Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT It's Not Always About You
By Cate | Season 7 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.26.2003
It looks like the T-1000 won't even have to manipulate Lucy into realizing the importance of jury duty. Knowing that Jimmy Redwood is about to stand trial is enough to do that. As she tells Ms. Beane, seeing someone she knew on trial made her understand how important it is for everyone to do her part. Blah, blah. I really hope there's no one out there who's stupid enough to have learned a "valuable lesson" from this dumb show. Lucy's offer to be part of another jury really doesn't endear her to Ms. Beane, who obviously just wants Lucy to go the hell away.
Annie and Eric are in Mr. Gibson's office, getting ready to emote. RevCam says he resents Annie's lack of support for his desire to switch careers. I suspect that she just doesn't want to leave the CamPound, but she's afraid that if she says that, she'll sound shallow, so instead she just says that she didn't think Eric really wanted to change careers. Despite the fact that Annie's apologies don't sound very sincere, this scene is actually pretty good -- even when Annie puts RevCam on the spot and tries to get him to make a decision about the ministry right then and there. She even makes a glycerin drop roll down his cheek!
Kevin is fairly gracious once he has his way and Lucy has capitulated and groveled for his forgiveness for being a "bad citizen." Much as I hate Lucy, I can't take watching her put herself down while Kevin does nothing to stop her. He also informs her that Chandler and Roxanne are now dating with the idea of getting married in the future. He gives it way more importance than it actually deserves, especially when you consider what a lame-ass "commitment" it is anyway. You can get engaged or decide that your relationship is exclusive, but Chandler's "commitment" still seems entirely meaningless to me. Lucy takes the news fairly well. After charmingly threatening to kill the T-1000 if he doesn't give her an engagement ring before Roxanne gets one, she leaves.
RevCam and Annie are back at the CamPound. He is unduly excited about the prospect of eating some strawberry shortcake. Ruthie comes in and asks if the CamRents are getting divorced. Annie explains that Ben gave Ruthie the idea that the CamRents might split up. But she's put a stop to that. As she prissily explains, "I called him and made him promise not to have any further conversations with our children without sharing his ideas with me first." For some reason, that really rubs me the wrong way. No worries, though, as it's the end of the episode, and Ruthie and the CamRents are all eating gleefully from the same germy piece of strawberry shortcake. More to the point, it's time for a stiff vodka drink or two for your recapper while I contemplate the fact that future episodes have got to get better. God knows they can't get much worse.