Episode Report Card Sara M: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT There's A First Time For Everything
By Sara M | Season 9 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.06.2005
RevCam calls Annie, Martin, and Mac outside to discuss the Vincent Situation. As they walk out, Ruthie walks in. The phone rings, and she answers it. But it's not Irving, it's Vincent, and he has some great news! It turns out he has been at the car insurance agent with his parents all this time, trying to get the paperwork sorted out so that he could drive Ruthie on their date. This doesn't make any sense for two reasons: first, Vincent said he had been driving for the last six months, he just hadn't been driving at night. So shouldn't his insurance already be all set? Second, I don't know any insurance agent that's open at freaking seven-thirty on a Friday night. Anyway, Vincent says he'll be over to pick Ruthie up soon. So soon, in fact, that he's going to bring his parents to the CamPound with him and then drop them off on the way to the Promenade. Ruthie hangs up, and the phone immediately rings again. It's Matt, and he wasn't expecting Ruthie to answer the phone. So he makes up a really crappy excuse about Vincent not being able to go out tonight because his dad had to go to the hospital. Matt says he's going to check it out, and hangs up.
RevCam and Annie enter the house, and Ruthie asks them what's going on. They shrug and find excuses to leave. Ruthie rolls her eyes.
Having moved faster than we've ever actually seen her move, Annie is already upstairs telling Kevin and Lucy about how Ruthie is getting stood up. Kevin threatens to beat Vincent up. Lucy says they need to think of a way to keep Ruthie from finding out about this and having bad first date memories. SamVid walk up and ask what's going on.
Mac enters the kitchen and offers Ruthie some water. She accepts, and he pours it all seductively, just like Ruthie did that time she had a crush on Mac. What I don't understand is why the CamRents have a pitcher of water in their fridge for drinking what you can plainly see the ice and water dispenser on the fridge door. Mac and his three-quarter-length sleeve sweatshirt says that if Vincent doesn't show up, he'd be happy to spend Friday with Ruthie. Ruthie asks Mac what he's talking about. Mac says that, in high school, there's a big difference between being fifteen and seventeen. Wait, Ruthie's FIFTEEN? Holy crap! She looks, like, eight. I should be the last person to pick on someone for being a late bloomer, having been that myself, but damn! Also, I don't understand how a seventeen year-old dating a fifteen year-old is such a big deal, but sixteen-and-a-half-year-old Vincent dating a fifteen year-old isn't. Anyway, Mac says that he would date her if he weren't so old. Sherlock Ruthie deduces that Martin told Mac that she had a crush on him. She runs to the back door and opens it to reveal Martin trying to look like he wasn't just listening to Ruthie and Mac's conversation. Mackenzie Rosman attempts to act angry.