Episode Report Card Sara M: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Father, Why Bother?
By Sara M | Season 9 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.17.2004
Ruthie enters and asks what's going on. RevCam stares at her. She asks him what he's looking at. "Well…don't you look nice. Beautiful, even. And many years older," RevCam says. The twins looked a little squicked out, because even they can see the weird incest vibes going on in this scene. Ruthie says she might be going out for pizza with Martin and Mac. RevCam asks which one Ruthie's interested in, since no one would spend time with Mac or Martin solely because he enjoyed their scintillating conversation and thought-provoking discourses. Ruthie basically tells RevCam the same thing she told Annie four times at the beginning of the show. SamVid ask Ruthie if she wants to help them clean up the backyard, which will be fun because they're "doing it with Daddy." Then Lucy comes in and asks for Annie, and RevCam asks if he can help her with anything. SamVid remind RevCam that he's supposed to be busy with them. Lucy says she doesn't need RevCam, so he takes off with SamVid.
Lucy asks Ruthie what her "new look" is about. I don't even think Ruthie looks that different than usual. They always put her in tarty makeup. But I have to admire whatever products she used; they're already demonstrating some serious staying power. My makeup tends to slip right off my face while I'm putting it on. Lucy asks Ruthie if there's a guy involved in all this, because we've only had this conversation twice in this episode already. Lucy tells Ruthie the boring story of her doctor, and how Kevin doesn't like her but Ben does. "Ben who?" asks Ruthie, who should know, but then, she obviously has a bad memory since she's totally forgotten Peter. When reminded who Ben is, Ruthie asks what he has to do with anything. Lucy says nothing, except that he's on her side.
Kevin is mad at Ben for getting involved with his business. He tells Ben to get his own wife and baby. Ben says that he'd have both already if only Wilson hadn't screwed things up with him and Mary. Kevin reminds Ben that he wasn't even in love with Mary. Ben says he totally was, but he just didn't know it at the time. Kevin says that isn't Wilson's fault. Ben says Wilson got Mary all confused. This is repeated a few more times, and then Kevin says that all Ben had to do was agree with him that the doctor wasn't right. Ben says he liked the doctor because "she was hot!" Kevin calls her an "arrogant, condescending, man-hating witch." Now, why did the 7H casting team (if such a thing even exists) go all the way to England to find one of those when they could have found an even better one in Denver, Colorado? Ben says he'll try to "fix things" for Kevin. Isn't it just a little hypocritical of Kevin to lecture Ben about the importance of taking responsibility for one's own problems and then immediately order Ben to fix one's brother's problems?
SamVid and RevCam clean the picnic table, which RevCam says Annie's been nagging at him to do all week. Only Annie the Control Freak would get so obsessed with her husband cleaning a picnic table. SamVid say RevCam is a "good daddy," although this claim is backed up by the fact that he does things for Annie rather than anything he does for his children. RevCam kind of sounds sarcastic when he responds that Annie does so many things for them.