Episode Report Card Sara M: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Crap Miner's Daughter
By Sara M | Season 9 | Episode 3 | Aired on 09.26.2004
The Lame Clear Phone rings, and it's Harry, calling from a pay phone on the Promenade. Foster kids don't get cell phones. It's a rough life. Ruthie invites him to church. He cheerfully accepts the invitation. And I have to give Aaron Carter credit here; I thought he was going to be absolutely terrible, but, at the very least, he's charismatic and has stage presence. This puts him quite a bit ahead of most of this show's other guest stars, as well as certain members of its regular cast.
RevCam and Annie are setting the table as Simon comes home. He asks his parents when they're going to ask him how his therapy session went. He thought they'd be insane with questions since he's been there all day. All-day therapy? Well, that'll make a nice big dent in the Camden checkbook. Or rather, the church collection plate. RevCam says that he and Annie aren't going to ask Simon about anything; they'll let him tell them what he wants to, when he wants to. And he says it like this new parenting technique was all his idea. Simon apologizes for lying about Georgia, adding that he did eventually break up with her. Simon says that Dr. Gibson helped him with things he didn't know he needed help with, and he's sorry for disappointing his parents and himself. I'll bet certain parts of his anatomy weren't at all disappointed in Simon's decision to lose his virginity. "You didn't disappoint anyone!" Annie says, apparently forgetting everything RevCam's been saying these last three episodes, which is fine since it appears that RevCam forgot all that as well. Simon says that he's going to see Dr. Gibson a few times, and he'll be seeing someone at school -- if, that is, his parents will pay for it. RevCam semi-apologizes for the threat, explaining that he was "in the trenches," fighting for Simon's life, and he had to grab whatever tool he could find to do it. Well, RevCam certainly was a tool. A drama-queen tool. RevCam says he was always going to pay for tuition. How good of him. Simon tells his parents that he won't promise that he'll never have premarital sex again. But he will "use better judgment." Oh, is Georgia "bad judgment"? Because it seems to me like she's the best Simon's ever going to do. The CamRents try to look happy about this. They tell Simon that they'll always love him, "no matter what." Is the Simon comes out of the closet episode coming up soon or what?
And now it's Sunday morning. RevCam catches Simon and Georgia coming out of Simon's bedroom. He tells Simon that any future "discussions" he has with Georgia should take place in a common room, where everyone can watch. Georgia leaves, telling RevCam she'll see him in church. Simon says that he and Georgia were just talking about having a relationship "without being so physical." He says he wants to actually get to know Georgia because she makes him laugh.