Episode Report Card Cate: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Chances (1)
By Cate | Season 5 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.13.2001
Deena opens her front door to Simon. She's actually looking good, for a change. Her hair is styled and highlighted, her make-up is no longer applied with a trowel, and it looks like she's stopped buying her clothes at The Clown Shoppe. Despite all that, her boyfriend has dumped her. Simon seems to think this is his chance to shine, so he invites her out -- allegedly as a friend -- to cheer her up. Inexplicably, she accepts his offer. He's stoked.
Robbie is visiting RevCam at his church office to suckily tell him that he won't be dating Mary while living under the same roof with her. He claims that this is something Annie suggested. RevCam is surprised, as am I, unless that occurred during a scene in which I nodded off for a few moments. Robbie makes it clear that he wants to go on living at the CamPound. I can only assume it's because he couldn't live without the rush he gets from being in the same room as RevCam. These two still have way more sexual chemistry than Robbie and Mary ever did. There's some witless repartee about Robbie keeping his hands off Mary. Adam LaVorgna does the best he can with that puerile dialogue, but it's no use. RevCam asks if Robbie's all right, since he's acting "funny." That's strange -- I would have said he was acting "badly," but that's just me. Robbie leaves to pick up Mary from the airport. I can't believe no one thought to bring up oafish Wilson and his feelings during this scene. How insensitive!
Serena walks in to tell RevCam she's experiencing a "spiritual emergency." I guess the word "horny" might be a bit of a red flag for the censors.
Down at the pool hall, Lucy asks Jeremy, "Have you heard?" He has some envelope his parents sent him from New York, but he's been waiting for Lucy to arrive before he opens it. When she sees what's inside, she looks like she's about to cry. I don't know about you, but the suspense sure is killing me!
Down at the hardware store, Annie is doing some shopping with Ruthie and the twins. Annie is consulting a piece of paper, but for all we know, it might be her ever-present blueprints folded up. For reasons unclear to me, Ruthie's old friend Sarah makes a guest appearance. It's all pretty confusing, because this actress was playing Sarah on an episode last season. Then a different actress played her once this season, and now the original actress is back for a thirty-second cameo that doesn't even have a storyline attached to it. Maybe there was a storyline originally, but it got lopped off during some careless editing. Who knows? But more to the point, who cares? Sarah has grown taller, and she does catalogue modeling now. Maybe the purpose of this scene is to show that once she ditched Ruthie as a friend, things started going much better for her.