Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT I Say Quakerism, You Say Aneurysm
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 8 | Aired on 07.23.2005
The OB enters the room for the exam. As Brenda lies to the doctor about Nate not being able to get away from work, the doctor squirts the sonic goo on Brenda's belly and begins the scan. She hears a strong heartbeat and says that everything looks to be developing normally, although she still wants Brenda to have an amniocentesis. Brenda's still refusing, because we have to stretch out the suspense as long as possible. "Do you want to know the baby's sex?" the OB asks. Oh, come on, doctor, don't you realize by now that Brenda wants to be surprised? By everything? You're lucky she let you tell her there's a human being in there and not an opossum or a carburetor or something.
Looks like Durrell and Anthony finally get to meet some other characters. I was wondering if this storyline was ever going to intersect with any of the others. School's out today, and David and Keith didn't apparently didn't know about it until it was too late to take the day off themselves, so they're getting Ruth set up for a day of babysitting at their place (presumably because God knows what sort of nightmare shit Durrell could get into at the funeral home) and the two foster dads are being total stressballs with all the contact numbers and instructions and so forth. Ruth assures them that everything will be fine. David says the kids are allowed one hour of TV, one hour of PlayStation (so he did buy them a new one, the pushover), and they can take their soccer ball out to the courtyard as long as they don't bounce it against the building. Ruth shoos the dads off. David hugs Anthony, then Durrell. Keith hugs Anthony, then claps Durrell on the shoulder. Durrell doesn't fail to notice the slight, although he doesn't say anything. The two dads leave, having forgotten to give Ruth the most important piece of information she should have, which is that Durrell is kind of an asshole. "You look like a witch," Durrell tells Ruth. Okay, now she's up to speed. Are we actually supposed to believe that this is the first time Ruth has met her new foster grandchildren in the months they've been around? And forget David's lame excuse about trying to get the kids on a "regular schedule." My kid spent his first couple of weeks of life hooked up to machines in a hospital where he wasn't allowed to have more than four other people in the room, and my mom met him within twenty-four hours. But then, unlike Ruth, my mom isn't a total flake.