Episode Report Card Sara M: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Can't Spell "Exposit" Without S-E-X
By Sara M | Season 9 | Episode 17 | Aired on 02.27.2005
RevCam checks Matt's phone and says it looks like he has a couple of messages waiting for him, and that Annie will be arriving in New York tomorrow and can bring Matt's phone with her. Matt says this means he can just check his messages when his mom brings the phone, then, but RevCam says he's "already listening" to them. We see RevCam with Matt's cell phone in one ear and the church phone in the other, because there just hasn't been enough phone action in this episode already. RevCam looks quite pleased to be fulfilling his phone double-fisting fantasies. He tells Matt that there's a message from PC, telling him to call her (odds are ninety-nine to one that it's about Matt signing their divorce papers). Matt tells RevCam he can stop listening to his messages because he can just check them himself when Annie arrives tomorrow. Well, that's like asking an alcoholic to drink just one sip of beer, isn't it? So RevCam keeps right on listening, and says Simon wants Matt to call him, but he didn't say anything more. This is a lie, but as we'll see throughout this episode, the CamRents are allowed to lie even though no one else is. Matt asks RevCam if Mary knows her mother is coming to visit. Of course she doesn't! Why ever would a Camden do something as polite and considerate as informing someone well ahead of time that she is coming to visit them, when she can just appear on one's doorstep to completely disrupt one's life? RevCam and Matt hang up, and RevCam listens to Matt's phone messages again. It's a good thing there's no chance that PC left an intimate private message for Matt.
Matt leaves a message on Simon's machine, informing him that RevCam may have heard whatever Simon said in his message. He continues that Kirstie Alley is fat, and way to have a boring, non-plot-progressing scene devoid of living people when we could have been treated to a scene of Matt's hospital boss busting him for using the hospital line to make long-distance personal calls.
It's nighttime now. Ruthie is doing the dishes, which, now that I think about it, she does during at least one scene in every episode. Drinking game! Martin walks in and invites Ruthie out with him to the Promenade. Ruthie says she already turned Vincent down on a trip to the Promenade. Martin happily asks if this means that Ruthie is "tired" of Vincent. Ruthie says she just wanted to stick around the CamPound because there's "a lot of stuff" going on. Martin asks what it is, being sure to pitch a little hissy fit about the fact that he wasn't informed about it in the first place because no one thinks of him as family. So Ruthie tells him about how Kirstie Alley is fat. Martin disgustedly says that he can't help Ruthie out with this at all because he doesn't have experience in "this level of lying," and walks out. Well, I'm sure Ruthie will be eager to let him in on all the family-only secrets from now on.