Episode Report Card Sara M: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mi Familia Es Horrible
By Sara M | Season 9 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.15.2005
Elsewhere on the Promenade, George and Li'l Orphan Danny exit the movie theater. George asks Li'l Orphan Danny if he liked the movie, and Li'l Orphan Danny says he totally didn't. We see from a movie poster for a film called Little Luigi that is currently playing, and I can't understand why LOD wouldn't have enjoyed that. Making fun of Italians looks like great fun to me! LOD says he doesn't like animation. Well, life in Glenoak is just going to suck for him, seeing as the only movie theater in town plays nothing but cartoons from the '50s. George asks LOD why he didn't just tell him about his hatred for animation so they could have seen something else that they both enjoyed, like the live-action Happy Jamal, playing in Cinema Three. LOD says he didn't want to upset George. Okay, then WHY WOULD HE TELL HIM HE DIDN'T LIKE THE MOVIE AT ALL? He's only going to be MORE upset if you tell him AFTER, isn't he? George says that next time, they'll be sure to see something LOD likes. LOD is all happy that there will be a next time and asks when he can move in with George and Gwen, who LOD annoyingly insists on referring to as "[George's] wife" instead of her actual name. George says that LOD needs to chill out. After all, he might not like Gwen. "Is she an alcoholic?" LOD immediately asks, his voice filled with dread. How sad that they don't teach tact in group homes. Those kids really are deprived. George says that his wife is not an alcoholic, although she has every right to be. I know if I were married to that man and had given birth to that daughter, I'd be dulling the pain any way possible.
LOD says that as long as Gwen isn't an alcoholic, he's sure he'll love her. He asks when he can staff moving his "stuff" into George's house. What stuff is that, boy? I thought people in group homes had emotional rather than actual baggage, not like LOD seems to have any of the difficult emotional and behavioral problems most children from backgrounds like his have. Then LOD asks if George and Gwen will take his sister in as well. "You have a sister?" asks George as he makes the standard "ooooohhhhh ssshhiitttt" face. But it gets better! LOD explains: "She's in a different group home." Pause. George stares. Pause. "Because she's in a wheelchair," LOD finishes. Looks like you hit the foster child lottery, George!
At the church office, Lucy has given up on the Daily Jumble and moved onto to significantly simpler, though still trying, Kid's Scramble. Kevin calls from the police station to say that he called the "real-i-tor" and got some listings. Lucy's all pissed that Kevin didn't let her do it, but Kevin points out that he only did it because Lucy didn't. He accuses her of stalling. Lucy says she had all kinds of work to do this morning for that "teen empowerment" class she pretends to teach, but was going to call when she was done. Kevin doesn't believe that at all, just like he doesn't believe that Lucy ever actually wanted to move out of her parents' house. Lucy hangs up on him. She really takes the "-ociate" right out of "associate pastor," doesn't she?