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
Up on the second floor, Simon, Robbie, and Ruthie hover, waiting to be summoned to dinner. Simon is the whiniest. Ruthie points out that if the twins aren't crying, he shouldn't be either. Robbie says that Annie fed the twins earlier. Rev Lite, always into intruding, wanders up. The kids introduce themselves (getting a "Chandler...Hampton" in return) and ask if Rev Lite is replacing their dad forever. "No! No no no no no no no." We also learn that Rev Lite is 23, is single, went to Koepel and graduated with "honors and a doctorate," and wants to learn as long as the church and deacons will let him. He also has a creepy, gravelly voice and speaks infuriatingly slowly. Roxanne busts in, hugs Robbie, then looks at Rev Lite with that Look Of Love she was talking about earlier and says she doesn't believe they've met. Rev Lite says, "Uhhh...uhhh."
Lucy is studying in Kevin's apartment. It's like Greg Brady's attic room, but far less groovy. Someone trade that space right up. Like someone said on the boards, it's called drywall. Get thee to a Home Depot, verily, and lo unto you will be done some minor construction. Kevin messes with Lucy for a bit, saying he needs her in his life because he can't do anything for himself -- and he also needs Roxanne and her mom. Roxanne is there for him during the day like Lucy's there for him at night. She saves his life -- literally. Lucy gets more and more bent out of shape, asking pointedly what aspects of his life he involves Roxanne in, and he cracks up and says he can't do this anymore. So he's dumping her? Great. He says he saw her peeping outside the jewelry store. She yells, you were SPYING on me? He asks her to admit that they were spying on each other. She refuses, and starts gathering up her books. He says he wasn't asking Roxanne to help pick out her ring, and she says she doesn't care. And he'll be right over after he changes out of his uniform. She says, "Don't bother," and splits. He says, rather bizarrely, that he "love[s] that woman." Um, why? Because she's so wonderfully paranoid and unreasonably jealous?
Lucy stomps up the driveway and sees her father drinking a glass of wine and smoking a cigar. The guitar gets very whimsical. She tilts her head, then shakes it, does a little double take, and blinks at him. Because, you know, drinking wine and smoking are Not Things Camdens Should Ever Do. Drinking and smoking may even be Things One Should Never Do. They are, of course, Things I Love To Do, and because I live by the golden rule, I would never look askance at someone who does. But Lucy did. Hey, is Lucy a beeyotch? Just asking. ["'Beeyotch' understates the case rather dramatically." -- Sars]