Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 3 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Love And Marriage
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2007.08.02
...and only gets more so as, outside, he listens to the kids imitating their parents, with comments like "I like sleeping on the couch" and "I don't like your tone." Helen comes out and joins Don, remarking that it's an "interesting crowd" inside. Don sighs, "Same crowd out here." Heh. Inside, the hens are pecking away, although Betty is still refusing to participate in any Helen-bashing. One of the random women, though, can't resist pointing out that Helen is outside with Don, so Betty goes to interrupt them, pointedly asking Don again to go get the cake. Don leaves without a word.
Inside, a young boy knocks over a glass, and an older male guest, "Jack," grabs him, slaps him across the face, and tells him not to run in the house. It turns out this is Carlton's son Ernie, and when Carlton appears and hears what happened, he kneels down and asks if Ernie said he was sorry, and when he gets no response, asks, "Do you want some more?" Kid, you look too young to have read Oliver Twist, but take it from me: Wanting some more is never right. Jack tells Carlton it's okay, and Carlton sends Ernie to get Francine to clean the mess up. If the show's going to make me vomit with the sexism, I appreciate that it's at least not dragging it out.