Episode Report Card Cate: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT High Anxiety
By Cate | Season 7 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.23.2003
RevBong has rushed down to the police station to talk to Roxanne. She's pretty pissed at Kevin for calling him when she expressly asked him not to. It looks like she's still not ready to acknowledge that men just have better judgment than women. And what's with the attitude? She probably has PMS. Detective Michaels comes out and tells her that PopRox is almost done with his interview, so he'll be out in a few minutes. He also tells her that her father has decided to quit the police force. Roxanne says, "Okay, now I'm upset." Good thing she spelled it out, because I don't know if I'd have picked that up from her "acting." Honestly, didn't Rachel Blanchard used to be a better actress? Maybe it's not that the performers on 7th Heaven started out as bad actors; maybe the show itself sucks the acting skills right out of them.
It's really hard to have any sympathy for Roxanne when she's so hateful and stupid. She assumes that the police department is forcing her father to quit, even though, as Chandler points out, Detective Michaels never said that. Then she goes off on a simple-minded rant about how "bad" people deserve to die. Honestly, her points sound like something one of the twins would make up: "Bad man not byoooootiful!" Because I can understand the revenge motive, I'd like to cut her some slack, but the fact that her job allows her to carry a gun scares me too much. Chandler is pretty reasonable as he tries to talk some sense into Roxanne, but what he gets for his efforts is Roxanne calling him a "bleeding-heart liberal." Bwa! Like Brenda would know a bleeding-heart liberal if it walked up and punched her in the nose. Not that punching Brenda in the nose is a fantasy of mine or anything.
Lucy is in the Kourt of Kevin, trying to justify her decision to take a break from school. Her opinion doesn't count for anything with him, though. I'll admit that her opinions are often quite stupid, but it still galls me that he treats her with so little respect. When he threatens to postpone the wedding, though, I laugh pretty hard at the stricken look on her face, so that probably makes me a hypocrite.
Behind the CamPound, Ben wants Ruthie to tell him why she's so hot to get him a girlfriend. She breaks down and says that Mary has been trying to get in touch with him all week. She's even left a ticket "at the airport" for him. Hee! Yes, well, that's specific. Ruthie's logic is that if Ben has a girlfriend, he won't be interested in Mary. And Mary, of course, is evil and will break Ben's heart. I know I've made fun of Mary a lot over the years, but even I am becoming appalled at how horribly Brenda treats her. Mary and Lucy used to be half-decent characters, back in the day, and the fact that Brenda had turned them both into such pathetic twits is pretty sad. You have to wonder how Jessica Biel would even consider coming back next year. Especially when the show's writers regularly pull such glaringly stupid plots as this one out of their asses at a moment's notice and then pretend that's normal.