Episode Report Card Sara M: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Father, Why Bother?
By Sara M | Season 9 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.17.2004
RevCam runs into the CamDen from his office, where the twins are running around "playfully" and Happy is barking at them, because Happy is a better mother than Annie. It turns out SamVid are wired from eating an entire bag of cookies. Annie comes down and asks RevCam why he's still in his pajamas, as if this is any kind of big deal at all. RevCam says he was playing with his sons, but now he has Charlie in his office. SamVid say that they knew RevCam had to work after all, and that he can't wear pajamas. RevCam says he can too wear his pajamas, and he will play with his sons instead of work, and Annie leaves for the rest of the episode.
RevCam runs back in his office and asks Charlie if Leanne knows he's there. Charlie says she doesn't, and it's too hard to be a parent. For instance, he hasn't slept in two weeks, and neither has his girlfriend, nor his parents. Oh my god, what a bunch of dumbasses. Have they never heard of baby monitors? Or taking turns to check on the baby when it wakes up at night? I mean, I'm no parenting expert, but this seems much more logical than having the entire family crowd around the baby's crib and stare at it all night in case it cries. More space-efficient, too. Charlie says that RevCam "has no idea what it's like," and while I'm all for people telling RevCam that he has no concept of anything in the world, I think having babies is the one area where RevCam has a considerable amount of expertise. Charlie insists that RevCam talk to Leanne and his parents for him. After all, he says, RevCam got him into being a parent, so RevCam can get him out of it. Charlie claims to have only spent "ten, maybe twelve" hours with Leanne, and now he has to take care of a needy baby for the rest of his life. RevCam tells him that it gets easier, then remembers that it really doesn't when SamVid are your children, and runs out to check on them.
The CamDen is a mess. SamVid return from taking Happy out in the yard. It turns out that they fed Happy an entire bag of cookies, and at first she did "tricks" for them (are these cookies made of crack? What the hell?), but then she got sick. They're lucky she didn't DIE, since chocolate is POISON to dogs. Although I'm not ruling out that they tried to kill Happy on purpose. And it would have worked, too, if Happy's digestive system wasn't so hardened from all of Ruthie's murder attempts. Charlie checks out the scene and asks RevCam when things get easier. Every Monday around 8:59 PM.