Episode Report Card Cate: C | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Bitch, bitch, bitch
By Cate | Season 5 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.26.2000
Okay, kids, just a few more educational lectures to get through and then we're home free. And just in the nick of time, too, because really, they've pretty much run out of ways to illustrate this week's point. John has a talk with Simon about how things are worse for women now, in terms of the hatred they receive from men. Personally, I don't think that's true, but maybe some women disagree. I'll bet that it's always been fashionable to be alarmist about the current moral state of the world when compared to past times. Oh, and then there's the fact that I don't put much stock in what the writers of 7th Heaven say, because they're so often wrong and misguided. John's speech is good, it just covers territory that's already been covered in this episode.
SuperMom drives up and Simon gets into the car. Annie asks him what he's going to do now about the Norton situation, and Simon replies that he's more worried about what Annie must think of him than he is of what Norton thinks. Or, to put it the way Simon does to Annie, "My biggest worry is that you may never respect me as a man." I would like to nominate this line as the single funniest one I have ever heard on this show. Simon continues to apologize. He adds, "I never want to be a part of anything that humiliates you or Lucy or Ruthie." I snicker because Mary is conspicuously absent from the list. Mother/son hug, treacly background music, end of scene.
Eric is in his back yard, conversing with The Amazing Robbie. Vomity Robbie is a trifle upset with Cheryl, but not so much because she tried to trick him into marriage -- no, he's upset because she tricked him into sex. He claims she fed him some line about needing to have sex to clear up "some kind of female problem." I know y'all probably are tired of me saying stuff like this, but really, how stupid would Robbie have to be to believe a line like that? Or alternatively, how stupid would he have to be to think RevCam would buy this as a valid excuse from him? Come on, just how stupid is Robbie anyway? Well, plenty! When RevCam asks him to absorb some of the lessons he's learned today, Robbie affects an even blanker than usual look and asks, "Like?" Hee! If more comedy like this is in store, then bring on the Robbie. I think I can handle it. Actually, RevCam and Robbie have way more chemistry than Robbie and Mary ever did. They're a regular Laurel and Hardy, as Eric tries to explain to Robbie what respect for women is all about. RevCam suggests that Robbie take notes. I guess the show budget doesn't allow for a trip to Business Depot for a pad of paper and pencil, though, because I don't see any note-taking happening.