Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Love Stinks, Part II
By Cate | Season 4 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.21.2000
Speaking of comedy that falls flat, it's time for Dopey to butcher another scene. He's standing at Chickenhead's door, preparing to knock. He practises a few breakup lines in the hallway. Of course, a neighbour sees him, and Dopey pretends he's in a school play. How madcap and zany of him! The neighbour leaves and Dopey leaves too, since he's not ready to break up with Chickenhead yet. The neighbour has the sweetest-looking beagle. That dog is the only thing that redeems this scene.
Ruthie phones Burt, who tells her, "I don't like you," and then hangs up. I rarely turn down the chance to make a cheap and obvious joke, but I will refrain, just this once. Ruthie comments, "This is gonna be harder than I thought." Happy barks. I'm glad she's looking okay. I heard she was suffering from depression brought on by her role on this horrible show. Here's hoping she's over her substance abuse problem now. Ruthie calls Burt back and he asks her if she's calling to apologize. When she says no, he hangs up on her again. Happy whines in a lacklustre fashion. You can tell she's thinking about her next fix. Ruthie calls Burt one more time, and he tells her his mother took back the crystal cat he gave her. She yells that he stole it from his mom in the first place. Then she hangs up on him. Was this scene supposed to make any sense? I hope not, because I didn't understand it at all.
Simon bursts into RevCam's office and demands that RevCam get a job for Deena's mom. Eric is kind enough to agree, but when Simon tells him he has less than a week to accomplish this, he says it's impossible. Simon's brilliant backup plan is that the CamRents adopt Deena. Ick, ick, ick. Fortunately, even Simon realizes this is a creepy idea. RevCam says he will do what he can to help otherwise.
Mary tries again to break through SuperMom's reverse psychology armour. This time Annie unbends enough to say that she feels Mary is not living up to her full potential unless she goes to college, and that marrying Robbie might not be such a hot idea. Ooh, what a perfect time for Cheryl to call! Mary plays the devoted girlfriend by telling Cheryl she won't listen to her. She sticks to her guns for a while, claiming there's nothing Cheryl could say that would make her ditch Robbie. Well, what do you know, Cheryl does come up with something that unnerves Mary: the fact that Cheryl and Robbie broke up just last week. Cheryl drives home her point by saying, "Well, you're a smart girl. Do the math." I wonder if the writers were having a little sly fun with the "smart" line. Mary asks why she should believe Cheryl, and Cheryl replies, "Your problem isn't that you don't believe me; it's that you do." Ha, ha, burn on Robbie.