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By Sara M | Season 9 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.30.2005
Martin enters Ruthie's bedroom, where she's busily applying layers and layers of lip gloss. She snots to Martin that if he's coming to her for advice, hers is to not have any more sleepover parties. Martin shoots her smugness right down by saying that Vincent doesn't want to date Ruthie; he just thinks that, and I can't believe we're going into this AGAIN, his parents got RevCam to get Ruthie to get Martin to ask Vincent to ask Ruthie out so he could talk to RevCam about some problem. Ruthie tries to go figure out what's going on, but Martin has one more thing to say: he's going to tell the CamRents about Zoe. "Why?!" Ruthie says, panicking. Martin says he's sick of being blackmailed by every Evil Single Woman in his life. Ruthie says she wasn't even blackmailing him, but Martin disagrees. Ruthie says the CamRents already know about Zoe anyway, based on the obvious questions RevCam was asking her earlier. And Ruthie didn't tell him anything, so that means that if Martin tells RevCam about Zoe, Ruthie will get in trouble for not telling RevCam about it when he asked her, and then she won't get to date Vincent, who doesn't even want to date her anyway. Martin says that isn't his problem.
Annie slides into the nursery and is pleased to find Kevin asleep, leaving Savannah unattended. Now Annie can steal her! Actually, she just throws covers over everyone. I guess the "Annie kidnaps Savannah and makes a break for Mexico" storyline will happen later in the season. It will happen, though.
Meanwhile, SamVid are in their room opening all of the baby's presents. As what usually happens when they're left unattended, they have made a huge mess. Annie walks in and asks them what they're doing. They claim they were "helping" Kevin and Lucy, much like they "helped" whichever school custodian got stuck cleaning up their ice cream sandwich puddles. Annie says that this is bad because now Kevin and Lucy won't know who to write thank-you notes to. SamVid say that they actually put the cards with the gift and wrote their own thank you notes. I guess the concept of not writing someone else's thank-you notes for them isn't part of that moral compass. SamVid say they want Lucy and Kevin and Savannah to live with them "forever." Happy barks in protest. "Me too," says Annie.
Martin and Ruthie are fighting on their way down the stairs over who gets to talk to RevCam first. There is a knock at the door, and Martin decides to lift Ruthie up and carry her over his shoulder. Because Mackenzie Rosman is that good of an actor, she makes no sounds of protest or any attempts to escape, like you would actually do if you were picked up against your will. Maybe it's because she's in too much pain from the high heels the costume department is making her wear. I don't know ANY people her age who wore freaking HIGH HEELS with their everyday wardrobe. Martin and Ruthie's ass greet the couple at the door. Martin drops Ruthie so that he's carrying her across his chest and says that if they're there to see Savannah, she's sleeping. The couple introduce themselves as Vincent's parents and thank the Camdens for very cleverly getting Vincent to the CamPound by bribing him with a girlfriend. "Put me down!" Ruthie says to Martin. He does. I still don't understand why he was carrying her in the first place. The parents walk in and pronounce Ruthie "adorable." Just then, Vincent and RevCam emerge from the RevOffice. Ruthie demands to talk to RevCam. Martin demands to talk to RevCam. Vincent demands that his parents talk to RevCam.