Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Pregnant cause
By Daniel | Season 9 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.03.2004
So now we're at social services, which looks kind of like a college residence, and Kevin and Martin have nothing better to do than harass Harry about dumping Ruthie, even though Harry says she'd dump him herself eventually. And then Harry's cell phone rings, and Martin is visibly surprised at the social services kid having a cell phone, and Harry says, "What? I borrowed it," and I guess this is supposed to be funny or something, and I'd really like to know who lent this kid a cell phone. Anyway, Ruthie's calling, because she's calling in reinforcements to help her with her stupid plotline, and Harry just passes her off to Kevin, and all the while the Ruthinator 3000 doesn't seem to be processing any thing that the humanoid she knows as "Harry" is saying, because her face remains completely blank the whole time. Ruthie asks Kevin why they're talking to Harry, and he says he'll explain later. She says she's trying to take care of a bird, but she thinks it's dying. Kevin looks as perplexed as I feel.
RevCam is really in Meddling Overdrive, as he's managed to find the home of Charlie, the boy who knocked up Leanne, and RevCam and Charlie speak outside so his parents won't hear. "Where is she?" wonders Kevin, and I guess we're going to find out that Leanne's mother cut off contact, even though Leanne was kicked out of the house, like these two are able to sneak off somewhere to have sex, but in this age of cell phones, email and text and instant messaging, he has no idea where she is. Riiiiiight. So RevCam tells Charlie he's going to be a father and fills him in on Leanne wanting to give the baby up for adoption and then going into labour and changing her mind. And she wants Charlie there. "Wow. I kind of knew, but I didn't," says Charlie. Man. Fast-forward a couple of years when Charlie's kid dies because he didn't take it to the doctor. "Wow," says the befuddled bereaved father. "I kind of knew the kid was sick, but I didn't." So RevCam is urging Charlie to come to the hospital, but Charlie decides he has to tell his parents, which impresses RevCam (and I guess this is how we're supposed to accept that Charlie is mature enough now to raise a family), who offers to help him break the news. "Just one thing: take a little more time than you did with me before breaking it to them. I don't want to have to call the paramedics," says Charlie, like who has time for jokes when his baby momma is in labour? Commercials.
So now the Camdens have gone all Wild Kingdom on this stupid bird; in the kitchen gathered around the stupid box where Ruthie has the stupid bird are SamVid, Martin, Kevin, Harry, and Ruthie. And SamVid says something about seeing spots on the bird, which Harry disagrees with, but he says the bird is losing feathers, and Martin says the baby bird just doesn't have all its feathers yet, and Harry snaps all bitchy, "Okay, Mr. Vet," like such a bad-ass this kid is, no wonder he's always in detention. And Ruthie says she thinks the bird is getting weak, and I guess she would be able to notice diminishing strength in a sick baby bird that she's had for about an hour. And Lucy comes in, and can I just ask what happened to her teen class -- I mean, why go to all the trouble of setting that up if it's going to be completely disregarded like this -- and she asks what's going on. "I think this bird is getting worse," says Ruthie, and this somehow explains everything to Lucy, who was at RevCam's office while all this was happening, and she expresses sympathy and actually hugs Ruthie, who is doing her best to be all upset over this dying vermin in their house, and I AM NOT BUYING ANY OF THIS. And meanwhile, Kevin's on the phone and he says that the recording says that the "Wildlife Rescue Station" is open, and he suggests they go, and then there is this really weird extended splitting up of the group, and Kevin and Martin and Harry are going to the so-called Wildlife Rescue Station, while Lucy has to stick around in case her parents "need" her, as if, so she suggests Ruthie go with the boys but Ruthie says she's looking after SamVid and Lucy won't be able to take the twins with her to the hospital and Martin smirks knowingly about something and I have no idea why all this over-detailed explanation is necessary.