Episode Report Card Sara M: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cornucopia of Crazy
By Sara M | Season 9 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.14.2004
Annie's sitting in bed, looking through a photo album with her hand on her heart, like anyone does that in real life. SamVid enter the room, and Sam says, "We'll make tammbookies smurfs faceplant." Annie apologizes for getting "a bit upset earlier," like, NO, ANNIE, I don't think saying possibly the worst thing you can say to your kids is just "a bit upset." She feigns interest in her kids' well-being and asks if they ate. Vid says they couldn't eat; no one could. Annie smiles, because this makes her feel important. She asks SamVid to sit on her lap, so she can strangle them -- I mean, "look at pictures."
Ruthie's on the Lame Clear Phone with Carlos, and how nice of him to not return any of RevCam's fifteen messages even though he was obviously home. Carlos scolds Ruthie for calling him so late, and it's about time someone on the writing staff realized that New York is three hours ahead of California time. "I'm sorry," Ruthie says, not sounding very sorry at all. I'm sorry, however, because even though Simon and RevCam managed to have an entire phone conversation in one-shots, Ruthie and Carlos have gone into Cheesy Split Screen. Which is even worse than usual, since Carlos doesn't know how to stay in frame and spends most of the scene without the top of his head. Ruthie tells Carlos she can't go to Puerto Rico, because her mother is crazy.
Annie bounds downstairs with SamVid and meets Matt and PC, who volunteers to get the kids sandwiches. SamVid say they can help. "We're good at making sandwiches," says Vid, and everyone laughs because retarded children can't make sandwiches. Matt starts to apologize to Annie, who says that it is she who owes him an apology for going "holiday crazy." Uh, more like "crazy crazy." Matt says they'd be there if they could, and suggests that everyone fly to New York and spend the holiday with them. With Mary's infinite jetBlue passes! Annie says she'll spend the holiday at the CamPound with whoever can attend, and hope that Matt's schedule will allow him to come next year, even though HE'LL STILL BE IN MEDICAL SCHOOL, and after that he'll be a resident, so really there's no way Matt is spending another holiday with his family for the next ten years.
Kevin finds Lucy sadly packing her Thanksgiving decorations, saying that this is the least she can do to make her mother feel better. "I'm sorry. I know you were looking forward to this. What with the acorns. And all," Kevbot says, more haltingly than usual. He tells Lucy not to be sad; someday they'll have their own house and their own kids to not attend holidays until their mother abuses and guilts them into it. Kevin adds that not spending the holidays with family doesn't make someone a bad son or daughter; for example, he won't be seeing anyone in his family this year, although he would like to next year, which should make next season's Thanksgiving episode a sheer freaking joy to recap.