Episode Report Card Cate: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Letting Go
By Cate | Season 6 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.28.2002
SuperMom is folding laundry downstairs when RevCam comes in. He launches into a long, unnecessary explanation of how he went down to the church for his counseling session but the couple was not there. Let's have a show of hands from everyone who gives a shit about that. Anyone? Anyone? That's what I thought. He proceeds to hassle Annie about letting Dopey sleep over at the Glass house and how that means that she's obviously condoning premarital sex. At least he manages to say the word "sex" without having to resort to crappy euphemisms like "adult relations." Annie is a little taken aback by such blunt, shocking language, though, and she asks him to tone it down. Ugh, that's so absurd. RevCam expounds on his theory that Dopey and Plot Contrivance are already married. He's right, but that doesn't mean anyone wants to hear him harp on that subject again. Annie sure doesn't, and she tells him so. There's no stopping him, though, as he explains why he would like his son to be already married. He has two reasons, really, and they're both pretty selfish and stupid. First, he wants to have his faith in Matt and "the world" restored by the fact that Dopey hasn't been having premarital sex. So, it seems that he would rather his son did something as ridiculous as getting married after knowing someone for less than forty-eight hours. Is he completely delusional? His second reason is that then there wouldn't have to be a wedding that was in a temple instead of in his church. Annie sits him down and gently explains that it's past time for him to start letting his kids go so they can lead their own lives and make their own decisions. Despite SuperMom's best efforts, Eric is not ready to accept tonight's theme mallet wisdom yet. That's probably because we're only twenty-one minutes into the show.
That means it's about time for an unwelcome appearance from the twins. Sure enough, there they are now, babbling about how they need new beds since they can get out of their cribs. Hey, Brenda, thanks for the shout-out to the posters who were discussing this in the forum! Simon comes in and explains that he's ready to put the twins' beds together, but he has to get some special wrench from the hardware store. This is all a plot contrivance, though, so that RevCam can find out that Lucy's new beau is twenty-five and could therefore supervise while Simon and his learner's permit drive to the hardware store. That would make Pea-Brained Moron Kevin six years older than Lucy, which really is not such a huge age difference, but Eric is shocked anyway. He stands there with his mouth hanging open while the twins babble some more about their damn beds.