Yee-haw!

S04E09

As Carrie sits in front of her laptop, she tells us, "Three hours, two mosquitoes, and one too many vodka Kool-Aids later, I finally found an outlet for my computer, but not for my frustration." Frustration? Oh, please! She should be happy she even has hot water and electricity. My husband’s family has a real log cabin (built before the Civil War) in the country, in Rockbridge County, VA, about ten miles from Buena Vista (and that’s pronounced Byoona Vista), and to get to the cabin you have to go off a main road and drive through a cow pasture and up a gravel drive. Once you get there, you need to get a pail and go to the spring at the bottom of the hill so you can have water, and if you want to go to the bathroom you need to walk about a hundred yards to the outhouse (that only got a door installed a few years ago), and if you want light you need to make sure that all the lamps have oil in them so the wick doesn’t dry out. Fortunately, the wood stove heats up the cabin pretty quickly so in the winter you don’t freeze, and in the summer there is a nice breeze since the cabin is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but you have to make sure that the screens are on tight or else a gazillion bugs will get you. That, my friends, is the country. Carrie then blathers on about relationships and how people have to compromise, and she asks her computer, "In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?" When the writers have you do things that you wouldn’t really do, like wear heels to a cabin and screech at a squirrel.

Meanwhile, Samantha is in the city having sex while wearing a red lacy bra, and when she finishes up, the guy asks her what she is doing weekend. She gets annoyed and gets out of bed and throws his clothes at him. Oh, what wacky Samantha hijinks! All these crazy people asking her what she is doing on the weekends! Will the comedy ever start?

Carrie tells us that Miranda invited Steve over for Chinese food and Chop Socky, and Miranda sits down with Steve and gives him a beer. Steve thought Miranda didn’t like martial arts movies, and she tells him she doesn’t, but the guy at the video store told her it was a good movie, so she rented it for Steve. She then offers him the last spring roll and offers to make him some Chinese tea. Steve gets annoyed and starts to put on his shoes to leave and tells Miranda that he doesn’t want to be treated like a cancer patient. She tells him that she felt bad about being a bitch the last time they were together, and she wanted to make it up to him. He tells her that she was a bitch, and he thanks her for it, because now he has a good doctor who knows what he's doing and he has his surgery scheduled. He thanks her for being "a huge bitch," and the camera does a close-up of Miranda looking sheepish, then goes back to Steve, whose glasses have suddenly disappeared! Is it so hard for the continuity people to remember to have Steve keep his glasses on?