Episode Report Card Cate: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ay Carumba
By Cate | Season 6 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.18.2001
Back in the CamPound, Mary and Lucy are discussing Robbie's love life. Lucy is taken aback to find out that Robbie considers Joy to be "the love of his life." She points out that he's only known Joy a week. Mary notes that if Robbie fell in love so quickly, "he can fall out of love just like that." I'd like to think she was making a wise comment on human nature, but since I've never heard her do anything like that before, I'm more inclined to think she's going to suggest some wacky plan to break up the young lovers. I, for one, can't wait to find out what it is. Don't keep us in suspense, Mary! She's moved on to talk about the odious Wilson, though. She says, "He's handsome, he's sexy, he's smart, he's considerate, he's responsible. I mean, he's perfect!" Oh, Mary, quit it! My sides are hurting from laughing so hard. After some trite advice from Lucy about forgiving oneself for making mistakes, Mary gives a sincere-sounding apology for being such a fuck-up last year. It's a pretty nice scene, and even her ridiculous promises to make it up to the family somehow don't quite ruin the moment.
There's no saving the next scene, though, as Ruthie, Simon, and Dopey fight over who to vote out of the Treehouse. I really hope the Survivor people sue this show out of existence. I do. Ruthie bribes Dopey with half a slice of gluey apple pie from Burger King. What? No "Brenda's Pie"? Because it's just so funny when they put Brenda Hampton's name on fake-o products. No, really. I just laugh and laugh for hours every time they do that! Like a good little boy, Simon gathers up his stuff and leaves. Ruthie and Dopey may think they voted him off, but I'll bet he's just irritated beyond by belief by them, and anxious to get away. At least if he offers Annie a sincere-sounding apology, he can retire to his own room, where he won't have to look at these two for a while. When Ruthie says that she will find a way to get Dopey out of the Treehouse, he looks terrified. Really, for an eleven-year-old girl to get rid of a twenty-something man who is that overwhelmingly stupid, all she has to do is dare him to walk in front of a moving bus, and I'm sure he'll comply.
As he's walking back to the CamPound, Simon runs into Mary. It's time for another of her apologies. Boy, these writers sure are making her subjugate herself a lot lately. They must be really pissed about how she tried to leave the show and then came crawling back. I'm not sure why she volunteers any information about her breakup with Wilson. It's not like her family members had any right to badger her about her personal business in the first place.