Episode Report Card Cate: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dirty Laundry
By Cate | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.21.1999
Dopey's foraging around in his parents' refrigerator like the stupid, mooching loser that he is. SuperMom asks him if he's "eating for two," which makes no sense at all. He tells her that Chickenhead wants to see other people. Lucy walks into the kitchen, and Dopey implies that he's not comfortable talking about his problems in front of her. Lucy says she is leaving so that SuperMom and Dopey can talk, and that the conversation is probably "too intimate" for her anyway. Dopey totally freaks on her, accusing her of trying to make him look bad in front of SuperMom and of showing too much of an interest in something that is none of her business (yup, you're just the one to lecture someone aaaaaall about that, Dopey). Then he starts feeling all sorry for himself because everyone thinks of him as someone who just uses the Camden Compound as a restaurant and laundromat. Hmm, I don't know how the fact that he's always showing up to steal food and do his laundry would give anyone that impression. For the grand finale of his Moron Show, he whines that even though he doesn't live there anymore, he's still part of the family: "And I'm still your big brother, which entitles me to lecture you." I don't know; I'll always be five years older than my sister, but I think if I tried to lay a Matt-style lecture on her, I'd find myself with one of her boots lodged up my ass, and rightfully so. Man, what a freakin' moron Dopey is. And he's made Lucy run off crying. He tells SuperMom he's not going to apologize to Lucy because his private life is his own business. Annie says she understands, but "now that that word 'privacy' has reared its interesting head, do you want to talk about your private life?" No, he just wants to eat the Camdens' food in peace, damn it. I assume he wants to get the eating out of the way so he can leave as soon as his laundry is done.
Lucy and Mary are sitting in their bedroom. The way they've been angled weirdly at the beginning of the scene makes me think some director was trying to be artsy. Unfortunately all it reminds me of is the SCTV parody of Ingmar Bergman films. They engage in a very dull conversation, in which we learn that Dopey has hurt Lucy's feelings and that Mary got into basketball because she was always feeling left out when she was younger. She whines about how she has nothing left now and that she has "let everybody down." Considering that she was stupid enough to think vandalizing a school gym was a meaningful statement of protest, I can't be bothered to dredge up any sympathy for her sorry-ass problems.