Episode Report Card Sara M: F | 2 USERS: F YOU GRADE IT I Dream of Weenie
By Sara M | Season 8 | Episode 18 | Aired on 02.29.2004
The next morning, Annie places glasses of orange juice around the kitchen table. Psst, Camden family -- here's something I learned before going to college that you may want to take under advisement right now: never drink anything that you didn't open yourself. You don't know what someone else has put in it. I'm just saying. Ruthie comes downstairs and asks her mother if it's okay to be happy even though her grandfather just died. "Oh, it's okay, Ruthie. It's okay to be happy," Annie says with steely resolve. Ruthie tells her mother that she loves her, and they hug. Ruthie still only comes up to her mother's chest, which sucks for her, since the best thing about growing up is getting comparably tall to your mother, so you can hug her like a friend. And thus concludes a section of my recap I like to call "making my mother cry."
Martin comes downstairs and tells Annie that he doesn't know what's been going on lately, but this morning was the first time he could look at his mother's picture and feel like smiling. This makes sense, because Martin actually went through AN APPROPRIATE TIME OF MOURNING before he was able to do this.
Martin leaves, and Lucy comes inside. She says that she and Kevin had a great time alone together, and during their walk they saw a house down the street for sale and they're thinking of buying it. Annie approves a little too quickly, leading Lucy to figure out that Annie wanted her and Kevin to spend alone time to together so that they would look at the house and think about buying it.
RevCam comes downstairs with the twins and asks if Lucy saw the house. Annie shoves her thumb in his face -- in the affirmative, I guess.
Chandler's sleeping in his car. He may want to see a doctor about his tendency to fall asleep unexpectedly. A persistent knock on his window awakens him. It's a boy with giant hair, because giant hair always makes kids look cuter, according to The Law of Adding Little Kids to Television Shows to Boost Ratings. Chandler rolls down his window, even though I've never seen a car with power windows that worked when the car wasn't actually on. The kid invites Chandler into his house for some coffee and a chat. "About...?" Chandler asks. "You...me...you and me. Ever thought about adopting?" Chandler's like, "Say what?" Kid's like, "I don't have a mom or a dad, and my grandma's really, really old. I need someone." Chandler furrows his immense brow. Twinkly music plays. Okay, I guess Chandler's brow isn't that immense.
Back at the Treehouse of Lurv, Lucy and Kevin are talking about buying the house down the street. Apparently, buying a house is as easy as knowing whether or not the house is still for sale. Kevin says he thinks they're ready to buy a house. Lucy wonders when they'll be ready to have a baby. Kevin patriarchs that he and Lucy's parents want Lucy to finish college before they have kids. You want to feel sorry for Lucy that her husband and parents are deciding her life for her, but then she childishly asks if they can get a dog, and you realize why she needs three guardians.