Episode Report Card Alex Richmond: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Gabrielle Come Blow
By Alex Richmond | Season 7 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.03.2002
He goes out to the yard, and Phyllis is fast asleep. He tosses up his hands and slumps on the porch steps. The guitar laughs at him for us. Well, it would if we were laughing.
The girls' room. Ruthie picks up an armful of clothes and dumps them on Lucy's bed. "Little help?" Lucy is flipping though a magazine, looking for a picture of a ring she might want, which she'll then rip out and give to Kevin. Ruthie is all, you're just going to tell him you saw him, after you made us all look like idiots? Basically, yes. That she saw him, and that's she a materialistic boob. The phone rings -- it's Kevin. Now, I can't really tell in this scene of Kevin is trying to drive Lucy insane or if he's just a simpleton. Maybe a little of both? Kevin says he's on duty at the Promenade, and if she wants to come down and get a slice of pizza with Roxanne and him, she could. What? Doesn't she want to come down to the Promenade? Oh, and could you tell Robbie to come down and have pizza at the Promenade? He called Roxanne and wanted to talk to her earlier. Lucy is steaming. Roxanne is all, "Why do you torture [Lucy]?" Because it's fun and easy. Why does he go out with her, is the question. Lucy takes the cordless phone and looks for Robbie in Simon's room. She and Simon have a mini-chat about people dating people they don't like. Simon doesn't want Cecilia to date Marc, because "French people are just too...French!", and Lucy doesn't like the idea of Robbie dating Roxanne. Hey, Ugly: If Roxanne were dating Robbie, maybe she wouldn't make you uncomfortable being around Kevin so much. Robbie walks in and offers to help wipe down the twins before dinner. The twins say that they're clean. Wow, they can speak. What, do they just sit in rooms, making no noise, until someone issues them a directive? Okay, the twins are Borg. Make no resistance. Robbie gets on the phone and says he'd LOVE to go out with Roxanne sometime. They make a date: tonight at eight. Great. Lucy asks why he has to date someone that annoys her. For fun, why else? And why does Roxanne annoy her, again? Because Kevin asked her to help pick out Lucy's engagement ring. Robbie is all, you're engaged? That's great! She isn't. And that's the point. Can't the laid-up RevCam make a Jump To Conclusions mat and explain how it works to his simple children? Lucy steams and steams.
Simon goes into the twins' room, where they're sitting quietly in little chairs, plotting the demise of the starship Enterprise. Simon calls Cecilia, hears her very annoying voicemail message (which says she's out with her new French boyfriend, au revoir!), and asks the twins if they like Cecilia. Yes. Resistance is futile. Simon decides that Cecilia is just playing a game with him, trying to make him jealous. And Marc? Probably not really French. Yeah, that's it.