Desperate Housewives

Now You Know

Season 4, Episode 1, Aired 9/30/07

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A month has passed on Wisteria Lane since Susan and Gabrielle tied the knot with Mike and Victor. While Lynette is battling with the effects of chemotherapy, Susan finds out she might have menopause. Bree's faked pregnancy comes close to being uncovered and Gabrielle starts an affair with Carlos. After twelve years of absence, Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany) moves back to Wisteria Lane with her new husband Adam and daughter Dylan, who doesn't seem to remember living there.moreless

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Marcia Cross

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season premire...

9.5

"Superb"

By danny7277, Jun 05, 2011 Report Abuse

there was Some really great stuff in this season premire, the introduction of the new chracter katherine was fantastic, im really excited to uncover there secret in the coming episodes.
Bree's fake pregnancy story was really funny, i thought the scene in the store was really funny with the old woman,
Susan had a nice story this week as we learn that she is pregnant, it is nice that mike and susan are finally happy together after all the drama of the first three season's
Overall this was a fantastic season premire that set up alot of exciting storylines for the episodes ahead..moreless

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Season 4, Episode 1.

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By Wanted23, Nov 18, 2008 Report Abuse

Wow. Perfect episode. I really, really loved it. It had a different feel to it, but I still loved it. There's new neighbors with a secret. Shocker! /sarcasm. I really liked the episode though. Dana Delaney seemed so sinister. The women find out about Lynette's cancer. :( Bree is almost caught in her lies. The pitchfork scene was hilarious! Haha, I love Bree. Gabby wants to leave Victor, but Carlos doesn't want to leave Edie after her fake suicide. She is so manipulative. I love it. Gabby is my favorite. Susan's pregnant! Wow. She doesn't really have many years left, so she might as well... Great episode.moreless

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Gaby and Victor tie the knot aswell as Susan and MIke. Bree is faking to be pregnant and a knife goes through the padding. Watch and see what happenes.

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By 987hello789, Aug 04, 2008 Report Abuse

I choose Exactly why I watch this serious as the classification for this episode beacause it just caught your attention and held your attention for the episode. Aswell at the end of the episode it finises with a scene that makes you want to watch the next episode. That is good for a show to be to do that. The actors are just fabulous especially Eva Longuria Parker and Teri Hatcher. They know how to handle their role so well keep it simple but interesting. They know how to handle the other actor / actors that they share scenes with the do notmake it all about them but they highlight theirs and the other people in the scene. I would recommend serious 1,2,3 and 4 to anyone.moreless

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Housewives are back in style!

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By alen76ers, Jun 14, 2008 Report Abuse

This episode is great! It's funny, mysterious, everything you want from Desperate Housewives! I love 'em so much! So, the new family arrived with whole new bunch of secrets. Seems like Bree and that new chick (Katherine ?) are rivals. That's so funny. Bree has found someone like herself. That part when they were arguing about the tree blocking the son for Katherine's vegetables was so funny! One of the greatest parts was when Lynnette pucked into somebody else's bag. Lol.
And when a fork was sticked into Bree's belly.. haha! It was so funny! Orson stabbed her couple of times more just to "prove" that fork is false. DH is back in style!moreless

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The women of Wisteria Lane get a new neighbor.

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By Writer2000, Apr 10, 2008 Report Abuse

Let me just start out by saying that when I saw this episode for the first time when it originally aired, I didn't really like this episode, and a part of me felt like I was really starting to lose faith in Desperate Housewives when I first saw it because I thought that the show was becoming too over the top in the comedy department and too soapy, but after having watched this episode again on ABC's website, I have to say that I absolutely love this episode, and watching it made me remember why I fell in love with the show in the first place. Being very comedic and soap opera-y while being dark and mysterious is what the show is all about. I really think that not watching Desperate Housewives after they ran out of new episodes during the writers strike really helped me to fall back in love with this show. This episode is really, really great. I loved Bree in this episode. I thought that Marcia Cross was so funny in this episode. I loved the introduction of Katherine Mayfair. I think that all of the housewives' story lines were great. All in all, I thought that this was an amazing episode of Desperate Housewives, and I can't wait for the show to return with new episodes.moreless

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Trivia
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- In the second season finale, it is established that Bree's family moved into the neighborhood in 1994, twelve years before that episode aired. Other flashbacks in that episode (especially the Applewhites moving from Chicago) establish that it definitely was 2006 by the end of the second season. So, if Katherine left Wisteria Lane twelve years before the start of season four, it would mean she left in 1995 and should have met and known Bree. Yet the two women act like they have never met before this episode. (Later this season, the Halloween episode establishes that events are running more or less on real time.) Edit
- Goof: Despite the fact that we have seen Lynette and the boys in the front of the house you can see how they have disappeared when Katherine is talking to her husband. Edit
Notes
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- International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Tak už to víš (So Now You Know) Slovakia: A teraz to vieš (And Now You Know) Edit
- Marcia Cross submitted this episode for consideration of her work in the category of "Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series" for the 2008 Emmy Awards. Edit
- From this episode on, a new and shortened opening credits sequence is shown, featuring only the title card and the ending card crediting Marc Cherry as the series' creator. Edit
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- Bree: (to Andrew) Look, this family's reputation is already hanging by a thread. I mean first people thought that your stepfather was a wife killer, then your sister takes off with her history teacher and now we're supposed to parade the little bastard up and down the street. I mean, we might as well sit on the porch and play banjos! Edit
- Mary Alice: There is a certain time of morning. It occurs after the kids have left for school, and husbands have head it off to work. It's a time when women think of the secrets they've been keeping from their friends. And how shocked they would be if the truth is discovered and how they'll do everything in their power to keep that from happening. Edit
- (Orson and Bree are shopping.) Bree: The nice thing about this fake pregnancy is that my feet don't swell. And I really wouldn't be able to squeeze into the sling-backs if I really was eight and a half months pregnant. Mrs. McKeever: Bree! Don't you look radiant. Bree: Oh! Hello, Mrs. McKeever. Mrs. McKeever: Well, I heard that you were expecting, but I had no idea how far along you were. May I? (Mrs. McKeever reaches to touch Bree's stomach. Bree backs away quickly.) Bree: Oh! There's no need. The baby's just not kicking right now. Mrs. McKeever: Ah, but sometimes, if you give them a little jiggle, you can get them to move. (She reaches for Bree's stomach again. Bree pulls back.) Bree: Oh!! Orson: Oh, she doesn't really want to be jiggled right now. She's very sensitive down there. Mrs. McKeever: But I'll be gentle. You know, in my day mothers thought that it was good luck. (She reaches for Bree's stomach again. Bree grabs her wrist.) Bree: Perhaps I need to make my point a little more clearly! Mrs. McKeever: Bree. You're hurting me. Bree: I'll do worse than that if you don't stop right now! (Store manager walks up.) Manager: Excuse me. Is there a problem here? Bree: No. Not at all. I'm just saying hello to a very dear friend of mine. (Manager walks away. Bree grips Mrs. McKeever's hand tightly again.) Bree: Are you gonna back off now? (Mrs. McKeever nods very frightened. Orson pulls Bree's hand off Mrs. McKeever.) Orson: Car's here, dear. Lovely to see you, Mrs. McKeever. (Orson escorts Bree away.) Orson: Do you have to make it so obvious that you fancy her?! Bree: Why must old ladies always do that? Orson: I don't know, but you've got to stop roughing them up! Edit
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- Episode Title: The title of this episode comes from a song in the 1981 Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along. Edit