Episode Report Card Cate: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Monkey Business (1)
By Cate | Season 7 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.15.2002
Mary comes into the kitchen and declares, "I'm not eating at a table set by a monkey." Oh, so that's what was going on in the Opening Credits Timewaster! Boring as that scene was, I'm kind of wishing they'd bring it back now. It was still better than listening to RevCam badger Mary about why she's not dating Hunky Firefighter Dude Ben anymore. There's something about Ben's ex-girlfriend coming back from London and Mary breaking up with Ben because he's "too nice" to break up with her. It makes very little sense. Huh. Mary not making sense. That must be a new one. Eisenhower sits himself down and blows a raspberry at her. Heh -- even the chimp thinks Mary is a loser. She shakes her head in disgust and rudely tells her father about how she's looking forward to leaving the "circus" of Glenoak. He asks her how many more weeks she'll be flying the all-important Buffalo-Glenoak corridor, and she replies, "Two weeks." Hallelujah! Glenoak's loss is surely Buffalo's gain.RevCam answers the back door to find Rachel Blanchard, who's looking for Kevin. Hey, she wasn't in the opening credits! I can't blame her for taking this role. After all, a girl has to eat. But maybe she didn't want her name associated too closely with this show. That's what I'll go on thinking, because it makes me feel better. As RevCam explains that Kevin is in the apartment over the garage, Ruthie and Lucy rush into the kitchen to spy on him. Lucy looks particularly stupid as she stands there staring rudely, with her mouth hanging open. Unfortunately, Rachel Blanchard takes a wrong turn, and RevCam has to help her out. Yeah, I'm sure it's really hard to find the garage.
Lucy starts interrogating RevCam about this woman, but he has no answers. Not even RevCam's assurance that Kevin will introduce her can stop Lucy from whining about how Kevin shouldn't be entertaining women in the garage apartment her mother built. Okay, first of all, Lucy, shut up. And secondly, have you seen the Garage Treehouse? It's a slum. At least it was when your sainted mother banished you and your siblings there last season. I hardly think Pea-Brained Moron is lucky to be living there. RevCam tries again to make Lucy ease up on Kevin. He says, "Why don't you give the guy a break and let him know he didn't move here for nothing. I think he'd ask you to marry him if he thought you'd do it." I can't understand why Lucy's still mad. Surely the possibility of a marriage proposal should make her ecstatic. Shouldn't it?