Episode Report Card Sara M: D | 12 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT And Away They Blow...
By Sara M | Season 11 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.12.2007
Their hug is broken up by a voice, and a black man appears out of nowhere. Wow, John Hamilton got old. No, Annie introduces him as Stanley, but apparently, RevCam and regular viewers of this show have met him before. I went back and watched those episodes, and it turns out that Stanley is a homeless alcoholic smoker ex-drug addict who eats garbage and steals people's clothes. No, really. But now he told Annie that he can fix the fence and help get the RV on the road, so she leaves him with RevCam, who has decided that Stanley is some kind of messenger from the God RevCam loves so much that he abandoned doing his work the second he recovered from his terminal illness. Stanley tells RevCam to let him travel with them, saying he can cook and clean and set up camp, Massa! Stanley promises that if RevCam does everything Stanley says, he'll be just fine. RevCam decides that makes sense to him, and that the best way to keep one's family and young children safe from harm is to invite a homeless Magical Black Man who we know for a fact steals from people and drinks cheap whiskey onto the RV with them. God, I hope he steals SamVid's Swiss Army Knife and slashes them all to pieces in their sleep. Except for RevCam, who has already died of a heart attack by this point (he was lying to his family about being healed after all) and has been stuffed in the RV's shower stall for safekeeping.
Even though Annie's supposed to be the one who knows how to drive the RV, it's RevCam who gets in the driver's seat and buckles up. He turns the key, and the camera pans to the side mirror, where RevCam's tired old reflection stares back at him, and Stephen Collins should get an Emmy for managing to look sort of sad about leaving this show behind him. RevCam puts his foot on the gas, and accidentally puts the car in reverse instead of drive. Startled, he jerks the steering wheel, sending the RV flying back into the garage. The garage apartment, already of questionable stability to begin with, collapses on top of the RV. Happy grabs Savannah and drags her through an open window. They survive with nary a scratch. Meanwhile, RevCam grabs the steering wheel and yanks it in the other direction, overcorrecting and sending what's left of the RV into the CamPound. Crash! He hits a support beam that was keeping the entire house up and it implodes in on itself and the RV, which burst into flames. Right before it explodes, we see Stanley throwing his head back and laughing, surrounded by flames, eating RevCam's crappy heart that he pulled out of RevCam's chest with his bare hands. The RV explodes, taking the CamPound with it. The camera zooms out to an aerial shot of Glenoak, where a large mushroom cloud rises up from the former CamPound residence. We cut to an exterior shot of the church, and the mushroom cloud can also be seen there on the horizon. A crowd has gathered outside the church. We recognize the smiling faces in it. It's all the people the Camdens have fucked over in the last eleven years. Too many of them to mention. But they're there, every last one of them. And is that the ghost of Annie's dad I see hovering just above them as we fade to black?