Episode Report Card Daniel: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Love conquers all
By Daniel | Season 8 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.11.2004
Back at the CamPound, the Ruthinator is moving downstairs, staring straight ahead into the very blackness of my soul. The telephone rings, and her programming instructs her to go pick it up, and when she does, she picks the mark off-screen that she will look at, unwaveringly, for the entire conversation. "Ruthie! Just the person I was hoping to talk to," says Chandler, as if anyone has ever said that sentence in their entire lives. He gives her this overly detailed C-Team explanation, and then tells her word got out so fast about it that he hasn't even had time to get a group together, and he's already received a call for help. And so his first phone call was to...Ruthie? Is the plan to scare the hell out of the group they're helping, such that no one ever calls them again? He asks Ruthie if she wants to help a group of nice people move into a new home Saturday (tomorrow). She says she's not much for heavy lifting, but she's good at bossing people around. I guess that's supposed to be funny.
RevCam is now talking to Paris about how hard it is to find something nice about Vic, like, you'd think Vic were a serial rapist the way RevCam is talking about him. RevCam says the best bet is to try to make Vic see his own value, and that might make him a better person, or some such. RevCam doesn't get to the part about mustering as much love as he can for Vic, because he's interrupted by Ruthie, who comes in followed by Martin and Cecilia. Ruthie tells RevCam about the moving thing, and he suggests enlisting Martin and Cecilia's help, but they're already on board. RevCam suggests they ask Peter too, and Paris wonders if it's wise for Peter to spend time with Chandler, and both she and Ruthie wonder if RevCam is up to something, but before we can explore the devious workings of the RevCam's machinations, Peter and Vic come in. "Kevin went home," is the first thing Peter says, as if anyone cares, and as if Kevin doesn't, you know, LIVE THERE. So Paris how things went, and Peter says, "Good, actually," and then thanks his mom for MAKING HIM DO THIS, when as I recall he insisted on doing it despite her objections. Introductions are made, and even this complete stranger knows that Martin is a Marine's son, and Vic shakes his hand and asks when Martin is signing up. Martin says he's 16, but when he turns 18, semper fi! Then he wonders if Vic is taking a swipe at the Marines, and Vic tells him he's just being friendly. I guess the Camdens don't know a whole lot about being friendly, since they all just stand there awkwardly after Vic meets Cecilia and makes an inappropriate-but-not-inaccurate joke about how the place is like an orphanage except the kids all have parents at home.