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C-ko: Extra! Extra! Extra!
C-ko: Step right up, step right up! Fresh tires for sale!
C-ko: Today, tire shop's sale!
C-ko: I'll take one.
C-ko: But mister, what is a tire shop?
C-ko: How good of you to ask, ma'am!
C-ko: Fish shops...
C-ko: ...sell fish.
C-ko: Bread shops...
C-ko: ...sell bread.
C-ko: And we're a tire shop, so we sell tires.
C-ko: Telling good tires from bad ones takes quite a bit of experience.
C-ko: You can't easily tell if it tastes good or bad just by looking.
C-ko: Well, please give me one of those tires.
C-ko: Thank you!
C-ko: Have your husband eat something invigorating!
C-ko: Oh, come on... tire-shop owner...
C-ko: Now, how will I cook this tire up for dinner, I wonder?
Utena: Is that edible?
This play is basically just a parody on the conversation between Wakaba and Tetsuya at the
end of the episode, as well as about Tetsuya's situation in general. If this episode is
about anything, it's about assumptions.
One thing that marks Utena is how at the beginning of every episode, it's already
quite apparent who is going to duel Utena. This theatrical predictability is one of the
charms of the show. At the beginning of this episode, the viewer assumes that Tatsuya will
be the next one to duel. However, this episode turns those assumptions upside-down when
Mikage tells Tatsuya that "the path before you has not been prepared."
This episode stands out in the Black Rose Arc as being the only one in which someone goes
into the Mikage elevator and doesn't end up in a duel. The reason being that Tetsuya's pain
over Wakaba isn't funneled into negativity directed at anybody; he's merely hurt.
Tetsuya is probably the only "good" person in the entire show, the only person who isn't
in some coffin or another.
All through the episode, you get the feeling that Wakaba has a crush on Tetsuya, and it's
not until the end of the episode that you find out her "prince" is Saionji - she was
never talking about Tetsuya in the first place (which was a bit of a letdown for poor
Tetsuya).
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