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By Sara M | Season 8 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.25.2004
Lucy and Kevin get all dressed up and talk about how today is their first anniversary. Which, according to Lucy, means that now, when they're getting ready to go out to dinner to celebrate, is the perfect time to start discussing the weighty issue of their future. She's inspired because she was "reading this book." "What did I tell you about that?" Kevin says, warningly, because when the little woman reads, she gets all kinds of ideas about liberation. It turns out that Kevin doesn't have a problem with Lucy reading in general, just her reading self-help books. He makes a speech about how self-help books are wrong, which is odd, since I'd wager that Brenda has read more than a few of those in her long lifetime. Lucy says that this self-help book is a good one, because it tells them to make a "five-year plan" for their future. As someone on the forums pointed out, Stalin had a five-year plan, too. Lucy says she just wants to think about where they'll be living and if they'll have children. Kevin says they've already talked about the kids issue ad nauseam: whenever she wants them is fine, as long as she's a college graduate. So it's not really whenever Lucy wants them, it's when Lucy wants them and has overcome whatever obstacles her husband has placed in front of her. Kevin says he wants to forget about tomorrow right now, and go celebrate their anniversary.
Asslee waits for Martin as he exits the lockers, post-baseball game. His teammates all look about thirty years old. Between them and those toddlers attending Ruthie's school, Glenoak's got quite the student age range. Martin notices that Asslee's pout is slightly different than usual, and asks her what's wrong. She says she's starting to think about college and how, even if she goes to one of the closer schools that accepted her, she'll probably be "too busy" to see Martin. Um, when did Asslee apply to schools? More importantly, when did she learn how to write? Asslee says she hasn't made up her mind about which school she'll be attending, although she'd better pretty soon, since I'm pretty sure there are deadlines for those things. And that they've already come and gone. ["Seriously. Only on TV do people decide which college to attend on, like, Labor Day." -- Sars] Asslee says she doesn't think it would be smart to stick around Glenoak for Martin because his dad could come back anytime and get transferred to another base. And how selfish of Martin to expect Asslee to stay in town when he may not, even though Martin wasn't really expecting anything or even thinking about this until now. Martin says he needs to take a shower, because being around Asslee does tend to instill that urge. I know my water bill spikes every Monday.