Episode Report Card Sara M: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Drop This Show
By Sara M | Season 9 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.12.2004
As RevCam leaves the house, he walks by Matt and Kevin, who are staring at pictures of vaginas in a medical textbook. Kevin is amazed. Something tells me he and Lucy have sex with the lights off.
Simon and Annie meet in the hallway, and Simon apologizes to her for making it seem like he was avoiding her. He's "just trying to grow up." Annie says that she can help him with this. His whole family can help. Like they helped when he killed that kid and then let him run away to college and never talked about him again? Or like they helped Mary when she was drinking "heavily" and experimenting with staring at joints? Simon asks Annie if he can skip dinner to take Georgia out. Annie says he can. As Simon walks away, Annie has her own little flashback of him in Season One, when he had that terrible haircut. It's sad that his hair now isn't much different.
Nighttime at the CamPound. Annie and RevCam are sitting on the couch, trying to figure out who's talking to which kid. Should they present a united front or speak to the kids separately? As they fight, Martin walks by, carrying some large baggage. Annie suggests that RevCam talk to Ruthie and she can talk to Martin. "I think he just walked through here with a tent," she adds. Lucy runs in looking for Kevin and Matt. She couldn't find them at the pool hall where they said they would be, and she doesn't like them hanging out together and talking about her. Lucy says she has a paper to write, and takes off. Annie says that she's going to talk to Ruthie to "feel useful." Well, at least Annie can feel useful, even if she can't actually be it.
RevCam comes outside, where Martin has already set up a rather large tent. He did that in three seconds! I couldn't even construct a crude lean-to out of my bedspread, a wall, and some nails in that time. I guess that's what a military upbringing does for you. Martin is doing his homework by the light of a lantern when RevCam approaches. Martin says he let Matt have the bedroom to himself so he could spend some time away from everyone. "Does 'everyone' include me?" RevCam asks. Martin says it does. RevCam reacts to this by taking a seat at the picnic table like the rude bastard he is. He says he's sorry that he seemed more concerned with Ruthie's feelings than Martin's, and he knows what Ruthie did was wrong. "Does she know that?" Martin asks. RevCam says she does. "Does she?" Martin snots. "She didn't apologize." Martin had a rude tone there, but I understand. RevCam says he's sure Ruthie will apologize after he goes inside and makes her. He continues that he would have been just as defensive about Ruthie with his real children, because he gives her preferential treatment because she's not his biological child and he has to overcompensate. RevCam says that he's probably a part of the reason why Ruthie is having trouble seeing herself as a "young adult." Another part of that reason might be that she looks ten years old. RevCam finishes by saying that Ruthie was wrong, and he's sorry for being unsupportive. He cares about Martin, and thinks he's a "very responsible, reasonable, attractive young man." He left the "attractive" part unsaid, but, you know. RevCam says that he loves having Martin around because he reminds him of Robbie, and he's sorry that he and the rest of his family have problems with their CamBrains. Martin apologizes for saying that, and says he does appreciate being able to stay at the CamPound. He just needs some time in the backyard. RevCam says he'll leave the back door unlocked. His bedroom door, too. "In case you change your mind," he says.
Lucy scribbles furiously in a notebook. She doesn't type her papers up on a computer? Her professors must really appreciate the professional appearance of Lucy's papers. I wonder if they come with hearts instead of dots over the i's. Lucy tells RevCam she doesn't need his help, so of course, RevCam takes a seat. He just loves hanging out where he's most unwelcome. He tells Lucy that he admires her for taking on so much right now, and asks about her relationship with her husband. Lucy says it's fine. "Kevin must be a big help," says RevCam. "What's he got to do with it?" Lucy asks, thus demonstrating that she is not smart or mature enough to raise a child: "I don't think [Kevin] has anything to do with this. I mean, except for the fun part." RevCam's just like, "Whoa, TMI, there, daughter." Lucy says she is doing this "by herself" because it's not like Kevin can have the baby for her and apparently that's all that's involved with being pregnant. Apparently nothing happens during those nine (or, in Mary's case, twelve) months between conception and birth. Oh, and now Lucy's mad because she thinks her father is assuming that she's too overwhelmed to succeed at everything she has on her plate right now, and she can. In fact, she can even find time to take over Chandler's job. If, that is, RevCam believed in her enough to offer it to her. RevCam's like, "Whaaa??" Lucy continues that her dad obviously just sees her as an overemotional teenager, to which RevCam responds by staring into space and flashing back to Lucy as an overemotional teenager. ["He wouldn't have to flash all that far back, either. What is she, now -- twenty? Shut UP, Lucy. I hate this goddamn show." -- Sars] Lucy sure did call that one, but why would she expect to get Chandler's job? She doesn't even have a degree and wasn't he, like, a doctorate in three areas? And a contributor to The New York Times? What has Lucy done besides serve on the student court for two episodes? Shut up, Lucy.