Episode Report Card Sara M: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Incestual Healing
By Sara M | Season 8 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.15.2004
Vic adjusts his tie and picks at a bouquet of flowers. Peter tells his dad that he looks really nervous about his date, too nervous for just a dinner. Vic says he'll tell him why, and then the scene ends.
Paris is putting on make-up and talking to an unseen someone about being glad that he came over to help her get ready. Yes, it's Chandler. Paris called her ex-boyfriend, who presumably still loves her, over to help her get ready for her date with someone else. Paris asks if this is "awkward." She shouldn't have to ask, although, really, she shouldn't have asked him to come over in the first place, so I guess Paris doesn't know much about asking. Chandler is too consumed with a magazine he's reading to care, anyway. It must be Bon Appetit. Paris finally manages to tear him away from the creme brulée centerfold and says she's worried that Vic is going to propose to her tonight, then leaves before Chandler can give her any advice about that.
They arrive downstairs. Vic sees Chandler and is less than pleased, so he starts making fun of him. Then he gives Paris a bouquet of yellow roses, saying that yellow is supposed to mean friendship. They leave for dinner, and Chandler and Peter go out for pizza.
Ruthie leaves to go to the movies. Annie, RevCam, and Lucy, seated around the kitchen table having coffee, ignore her. Even I don't drink as much coffee as these guys do. Nor would I drink it so close to bedtime; that's just stupid. Lucy has a confession to make: she tried to call Richard. RevCam also has a confession to make: he tried to call Conehead. Annie criticizes everyone for going back on their words, then confesses that she called Matt's hospital but couldn't get any information. Lucy and RevCam decide to "combine forces" and find out what the Glasses are hiding. If by "forces" they mean "complete inability to mind their own damn business, to the extent that it interferes with their daily routines." Annie says they should just drop it, and that what they're doing is "wrong." You know something's wrong when Annie is the sanest person in this family.
Kevin comes in and asks what's for dinner. Lucy says that she is going out with her father; Kevin is free to do whatever he wants for dinner. Here's an idea, jackass -- why don't you take your able-bodied, adult self into your own kitchen and make your own dinner? Kevin realizes that Lucy and RevCam are planning on spying on Matt and says, warningly, "Lu-cy." "Ke-vin!" Lucy mimics in response. I thought married people had children, not turned into them. Lucy and RevCam run out the door.