Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Pregnant cause
By Daniel | Season 9 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.03.2004
Is there anybody who doesn't find Mr. Wendy, the unofficial spokesman, incredibly annoying? I'll never understand why companies use purposely irritating pitchmen for their commercials. If Dave Thomas were alive, I'd punch him. Seriously, I would. Right in the gut. 7th Heaven brings all my worst impulses to the fore.
Oh, here's why Annie went running: so she could visit Leanne's mom, and we get to see the exact same scene as we just saw with RevCam and Charlie's parents. "I want Leanne to give the baby up for adoption!" says Leanne's mom, and when Annie says she doesn't think that's going to happen, Leanne's mom shrugs and says it's her choice. Annie blah blahs about how her seven children don't always do what she wants, but it's when they don't do what their parents want that they need their parents the most, or some such, and Leanne's mom says she was never a good mother and that Leanne practically raised herself, and...oh, oops. There goes that fast-forward button again. I really should get that fixed.
Back at the CamPound, Ruthie and Lucy are setting the table for all of the Camdens who aren't actually there, and the only two who are actually at home, SamVid, they're not even looking after, like they're supposed to. SamVid's probably floating face down in the bathtub right at this moment. Ruthie wonders what it would be like to be having a baby and not be married, and Lucy says, "Well, you're never going to find that out," like nice supportive, reassuring thing to say. And then Ruthie wonders if Harry is too "troubled" for her, and I would like to ask if anyone writing this show has ever actually spoken to or seen a real-live teenager before, because the dialogue doesn't reflect it. And Ruthie all of a sudden decides that she and Harry should just be friends, only she wants Lucy to tell Harry that, like what is up with the general shirking of responsibility on this episode? And Lucy smiles because talking to Ruthie about boys reminds her of when she and Mary used to talk about boys. That would be before Mary's excommunication, I guess.
And here comes Simon, home from his Big Gay Bike Ride, who despite telling everybody goodbye throughout the whole damn episode STILL has not left for his college that apparently doesn't start classes until October, and he says he was taking care of some unfinished business, and Ruthie wants him to dump Harry for her, and I really really REALLY don't get why they keep doing that. And Simon has brought home Chinese food, and it sure was nice of him to call ahead and make sure his mother wasn't already preparing food. Then again, perhaps he's been in the family long enough to know that his mother is likely on any given night to be too busy telling other people how to raise their children to actually look after her own. And in comes SamVid now, who is apparently starving thanks to Annie's neglect, and one of them raises his arms and says, "Food, glowious food!" and Lucy's pumpkin head makes her jack-o-lantern smile that always makes my blood run cold even as we're supposed to be aware that this is a funny and touching moment.