Episode Report Card Sara M: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Le joke est morte; vive le joke
By Sara M | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.05.1998
RevCam continues to royally screw up when he tells her that another person in the house is not a huge inconvenience. Now Annie's laughing at how RevCam won't be inconvenienced, because he isn't the person who has to cook and clean. Unfortunately, she chooses to say these lines while jumping up and down strangely, and so I laugh at her instead of feeling sympathy. At her, not with her. RevCam is still on his no-inconvenience kick, saying that a teenage boy is low maintenance. Rev, your oldest son has Keith Partridge hair that must take a year to style in the only bathroom in the house. What are you talking about? Annie responds that teenage boys eat a lot. Don't worry, Annie, this kid is French, so he only eats frog legs. Just buy some of those, he'll be fine. They taste just like chicken. Then Annie tries to claim that she'll have too much laundry to do with this new kid, to which I have to point out that French people only wear stylish dry-clean-only clothes, so again, not a problem. Annie's still going on her Complaintrain, however, and points out that there is no space for the new kid. RevCam tries to tell her that Simon and Ruthie miss being in the same room together, because he's all about the co-ed sleeping arrangements today. Annie is disappointed in RevCam, because it's not like him to spring this kind of thing on her. Um, no, Annie, it is exactly like him, as you'll see in season five. After putting on her Clownface of Pouting for a while, Annie asks when the French kid is coming. Way to take a stand, Annie. RevCam says soon. Annie asks how soon, and ever so comically, the doorbell rings. RevCam leaves the room to answer it, and we are left with a shot of Annie making a weird face.
RevCam answers the door to a young guy wearing a leather jacket, 'cause, you know, all French people wear leather. Really, they do. There's also an old guy. I'm wondering if they are both the Frenchie, and the old guy is the forty-year-old Matt was nattering on about and the young guy is the single boy Mary and Lucy were fantasizing about. RevCam lamely welcomes them by saying, "Entrez!" except that it sounds Italian the way he says it. I can be all high and mighty about the accent because I took French for a year. RevCam then addresses Old Guy as "Martin," meaning that he can't be the Frenchie because he doesn't have the Authentic French Name. Martin introduces the young guy, "Guillaume," to the Rev and Annie, who has by now apparently gotten over her deal and entered the room smiling like a good little housewife should. Martin has an accent that I guess is supposed to be French, but absolutely isn't, and sounds like a weird Italian/Transylvanian accent hybrid. Guillaume is all about the charming, and his accent is thankfully more French-sounding. He wants them to call him "Gee." That's stupid. He gives Annie some chocolates, or, as he calls them, "des chocolates." Oh, I see. It's going to be one of those things where he says like two words in French so you know he's legit and then says everything else in English, except that the two French words will be words that everyone knows. Annie's trying to be French by saying "Merci!" and "Oui!" but she isn't fooling anyone.