Episode Report Card Cate: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Consideration
By Cate | Season 6 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.09.2001
Mary is still trying to see the fire chief, and still not having any success. She wants to bully him into letting her into his firefighter training course, even though he's already sent her a rejection letter. She thinks she deserves more CONSIDERATION than a letter. Her sense of entitlement about that is baffling.
Glenoak's finest are still tailing Simon. Paranoid Cop wants to pull him over and search the car, even though his partner points out that the plates don't match that of the stolen car. Paranoid Cop brilliantly suggests that the plates may have been switched. Maybe if he consults the secret decoder ring he got in his box of Lucky Charms this morning, it will tell him what to do.
Ruthie helpfully points out that the cops are still following them, so Gramps tells Simon to "step on it." Simon complies, taking off with a squeal of the tires. Now, I'm not sure why accelerating from ten miles to thirty over the course of five seconds would cause the tires to squeal like that, but I never did all that well in high school physics.
The cops are totally excited by this situation. It makes me wonder how dull life in Glenoak really is. In the small town where I grew up, there was very little crime. That's a good thing, of course -- unless you're a kid who wants to party down by the creek. The cops had so little to do that they were always sure to catch you. To put it all in perspective, here in Toronto -- which is still low on crime -- you can walk down the street with half a beer in one hand and a joint in the other, and you have a pretty fair chance of not getting busted. The fact that these Glenoak cops are so frantic about a car that's been driving slowly and then speeds up to normal makes me wonder if they spend most of their days policing jaywalking infractions.
Seeing that the cops have put on their lights and siren, Simon wants to pull over, but Grandpa won't let him. Grandpa's excuse (other than his obvious senility and/or stupidity, of course) is that Simon has not done anything wrong, so he shouldn't pull over. Even though the police obviously want him to. Even though there are now three cruisers behind them, all flashing their lights. The writers cut down on the crappy dialogue they have to churn out by having the loathsome twins randomly repeating words like "Police, police, police!" It's hard for me to see how anyone could think that's a good idea, but I used to live in a university residence where most of my floormates would gather around the TV every Thursday night to laugh uproariously at the antics of that little girl on The Cosby Show, so maybe this type of crap does appeal to some viewers. Gramps thinks this is a good time to take a nap, giving Simon the perfect opportunity to pull over. Does he take it? Considering there's another twenty minutes of show to fill, no.