Episode Report Card Djb: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT SFU 406: The Apology
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 07.25.2004
Rico asks Nate how his job is, and he shares that it's "amazing" and "awesome." Rico asks if it's a kennel, and George helpfully notes that it's "a canine retreat." It's Camp for Dogs. It's right on the window. Unless you're inside, in which case it's backwards so it's -- well, "redrum," I guess. David asks what's so great about it, and Nate tells them, "It makes me feel like I'm twenty-five again and life is simple and nothing horrible has ever happened to me." Every time in your life will make you remember another time as being simple, I guess. Show of hands if you remember twenty-five. Yeah, me too. It sucked. Nate notes the manifold wonders of working with dogs, to which Ruth responds, "I've always been a cat person." Claire starts to speechify that Ruth should totally get a cat, asking, "Why do you deny yourself so much?" Because drugs rule, Claire adds that everybody should always have what they want in life, zoning in on David to the horrified glances of all surrounding them: "It's your birthday. You just had this awful thing happen. You so deserve to be happy." David regards her after a long look and says, "Thank you, Claire." Ruth suggests to Claire that she help her clear the table, and Claire responds, "I'd love to, Mom. But I can't have it be just the women that clear." Keith and Rico stand up as well, and Claire further critiques, "Now it's just the women and the people of color who are clearing." High-five, racial pride! Nate stands up and George does not, and Claire thanks her brother and announces to those people of color and women across the table, "He really gets it." Drugs. The mind-altering chemical rush that makes all of your social interactions feel like the first time your saw your reincarnated dog bride.
Ruth cuts a ham in the kitchen and just effing blows it. Standing next to Vanessa, she launches right in: "Oh, I met your friend the other day. Sophie?" Vanessa asks who she's talking about, and Ruth further describes her as "a very outgoing kind of a person." Vanessa asks where she might have met her, and Ruth says she came to the house, adding that she thought Rico said that Sophie was a friend of Vanessa's. Confusion and paranoia reign. See? This is why the men should have done the clearing instead. Because if they were in the kitchen, they'd just be talking about guns and trucks and Jeff Foxworthy and penis-vagina porn.
Gifts! Gifts! Gifts! Keith gives David a fancy watch. Claire takes back her gift because it's not "meaningful enough" and because she has to give it to him at a more pivotal emotional moment. George has also bought something for David, and David opens the box to find a white gravy-boat looking thing he thinks is...well, a gravy boat. George explains that it's a "neti pot," which is used to clean the sinuses. You put warm water and salt in it, and George explains that he's done it every day for thirty years. "Every day?" Ruth asks. "I've never seen you do that." He tells her that he does it in the kitchen when he gets back from his morning walk. Ruth objects to the fact that he does it in her kitchen, asking with an edge, "Where do you keep your nostril pot?" He tells her that he keeps it on a high shelf so that it can be out of the way, and Ruth blows up, "You just want it to be one of your nasty little secrets!" But just at this moment, the Matthew Barney of LAC Arts busts through the door wearing his boxers and holding a video camera, asking Claire, "Could you help me find something tart?" Yeah, I'm gonna let that one sit right where it is, thanks.