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By Sara M | Season 9 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.30.2005
When RevCam hangs up on Vincent, Ruthie runs over, asking if Vincent wanted to speak to her. Seeing as RevCam never actually offered the phone to Ruthie, I'd say no. RevCam says that Vincent is coming over to talk to him. Ruthie says Vincent must be asking for RevCam's permission to ask Ruthie out, because fourteen-year-old boys are just that chivalrous. Maybe Vincent watches Masterpiece Theatre too. RevCam says he doesn't know if he'll let Ruthie date anyone yet. He will, apparently, let them go on vacations with her and have sleepover parties, however. Oh, that's right: I'm supposed to pretend that Peter never existed. It's so hard to get those thrilling Paris storylines out of my head.
RevCam answers the door. It's Zoe, and she's looking for Martin. RevCam says he isn't back from baseball practice yet. Zoe asks if she can wait for Martin in his apartment. "You can wait in the living room, if you like," RevCam tells her. "Okay, I'll wait in the living room," Zoe answers. I wonder if it would take me more or less time to write my recaps if, instead of writing new material, I just repeated everything I said over and over again. Something I am wondering about is if time would be saved writing my recaps with the same phrase, repeated in similar words, over and over again. Query: would my television show summaries be done in a shorter amount of time if I said something, and then spit it back over and over again, but with slightly different wording?
Zoe sluts on over to the living room. RevCam tries to close the front door behind her, but two horrible women force their way inside with presents and demands to see the baby. One of them is from last week's episode -- the shower guest who wasn't Aunt Julie, or elderly, or twelve, or looked like Joy Behar. That woman. Anyway, she just can't get enough baby-gift-giving. RevCam lets the women inside and says he'll just go see if it's a good time for them to visit the baby.
RevCam dashes upstairs as fast as his crap heart will carry him. He slows as he nears Kevin and Lucy's room, because their door is closed and that means that he can spy on them. He listens as Kevin and Lucy fight about whether or not they should let people see the baby and move out of the CamPound or something. Whatever it is, I'm sure Lucy is wrong. When the yelling stops, RevCam loses interest and heads back downstairs, where there is now a small crowd of nosy neighbors gathered, their arms filled with baby gifts. Is the Promenade closed today or something? Surely there must be something better for these people to do. RevCam apologizes to the group, but they can't see the baby right now because she's asleep. "I don't know how," Glorified Extra says to her friend. Huh? Could they hear Kevin and Lucy fighting all the way down there? Or maybe they were also upstairs listening outside the door, but they were too far behind RevCam for us to see them in the shot. It seems like something these people would do, obviously having nothing better to do. Suddenly and without the warning of, say, a knock, Vincent enters. He sees the crowd and asks RevCam if he should "get in line." On this non-suspenseful note, we go to a commercial.