Episode Report Card Cate: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Still Dopey after all these years
By Cate | Season 5 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.15.2001
RevCam drops in on Harold to let him know that he'll continue meddling in Harold's business as soon as he finds Dopey. It's mainly an excuse for RevCam to mention that Dopey missed his evaluation, and that someone had seen him leaving the hospital with a patient. Thanks for the exposition, but I think most of us already figured that out a while back.
Dopey tells Doc that he thinks of him as some sort of holy man. Doc smiles. Or maybe he's just trying not to laugh at how stupid Dopey is.
When we return from commercial, Sasha is busy giving SuperMom a lengthy technical description of how two people can breathe through each other's noses while kissing. Now, I'll admit that I'm way geekier than the next person. I mean, I'm the only childless adult I know who used to have a membership to the Ontario Science Centre, and I'm always willing to listen to explanations of scientific things, no matter how obscure, but I have to agree with Annie that this just isn't something I want to hear about. When Sasha is done explaining, I'm even more sure I didn't need to hear it. Annie, on the other hand, seems to be turned on once she hears the explanation, and when RevCam wanders in, she tells him that there's something she wants to try later. Okay, must not think of CamRent sex life, must not think of CamRent sex life. Aauurgghhh, too late! Damn you, stupid Camdens! Annie shares her asinine fears about Ruthie "conning" her teacher, and RevCam lets her know that Dopey missed his psychiatric evaluation. When Eric leaves, Sasha shares some more with Annie. She mentions that her father is a "professional con artist," because he has some shady-sounding job related to corporate buy-outs. I could tell you about how Annie starts quizzing Sasha about whether her father was funny as a child, but then you, too, will be embarrassed to be a member of the same species as the writers.
Matt drops Doc off at the hospital and tells him how much he appreciated their talk. Doc pretends that the next time he's in the building, he will look up Matt for another chat. Hee hee -- I'm sure that'll happen. He leaves Dopey with some convoluted advice that's probably not worth the time it would take for me to decipher. As he's walking into the hospital, Doc brushes his hand across his own ass but tries to play it off like he was going to adjust his belt.
Speaking of asses, RevCam's attempting some problem-solving again. He's explaining to Ruthie and Robbie that Annie is worried about Ruthie growing up to become a criminal. Frankly, I don't think she needs to worry. Ruthie's just not that funny. Big surprise -- it turns out the article in the parenting magazine that fueled this half-witted story line was written by a stand-up comic who was being sarcastic. This was explained at the end the article, but the CamRents never made it that far. It's a little weird that Annie would get so up in arms about an issue and then couldn't even be bothered to finish reading the article on it, but maybe the writers were feeling even lazier than usual this week and just couldn't be bothered coming up with a more credible plot. RevCam makes another plea to Ruthie to tell her parents what she does every morning, but she refuses, though she phrases it well. RevCam tells her he loves her and then leaves. Robbie and Ruthie discuss the fact that Eric seemed depressed.