Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Can't Always Get What You Want
By Sara M | Season 9 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.22.2005
Meredith gets some alone time with RevCam, which I suspect she's only too happy to take advantage of. She explains to him that she and her siblings can't stand up in court and say bad things about their own mother, especially if she's there to see it. Even though she's a crappy mom and it means they'll never get the parents they feel they so richly deserve, they can't publicly say bad things about her because she is their mother. Plus, it would upset her and she'd go back to drugs. Then Meredith runs up and gives RevCam a big hug. That's the real statement about foster children that this show has been trying to make all season right there: my heart breaks for these kids who are so starved for love and affection that they'll hug the creepy minister who has spent the last year giving them false hope and tearing down their dreams.
Simon finds Rose on the Promenade and says he's been "looking all over" for her, which doesn't make any sense when you consider that this show only has, like, three sets and it's not like Rose was going to be in the CamPound or at the church. Rose says she doesn't want to talk to Simon ever again. "I think I love you," Simon David Cassidys. Rose asks him what he wants from her, because in her bizarre world, you either casually date someone and have sex with them, or you're abstinent and engaged. There's no middle ground. Simon assures Rose that she's different from all the other girls, and they kiss. Then Rose asks Simon if he'll marry her. So…all those scenes and all that talking, and we're right back to where we started with those two. Great.
Ruthie walks into the Treehouse and apologizes to Martin for what she said to him earlier. Martin graciously forgives her. Ruthie says she's really embarrassed about the whole thing, as well she should be. But still, she's glad that she knows "the truth" about Vincent, even if it was painful to find out. Martin and Ruthie hug, and the guitar strums a merry tune of consolation. But then Piano of Priapism plays a few notes as Ruthie makes an "uhhh…what's that?" face and Martin makes an "oh, no…" expression and pushes her away. And then he grabs a notebook off the table and totally puts it over his crotch. It's pretty much unmistakable what just happened there. I'm glad the writers are finally taking a stab, so to speak, at making their adolescents realistic, but I wish their stab didn't make me want to stab my eyeballs out.
Annie and the twins make up and wrap up that non-storyline. SamVid ask if they can go to the airport to pick up Martin's dad. "Oh yes. We're all going to the airport to pick up Martin's dad," Annie says, sounding really pissed off as she packs item after item into her pocketbook. Chill, Annie. How much stuff do you need to pick up a guy's dad at the airport? There's some talk about having a home wherever you have family, unless that family is in, say, Chicago, and then Kevin wanders in looking for Lucy. He's shocked to see that she isn't attached at the hip to her mother. His cell phone rings. It's Lucy, and she wants him to meet her in the backyard.