Episode Report Card Sara M: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Racism With a Side of Spying
By Sara M | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.24.1999
Annie's home, as evidenced by her shouts from off-screen. Meeting over, the kids try to go upstairs, but RevCam yells at them to help their mother with the groceries. He runs his hands through his hair all, "Lazy children!" and then walks into the kitchen so that he won't have to do any grocery-lifting whatsoever. Annie's already there. She tells RevCam the news about Mrs. Poole's surprise baby shower. RevCam asks Annie why she's so against baby showers; Annie explains that she's only against baby showers with the church ladies, who are "difficult," "gossipy," and "nosy." RevCam laments that his sermons aren't reaching people. Actually, RevCam, I'd say your congregation is following your example perfectly. Annie has an idea: she'll call "Patricia" and invite her to the shower so that she doesn't try to kill herself. Poor Annie. Always suicidal. She leaves, and Matt enters, carrying on grocery bag. RevCam sarcastically chides him for not taking two bags, like, lay the fuck off, you lazy douche. It's not like you're carrying ANY grocery bags, so you can't really talk.
Annie's on the phone with Patricia, also known as Reverend Hamilton's wife, also known as Trudy from Miami Vice. All I remember about Trudy was that the nameplate on her desk read "Big Booty Trudy." Which is kind of mean, and I'm surprised Edward James Olmos let that kind of thing fly. Anyway, Patricia agrees to come to the shower. Annie doesn't know how to quit when she's ahead, so she asks if she can borrow Patricia's "big coffee pot." Patricia says she'll "messenger" it over to the CamPound, like, what? Either that's one hell of a big coffee pot, or Patricia is almost as lazy as RevCam.
The kids unpack the groceries. RevCam comes in, holding a grocery bag, and scolds Matt for leaving a bag with mayonnaise, hamburger, and eggs in the car, like, maybe if you pitched in, RevCam, that wouldn't have happened. RevCam asks if anyone wants to talk about the new babies, and how different things will be once they arrive. No one does. So RevCam grabs a laundry basket and leaves. Matt says that RevCam's right; the new babies will be a big change for them, and "once they're here, they're here forever," except when they're behind the couch. Ruthie and Simon start to wonder if they won't like the twins.
Annie naps. Ruthie enters the room, ostensibly to water the plants, but really to get attention from her mother. She tells Annie the sad story of how Bobby saw her underwear and won't leave her alone, like, this subplot could not die fast enough. Annie's first concern about the matter is why wasn't Ruthie wearing the shorts her control freak mother picked out for her. Ruthie tries to make some quasi-feminist statement on how unfair it is that women can't wear skirts without guys looking up them, and what is wrong with the world? Annie says she'll have to get back to Ruthie on that one. Not getting the hint, Ruthie tells Annie to take her time because she isn't going anywhere.