It's 12:19 in the morning, and Lucy is still awake. So is Kevin, now that she's woken him up. She starts whining about how difficult it is to be on bed rest and how she can only walk for five minutes a day. "I have to depend on everybody else for everything!" she says, as if this were any different from the way things usually are in her world. But the worst part of it all is that she can't take a shower every day, so "[her] hair looks terrible and [she] smell[s]." Kevin says she doesn't smell, although he doesn't say anything about her hair, which does not go unnoticed by Lucy. She starts in with the screaming and whining about how Kevin doesn't understand what it's like to have children and be on bed rest.
Their arguing carries all the way up the CamBoudoir, where it is keeping RevCam and Annie awake. Although they may find sleep easier to come by if they didn't have their bedroom door wide open, exposing them to the brightly-lit hallway. Then again, if the door were closed, they wouldn't be able to spy on their children as well, nor would their children be able to catch them having sex. So I guess it's a trade-off. Ruthie wanders in and says that Kevin and Lucy's arguing are keeping her awake. Meanwhile, Ruthie is wearing a bathrobe that is about seventeen sizes too big for her. The sleeves come down to her ankles. Maybe they're trying to reinstate Ruthie's role as the Adorable Little Moppet, now that the twins have proven to be complete failures at it, as have attempts to make her an Angsty Teenager. RevCam tells Ruthie that Lucy isn't on bed rest for too much longer, and Ruthie points out that after Lucy delivers the baby, they'll be subjected to its screams and cries that keep them awake instead. I guess Ruthie doesn't have much faith in Lucy's plan to buy her own house. I wouldn't either. "You know, if this were Survivor, we would've voted Lucy off the island days ago," Ruthie says, apparently not realizing that "voted off the island" jokes are dated by about four years. And that's not even true because everyone knows that Lucy would have been kept around until the end, with the other finalist hoping that everyone would vote for him because Lucy is so goddamn annoying and everyone hates her. And Twila would have kicked her ass three ways from Sunday.
Ruthie leaves the CamBboudoir to find SamVid, rubbing their eyes and asking why Lucy is yelling at her husband again. Ruthie says that they will understand when they are grown up and married and their shrewish naghag of a wife gets knocked up and angry. "Why don't you try putting your pillow over your head?" Ruthie suggests, "that works sometimes." And it's true; sometimes when you put a pillow over young children's heads, they do suffocate and die. Which I am absolutely sure was Ruthie's intention.
The twins leave, and Ruthie notices a light on in Martin's room. So she opens his door, only to find him sitting at his desk, his hands in his lap, hunched in front of his computer. "Try knocking!" he shouts. Yeah, I think it's pretty safe to assume that Ruthie walked in on him in flagrante delictowith himself. Ruthie has the nerve to get offended by Martin's understandably angry request and starts yelling back at him, but then he slams the door in her face. Which was awesome. RevCam and Annie come into the hall and ask what the problem is. Ruthie says Martin and Lucy are both cranky and she can't take the sleepless nights anymore. Annie agrees. SamVid come out and report that Ruthie's pillow trick isn't working. Damn. Suddenly, RevCam has an idea. He tells everyone to follow him. I hope it's to Lucy's room to tell her to shut the hell up.
“ Lucy is the kind of person who reads Oprah magazine. She used to enjoy Rosie too, but when she found out that Rosie was gay she had to cancel her subscription. ”
But no, after the credits, we see that they've all gone to the Treehouse of Lurv to sleep on Kevin and Lucy's bed. This confused me at first, because I thought that Lucy and Kevin were in the Treehouse and that their fighting was so loud and obnoxious that they could hear it in the CamPound. We later learn that Kevin and Lucy are staying in one of the CamPound's many spare bedrooms to make it easier for Lucy's family to wait on her hand and foot. Perhaps this should have been established earlier. Anyway, Kevin comes upstairs and finds the family in his bed and wakes them up. Annie starts freaking out because the kids are going to be late for school and runs them all out of there. I think it's kind of weird that the whole family just slept in one bed like that. My family once tried to share a room in a motor lodge, except we all had separate beds because we aren't weirdos, and it was a disaster that we would never repeat. Kevin apologizes to RevCam for Lucy and says he feels bad that he can't make Lucy feel better. And then he pooh-poohs RevCam's words of consolation because he says that RevCam gets to sneak up to the Treehouse while he has to stay on the "front lines." I think Kevin needs to start being more appreciative of the fact that his father-in-law is letting him stay in the house at all, considering that it's ruining everyone's lives and they have obviously way past worn out their welcome.
Annie butters toast while Lucy shouts demands at her through a baby monitor. Among those demands are that Annie brush Lucy's hair, and I don't see how Lucy isn't able to at least do that herself. RevCam expresses annoyance at the baby monitor trick, because he now has to listen to a demanding Lucy in stereo, but Annie says she feels sorry for Lucy and the bed rest must be unbearable for her. The baby monitor crackles to life once more as Lucy asks where her breakfast is. Annie tells her to sit tight. "What else am I supposed to do?" says Lucy. "She's so grateful," RevCam says. But it's not like he taught his children any different, is it?
Ruthie comes downstairs and asks for a ride to school. RevCam says he can't do it. The two turn to watch Annie whiz through the room with the blue shirt Lucy requested firmly in hand. "She's going to kill us all," Ruthie says about Lucy, as if Lucy was the one who tried to suffocate the twins last night. RevCam asks Ruthie why she isn't getting ride to school with Martin. Ruthie says Martin is in a bad mood and she'd rather take the bus. And she does.
Martin enters the kitchen and asks where Ruthie is. Annie runs back in, only to be summoned by Lucy, who wants her Oprah magazine, because Lucy is the kind of person who reads Oprah magazine. She used to enjoy Rosie too, but when she found out that Rosie was gay she had to cancel her subscription. RevCam tells Martin that Ruthie took the bus, and asks Martin if anything's going on with him. Martin says he's just tired, and leaves.