Episode Report Card Sara M: D | 12 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT And Away They Blow...
By Sara M | Season 11 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.12.2007
RevCam and Annie are throwing packed bags on the kitchen floor when Ruthie finally comes home and wonders where they're planning to go. If I were her, I'd suspect that my family had seized the opportunity of my not being around and was trying to move out before I got home. Of course, if I were Ruthie, I would have run away from the CamPound a long time ago. Annie tells Ruthie about how THE COLONEL gave them an RV and they're going to take it to parts unknown tomorrow. Now, here is an example of exposition we don't need. I could have been hearing about what T-Bag's mother is, but instead I'm hearing about the road trip for fifteenth time as if it's ever going to make more sense to me. "Fun!" Ruthie says, asking if she can go with them. Is she being sarcastic? She sounds a little sarcastic. RevCam notices that Ruthie smiling, and Annie says she's happy that Ruthie wants to go with them, because it's all about Annie. T-Bag comes downstairs, and I can't believe the CamRents would let him live with them while he's dating their daughter. They just don't even care anymore, do they? T-Bag asks for a ride to Santa Barbara to meet his child molester -- I mean, "possible father." RevCam says yes, but repeats his stupid "one small suitcase and three personal items" rule.
Ruthie and T-Bag immediately find a way around the rules by getting their cell phones and chargers to count as one item instead of two. And now that that's settled, RevCam asks Ruthie what her surprise is. She says that "apparently, [she's] graduated from high school" a year early. While RevCam and Annie look on with dumbfounded expressions on their faces, Ruthie says that between her summer school classes and all the classes she took in Scotland, she accumulated enough credits to graduate. Um...yeah. There are so many things wrong with this, but I'm not going to waste my time pointing them out to you. It's ridiculous, and I know it, you know it, and the writers and actors on this show probably know it. Moving on, Ruthie says she can take a bunch of filler classes for her senior year or just go onto college, even though she hasn't applied for any yet and it's May. Annie frets that Ruthie's been "cheated" out of her senior year of high school. Ruthie says she hasn't, because it's not like she had any friends there anyway, and now she and T-Bag can go to college together! "We'll see," Annie says. "I'll take it!" Ruthie says. Dumb-ass. Everyone knows the best year of school is your senior year of high school when you don't have to do work anymore and you have your driver's license. Ruthie hugs Annie, who just says "wow" while RevCam nods at T-Bag. I guess I wouldn't expect them to have much more of a reaction to their daughter's sudden high school graduation considering how they almost forgot about Simon's college one.