Episode Report Card Cate: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Kiss
By Cate | Season 5 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.04.2001
John and Priscilla argue about the Japanese apartment. Then they exchange apologies and a chaste little kiss.
Back at the CamPound, Simon apologizes to Lucy for interfering with Elaina. Mike's worked his magic well on Lucy, though, and she takes the blame for the entire situation, saying that none of it would have happened if she'd taken Simon's advice in the first place and let go of Mike. There's a good little woman. In case you missed the whole "men give good advice" concept, Lucy grinds it in by complimenting Simon's advisory talents.
We hear the twins crying out, "Mama, Mama," somewhere in the background. Annie comes running through the hall in what is probably meant to be a comic fashion. When she reaches the twins' room and sees Ruthie there, she loses it. The director must have told her to convey hysteria by progressively raising the pitch of her voice as she cries out, "Why do my babies keep calling Ruthie 'Mama'?" The results are not exactly comic gold. Simon lets Annie know that Ruthie's been training the twins to call her "Mama." Ruthie runs off; SuperMom follows. Lucy asks Simon why he didn't let Annie know about this sooner; Simon essentially replies that he didn't think it was important. Well, of course it's not important! Ah, never mind. Let's just be glad that storyline is drawing to a close.
Dopey meets up with Robbie at the pool hall. Robbie has demonstrated his saintliness by sitting there alone all night so that Dopey wouldn't show up to find everyone gone. Come on, Robbie -- Matt's dumb, but even he wouldn't have spent more than an hour or two searching for you under salt shakers and behind menus. Robbie and the Dopester share a delightful bonding moment laughing at John and Priscilla's apartment, until John comes in to call them the "loose lips convention." He says he needs to talk to them. Dopey suggests they play pool while they talk. I wish I had a pool hall nearby where you don't have to pay for a table or even rack up the balls yourself, because Dopey doesn't have to do any of that. He just starts playing. By the way, I can't believe I got through this entire episode without making any "pocket pool" references. Oops! Almost.
Annie stands in the middle of Simon's room and calls out, "Come on out, I know you're in here!" She's just about to leave when Ruthie comes out of the closet. Heh. No, no, she literally walks out of Simon's closet, okay? Annie reveals that she's been walking into all the rooms and yelling, "Come on out, I know you're in here!" No time for any more parenting tips like that, though. SuperMom gives an impassioned little speech, wanting to know why Ruthie's been training the twins to call her "Mama." It's chock-full of guilty stupidity. If this plot weren't so insultingly moronic, I'd feel a little sorry for Annie, but instead I laugh when Ruthie says, "I was just goofing on you." Annie is so happy about Ruthie validating her worth as a parent that she laughs giddily for a while before telling Ruthie never to play a trick like that again. Ruthie just averts her gaze and doesn't make any promises. Ah, that little scamp!