Back on Wisteria Lane Edie is on Gaby's porch when Carlos's accountant shows up and, having never seen either lady, mistakes Edie for Gaby. He gives Edie the papers for the Cayman Island account and tells her that she's just as pretty as Carlos said. Edie corrects him and insists that she's prettier and has a good 8 inches on Carlos's description, in more ways than one. Upstairs Gaby hears a car pulling away and goes to the window to see Edie reading through the papers. Gaby yells at Edie and Edie takes off like the pace car in a drag race, again in more ways than one. Gaby follows Edie to her house as the storm begins to brew violently. Gaby pounds on the door and demands to be let in but Edie warns that she has called the police. Big, black police who will taser Gaby's ass. Gaby stops pounding and Edie feels that she gave up, just before Edie's glass door is broken with a chair and Gaby steps through with a determined "Buffy" look on her face. Gaby chases Edie around the living room trying to snatch the folder. Edie tries to make a deal for 60% of the money, 'cause trips to Sweden aren't cheap, before Gaby attacks her and grabs the folder. Gaby runs outside with Edie average-looking-for-her-age on her heels. When outside the two girl-fight over the folder before it is tossed away in the wind. Gaby begins to scream at the lost fortune as Edie looks off in the horizon frozen with fear, or botox. As Gaby rages, Edie grabs her and points her toward the site of a F5 tornado (the finger of God) rushing toward them. Edie grabs Gaby and pulls her back into the house.
"Holy frijole, it's un tornahdo! Ay caramba!"
Back in Big Ms basement, Tom's throat is closing up from the cat dander, or desire to be released from his torturous like of making mediocre pizza and raising Satan's spawns, so Lynette devises a plan. She takes the cat out of his cage and sneaks him up the stairs while Big M and Ida snore like the three stooges minus Edie's usual "woo woo woo." As Lynette is placing the cat in the closet upstairs, Big M comes upstairs and catches her, causing the cat to wriggle out of Lynette's arms and run away, just like Lynette's first two kids. Lynette insists that she is not going to sit and watch her husband suffocate without taking part in it, and Big M tells Lynette that she won't let Ida wake up to find her cat missing. Lynette pleads with Big M as a friend, but Big M corrects Lynette saying that they are not friends. Lynette only talks to her when she needs something from her, like a safe haven from a storm, or a babysitter, or tips on how to properly freeze a husband's corpse. Lynette tries to disagree but can't come up with an instance where she spoke to Big M without asking for a favor. Suddenly winds blow open the door and the cat runs outside, finally free of the mental and sexual torture inflicted upon him by Ida. Big M runs out to retrieve the cat but Lynette tries to convince her stay inside where it's safe. Big M yells that friends help each other and Lynette eventually runs out after her. Big M is on the ground trying to get the cat out from under a car as debris blows around her. Lynette pulls Miss McCluskey to her feet as big M looks off and sees the tornado bearing down on them. They begin to rush back to the basement but are halted by a falling charcoal grill, and we all know there is no way around a fallen grill, so they retreat into Lynette's house.
"O my God! The grill's dead! It's de-e-e-ad! Why, God? WHY??"
Edie and Gaby close the door and shake, their breasts heaving, bodies glistening with perspiration, expressions of raw sexual energy on their faces, before Edie announces that she has a crawl space. Gaby tells Edie that this isn't the time to talk about her vagina, before Edie grabs Gaby's hand and leads her to hatch. Gaby insists that she is not sharing a crawl space with Edie after Edie threw her money into a tornado, before they hear glass breaking and Gaby pushes Edie into the hole and dives in after her.
Edie honey, you're not putting a lid on those tranny rumors with facial expressions like that.
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Comments (11)
i normally dont get to watch desperate housewives because im at work. but this week i was home and got to watch it, and i must say that it makes reading your recaps twice as hilarious!
and screw the writers for making us wait.
1 of 11 | Posted by aman | Posted on December 5, 2007 10:35 AM
I totally forgot about Andrew leaving home. I just assumed he, Lee and Neil were having a Wizard of Oz party.
2 of 11 | Posted by cutebutstupid | Posted on December 5, 2007 12:16 PM
Oh Fozzie, I not only honestly love you, I'll have your first spawn, and I wont even have an epidural so thrilled will I be to bring more derision to this world. Knife marks, terlet, is that your finger . . . the only wrong note is sticking How do you talk to an angel in my head all recap!@!!
Thank you sooo much for all the annoying laughter I've bestowed on my new office mate, now and forever--and I say forget the writers strike, lets shoot your episodes!!!!
3 of 11 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on December 5, 2007 12:31 PM
I know my husband and I weren't the only people in Tornado Alley laughing out loud and the "preparations for the tornado warning to come!"
We really couldn't take any of the other stuff seriously because we just couldn't stop laughing at the whole storm is coming thing.
4 of 11 | Posted by KutiePie | Posted on December 5, 2007 3:18 PM
He didn't push me down the stairs -- I'm just really klutzy. Luckily my freakishly giant boobs broke my fall.
5 of 11 | Posted by Donna Martin Graduates! | Posted on December 5, 2007 3:36 PM
Great recap Fozzie! And thanks for being the only recapper since Season 1 to actually consistently watch and recap every episode of this torturous, but somehow addictive show.
Seriously though, Victor dying? First of all, a mayor with presidential aspirations wouldn't be stupid enough to personally kill his wife's ex-husband (or his wife if he was going after Gabby). Second, it makes for a much better storyline for Gabby to stay married to a Victor after she tried to kill him. Marc Cherry is a dumb shit, honestly I could come up with better storylines.
This ep. definately did not live up to the "BEST EPISODE OF THE SEASON" commercials that ABC ran all week. I really couldn't believe that was it... and I predict the kids aren't dead. Maybe Tom is injured or something, but if there is one thing that is consistent about DH its that they don't take risks in writing. Predictability always wins.
6 of 11 | Posted by shia0bundan | Posted on December 5, 2007 4:07 PM
Awesome recap(per)!
Ida makes sense for the room temperature "friend", which means Lynette's husband isn't put out of his/our misery... and since it isn't cable (or my dreams), the kids will be okay, too.
The special effects were laughable. Objects fly through the air while trees in the background remain stationary or characters stand without leaning into the wind.
No way even Lynette would leave her kids in that situation to chase after a cat... even with the lovely Mrs. McClusky thrown in.
Oddly loved watching Crazy sucking to her probable doom. (But still love ya, Tina Fey! XOXO)
I will miss your inspired recaps more than the show itself!
7 of 11 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on December 6, 2007 10:59 AM
Meant "sucked", but Freudian works, too.
8 of 11 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on December 6, 2007 11:04 AM
I think this is the first time I've responded to anything related to this show, but I just couldn't pass this opportunity up!
First off, I agree with KutiePie. I live in Indiana, and we have tornadoes/watches/and warnings weekly throughout the summer and other times during the year. What the heck? When was the last time you taped your windows in preparation? haha
Oh...and the fact that the people outside had like 25 minutes to fight and chase cats or whatever while the tornado was RIGHT THERE on their street was also funny.
And "stationary background trees." I noticed that too. Good stuff.
For what it's worth, I say that Victor and the old lady in the basement are dead.
9 of 11 | Posted by ThisShowRocks! | Posted on December 6, 2007 6:48 PM
Susan, Edie, Lynette, Bree, & Gaby are all alive, so ABC's marketing department is full of shit. Those are the only "main characters" on the show.
I wish Danielle had gotten sucked into the tornado swirl along with Crazy. Now THAT ending would've been worth all of the residuals in the world. And it only took me 2 seconds to think of it. Show me the money!
10 of 11 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on December 8, 2007 9:55 PM
not gonna lie i didnt feel bad for lynette at all...she is a selfish bitch...
POOR CARLOS
11 of 11 | Posted by lbonnerz | Posted on December 22, 2007 1:18 PM