Episode Report Card Cate: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Ring
By Cate | Season 6 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.21.2002
Back at the CamPound, Simon and Robbie try to lure Dopey out with the enticing prospect of taking the twins to the movies. Ugh. Personally, I'd rather clean the grunge out from underneath our fridge. In fact, I'd rather do almost anything else -- except maybe go for premarital counseling with RevCam, which is what Dopey's got in store today. Robbie questions why Dopey is so calm about the prospect of getting married. I don't know, maybe it's because he already is married? But I guess Robbie and Simon don't know that. Robbie makes some offensive comment about how most of the married guys he knows would rather go into the Witness Relocation Program than be married. Maybe he's just projecting, though, since he has secret doubts about the prospect of spending the rest of his life with International Pop Sensation Joy Enriquez. Who wouldn't? But that's what you get when you make the mistake of deciding to base a lifelong relationship on how someone looks in shiny, tight, pink pants.
Down in the CamKitchen, we get the obligatory three-second shot of Annie spending quality time with the twins before she gets up to answer the phone. It's RevCam, calling because he's nervous about the upcoming premarital counseling session with Dopey and Plot Contrivance. Annie uses this opportunity to rake him over the coals for not being supportive enough toward Dopey's marriage plans. You can see that this lecture is having very little effect on him -- until Annie's final, chilling words: "If you don't go easy on them, I'm going to go hard on you." As she hangs up on his ass (without even saying goodbye, of course), Eric looks scared.
Ruthie comes into the CamKitchen to announce that she is "bored." Well, then -- obviously she's been watching the same show that I have. SuperMom's suggestions aren't exactly the ticket to banish boredom. Ruthie vetoes the proposition of attending a movie with the twins, and she's not overly thrilled by the idea of joining SuperMom and Plot Contrivance on a field trip to see the proposed reception hall for the wedding. Ruthie is surprised that anyone's looking at reception halls, though, since she'd thought Dopey and PC were planning on a small reception in the Glasses' backyard. Hey, do you think this could be some foreshadowing of how Dopey and his bride will have a bunch of misunderstandings later in this episode? Finally, a storyline we can all care about passionately.
When Lucy returns to the baggage claim area, Mary explains that they will not be staying with the Colonel; instead, they will be staying in Wilson's old apartment. Lucy's next comment mirrors my thoughts exactly when she says, "Fine, whatever." She goes to look for her carryon bag that Mary was supposed to be guarding, but it's gone. Mary does little to endear herself to anyone when she whines that she had to make a phone call and that's why she didn't watch her sister's bag.