Episode Report Card Sara M: F | 5 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Dorothea Lange Spins In Her Grave
By Sara M | Season 9 | Episode 19 | Aired on 05.01.2005
Sam tells Vid about how he and Ruthie stayed up all night eating cookies and Lucy read lots of stories to him. Oh, man, Kevin must have been so pissed that his wife was off reading to her brother instead of having sex with him. Vid asks Sam to fake sick today so that Vid can get a chance to hang with Ruthie. RevCam runs in and says it's time to go to school. Vid reports that Sam is sick. Sam says he isn't. RevCam asks what's going on.
The D-plot about those freshly-laundered clothes seems to have come to an end, as Lucy puts them away in her dresser. Kevin's about to leave for work. Lucy says goodbye with very loud kiss. "I've missed being your wife," she says. "Not as much as I miss being your husband," says Kevin. "I've had to be my own husband these last couple of months." "What do you say we take a look at those listings tonight?" asks Lucy. "We really should get busy finding a house." Wait, does she mean she wants to actually get busy looking at listings, or is she saying that she just wants to get busy? There have been so many weird euphemisms used for having sex this episode that I don't know what anyone's talking about anymore. Lucy asks if Kevin mentioned anything to her parents about their non-sex-having issues. Now, see, this is a question that normal people shouldn't have to ask each other. I wouldn't marry a man if there were even a question in my mind that he would discuss our sex life with my parents. Kevin lies that he didn't say a thing.
Kevin and RevCam meet in the hallway. "About yesterday..." Kevin starts. "I don't wanna know," RevCam says immediately. Yeah, Kevin, you know you've crossed a major line if something is too personal for RevCam. Although it is a bit out of character for RevCam to say that, as he's usually so fascinated by the sex lives of his children, both sons and daughters. Kevin apologizes for yesterday's attempt at inappropriate discussion. He adds that he and Lucy will have their own house by summer. "Hopefully," says RevCam, as he makes a mental note to buy some heavy-duty earplugs, just in case.
Kevin walks away, and Annie enters. She asks RevCam why he isn't taking SamVid to school right now. Everything has to be to the second perfectly according to the schedule in Annie's mind, or else she gets agitated. RevCam says that he has solved the mystery of the Twins Suspicious Illness: Vid faked sick to stay home from school and get attention and pudding. Annie makes a Clownface of Outrage, like, this is what happens when you don't pay any attention to your kids, Annie. Don't be too surprised. RevCam says that Sam is now faking sick so that Vid can stay in Ruthie's room tonight. Those two are certainly going to a lot of trouble to sleep with their sister. Annie says she suspected Vid was faking it, but she didn't want to believe it because all the other CamKids were older the first time they faked sick. Hey, at least SamVid are advanced at something. "I think these two are gonna be more trouble than all the other five rolled into one," says RevCam, a statement that doesn't really make any sense if you actually do the math. He adds that SamVid need their "complete attention." "Meaning?" asks Annie, as the concept of paying attention to one's children is completely foreign to her. RevCam says he means that Annie needs to stop spending so much time with Savannah and start paying attention to her sons. The Kinkirks need a "push" out of the "nest," RevCam says, and I become alarmed and upset, because I'm still thinking of those weird sex euphemisms from a couple scenes ago.