This week on Desperate Housewives: Tom wants plastic surgery; Bree still wants a divorce, or does she? Yeah. She does; Susan and Jackson are getting married; Mike and Katherine are getting married; and Gabby tries real hard to learn a lesson and retain knowledge. Again.
Can we just make the show about Juanita?
Previously on DH: Lame crap. And then dumb stuff. And then many fans completely disappointed in the season, and yet millions still tuning in as if to say, "Hey, it's okay, Cherry. You can slap together the worst plot lines in the history of the show and we'll stand by and not say a thing!" And y'all know I don't mean you Gasmii, because we ALL know that this shit don't smell like no roses. It smells, as Outkast would say, like poo, poo-poo. It's up to us, Gasmii -- to rise up as one, and say that we're mad as hell and we're not going to -- ooh, my roommate made cupcakes! Yum! You go ahead and rise up, kids. I'm gonna have cupcakes.
Mary Alice talks from beyond the grave, telling us how "the lawyer arrived after sundown," and it's Karl, and he's going to Bree's house at night, and the whole scene, including music, is like an episode of some cheesy 80s detective show. Like Remington Steele. Wait, Remington Steele is too good. It's like Jake and the Fat Man. Hell, even the creators of Father Dowling Mysteries are looking at this scene and going, "Gosh darn, that is some cheesy shit." Who the hell approved this? Why does the music sound like Inspector Gadget? What did we do to deserve this? Oh, yeah, that's right -- 5 years of loyal viewership. We deserve it, don't we?
So, anyhoozlebees, Karl says that Bree should incorporate "creative accounting, secret bank accounts, and a second set of books," in her divorce scheme, all to which Bree agrees. Karl then wants Bree to hire someone to rob her house and steal some stuff so that Orson doesn't get everything she owns (jewelry, for instance). Bree refuses, but when Karl paints a picture of Orson after the divorce, dating some bimbo who wears her jewelry and uses her stuff, she changes her mind. He doesn't LITERALLY paint a picture of Orson, of course, but I did!
Oh, hey, Mary Alice says that today's theme/metaphor, with which we'll be beaten over the head for the next 43 minutes and 05 seconds is: Masks. Which leads us to the mask that Dave wears every day. Dave wears a mask?! Ohmigod is he an alien or some secret spy like in that Mission Impossible movie?! Oh, what's that Mary Alice? You're being figurative? Oh. I see. Dave walks up to M.J. and is all, what's up with Jackson? M.J. says likes Jackson. Well, kids are dumb. Dave asks if Jackson talks about the nightclub fire and says that M.J. should tell him if the police ever ask Jackson about the fire. Geez, Dave, at least Bree made him macaroons.
Over at Gabby's, she having an orgasm over some stupid crystal vase that looks like anything you could buy at Wal-Mart. Seriously. I do not get the big deal about crystal. Unless you mean Crystal. As in, Crystal Gayle. THEN I get it. Her youngest daughter, who hasn't been in the show in forever, so I can't remember her name, nods her head to agree to help mommy convince daddy that it was worth it. She literally doesn't say anything, she just keeps nodding. Then Gabby pretty much calls her own daughter retarded ("I should get you tested.") Nice. Nice, Gabby. Pretty soon, Juannie Sue saunters in, all, My friend got a canopy bed and I want one now and you can afford it cuz I heard you tell Aunt Bree that we're rolling in it give me my Dunk-a-Roos, bitch! Gabby says that they just got a new bed for Juannie Sue and they're not getting another bed that she doesn't need. Juannie is all, Oh but you can get some stupid vase? Word, girl, word.
Tough economy. Just make one of Gabby's kids a featured extra and so she doesn't have to talk we'll make her retarded. As long as the monkeys writing this tripe are getting paid, all is well.
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Comments (6)
I agree that Beige Dave's scheme is crawling along at a snail's pace, but I did enjoy the sinister reveal of him on a bike in the background.
And yeah, that mask was hideous!
This show is getting lame, but I'm still watching.
Did you hear they might be doing a bit of a Golden Girls spinoff with Lily Tomlin and the other old gal who plays her sister?! Hopefully the wacky pair will solve neighbourhood crimes and get into all sorts of scrapes.
1 of 6 | Posted by Donna Martin Graduates! | Posted on May 13, 2009 12:22 PM
Oh, Hypnotoad, that was one hell of a funny recap. I'll miss your beige jokes when the season ends.
2 of 6 | Posted by Clair | Posted on May 13, 2009 12:32 PM
Ok, so I know this show has gotten ridonk, but I've watched since day 1, and I'm not gonna quit now. boo.
Anyhoo, my question is this: Susan depends on her alimony to pay her mortgage, utilities, etc??? Mike IS A PLUMBER. What is going on here? What did I miss?
3 of 6 | Posted by qupert | Posted on May 13, 2009 1:15 PM
qupert:
You've obviously not hired a plumber lately!
And, seriously, folks, at least plumbing is a good-paying career they can't outsource overseas. (Tell you kids to forget college - go to plumbing school).
4 of 6 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on May 13, 2009 5:49 PM
Oh yeah, plumbers make BANK. I think the standard is $40 an hour. Kind of makes me wish I'd gone to trade school instead of 7 years of university.
5 of 6 | Posted by hypnotoad | Posted on May 14, 2009 5:22 PM
Here's the thing, though: Isn't/Wasn't Susan a children's book illustrator? Surely she's getting some royalties from that. PLUS, why doesn't she go back to doing that, instead of teaching art part-time? Did the writers just forget that she used to have a career? Yes. Yes they did.
6 of 6 | Posted by hypnotoad | Posted on May 14, 2009 5:25 PM