Episode Report Card Sara M: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Long Bad Show
By Sara M | Season 8 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.14.2003
Peter comes downstairs, announces his departure because he's that important, and tells RevCam he'll see him at church. This snaps RevCam out of his God-induced reverie long enough to make a snotty comment to himself about how Peter should just leave a change of clothes at the CamPound since he's around so much. Then he yells to Peter that he can call if he wants a ride. Well, do you want him around or not, Eric? RevCam asks God for a better distraction than "teen love." Wow, it's pretty ballsy of a minister to ask God for something, then turn around and say that what God gave him wasn't good enough and he'd like something better. I wouldn't even have pulled that with Santa. Ruthie runs downstairs, yelling to Peter that he forgot his bag. She runs out the front door and into some creepy guy who's picking his nose. He looks like George Clooney and Kiefer Sutherland's love child, who got hit with the ugly stick about a thousand times. Ruthie asks if she knows him from somewhere. Attention, all tween girls: what Ruthie is doing right now is very stupid. If you happen upon a weird-looking stranger standing around your house, you should not attempt to engage in conversation with him. Please run inside the house and find an adult. This has been a Public Service Announcement brought to you by the Citizens Against Brenda Hampton's "Good" Ideas. We're a very busy group. Kieforge asks if Ruthie remembers him from the one and only Christmas episode like five years ago where Mary was forced to volunteer at a soup kitchen, where she met him, brought him back to the CamPound, and helped him get back to his family in New York. "And you're just here to thank us?" Ruthie asks. "Not exactly," says Keiforge, which makes me giggle. Ruthie ascertains that Kieforge's name is "Carlos," and Carlos remembers that her name is Ruthie, "only, when I knew you then you were just a little girl. And now, you're a young woman." Ruthie, this would be a good time to run away as fast as your ugly bright red platform shoes can take you. Instead, she asks Carlos to sit down for a chat.
RevCam is still trying specify exactly what he thinks God should give him, because RevCam is just that deserving. He wants something that will help the Camdens "rise above the darkness that's fallen over [them] for an entire season." Entire season? More like "entire series," but it's still a good sign that Brenda is acknowledging how terrible last year was. RevCam keeps telling God that he'll take anything, but he's being pretty demanding for someone who's supposed to be desperate. Whatever; I'm sure God fell asleep listening to his boring, long-winded monologue a while ago. Annie comes downstairs, dressed for church and with her hair styled almost like the poodle-do from the first season. It's the Neo-Poodle! Ask for it at your hair salon! She tells RevCam that the shower is free, to which he tells God that that's a start. I love how RevCam is now talking to God instead of Annie.