Desperate Housewives: Well, Next Week Will Be Awesome, Right?

One of two things happened with this episode of Desperate Housewives: The writers knew they were going on an extended vacation with donuts provided by Jay Leno, or they're saving up their best stuff for next weeks "there's a twister a comin'" episode. This week we get obvious non-questions such as "is Richard Chamberlain gay?" (yes), "did Victor survive?" (yes) and "has Mike finally kicked that pesky pill popping habit?" (no). Sometimes you have to wade through the muck to get to the good stuff, so let's dive in. The muck's just fine.

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"Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch."


We open with Gaby at church attempting to atone for her sins, which includes her glory days as a four-foot super model in New York so there's a lot of blow and limo rides with ZZ Top to confess. While Gaby is listing her sins ("I hit and ran an ice cream truck, I stole candy from several babies, I had impure thoughts 5 trillion times, I molested my underage gardener....") Carlos tracks her down. When you can't find something, it's always in the last place you think to look. Carlos implores Gaby to go with him to the police to confess their muerto, but Gaby won't allow it citing countless instances where people totally got away with something like this with no harmful repercussions whatsoever. Carlos concedes and states that he is going to prey for a miracle. Down by the beach (seriously where is this town??) we see Victor wash up on shore looking like Bruce Davison in X-men.

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"Whew! Atleast there wasn't a big storm while I was out there. What? That's next week? Damnit!"

We see a flashback of when Mike injured his shoulder while installing a sex swing for Ida Greenburg. He was prescribed little, white, harmless pills by his doctor for the pain, but in an attempt to gain a personality Mike kept taking the pills after his pain was gone, much like Rose on that very special episode of Golden Girls. Mike was able to keep his addiction a secret from everyone that cared about him, people like Susan, Julie and fat secretaries named Patty who think he's just dreamy, and was only able to share his need for the junk with his dealer. Mike gives his dealer a call and asks for a freebie since he's a little cash poor at the moment, but his dealer, a pre-Med college nerd named Barrett, only deals on a cash up front basis. Mike is also in deep to the Cornell Mafia for previous purchases for which he has yet to pay and is therefore denied his fix.

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"A flannel shirt and a vacant stare. Why do you ask? Who is this?"

While Mike is busy conducting his drug deal, Susan is busy watching Julie come home from a date with a skeevy hipster doofus with a van and a soul patch. The dude kind of looks like Trent from Daria. As Julie leans in for her first kiss with a conscious boy, Susan opens the front door and interrupts her. Susan drags Julie inside and informs her that she accidentally happened upon this boy's webpage while Googling "high school boys pierced genitalia" and won't allow Julie to go any farther with him lest she accidentally lets Prince Albert out of his can. Julie tells her mom that she and Snake are just dating, so Susan shouldn't worry until he tries to put a wedding ring on her clitoris, before storming out.

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"Does that enormous jaw unhinge by any chance? wink wink."

Meanwhile at the Hodge household, Bree is in bed with Benjamin. When Orson comes in and offers to take him to his crib, Bree informs Orson that she has decided to let Benjamin sleep in bed with them indefinitely because of an article she read about bonding via "the family bed." I thought the whole point of this new baby was to have one she didn't screw up? Orson is opposed to the idea since he only wants to bond with Bree, if you know what I mean. I mean he wants to have sex on her. Bree tells Orson that sex is the last thing on her mind after the rigors of fake childbirth and pretending to have postpartum depression. Orson gives in and crawls into bed comforted by the fact that there will be several unwilling patients unconscious in his dentists chair the next day.

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"Honey, you're a dentist. Why does your breath smell like ass?"

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Comments (7)

CheriesTake:

OMG that was brilliant. That was flipit brilliant! I usually only laugh that hard at flipits recaps but you have outdone yourself! I love this show but this recap tops it!
Sadly knowing these writers they will kill off one of the gay guys. Surely they wouldn't kill Andrew, not when he just started to act like a man...........shit. He's toast!

roadtripper8:

LOVED the Daria reference!

I missed this episode because I forgot to set my DVR. No fear... your recaps are way better than the show... leaving me to ask myself "Why do I still bother?"

If Andrew dies, I will experience accute buzzkill. Can't they just kill Danielle instead?

Rvrctylady:

Great recap. I agree this episode was entertaining, just not exciting. I do think that someone close to Lynette dies since the previews show her screaming. I also see Susan falling down the steps, or did Mike accidently push her??
Whatever happens, I cannot wait for Sunday night !!
And please do not let it be Andrew...gay or straight I love him.

lotsofhose:

I have to agree with roadtripper8- dont kill Andrew, kill Danielle- I mean what has she brought to the table the last 2 years? Andrew has all the juice- Danielle is a raisen!


Fozzie- the comment about Gaby being a 4 ft tall supermodel in ny-too funny, never occured to me how insane that story is.

Also the thornbirds reference- hilarious!

juddfan:

Fozzie, Fozzie, Fozzie . . . I'm with Cherie--You and Flipit rock my world!!! did you happen to get Edie's doctors number, I want to be trannyliscous too!!!

And yeah, Tivo never gets upcoming scenes, so besides whipping hair, I didn't know someone would die, but I'm guessing one of the new neighbors or Mike . . . wouldn't that be un-boring!!!

fire@will:

Another fine recap.

Maybe Lie-net's husband will die. Or his daughter we hardly ever see.

My hope, though, would be to (officially) kill off Mike.

Donna Martin Graduates!:

Witty recap. Thank you.

That is all.

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