Episode Report Card Sara M: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cutting a rug
By Sara M | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.25.1998
Rod is standing in front of a mirror with shaving cream and a razor. I am more excited than I really should be at the prospect of no longer seeing his awful moustache.
Jimmy is looking blankly at a bottle of purple hair dye.
RevCam walks into his bedroom, turns the light off, and stubs his toe like a loser. Then he carries on about it like an even bigger one. Annie turns on a light, and RevCam sits in bed holding his stupid toe. He apologizes and says he'll be buried wherever she wants. Annie says it's fine with her if he wants to be buried with his family. Eric asks her why it's fine with her all of a sudden. Annie starts to cry as she says that she's changed her mind. Annie asks Eric if he said anything to her dad about his toupee. He says no, and she says she'll talk to him later. They kiss, and Annie cries some more about missing her mother. Every time Annie cries about her mother, it sends me on a guilt trip about not calling my mom enough. I call her during the commercial break.
After my mother assures me that she doesn't have any terminal illnesses, I return to the show. It's the next morning at the Camden house. Annie and Anniedad talk about Anniemom for a while. Annie asks if she can ask Anniedad something about the toupee, and he gets all pissy about calling it a "hairpiece." It's made out of natural human hair -- as opposed to the unnatural kind, I guess. Annie asks if Ginger likes it. Anniedad says no, and that Ginger can take a hike if she doesn't want to run her hands through his nasty, nasty, fake natural hair. He says that Anniemom would have loved the new hair. Annie says maybe. I say that no woman would like it ever, not even those "younger girls." Annie asks if Anniedad got the toupee to scare Ginger away. He says "maybe," then "could be," then "yes." Annie just sits there with the usual nasty glare on her face. Anniedad rips off the toupee. Annie gets up to hug her father as the Guitar of Solving Problems plays. Annie asks about the burial plots. He says they came before the toupee, and he got them to show Ginger that he didn't want to marry her so she would dump him. Anniedad is an asshole. The whole time he is telling Annie this, she is removing the toupee tape from his head. The way she does so reminds me of gorillas in the zoo that eat bugs off of each other. Then she strokes his head, which is something I would never do to my father. Anyway, instead of dumping Anniedad, Ginger just said she wanted to be buried with her first husband too. Anniedad then bought the toupee, and then Ginger dumped him. Annie says that Anniedad should be happy, and he will live longer if he is. Then she cries again. This woman is so depressed. She tells Anniedad to call Ginger when he gets home, and he agrees. Happy grabs the toupee and lies down next to it. I guess that's symbolic.