Episode Report Card Gwen: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Shocking secret
By Gwen | Season 5 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.06.2001
Ruthie calls Ms. MacKoul and pretends to be sorry about her earlier rudeness. Then she tells the principal her family's business. Then someone yells out her name and she has to hang up. Filler scene much?
The whole CamClan is in the living room again. RevCam tells them Grandpa's business while Annie stands there like a stupider-than-usual scarecrow. Then she tells the kids that she needs them there for her meeting with the New Sister. She babbles on and on about her sadness and jealousy. The CamRents go around the whole living room and tell each kid how groovy he or she is and how he or she can be expected to help Annie through this drama. Then each kid says something smarmy in return, and they all finish just in time for the knock on the door.
Grandpa and Lilly the New Sister are there. Lilly in introduced to the whole freaking gang. We learn that she's from Chicago. She's played by some woman who was on Melrose Place, I think. ["It's 'Mama' Michelle Phillips, who has turned into a total WB guest-star whore." -- Sars] I lost interest when I found out that Ruthie's principal was in The Craft, which is one of the few videos that I own. She played Neve Campbell's doctor. Oh, and I think she was the braless heiress on Seinfeld, too ["yep, and Charlie's girlfriend on Po5 for a while" -- Sars], but I only care about melodramatic teen flicks and nothing else. The kids ask Lilly a bunch of nosy questions. Lilly's parents died and she was compelled to search for her birth parents and blah blah blah. I don't even care, because I doubt we'll see this woman for more than one episode after this. Lilly is touched that the Camdens are meeting with her. Annie and her dad run off to the kitchen. Ruthie tells Lilly, "You want us to tell you about the one who got sent off to Buffalo?"
In the kitchen, Annie admits that this is the first time she's seen her dad as a person and not just a father. Okay -- doesn't everyone else in the universe go through that phase in their late teens or early twenties? Annie says something about not having regrets and then hugs her dad and then, thank God, the episode's over.
See? This show made me give thanks to God. The brainwashing works, after all.
Next week: We learn that skanky-ass Mary did something shocking with Lucy's long-distance boyfriend Jeremy. Dang -- aren't bus stations too dirty for that sort of thing?