Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Pregnant cause
By Daniel | Season 9 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.03.2004
And the phone rings, and it's RevCam saying he's not going to be able to make it back to the office, and he is just handing off the responsibility of interviewing prospective adopters to her (and yet he was quite disdainful of Leanne hiring some guy she "found on the internet"). Lucy explains that she's already met with one couple, and starts to bitch about them, but RevCam cuts her off by saying that if Lucy didn't think they were right, he trusts her. Whatever RevCam is on, I want some. He fills Lucy in on Leanne changing her mind, but he thinks they should still interview couples, since Lucy's change of heart might just be because of the stress of the delivery. RevCam doesn't say exactly why he can't make it back to the office, but we can assume it has to do with some emergency meddling he's got to do.
If Ruthie's stupid bird plot isn't already sad and annoying and useless enough, we have to add SamVid encouraging Ruthie to feed the stupid bird cereal because "it's delicious and nutritious" and Ruthie says the bird isn't eating as many worms as it was before, and SamVid says the bird looks different from when Ruthie first brought him in, even though they weren't there, and for crying out loud, Ruthie's had this stupid bird for about 20 minutes but that's long enough to notice a change in eating habits and appearance, noticeable enough for even SamVid to point it out. I'm really buying this. And Simon strolls in and says, "How's the bird?" as if Ruthie has been looking after this bird for anything longer than half an hour, and then he is saying goodbye because he's going to be leaving for college, and the twins can barely muster a goodbye but Ruthie gets all pissed off because she thinks Simon is kicking her "to the curb," like you have ever heard anyone use that expression outside of The Jenny Jones Show. And she gives one her patented Ruthie Wisdom lectures about Simon needing to be part of the family or some damn thing, like he's just GOING BACK TO COLLEGE, for Jesus' sake. And if this is the way she speaks to her brother who is just going off to college, it's no wonder Harry is scared to break up with her in person.
Lucy's meeting with the second couple, and she thankfully identifies herself this time. And what follows is one of the more aggravating scenes I've witnessed yet on this show, with the restaurant-owning couple talking a lot about how busy they are but they have a great nanny lined up, and it's not that they can't have their own baby, assures the husband in a truly sleazy manner, but just that this is easier and won't require the mother to be laid up in hospital, and the husband throws in that his wife "doesn't have to lose her figure," and the way the potential adopters are being portrayed on this show is really really really aggravating, since the majority of adoptive couples do so out of their own heartbreaking inability to have their own children or out of a genuine desire to provide a home to a child who doesn't have parents of their own, so I don't want to spend any more time on this insulting plotline than is absolutely necessary.