Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Amour-ticians
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 3 | Aired on 06.19.2005
And because Ruth just doesn't get enough of funerals in her everyday life, she's watching an old movie that ends with one. We get a clear look at the movie's executive producers when they pop up on the screen, and you know damn well I IMDbed them. One of them has produced many bad TV movies, but the most significant credit he shares with the other one is Living in Oblivion, which I've never seen but I'm 99% certain isn't what they just got done watching. Perhaps it's the title that's relevant. Ruth says, "That was lovely." "A little too sad for me," says Maggie, whom I have yet to see in any color other than blue. "But very true to life," comments George. Okay, forget what I said earlier about the layers. Ruth shuts off the TV and says she'll go take a bath so that father and daughter can have some quality time. "Does everyone have everything they need?" she asks tiredly. "Yes, dear, thank you." George lies sadly. "Goodbye. I mean, goodnight," says Ruth, and heads upstairs. Oh, so fraught with meaning. Once she's gone, George presses his hand to his forehead in anguish. Maggie asks what's wrong, and she's about to go get Ruth before he stops her. "I'm having more symptoms," he confesses. He wants Maggie to bring him in for another shock treatment, but not to tell Ruth. Maggie says, "She's your wife, she wants to know." "No, she doesn't," George says sadly, and repeats his request. He makes his plea: "I love her. If I lose her, I'm finished. Please. I want to keep her." He doesn't explain why that is, but Maggie reluctantly agrees. And then she sits there and helps him hold his brain in. I think it's a little late for that, Mags.