Episode Report Card Cate: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Forget Me Not
By Cate | Season 4 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.12.1999
RevCam's on the phone, no doubt discussing important RevBusiness, while Ginger paces. The camera spends a lot of time on Annie, who's tottering down the hallway with a huge tray of what looks like tea. Ginger hopes the news that she's misplaced their grandfather wasn't too upsetting to the kids. No problem, Annie just lied to them (!) and said Gramps would be coming by the next day. RevCam has informed the local police that Gramps, a.k.a. Charles, is missing, and he says that the police sergeant has even called in some off-duty police officers for the search. Must be nice to have connections like that, eh? I hope that devoting all that energy to finding Charles means there are still enough officers to patrol the high-school gym. I'd certainly hate to see someone "trash" it by flinging toilet paper around again. SuperMom asks Ginger, "Why do you think Dad is heading toward Glenoak?" Ginger replies, "Ever since the diagnosis, I mean, he's been talking a lot about you and the kids." Whoa, back up, what diagnosis? Ginger gives us some background info on the changes she'd noticed in Charles's behaviour recently, including the fact that he's been feeling "lost in familiar places." Dragging eeevvverrrry word out for maximum dramatic value, Ginger tells us that Charles has been "diagnosed as being in the very early stages of Alzheimer's." The kicker is that Ginger had forgotten to tell them about Charles's diagnosis before. Is it possible she's the one who has Alzheimer's and is confused? Well, you'll just have to keep reading to find out. (See, I can do suspense badly too!) Needless to say, Annie is pretty upset by Ginger's news.
Cut to the high school, where Lucy is hanging with some of the dorkiest actors I've ever seen. They're giggling about how cool Habitat for Humanity is when Lucy drops the news that she won't be able to join them after school. She follows Mary's advice by not telling them why. They say they'll cover for her, no problem. As they walk away in an exceedingly dorky manner, Lucy guiltily looks at the mirror inside her locker and tells it to shut up. It's not like the mirror has been talking or anything, though. Weird.
Mary's walking down the hall when Robbie saunters up to her. She asks him how he got into her school, to which he replies, "I have my ways." Do you think he means he made a pact with Satan? We'd better ask Annie. Robbie blames the CamRents for not letting him "work" with Mary; thus, it is implied, he must skip his own classes and drive across town to see her at her school. Hmm, obviously that diversion program is working wonders on everyone in it. Mary tells him that because of her positive program review, she thinks it's time to ask her parents to let her and Robbie go on a real date. Robbie is skeptical and disses the CamRents again. Then he kisses Mary and leaves. He doesn't say goodbye or anything either.
Simon and his little friends are discussing their wild weekend plans. One friend is going camping with his father so he can earn another merit badge toward becoming an Eagle Scout. Wow. He invites Simon along, but Simon is inexplicably looking forward to doing "guy stuff" with Matt. Just as inexplicably, the other boys are impressed with this plan.