7th Heaven

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Sara M: C- | 442 USERS: C+
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Father, Why Bother?

We open in Martin's room, where Mac is whining to Martin about how they both are in desperate need of girlfriends. Martin tells Mac to give the girlfriend thing a few weeks, since Pam(pers) just dumped him. But Mac doesn't want to wait, because the quicker he gets a rebound girlfriend, the more it will appear as if he dumped Pampers. Ruthie walks up to the closed door and listens in, as Camdens will. Martin runs down a list of available girls for Mac, but all are rejected for either having laughed in Mac's face when he asked them out previously, for being baseball team groupies, or for being freshmen. Martin says dating someone a few years younger isn't a big deal, which it totally is in high school. The corner of Ruthie's mouth turns up in what I believe is a "smile."

Hey! It's Ben! He looks as big, dumb, and hunky as ever, which is just fine by me. And he's eating a sandwich, no doubt courtesy of the Camdens (i.e. the church collection plate). Ben further endears himself to me when he starts making fun of Kevin for going with Lucy to her doctor's appointment. He loses points when he asks if he can go too, since he's the baby's uncle. He acts as if this were a good thing, when seeing as it puts him in the company of SamVid, it isn't. Kevin turns Ben down anyway, saying that Lucy would never agree to it. But then Lucy walks in and, when asked, tells Ben that he's free to sit in the waiting room during the appointment. Ben picks up his sandwich and leaves. Where is he going? Why not finish the sandwich while he's at the kitchen table? Being mobile with crumbly bread is just asking for an ant invasion.

RevCam and SamVid are playing themselves some Candyland. SamVid announce their collective intention to spend the entire day in their pajamas. RevCam says he will, too, because he has this Saturday off (Lucy's doctor schedules appointments on a Saturday? Lucky Lucy), and he's going to spend it with the twins. The twins judge RevCam to be "too old" for such behavior, then say that RevCam can't play with them anyway because he has to go to work. RevCam says, again, that he took the day off work to be with them. They express surprise that anyone would want to spend time with them, which is both sad and telling.

The doorbell rings, and RevCam turns around. The twins take this opportunity to move their pieces forward on the game board. But since they're stupid, they move them to the exact same square, and Vid's piece totally falls over, knocking over a deck of cards on its way down. Nice move there, Rico Suave. RevCam goes to get the door, telling the boys not to cheat while he's away. SamVid say they aren't cheating; they're just trying to finish the game before RevCam goes to work. RevCam says, for the third time, that he isn't going to work. Tedious, yes, but it'll be worth it if this is the episode where someone finally realizes that the twins have problems and gets them help. Or not, since RevCam chooses to answer the door instead of rush the twins to the nearest learning disability diagnosis center. Charlie's at the door (that's "Charlie," not to be confused with Grandpa Charles or Charles Miguel or Carlos), and he's really whiny. "I can't be a father. I can't," he says. Aww, RevCam and Charlie have something in common.

7th Heaven