Episode Report Card Sara M: F | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Jingle Hell
By Sara M | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.13.1998
Over in the CamKitchen, RevCam, Carlos, and Mary are playing an intense card game. We know it's intense because Mary's jaw is hanging slightly less open than usual, so she must be trying to concentrate. The doorbell rings. We get a close-up on everyone's faces, peering at each other from over their cards. Stephen Collins has huge red rims under his eyes, which I can only assume he's developed from crying so much after he reads each week's script. The doorbell continues to ring until Mary throws her cards down and leaves to answer it. RevCam asks Carlos if he has any threes. Carlos tells him to go fuck himself. I mean, "go fish." That's right -- they're playing Go Fish. You didn't think they'd be playing anything sinful like poker, now, did you? With Mary out of the way, RevCam is free to tell Carlos his true feelings. Or tell him that he talked to Carlos's family and they want him back for Christmas, and there's a plane ticket waiting for Carlos at the airport to that end. The first option is really the more plausible one, when you consider how much work and time would go into finding Carlos's family in New York City, especially considering that we don't even know Carlos's last name. Maybe RevCam got lucky and Jo Anne Worley was the operator and hooked him up. Carlos is all, "My father actually paid for my plane ticket?" to which RevCam is like, "No, someone who works at the soup kitchen did." Way to extend that first olive branch, there, Carlos's dad. Mary comes back in and says that the person at the door was "just Mom." Wait -- Annie was standing outside, ringing the doorbell to her own house? Why? Doesn't she have her own house key? And would she even need it, considering how often the CamDorks leave their doors open so strangers can wander around their house? Maybe Annie just does this every once in a while for attention. RevCam announces that he just "fished [his] wish." This apparently ends the game. RevCam looks meaningfully at Mary and Carlos and goes to bed. Mary and Carlos stare at each other. Dude, they're totally gonna get married.
Jenny directs Matt to park somewhere. She gets out of the car, but he has trouble unfastening his seat belt because he's pretty dumb. After finishing a comedy routine that was as funny as Lucy's falling-off-the-chair debacle of three paragraphs ago, he runs over to a fountain, where Jenny is playing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" on a cheap-looking boom box. They dance. Jenny says she feels bad about taking Ruthie to the mall, but she's giving herself the Christmas present of not feeling guilty about anything. Matt says it's too bad Santa can't give that gift to everyone. Yeah, because then we'd all be sociopaths like Ruthie! How wonderful!