at the mental hospital are having small talk. Jeremy tells Nick that sometimes he can fill himself slipping away and that the scariest part is when he's fine and he starts sensing that he's about to go off. He then starts blabbing NIck starts to leave and Jeremy calls him Ernie and Bert and Ernie were closetted homosexuals. Nick turns to leave when Jeremy asks him to stay. Nick stays awhile to keep him company.

The next day, Burton and Shannon are in Burton's office. Burton keeps on looking over at Shannon. Shannon notices and blurts out that she's fine. They talk some more until Liz shows up telling Burton to make Shannon drop the charges so that Jeremy could go home. Liz is clearly distraught and upset and says pretty nasty things about Shannon. Even suggesting that she might be making things up because of who raised her and how she was raised.

After things cool down, Shannon goes over to Nick's office asking him about calculus and asks him to answer her academic evaluation for her. She also asks him if her mom and he dated to which Nick replies that he barely knew her.

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James goes to Gretchen about couch upholstering. Gretchen senses that James wants more out of their weekend that she originally though and changes her mind about spending time with him. She forgot that she had to do something with for her mom.

Eventually Shannon leaves his office and leaves a note with Gretchen who isn't really paying attention to her because of her conversation with Jake

We see Jake up at his cabin arriving late at night without Gretchen. He looks around his new cabin and ends up on a couch all alone in the dark...

Burton eventually gets Shannon's note and rushes off to a ladies house where Shannon is. The lady won;t let Burton see Shannon but he eventually gets in the apartment and gets Shannon. When they get home Burton pops his head into her room to say goodnight when he notices that she's packing. She says that she can handle not being in the house not being with him. She hate how Nick looks down on her and how the the new school make her feels stupid. She just want things to be the way they were.

She's about to leave when Burton pleads for her to stay and she does.

The following day Liz, NIck, and Burton are at F&F discussing Jeremy's case. Liz says she shoud;ve seen this comming because her family has a history of mental health. Her great great aunt threw herself off a building, and Nick's mom had terrible mood swings. Burton hears this and starts to end the conversation saying that they have to go and on their way out tells Nick not to listen to "all this mental health crap"

Jeremy is eventually sentenced. He is clearly upset as he is about to be taken away, he comes to the conclusion that his mom hired everyone. He then begins to tell Nick that he is loosing his hair and and asks how long he want to keep on kissing his father's ass. He pulls out a pen and starts running. Security eventually comes to secure him while yelling at NIck.

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Finally, Lulu and Nick are at her house preparing for the dinner party. Lulu is trying to fix the seating arrangement. Lulu keeps on yelling at Nick at the other room about seating arrangement. Nick is no where in the scene at this point but you do hear his exasperrated voice saying "Oh who cares!!" *LOL* Finally, he shows up with grey top and grey pants holding a cheeze appetizer complaining about its smell that's why he kept the plastic on. Lulu says its okay that its suppose to smell that bad. She then asks him to get a blue platter from the top of a shelf. Nick says that's nice. Lulu then notices something on his shirt, Nick doesn't see anything (kinda like the imaginary food on his mouth LOL!) She runs to the kitchen and comes back with an apron. Nick refuses to wear it at first claiming he knows what she;s trying to do. Lulu pretends she doesn't know what he's talking about. She makes him wear it noting that he looks sexy in it. Just then the doorbell rings Lulu asks Nick to open the door and he slightly complains saying that it's her house. She says that its okay, he could do it. Nick opens the door apron et al to Alvin, Lori carrying a bottle of wine and James holding flowers(i think). It's a funny scene because Lori just gives him a look and james noting that he's wearing pretty apron.

Just as he closes the door, the door bell rings again to reveal Jake this time with a suit but with the same groceries he took with him to the cabin. he begs nick to let him in and nick does.

the dinner party comes to an end. Alvin is the first to say goodbye claiming that he doesn't want to bore everyone with his politics. Lori asks for the recipe for the food that they just had and Jake thanks Nick and Lulu for accomodating him. Just as everyone leaves James shakes Nick's hand to say bye when james whispers to him "whipped, whipped, whipped!" As Lulu closes the door and asks what James just said. Nick makes an excuse and says someting else and says that he should clean up.

Lulu stops him and asks him coyly that since he can handle downstairs that "you think you can handle upstairs?". Nick assures her that he can and proceed to go up the stairs. As the closing credits appear. you still hear Nick and lulu still talking. NIck asks Lulu if she wants him to bring the apron as well. They laugh

the end..

i hope you enjoyed this. i might be missing a few things.

pat

[Rosiiii1]

OMG..OMG..OMG... thanks so much for this Pattycake! ;D

This ep sounds so great. Nick in casual clothes...and an apron -- hee-hee, he IS whipped...I called it too...see my fanfic entitled "Whipped," from a week or so ago.

One question, that's bugging me -- does Jeremy tell Nick that Nick is losing his hair, or is he referring to himself? I bet Simon Baker didn't like that line. Aahahaha!! That's revenge for the Brian "propecia" joke, in Sacrifice. :biglaugh:

[jevees]

Thanks so much.. pattycake... great job, really I apreciate a lot.... ;D
I love this board, love this show and definately i love Simon Baker!!
LuLu and Nick reading poetry ... my god poor man!
Rosii is right what the hell Jeremy meant with the hair thing?? He didn´t look like ill last season... don´t you all think so?
I feel bad because i thought that Shannon was the one who was lying..... maybe she´ll be good for Burton... and another thing... is really Nick looking her bad as she said??

[pattycake]

i;m glad people are enjoying the spoilers. i had a lot of fun writing it! after writing it, i was suprised just how much i retained. i wish though school was this easy to remember! *sigh*

...but then that would involve my profs would be required to look like NIck Fallin

Regarding Jeremy's reference to "loosing his hair". He was referring to Nick. At this point, it's safe to say that Jeremy's suffering from early stages of schizoprhenia so things that he refers to like "Bert and Ernie" being closetted homosexuals and Nick's receding hairline is the schizophrenia talking. It's really sad to see someone going through that. It was tough to see.

However the young actor who plays Jeremy is quite mature for his age. He was very impressive!

pattycake

[Jennifer]

pattycake, thanks so much for the wonderful spoilers. :)I appreciate it. Can't wait to watch this episode this evening. Nick in an apron, helping LuLu entertain guests is just sexy. Woo Hoo! I hope in the next episode, we see them where they left off. In bed.