Episode Report Card Cate: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ay Carumba
By Cate | Season 6 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.18.2001
Lucy runs after Robbie to ask him where his "friend" is. Robbie's not sure whether she means Joy or Mary. Once again, I'm genuinely amazed that his limited brain capacity even allows him to breathe properly. Lucy is inordinately gratified to hear that he considers her a friend, though she's not so pleased at his cheerful request for outfit suggestions to wear when telling Joy's parents that he plans to marry their daughter. Mary chooses this moment to walk out of the house. She's sporting some way-ugly sparkly pink jeans, along with a tank top and a jean jacket. Hey, it's almost identical to Joy's outfit! She walks by Robbie, but he doesn't even notice what she's wearing. Ha! She made an idiot of herself for nothing! Lucy notices, though. She takes a running leap at Mary, knocking her to the ground, while I start cheering her on. It's a little like the time we took my brother-in-law to Medieval Times for a birthday dinner. We were feeling particularly immature, so when the jousting came on, I amused myself by trying to freak out the people around us, shouting things like, "Yeah, all right, kill him! KILL HIM!" Except this time I'm serious. I'm a little disappointed when a commercial break prevents us from seeing their fight, but I'm comforted by the fact that their fight surely would have sucked anyway. At least this way I can imagine that Lucy's busy pushing Mary's face into the mud. Repeatedly.
When Lucy goes back to the Treehouse, her hair is totally disheveled. Oddly enough, it looks better than her usual ghastly hairdon'ts. Her siblings have voted her out of the Treehouse. I see Annie's shitty parenting skills have set the example for the kids that it's all right to boot each other out of the garage. Annie's also made Lucy feel so powerless that the girl feels compelled to give in to this psychotic Survivor plan and leave the Treehouse. But, as the show suggests, these are good things, amusing things.
Lucy carries her laundry basket full of belongings into the CamKitchen, where RevCam is rooting around in the cupboards for aspirin. Too late -- I probably finished off the bottle after last week's episode. She tells Eric that she is ready to apologize. What for? "For questioning my mother's wisdom, for being so selfish, and for not being nicer to Mary," she says. She lets RevCam know that these are lies, though. He starts to lecture her, but she cuts him off by asking, "Do you ever apologize to Mom when you know you're right and she's wrong?" Since he does that on an hourly basis, I guess he feels he doesn't have any right to stop Lucy from doing the same.