Episode Report Card Sara M: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Another Episode About Dead Soldiers
By Sara M | Season 9 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.24.2004
Kevin asks someone on the phone for Martha's phone number, but whoever he was talking to doesn't have it. Lucy asks if Kevin can hurry up and find Martin, because she's having a hard time falling asleep with all this noise. Bitch. Kevin calls some guy named "Phil," who answers the phone all annoyed because his baby is sleeping. But he might have Martha's phone number.
An awkward silence has fallen over Martha's living room, so the phone rings. It's Kevin, and he needs to talk to Martin. "Sounds like urgent police business!" says Martha. You know, I cut her a break and remained silent when she was asking Martin what rookies are called these days because I loved The Goonies, but I'm sorry. What a loser Martha is. Both as a character on this show and in real life, because leaving a Broadway show to appear on this crapfest is damn stupid. On the phone, Kevin is warning Martin that there "better be nothing going on," and orders him to return to the CamPound. Martin tells Martha he has to go, and Martha asks if she can see him "tomorrow night." He says he isn't sure, and she asks if it's because he's working some "special case." Martin tries to leave again, but Martha demands a good night kiss. "Uh...no," says Martin. "I love a man with a sense of honor!" says Martha, who apparently needs to be hit over the head with a baseball bat that says "he's a hormone-crazed teenage boy, and he still doesn't want you" before she'll actually get it.
Martin sneaks into the CamPound, where RevCam and Annie are, naturally, waiting for him at the kitchen table. I've never noticed this before, but why do the CamRents have a lit china cabinet, and why is it currently lit, and why is it displaying what appears to be a Fiestaware cookie jar? It's still a better décor decision than that phonograph we'll see later on, though. Martin apologizes both for not calling and for coming home late, and Annie and RevCam ask what happened with Martha, explaining that they heard all about her from Kevin. "Did Kevin tell you this whole thing is his fault?" says Martin, because when you shift the blame, you can sometimes get away with things, right? Martin also says that he doesn't have a curfew, and he and Martha just talked. Annie says she thinks it's a sign of "trouble." Yes; first you assist the elderly, then you drink half a light beer, and then it's off to Buffalo for you! Martin snaps that he needs to get some sleep for school, and takes off. The CamRents sip their coffee sadly. The clarinets play, and my roommate walks through the living room and says, "Oh! It's the Fanfare of Parental Despair!"