Episode Report Card Sara M: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Here They Come, Walking Down The Street
By Sara M | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.15.1998
For absolutely no reason, Mary is wandering around her brother's room and looking through his things. She finds the bottle of pills his doofy friend gave him, thus prompting The Guitar Of Doom to play its three notes while a high hat chimes in to add an extra-special sense of danger. Matt comes into the room. Mary hurriedly puts the bottle away and tells him that Annie said he has to drive her to Diane's. Matt asks if she has a ride home from Diane's, and Mary says yes. Matt asks why Mary doesn't have a ride to Diane's if she has one from Diane's. Mary responds that it's because "no one wants to talk to Mom and Dad." While this is no doubt true, it's some strange logic. It works on Matt, though.
Holding some towels, RevCam knocks on the door to the RV. We see a group of people just standing around the RV, but I don't know who they are or why they're there. As one of the bandmates tells RevCam to wait a minute, some old guy just strolls across the Camdens' front yard and onto the sidewalk, joining the other weird random people assembled there. Actually, if you look closely, you can see the old guy's shadow as he stands standing slightly off-camera, waiting for his cue to enter like an idiot. If some old guy was walking all over my lawn and shaking his head disapprovingly like this guy is, I would probably say something to him, but RevCam just ignores it. Jeez, I know that it's church property, and the guy is probably a parishioner whose donations help pay for the place's upkeep, but I really think he's taking a few too many liberties here. We hear some rockin' electric guitar chords, which made me think that the rude crowd on the sidewalk was there because it was late and the band was too loud and keeping them up or something, but when RevCam finally enters the RV, the only instrument that appears to be in use is a lute. An acoustic lute. So basically, I have no idea what was going on with that scene, or why any band not comprised of minstrels would possess a lute. ["Maybe their next gig is at Medieval Times." -- Sars]
RevCam gives the guys some towels and sheets, which is nice of him but probably unnecessary, seeing as how the guys live in the RV and all. They should probably have their own towels by now. Nevertheless, the band acts excited as hell to get some fresh linens, until RevCam makes a face and looks around at them. They smile innocently, and RevCam asks them if they're smoking anything illegal in front of this, a church-owned house, in a "small community." Small community, my ass! Glenoak has its own college, hospital, and airport! Comments like that make those of us from legit small communities feel all the more inadequate. The three guys all deny smoking the hash pipe, giggling as they do so, so obviously they must be stoned. RevCam says that his "best friend is a police officer," who tends to visit the house "unannounced" quite frequently. Not frequently enough, I would suspect, for his portrayer to be able to pay his SAG dues. Also, "best friend"? "Unannounced" visits? RevCam is up to his receding hairline in denial here; Sgt. Michaels only comes when Eric summons him, and I would call their relationship more "briber and bribee" than "friends." Eventually, RevCam shuts up and leaves. The bandmates giggle. Either they're stoned or they're actually tween girls wearing old man costumes.
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