Carlos rushes into Gaby's house yelling her name before walking into the living room to find Victor sitting patiently in a chair, holding a gun. Carlos immediately begins to apologize for his deception, saying that he and Gaby are two halves of the same greedy, lying, adulterous hole and aren't happy unless they are together. Victor asks if Carlos is finished and when Carlos says yes, Victor raises the gun and shoots. This is why you should always keep talking when someone has a gun pointed at you. Remember that kids. Luckily Victor has the aim of Don Knotts and Carlos is able to run out the door with Victor chasing him into the raging storm. Once outside, Carlos blindsides Victor and wrestles the gun out of his hands. As the two fight like schoolgirls, a car falls from the sky right beside them. A man sits stunned in the car before Andrew raises his head up, looking confused. Carlos punches Victor and rushes to a random house, but Victor isn't down for the count yet. He gets up and follows Carlos with a random lead pipe and draws it back to smash Carlos in the head. Before he can make the fatal blow a random plank from a fallen picket fence flies through the air and impales Victor through the heart, turning him to ash. Now he's down for the count. As Carlos stares in disbelief a piece of debris hurtles through the air and knocks him unconscious, or possibly knocks him dead. We're not sure.
"It doesn't hurt so much on my neck or stomach, more toward's the center. Maybe I should get it checked out."
Back in Bree's tacky bathroom, Crazy is alone wondering where all the screaming outside the door went, so she decides to walk out and check. She wanders toward the door calling for Adam and threatening to tell everyone what really happened if he doesn't come to her. When no one responds to her rants, she opens the door to leave and is immediately sucked into the whirlwind and off to Oz. If you have information that could wrap up a season's mystery, you should always stay in the house. Just another tip from you Uncle Fozzie, kids.
"By the way, when Dylan was a little girl her dad.....aagggghhhhhhhhh!!!"
We see slow motion cuts of everyone crying and screaming as the tornado passes directly over the homes. Edie and Gaby hold each other salaciously as the house shakes. Bree, Orson, Benjamin, Katherine and Adam all listen as debris is thrown through the windows, and Lynette and Big M hide under the mattress in the bathroom as a tree branch crashes through the wall on top of them.
Mary Alice reminds us that it was supposed to have been a beautiful day just as we see the Lindsay Lohan action figure nestled in the branches of a tree, fresh off a weekend bender. The storm has passed and everyone is free to come out of hiding. Bree finds her house a mess and cries at the amount of dust bustering she'll have to do to get it back in order. It will take her at least 20 minutes. Edie and Gaby exit their foxhole having forgiven each other for their wrongdoings. Susan and Mike are exiting the hospital in each other's arms with a firm plan in place to get Mike help with his addiction and a coordinated schedule for the next three month's sex nights. Lynette and Big M crawl out of the tub having learned what real friendship means: being in a tub together. As Lynette exits the house she smiles at the warm sun before she looks across the street to Miss McCluskey's house, or more accurately, the pile of completely demolished rubble that was once her house. Lynette begins to scream and runs toward the house calling out her husband and children's names before we fade to black.
"My husband and kids are gone forever! I really shouldn't have wished on that star."
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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