This week on Desperate Housewives, we are told by Mary Alice that both kids and adults like to play games, but first they have to convince their friends to play along with them. And they should always have a safety word. We cut to Susan making calls to all her friends (all three) informing them that it's once again time for her annual charades party. Much like Mary Tyler Moore, Susan's parties never go well. Either there's not enough Veal Prince Olaf to go around or one of her guests is brutally murdered. Either way, she spends the entire next day cleaning up. How will the party go? One word. Three syllables. Sounds like schmisaster. Find out after the jump.
"Home delivery of the Sunday New York Times? I'm intrigued. Lay it on me, slick."
Susan tries her best to entice her friends, but each one declines with an excuse. Gaby has to Mexican hat-dance at a political fund raiser for Victor, Bree has to fake morning sickness and Lynette is all cancery. After hanging up with Susan, Bree is gossiping with the ladies about Katherine slapping Dylan and what she overheard at Katherine's house when she stopped by to borrow a recipe (AKA broke in with bolt cutters and night vision goggles). Lynette, Gaby and Bree all come to the brilliant conclusion that Katherine is hiding something and the best way to get the truth from her is with alcohol. Bree pushes for a car battery hooked up to Katherine's nipples, but they opt instead for liquor. Each desperate housewife calls Susan back to tell her they changed their minds and each encourage her to invite that delightful Katherine Mayfair.
"Does this fake baby belly make me look fat?"
Next up we see Lynette's mom, Stella, laboring over a macaroni casserole meant to entice Lynette to eat. It seems that Lynette's chemo is making her too sick to hold down food and the anti-nausea medicine isn't working. When the meal of oil, limp noodles and velveeta doesn't work to bring Lynette around to eating, Stella recommends an old family remedy; chronic. Hash. Mary Jane. Reefer. Ganja. Thai stick. Bud. Herb. Wacky weed. Of course Lynette declines the offer since she's 40, has three kids and has a great big stick up her butt.
Why would she cook Susan's last lyposuction?
Next door Susan is taking out the trash which consists of coffee grounds and Dexatrim packs, when she sees Mike building a baby crib. She tells him that she thinks it's a little too soon to make a crib considering she's only in her first trimester and over the years her uterus has shriveled to the size of a peach pit, but Mike insists. Susan excuses herself when she sees Bree and Agent Dale Cooper pull up next door. As Susan approaches, the two scariest and deadliest residents of Wisteria Lane comment on how it's getting harder and harder to keep Susan at arm's length since she's so insistent on bony hugs lately. Susan must be attempting to stay warm since she weighs 19 pounds. A thin layer of rayon clothing doesn't provide much protection.
Susan walks up and asks Bree for a favor. She's becoming more and more uncomfortable having Adam as her gynecologist since she lives next door to him and has a family of baby birds nesting in her vagina. She wants the name of Bree's OB/GYN, but since Bree is in the midst of a fake pregnancy she has to think quickly on her fake swollen feet. "The Easter bunny. I mean Spiderman. I mean peace in Iraq!" Since she can't come up with a believable name of a doctor who doesn't exist, she proceeds to her phonebook and picks one at random. When she returns she insists that Susan doesn't mention her name since she doesn't want her fire crotch associated with Susan's bramble bush. Susan gushes with girlish, knocked-up glee that she and Bree are going to be sharing a doctor before going in for another elbowy hug. Once again Bree thinks fast and sneezes, warning Susan that she should stay back to avoid a potential cold, or the chance of infecting her loins with avian bird flu.
"The really hard part is when the momma bird comes home to feed them."
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Comments (12)
"Transexual! Bleach blond! Elongated fully engorged 7 inch clitoris! Manish! Knots Landing! Size 15 shoes!"
Oh Fozzie! You really kill me sometimes... no, really... I damn near choked on my sandwich when I read that one.
1 of 12 | Posted by roadtripper8 | Posted on October 17, 2007 10:15 AM
Hysterical. Absolutely freaking hysterical.
You ripping on Susan so badly had me covering my mouth many times to stifle my laughter.
Excellent job!!!!!
2 of 12 | Posted by TVCheese | Posted on October 17, 2007 11:02 AM
Fozziebare!!! Great recap!!
I literally, lit-uh-rah-lee was laughing my a** off with all the making fun of susan, how old she is,how skinny she is etc. And the tranny,elongated clitoris edie comments ...AWESOME!!! Although i tried that link(spanktank)and it didnt work?!?! You are a gem Foz and i love your recaps!!
Hello sunday new york times, CLASSIC!
3 of 12 | Posted by lloyd dobbler | Posted on October 17, 2007 1:44 PM
Okay, I missed the previous week's episode (stupid tivo refused to change channels) -- BUT --didn't KimberBree overhear/witness Dana Delaney slapping her daughter while she was secretly snooping around?
Hence, didn't snotty Gabi spill the beans on KimberBree?!
Please clarify.
4 of 12 | Posted by Donna Martin Graduates! | Posted on October 17, 2007 6:08 PM
I've read your first paragraph and already feel compelled to remark how brilliant I think it (and therefor you) is (are)!
5 of 12 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on October 17, 2007 6:24 PM
Finished. May have to sue, though. Laughed so hard, burst my appendage...
best... recap... ever...
6 of 12 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on October 17, 2007 6:47 PM
Hey everybody, thanks for the comments!
And DM graduates, yes, Bree was hiding around the corner when she was looking for Katherine's Lemon Meringue Pie recipe. She saw (more like heard) what happened and told her gal pals so Gaby ratted her out.
7 of 12 | Posted by fozziebare13 | Posted on October 17, 2007 7:40 PM
"Chicas man. Can't vida con 'em, can't vida no con 'em."
That's because they'll make you take your coat off and go dancing in the rain. Everybody knows THAT.
Kudos again, mi amigo.
8 of 12 | Posted by clichemonster | Posted on October 18, 2007 11:12 AM
Sweet bliss of life, totally awesome recap!!! I'm never gonna get any work done with all this awesomeness on the 'gasm. Seems I missed this episode (I'm with you DMG--Tivo blows!!!) but I'm sure this was a better way to take it in anyway--That Lynette, not so awesome anymore, Miss SayNo part 2--does she not know it's legal under her circumstances . . . . Harrrummmmphhhh!!!
9 of 12 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on October 19, 2007 2:42 PM
"Will act for food."
Or "Will take off shirt for food" is more like it, since that's what he thinks "acting" is. Wow, it took me awhile to figure out the guy with the gay banks is Jesse.
"Lynette tells her mom that she grew up on her own since her mom was always drunk or high and doesn't want to raise her own hellish children that way."
Since when is Lynette off the good stuff? Season 1 Lynette was popping pills like there's no tomorrow to drown out her stay-at-home-mom life. How soon bad parents forget...Denial, like addiction, must be an inherited gene in the Lynette family.
10 of 12 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on October 21, 2007 6:14 AM
Oops, I meant to write "gay BANGS"...
11 of 12 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on October 21, 2007 6:17 AM
Donna Martin Graduates (90210 reference?) and Fozzie:
How does Gabby still have friends? She's always going against the girl code, damn her. Annnyyway, Bree can just say she saw/heard The Slap through the window on her way to ask for another recipe. Then again, everyone's a bad liar on this show so I doubt Bree will say something simple (read: believable) like that. She'll probably say that she overheard The Slap while working on Katherine's underground sewage pipes.
12 of 12 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on October 21, 2007 6:28 AM