Episode Report Card Sara M: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Annie's BlocKKK Party
By Sara M | Season 8 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.02.2003
I love how the many commercials for Everwood that played throughout the show have proclaimed it to be a "special Monday night event," like just the fact that it's not 7th Heaven makes it so.
It's nighttime at Glenoak PD Blue, and Roxanne, in uniform with her hair swept into a no-nonsense braid-bun thing, walks to a holding cell that predictably contains Jordan. She asks him if he wants to talk. He asks if he's "really" under arrest. Roxanne says that he isn't. Jordan's second question is if it's illegal to lock him up like this. Roxanne says it's not, because Glenoak has its own rules specifically designed to rob its residents of as many freedoms as possible. And if you don't believe her, you can go ask Mary's confiscated sports car. Roxanne says someone has to get through to Jordan, and she needs to know who robbed the houses. Jordan says that if he tells, he'll get beaten up. Roxanne gives him the old "you're at a crossroads" speech, then says that she'll do whatever she can to help him if he picks the right path. Which would be the path of telling on his friends.
In front of someone's house, Chandler and Paris talk about how much fun they had today and how they don't want to be just friends. They start to kiss, but Paris (!) pulls away. She says they just met, and there's an age difference. It didn't stop her with Ben, but I guess Paris is a changed woman now. "And what about Peter?" Chandler asks. I'm glad someone's thinking about him, even if it isn't his own mother. They agree to be friends, then make out complete with groans and loud kissing. They're so loud they don't hear it when Paris's butt gets knocked into the doorbell, making it ring. Of course, Peters answers it and watches them for a while. He finally alerts them to his presence and asks his mother where she's been all day. That's right -- Paris is so self-centered that she didn't even think to tell her own child where she was for an entire day. Sometimes, like when I remember that he's dating Ruthie, I feel bad for Peter. Chandler and Paris claim that they've been doing "church business," and walk inside. Should an associate pastor be lying like that?
In the dimly-lit CamKitchen, RevCam wonders what they'll do if no one shows up for the party. Annie says that they'll be eating chicken tenders and beans for a month. But don't forget, Annie -- that chicken and those beans came at cost! That's quite the $$$avings! Chandler and Paris tumble in and are immediately bombarded with questions as what they've been doing all day and why they both look flushed. They neglect to answer in favor of running outside to help Lucy set up for the party. "Chandler and Paris?" RevCam asks. "I knew it," says Annie. "Me too," RevCam says. Yeah, sure you did. Ruthie asks if anyone wants to accompany her to the Duprees' house. Apparently she's getting into the spirit of pride in one's heritage by celebrating her possible one by wearing a serape. RevCam decides to go with Ruthie and Peter to the Duprees' house to warn them that the party might be very empty. Annie sighs and looks up at the ceiling.