By Lady Lola
Tabitha apprehends Dixon as he arrives home just past midnight. She pretends to reprimand him for a minute then adopts the mischievous tone we all know and love. Dixon hopes he can sneak in, but Tabitha tells him his parents know he's not home and that Debbie is freaking out. And speaking of... Debbie stomps down the hall toward them, gives him a big, scared hug, then dresses him down for missing curfew. Harry joins suit, and the scene is punctuated by Annie's wailing baby.
Tabitha tells Harry to relax and says he could have been doing worse, specifically something involving Laker Girls in Tijuana... Of course Annie comes up just in time to bask in Tabby's filthy wit. Debbie tells Annie to quiet the baby, but -- like the supremely responsible (and totally not self-absorbed) person she is -- Annie can't find it. As Dixon zings Annie's lack of parenting skills, Harry exercises some of his own, making Dixon promise he won't show up late without calling again.
Annie shows up with the whimpering animatroni-tot, and says she found it in the bathroom... in the corner... under her jeans. Debbie jumps (and I mean JUMPS) on the opportunity to reply, "Nobody puts Baby in the corner!" After nearly two decades of marriage, Harry knows enough to give her a courtesy laugh. Everybody else, through silence and icy gazes, lets her know that it is, in fact, she whose freak flag flies high tonight. And... scene.
The morning, Silver meets Matthews in the hall to make sure their coordinated prison chic striped tops look nice under the fluorescent lights. (Not really, but what else do these people do? Certainly not teaching and learning.) She asks if Matthews misses Kelly. He tells her he's already dating other people. She invites Matthews and his lady friend of choice to a movie screening at a local cemetery. He's as weirded out by that idea as he should be but agrees anyway.
As Matthews walks off, Dixon approaches. He says that he got in so much trouble that Harry and Debbie insist on going to the movie tonight to ensure he makes curfew. She's a little dejected, but she's more upset by the fact that he slept through something important to her the night before. He apologizes for not investing enough in the horror movies, and they get back to cuteness as usual.
Unfortunately, they are interrupted by the twins of perpetual annoyance, Annie and Ethan. They squabble over the baby -- she's predictably uptight about grades, and he tells her to relax. Silver diffuses the tension by inviting them to the movie. She asks the non-couple if they want to all ride together or meet up there. Annie makes this innocuous question rife with nonsensical sexual tension by pausing all meaningfully then eking out rationalization that they can go as a couple since they're parents now. Ethan shows how much he cares about this faux drama in Annie's head by tossing the baby like a football. Nice.
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