Episode Report Card Sara M: C | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Le joke est morte; vive le joke
By Sara M | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.05.1998
Back in the RevOffice, Annie is still chatting with her husband. She's also drinking what looks like the wine Gee gave them. Wow, Annie, you've broken like three commandments right there. Then we get a special treat -- a shot of the computer screen with the CamChat. The last thing I need to see is G-rated cybersex, so I close my eyes. When I open them again, I'm looking at the bedroom of two fat nerdy boys who are in the same chat room. They're reading the chat and laughing. One of them says something about not knowing there was a French guy in the Camden house. Which means that the Nerdy Boys live in Glenoak and have just happened to stumble on a private chatroom occupied by two other people they know who live in the same town. Well, I know that I see my friends in internet chatrooms all the time, so this isn't at all unusual. Then the other Nerdy Boy says, "No wonder they got kids." Instead of wrinkling up his face at the disgusting thought of the CamRents getting it on, the other boy laughs.
Over at the pool hall, Lucy is complimenting Gee on his pool ball break. I saw him break too, and it wasn't "great"; it was weak, and even I could do better. But no one ever praises my questionable pool-playing talents. Lucy chalks up her stick as Gee slides over to her and asks her what she thinks about a man who kisses on a first date. Matt and his "date" walk in, because the Pool Hall, like that chat room the CamRents are in, is the only place in world. Matt walks over to the pool table and introduces Michelle to the group. He tells Gee that Michelle is studying in Paris next semester. Gee says something French to her, she responds in kind, and they start speaking French, much to all the Camdens' chagrin. Not to mine, however, because the scene ends and I am happy, because it sucked.
We get an establishing shot of the CamPound, which is good, because I would have had no idea where Ruthie and Simon where if there wasn't one. They're both lying on the bathroom floor, groaning. Simon delivers a PSA about how gross smoking is, and Ruthie responds with one about cancer. Happy runs into the RevOffice to tell Annie that Simon and Ruthie are in trouble, and Annie runs to save the day. She jogs into the bathroom and smells the cigarettes. Then Happy shows her that Ruthie and Simon are stuck in the mineshaft! No, actually Annie looks down to see her kids lying on the floor. Ruthie blames Simon, Simon blames Ruthie, and Annie believes Ruthie even though she's lying. Annie asks if the cigarettes belong to Gee, and Simon says they found them in his suitcase. Annie is immediately suspicious and angry about what they were doing in Gee's suitcase, but Ruthie escapes punishment by saying that her head hurts too bad to remember why she went into Gee's suitcase. Annie sends her favorite child to bed. I will point out that she is kind enough to step over Simon and not on him. When Simon asks why he doesn't get this kind of treatment, Annie scolds him about giving cigarettes to six-year-old. Ruthie grins wickedly. I hate her.