Episode Report Card Sara M: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Le joke est morte; vive le joke
By Sara M | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.05.1998
Mary and Lucy's faces brighten up considerably at this piece of news; Mary asks how old the French guy is, and Lucy asks if he is single. Way to make your intentions known to your father, you morons! I would laugh if he were forty and married, but no, he's Matt's age. Matt is less than pleased at this prospect, because now he will have to drive the "Euro-geek" around town. RevCam wants the support of more than his horny daughters, so he explains that the Frenchie has never been in a foreign country before and will probably be homesick, and they should all treat him the same way they would want to be treated if they were in the same position. He looks at Mary and Lucy as he says this, which is strange, because they will obviously be treating him well. Lucy feels the need to drive this point home by saying that RevCam can count on her, and Mary agrees. Matt puts a stop to this by telling the girls that if Frenchie is his age, then he is forty in French years. Um, what? And is this is true, does this mean that we are going to see an eighteen-year-old in a forty-year-old body, like in the movie Jack? That would be cool. Lucy believes that this means that he will know a lot about women. Matt gets all excited as if he hadn't thought of this before, because now when he has to drive Frenchie around, he can get women too. Since it's okay with RevCam when his sons pick up ladies, he gives this the RevSeal of Approval. Ruthie adorably asks what French people eat, as if any child would do that ever, and Matt responds, "Snails." Like, is this a humorous subplot I see?
Matt then asks if Annie knows about the foreign exchange student. Well, of course she does! RevCam and Annie love each other and have a sharing and happy marriage, so why would RevCam ever make a decision like this without at least letting her know about it? Annie walks in at the end of Matt's question and asks what she is supposed to know about. Ruthie tells her that they are having a "change student." Bil Keane, writer of Family Circus, contacts his lawyers about suing 7th Heaven. Annie says, "I don't think so, honey!" and RevCam says, "What Ruthie means is a foreign exchange student." Then he tells her how great it is that he'll be coming to stay with them for a few weeks, and Annie's all like, say what?! As the kids run out of the room, the clarinet, followed by the guitar, of Humorous Marital Strife play us into the theme song.
After the commercial, we are treated to shots of people biking, then running, all over Glenoak, and then a zoom into the CamHouse that takes like ten minutes. That was weird. I'm sure that I'll soon be wishing I was watching a show about the joggers instead of this. Okay, now Rev and Annie are fighting about Frenchie. Eric is all trying to play it off like it was last-minute, and if he didn't take the kid, he (the kid, not Le Rev Du Camme) would have to go back to France. Then he points out what a great cultural experience this will be for the kids. Yeah, especially Mary and Lucy, if you know what I'm saying. Annie's not having that and rants on how their house isn't a museum, although maybe she shouldn't call it "their" house, since it's apparently RevCam's house. Rock on, sista!