Episode Report Card Sara M: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Annie's BlocKKK Party
By Sara M | Season 8 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.02.2003
Roxanne runs into work wearing an entirely inappropriate tight tank top that displays her midriff and cleavage for all to see. Not that there's anything wrong with wearing that; it just doesn't seem like a good choice of work attire unless, of course, you work at Hooters. She asks Kevin what he's doing there, as she thought it was his day off. He says that Asslee's home robbery is more important than his day off. He and Det. Michaels are already working hard on the case by thinking about distributing lists of the stolen goods to local pawn shops. But why do your job when you can ask Roxanne about her troubled teen instead? Roxanne says that she was supposed to be with him this weekend, but he has to help his mother out. Det. Michaels and Kevin jump all over that, asking if he's lying. Det. Michaels says that she should "check up" on Jordan's story. I think Det. Michaels should check up on a mirror in his house, because that purple shirt-and-tie combination he's sporting is just awful. Kevin gets a call from someone named "Fred," a neighbor of the Camdens. Det. Michaels assumes that Fred must be calling with information about Asslee's robbery, and sends Kevin to go check it out. Roxanne close-talks to Det. Michaels and says that Jordan is a good kid, and she needs to catch up on some paperwork. Do I sense sexual tension between those two? I need RevCam's Love Detector to be sure!
Annie selects two small floral arrangements at a small kiosk on the Promenade. The florist lets her have them for free because of the block party. Well, that's cool, although I don't really see what one thing has to do with the other. The florist says he's planning on coming. Was he invited? He asks Annie for more information about the Duprees. He heard they were "European." Annie says that he can ask them about their nationality at the party, then leaves without taking her free basket of white roses.
The Dupreerents enter Eric's office. I'm surprised they didn't have some lines about how "different" RevCam's office is compared to their place of worship, which, by the way, is a mosque. A Muslim mosque. For Muslims. The Duprees say that they came to RevCam because it's "safer" than him coming to them, because they're Muslims. Wha? They add, of course, that no one in their old neighborhood liked them because of that. Eric says he's sorry. Mo lectures that Eric shouldn't feel sorry for them, but for the people who hate them. Someone also needs to feel sorry for Mrs. Dupree's hair and rescue it from the oil spill it appears to be drowning in. The Duprees say that they appreciate the Camdens' party gesture, but they don't want to come. They don't want anyone to know that they're Muslim. As the only party clothes they own all say "I'M MUSLIM!!" on them in big red letters, this totally makes sense. RevCam begs them to reconsider, saying that he knows his neighbors and they won't mind the Muslim thing. He chooses not to mention how much fun it's been for Yasmin and her family to be the neighborhood Muslims. The Duprees say that you don't really know your neighbors until they find out that you're Muslim and hate you. RevCam says that they can't spend the rest of their lives isolated because they're afraid of people. Mo says that this way is safer, and Mrs. Dupree adds that they can't afford to move again if there are any more problems, so this is what they have to do. If they could only afford to move once, and they wanted to go somewhere more tolerant than Glenoak, then why did they stay in Glenoak? "So thank you, but, no thank you," Mo says. I wonder if the reason why so many people hate the Duprees isn't because they're Muslim, but because they rudely turn down their invitations to parties thrown in their honor.