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Tonight on "Desperate Housewives," Susan shoots Katherine. But more importantly... A MONKEY ATTACKS A CLOWN.Gabby
Apparently Gabby is a little "cavalier" with her daughters, to the point where other moms don't want their daughters playing at Gabby's house. Um, that's ridiculous. Nobody watches their kids every second, my mom certainly didn't. Kids are tough, suck it up stodgy housewives.
When everybody cancels on Juanita's birthday party because one uppity witch is spreading rumors, Gabby spends a ton of money on a cotton candy machine, a clown, a bouncy house and a monkey so the little girls all freak out and demand to go to the party. That's our Gabby.
Predictably, the birthday party goes wrong. The monkey goes nutso and attacks the clown and sends the kids screaming. But I'm with Gabby, that's not her fault. Perhaps she shouldn't have been having a margarita with Susan at the time of the attack, but what would she have done if she'd been standing there? Taken down the monkey herself? I don't think so.
Later Carlos reassures her that their girls are smart and independent because Gabby doesn't hover over them. His examples are that when the monkey went crazy, Juanita zipped herself inside the bouncy house and Celia played dead. HAHA!
Susan
The whole neighborhood welcomes Julie home from the hospital. Nick approaches her at the party (as Danny looks on), but Julie says it's over between them. When Danny talks to her later, Julie says she can't sleep at night after being attacked. So he gives her a gun to make her feel safer. Yeah, that oughta work.
At the Neighborhood Watch meeting, Katherine is shooting her crazy-eyes all over Susan and Mike. Susan doesn't want Katherine patrolling because she's so looney tunes and they snark at each other. Awesome.
Later, when someone is outside Susan's house in the bushes, Julie gets out Danny's gun. Susan takes it and accidentally shoots Katherine. Oh, whatever. It's just a graze. Bitch had it comin'.
Lynette
Mrs. McCluskey gets Lynette to hire her boyfriend Roy as a handyman, but when Roy totally defers to Tom for every household decision, Lynette gets her bread-winning panties all in a bunch because of Roy not listening to her. When confronted, he says it's because he respects Tom because he's the "man of the house" so Lynette fires him.
When Lynette tells Tom, he goes to Roy and Tom explains that Lynette grew up with a dad and a drinker of a mom and was responsible for everyone. It gave her a fear of things falling apart and a need to control things. Tom says Lynette can't control everything but she can control Tom, if he lets her, and so he does let her because it makes her feel safe. And that is his job as a husband. Awww. Love Tom and Lynette.
Bree
A maid at the motorlodge overhears Bree talking to Orson and puts 2 and 2 together. When Bree comes home bitching about the "woman" at the "cafe" who got all uppity and superior with her, Orson advises her to set this woman straight.
So the next day, Bree helps the maid clean the room while defending her actions but the maid says Orson is a good man because he did the shopping (which she overheard Bree say). Oh, big deal. Orson sucks.
The next time, Bree calls the maid out on having been cheated on but the maid says she was the one who cheated and she lost her good husband AND her boyfriend. Bree confesses to feeling guilty all the time and she thinks Orson shouldn't love her anymore because she's not worth it. When Karl arrives, the maid then drops a groan-worthy anvil by saying she's "just turning on a light." Oh gag me. That is just bad writing.
The Bolens
Danny is pissed at Nick for cheating on his mom and threatens to tell Angie, so Nick calls his bluff and says that the affair won't destroy, it's knowing that Danny knew about it that will. Low blow, Nick.
When Susan shoots Katherine with the Bolens gun (which is registered under their real name), Angie and Nick intervene. Angie goes to Katherine, plays up on her cuckoopants behavior and gets her not to call the police.
Thoughts & Tidbits
- In the Lynette vs Roy conflict, I'm totally with Lynette. Even if Lynette is controlling, that does not give Old Man River license to be a total jerk, ignoring her every idea and checking with Tom. I would've wanted to punch the 2000 Year-Old Man, so I admire Lynette's restraint.
- I'll say again, the other moms getting all uppity about Gabby is ridiculous. No mom watches their kids every second of the day and sledding down the staircase to our basement in a sleeping bag was one of my brother's and my favorite activities as kids.
- Katherine's haughty little faces at Susan? Make me want to slap that smirk right off.
- The visual gag of Marcia Cross unloading the gun? AWESOME.
- Laura: And of course this means Rachel won't be attending Juanita's birthday party.
Gabby: More cake for us! Beat it! - Mike: Susan, you do not want to pour gasoline on this fire.
Susan: You're right. I want to pour gasoline on Katherine and if you love me at all, you'll give me a match and an alibi. - Lynette: I know, since you're using a cell phone, you know what century it is.
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I loved the Tom scene at the end. He really is a sweetheart.
I hated the guy Roy. Really he needs to move to the current century.
Katherine acting crazy is really funny to watch, and I dont think Susan would go to jail for shooting Katherine. I mean she was sneaking, and Susan couldn't have know that it was her, and Julie was recently attacked and Katherine didn't even get hurt, Susan would have been fine.
I didn't care so much about Gaby or Bree's stories this week.
The thing I thought was funny was Gabby is being accused of being the one it's dangerous to be around. You'd think by now everyone would assume Susan is a crazed killer. This one dosen't count as I recall noone knows, But Susan breaks into Edie's house and thinking her and Mike are in there accidently burns it down,and takes off. Then she accidentally runs Eddie over with her car, and accidently shoves the highly allergic Edie into bees, and accidentally killed two people in a car crash, then tries to crush someone with a car, and mere hours after threatinging her shoots Katherine proclaming the gun just went off? O.k. granted everyone knows shes a klutz, but come on. This is Desperate
Housewives somebody has to be suspicious of all these near fatal accidents. As for Roy well lets give the guy a break, I'll certanly grant that he handled it poorly, but he's hardly the first charecter on the show to decide Tom is so henpecked he's bleeding. In fact Tom has complained about it a few times himself, so his whole, I let Lynette control me, seems a might questionable.
bree unloading the gun = win. gotta love a woman in the NRA...
I thought that was one of the worst episodes of "Desperate Housewives" ever. None of the ladies had a funny storyline. Gabby's storyline and Bree's both fell flat and seemed more awkward than funny. I really am getting sick of hearing about Mrs. McCluskey's sex life. I throw up a bit in my mouth every time she starts up about it. I am just sorry that Susan didn't kill Katherine and get rid of her crazy *** once and for all! She needs to go to a mental institution! And this talk I am hearing about a mid-season cliffhanger with a plane crash might just be the final straw for me. I have faithfully watched the show since it premiered, but that would be beyond lame and over the top and might have me leaving Wisteria Lane once and for all!
it was a chimpanzee not a monkey.
It was another dull episode. It seems like they only put effort into the episodes that air during a sweeps period and the rest of the time its just filler.
Last week it was all about Lynette's breasts. This week no one said a word nor did they look as big.
Katherine going over the deep end is just a dumb storyline and is killing this season.
Why is Juanita still such a fat kid?
Why is the Orson character still on the show. Its become such a weak one they should just kill him off once and for all
Bree unloading the gun was brilliant and the two gay guys unvolunteering for the watch because the time coincided with Project Runway was funny too.
I hope some of the over-protective mothers who coddle their kids so they never learn not to run with scissors, overschedule them so they never learn to entertain themselves, and refuse to give them chances to make their own decisions and learn from successes and mistakes learn a little lesson from this episode. Sadly, I'm sure they all thought Gabby was in the wrong and the helicopter mothers were in the right.
I love this show no matter how ridiculous it is. Um, Lynette is in charge cuz she's the WOMAN of the house, the baby-birther, and the bread-winner. Respect her and that's that. 2000 year old Ned or whatever his name was should have been kicked to the curb.
Gaby rules as a mom. My sister and I would always slide down the stairs when growing up. It was a blast!
Orson is a jackass and a criminal and should just give Bree a divorce. I don't blame her for cheating on him but sleeping with Karl is a mistake. And who was that maid woman? I've seen her before. I was amused watching Bree help her make the bed and being threatened to help her clean the toilet or leave.
Katherine is all sorts of crazy and she plays it well. Susan should feel good that she shot that screwball. How is Katherine gonna afford to live in that house if she's now unemployed? Unless her ex is paying her a ton of moolah. And Bree swiftly and expertly emptying out the gun was hilarious!!
In my mind, Bree/Karl was none of the maid's business.
And you're right. Orson does suck. Bree needs a divorce from him.
Katherine needs to be gone. She's a little too crazy.
It takes a lot of talent to make dull television--even more so when you have a monkey onscreen.