Where the hell are Lynette's twin boys? They haven't been around at all--Parker is a cuter kid though.
They were such trouble makers, how is Tom getting off so easy with them? Did those kid actors leave the show?

prescription for EVIL.

haha, nice recap.

"she retaliates by cutting down the woman’s bushes"

Oh the places we could go with this one. I thought it was very appropriate for a scorned lover to cut down the other woman's bushes. Isn't that what gardener boy was doing anyway?

Great pic of "Horatio Sanz's father". That was a hilarious fantasy come reality. And how perfect is the pharmacist to play a creepy guy; his eyes his smile, psycho!

Show continues to ROCK...these bitches and 'ho's keep you jumping...

Bree then confronts George at the local Walgreens where he hatches all his evil plans..
I almost choked on my lunch over that one!

eva sucks

I cant believe the writers actually think we are going to forget Lynette had the twins. Since the new season started there has been no mention of them and on this episode they showed a family picture in Lynette's office - and surprise! No twins.

Last season they stole from the old lady neighbor, got dropped off in the middle of nowhere when Lynette tried to teach them a lesson, got spanked by Bree, and drove Lynette so crazy she had to steal a nanny....now they just dont exist??

Maybe Lynette really is crazy and they were just her hallucinations.

Noo..must not...watch this..show! Oh WTF the recap is soo damn good. Since I'm nearly a season and a half behind I guess i'll wait for the DVD's.

Do they cake enough make-up on the pharmacist dude? I mean he looks like he belongs in an off broadway production of The Rock Horror Picture Show...you know, without the lingerie.

i think the pharmacist took medication to pass the lie detector test. sounds like some james bond type stuff. what do you think? he's so evil. Bree and him will never work out even if she does think she's in love with him

I like how you pointed out Lynette's flaws but I'm surprised you're surprised at her behavior. The name of the show is Desparate Housewives after all...there is no normal one!

Thanks for the Stern fan shout out!

BA BA BA BABABOOOOOEY!!

Certain mood altering drugs such as anti-depressants are known to interfere with polygraphs by helping to suppress emotional and physical responses to lying. I’m sure a trained pharmacist with access to anything he wants could figure out some concoction of meds to at least get an inconclusive result if not pass it outright. However, last I heard (from various cop and legal TV shows), lie detectors were not allowed to be submitted as evidence in a criminal trial so that doesn’t really help prove or disprove his or her innocence.

I hope the rest of the world doesn’t watch this show and think this is how all American mothers behave. Selfish, deceitful, uncaring. I know they are only fictional characters but I wish the fictional Social Services department would come by and fictionally take away their fictional kids to be raised by less insane fictional parents.

also you can fool a lie detector sometimes by as meanial a deterrent as putting a pen in your shoe. because that awkward sensation in your shoe distracts your mind from anything else you may be asked, it would prove inconclusive.

....so i've hear, no really.

Modulus - And what kind of show would that result in? The non-fictional family hour? I see that every day at my own house. Trust me...not much entertainment there. :-)

Besides the obvious plot flaw of digging up a dead guy without any court order, the thing that really annoyed me was Edie's stupid cast. It was only on her leg and not her foot. What's the point in that? It just irritated me. Can ABC not afford to hire a fact checker or whoever would pick up on these mistakes?

i'm tiring of this show..

last season was "good" and original-ish, this season we have the convenient results of complicated scenarios

the "actors" who portrayed lynette's twins obviously asked for more money (i mean their "manager" mother did)

suspending reality is fun to a point, but seriously, inflicting 3rd degree burns so you can watch a kid get his cubby at kindergarten..on conference-ware?

i'm liking each of them less and less. there used to be SOME redeeming qualities about most of them, with the exception of Gabrielle, which was amusing.

in fact the ONLY redeeming quality about Susan was putting her daughter first, which she's thrown out the window

and now Gabrielle is remorseful about her dark deeds? where's the fun in that?

DH is now officially OFF my DVR record list - i'll still read the re-cap to see if there's some reason to resume actual watching

i'd rather watch Laguna Beach than this wad of contrived crap..and yes i AM bitter!

"It's not a lie if you believe it."
-George Constanza

Right on Laura! I was loving this show last season, but it's just become retarded. I'm starting to hate all of the characters now. And what's up with Gabrielle apologizing to Carlos? So lame! She's supposed to do something wacky like run off to Mexico with the gardner. This season sucks!

Have the twins been on any episodes this season? I hadn't really noticed until this one. Also- the son who starts Kindergarten looks like he should be starting 3rd grade. He has already lost his baby teeth and has the permanent ones.

You just know that Andrew is going to do something heinous in the next couple weeks.

Also- why would Susan keep going to the Applewhites in the first place? Their crazy and she knows it.

Lynette: Her story is dull. Another example of how parents over indulge their children and the constant need to make them feel special. Sickening nonsense.

Susan: Her legs are so skinny, its gross. She does her best to channel John Ritter by acting like Jack Tripper from a bad Three's Company episode.

Betty Applewhite: At least she is interesting on screen and can deliver a line...'I'm making cherry pie'....awesome!

Gabrielle: Really bad soap acting at its best. How did she get hired? She must perform awesome oral sex. The emmy council was right to snub her. Go back to daytime.

Bree: Another idiotic storyline, if she's so smart, she doesn't get a lawyer. What a dope. She should go all Dr. Kimberly Shaw on them and blow something up.

Edie: She can play a guitar? She looks more and more like a cat every day. Freakish! I do enjoy her bickering with Susan.

Conclusion: More Edie, Bree and Betty. Less Lynette, Susan and Gabrielle.

KH

Maybe I'm wrong, but in the previous episode where they showed the hands of the person in the basement... I could have swore they were white. So I was really shocked when a black dude came running out.

Ed Torrian should have been hired to adminster the lie detector.

how about more felicia. where the hell is felicia?!

FYI, lie detector tests don't work unless you believe they do and therefore your body physiology responds to the questions you know you are lying to. If you go in there knowing they are shit, which they are, you will be clean. Which I'm sure a pharmicist such as George would know. Of course, the fucking idiot writers will make it be a drug because they are too fucking stupid to make any of their plotlines the least bit plausible.

The detective, played by that character actor who has made a nice living by being the perennial "weaselly bad guy" in films such as Ghostbusters 2 , simply says there were "anomalies in the report."

Said character actor is Kurt Fuller (equally nefarious in Wayne's World). I met him when I was 8 or 9 when he was in the fine Hulk Hogan movie No Holds Barred. What's that? You didn't see it? Anyway, he's not as weaselly in person.

I think George passed the lie detector because they asked him if he poisoned Rex. He didn't, he replaced his meds with placebo.
KatiesHole, I agree w/your take on making Bree, Betty and Edie storylines the primary ones.

Hey..I thought I was crazy When I noticed the white/black hands for the guy in the basement as well...freaky. And then those missing twins...But we always have Edie's pair....

Glad to see i'm not the only one tiring of the stupid story lines on this show. I could do without Susan entirely. I'm not ready to give up on it quite yet but the show needs some help!

The critics agree with those of us who are tiring of the show. The critics from USA Today and NY Daily News (unimpeachable sources, I know) have both run articles talking about how slow the season has been so far. I'm just waiting for the article that will come out and say that the first season was overrated and we are now seeing what happens when mediocrity hits the wall.

Ditto on the show getting boring and nonsensical. Last season it was all fresh and totally unexpected. This season the writers are getting desperate and keep spinning more and more subplots. I, too, am tired of Terri Hatcher. She's not up to par and her legs ARE way skinny. BTW, her boobs are nothing to write home about, seen them in some photos before. She was lying in the Seinfeld episode when she said they were "spectacular".

Eva Longoria is a bore and her husband isn't the least bit macho. And where does she keep finding money to buy $125,000 cars? Now she has an Aston Martin. Yeah, sure...

Bree is an idiot. 'nuf said.

Lynette? Oh, Lynette, probably the worst of the lot. How can they have us believe she's tops in her field after being away from work for so many years? And now she never seems to do anything productive. Her top boss should go back to NYPD Blue, where he at least made a credible closet gay with a chip on his ahoulder about discipline.

The best character has been eliminated when Shirley Knight was broomed away. One can only hope she's coming back.

The Applewhites? Poorly contrived subplot. How the hell did they get the guy INTO the house when they moved in?

Give DH an "E", and not necessarily for effort. Need to find a replacement for that show.

I miss Felicia. We saw only a brief glimpse of her this week, and it was the best part of the episode.

This show held together last season because of the central mystery. We're supposed to consider the Applewhites the central mystery this time, but it's so slow and has so little connection to everyone else on the show that it doesn't work. Susan's act has worn thin, Gabrielle's act was thin before the show ever started, Lynette has gotten more and more ridiculous, and Bree is stuck in a rut. The grieving but not showing it, proper yet ready to snap thing is boring.

Oh, and you forgot the one funny, catty line from this week. Lynette to her boss after the boss complained that she didn't have time to get a hair cut: "I'm sorry about your hair. I can see why you're so upset about it."

And another thing about Lynette. No matter how wonderful she was at her job prior to giving birth, no company would take her back at that level, ever.

It is almost impossible to walk into a new job like the one she currently has. I don't always look for realism in dopey TV shows, but it would of been interesting if we had to see her at the bottom of the ladder, and work her way up, as opposed to starting at the top.

And no man, with any balls, would quit his job to be Mr. Mom, especially with those obnoxious over indulged rug rats.

KH

Great recap for a disappointing show. Agree with the comments above - the show has lost it.

Also, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Orange County will will the World Series. Don't underestimate the power of the Rally Monkey!

I agree with all the comments above - I had to fast forward through most of Susan's scenes, they were just too painful to watch. And the whole Lynette plotline is almost as unwatchable too - in any real job she'd be out on her a$$ within a couple days, no matter how cute or needy her kids are. DH is very close to gettin kicked off my Tivo in favor of Law & Order: CI at the same time slot. They must be losing viewers, I'd think.

Britt: You forget Kurt Fuller's (the prototypical "that guy from that show") best role to date ... Karl Rove in "That's My Bush!"

Applewhite's moved into house in the middle of the night. They bought it from Edie sight unseen.

Sorry, you all lost this viewer...where's the story?
Your trashing your own program. Get a story..please.

I'm enjoying the second season as much as I've been enjoying the first one -- maybe it's because I'm not taking it seriously and I'm just letting myself be entertained -- I just can't see what's wrong with it. It's only started, I think it's too early to judge it.