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By Alex Richmond | Season 7 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.11.2003
Chandler hollers at Eric's father-in-law that Eric should have a cell phone. Eric's F-I-L says that Eric has resisted taking that step into modernity because he doesn't want to be bothered with a lot of calls other people deem important. Of course he doesn't -- not when he has to fly cross-country to talk to his associate pastor's dying dad! Chandler says that "it's dangerous" for Eric not to have a cell phone. Simon walks up and joins Chandler and Kevin at the table, claiming to flee from the house full of women back at home.
Cut to the CamPound, which is in fact filled with women: Annie, Cecilia, Roxanne, Lucy, Xtina, and Ruthie. Peter is off with the twins somewhere, perhaps talking about sports or beers. There are two conversations happening at once in the roomful o' women: One, why doesn't Cecilia want to go to prom (too much money for a dress and shoes and hair and makeup, just to "dance in a gym"), and who Xtina is dating (a cop named "Mike," and that's "all [she] wants to say"). Xtina didn't know Rox and Kevin were cops. Rox is all, "Mike Smith? Mike King?" Um, she doesn't want to say. The three older girls in the room all didn't go to their proms, because no one asked them. What a surprise. No one wanted these loosey-goosey bags of fun on a teenage watershed evening? Gasp. Ruthie asks why didn't they just ask some guy. Silence. Then Rox says she was afraid of being turned down. The other two go, "Me too!" Oh, boy. So, no boys in their school were as desperate as they were? How very sad. Rox excuses herself to the kitchen, then calls Kevin on her cell phone. Quick: Who do they know named Mike? Not Smith or King. Mike Morrow? Did he ever get divorced? DUN DUN DUNNN!! Chandler grabs the phone and asks if she's heard from Eric. And he needs to see her. Oh, ew. Simon says he's "not used to hanging out with grown men," and are they "supposed to ignore the fact that he's embarrassing himself?" Kevin says yes. And heh.
Ruthie comes into the kitchen, and Rox gets off the phone. Ruthie says she thinks Xtina is "lying." Rox says, "Aren't we supposed to like everyone?" Ruthie says, "Aren't we supposed to suspect everyone?" What? Are they? Which is it? I'm just filling in, y'all. Ruthie says that "everyone who's ever come into this house has had something wrong with them. Maybe this Mike guy is the key." Oh, wow. Ruthie just won big in the "No Life" poll.
The phone rings, again, some more. Hey, it's Mary! She wants to talk to Eric, who's in New York. She's surprised to hear that, and Ruthie bites her head off. Mary asks, "What's wrong with you?" Ruthie hands it right back to her. "What's wrong with YOU! Obviously there's something wrong since you're calling and asking for Dad!" She hangs up on Mary, who flips her phone shut and bites her lip worriedly.