Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 345 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Do You Know How "Taps" Sounds on a Ukulele?
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2009.09.06
Gene leaves the house with both kids dressed in their school clothes. Cut to Bobby in the back seat of the car, looking bored as he listens to Gene drone on about roofing or something. Bobby's apparently difficult to excite, because when we pan forward we see that Sally's driving the car. Of course, this might not be the first time this has happened, especially since Sally seems to be driving both competently and at the speed limit, which is a combination I wish more people in LA would master. Gene instructs her really to pay attention, and given that that's what he's doing to her, she basks in the glow...
...before we cut to Peggy's mother Katherine complaining that she just watched fifteen minutes of news and heard "nothing about the Holy Father." Peggy: "He's still dead, Ma." She's still in a very good place, at least with respect to being hilarious. After her mother complains about her TV not working, Anita emerges from mopping and other household chores, and Peggy bitches to her about her belief that her super has been sneaking into her apartment in order to pay her inappropriate, if tame, attention. Anita, who appears to have let go of any Peggy-related jealousy or animosity from last season, says she would offer a room, but their mother took her only spare. Which is fine with Peggy, as it turns out, given that she drops her voice and confides in her sister that she wants to move to Manhattan. Anita thinks that's so far to go, but Peggy informs her that that's the point -- she commutes almost two hours every weekday, and it's wearing on her. Anita gets that, but points out that the rents in Manhattan are "outrageous" (let's talk in forty-five years, honey); Peggy counters that she'll get a roommate and will save a lot on subway and cab money. Anita doesn't need any further convincing to get an upgrade on her vicarious living through her sister, and with a mixture of apprehension and awe, asks if Peggy's going to be one of "those girls." Peggy, with an answering smile: "I am one of those girls." Well, not quite, but last week helped. As will your upcoming talk with Joan, not that that's a surprise.
In the SC conference room, Pete tells a man of his approximate age this: "I observed your wishes for secrecy, but now is the time." Considering the man in question was once Pyro from X2: X-Men United but has since lost a battle with a proto-self-tanner, the consequence of which seems to be that he's been forced to sport a horrendous ascot and go by the name of "Ho-Ho" for the rest of his life, if he wanted to keep his appearance a secret, I can understand why.