Desperate Housewives

this was a pretty good episode of housewives but not brilliant but that seems to be the trend of this season the susan storyline was fairly weak im getting abit tired of susan's tortued love life im not intrested in this doctor as we all now she is going to end up withj mike in the end the lynette and tom stuff was ok but once agian just filler the bree storyline was by far the best this week as it has been nearly every week this season i liked her scenes with betty and im glad that the betty storyline seems to be getting abit juicer

I liked this episode! At a blood drive, Zack finds out that he has the same blood type as Mike! Betty reveals she is leaving because "her mother is ill." I can't believe Bree fell for it. Unless she really didn't... Lynette must take off from work to take care of her kids who have chicken pox. Haha, Tom was so cranky when he had strep throat that he and Lynette were in marriage counseling. Gabby's gardener Ralph finds nude pictures of Gabby on the internet! He wanted her to sign it. LMAO that was awesome! I liked when Mike lied to Noah. The episode was definitely entertaining. =]

La nueva ilusión de Susan es un tipo muy lindo que puede reeemplazar fácilmente a Mike, así tenga muchos años menos que ella. Definitivamente comprobé que Gabrielle en el fondo es una mujer que necesita un hombre que la protega y sentirse segura. Bree sigue lidiando con ser la mujer de la casa y se empieza a embarcar en el mundo de la bebida, pero de paso le hace un muy buen comentario a Betty, la cual la deja pensando sobre lo seguro que puede ser para los Applewhite seguir viviendo en Wisteria Lane. Lynette entiende que su marido también tiene miedos irracionales y los enfrenta.

Susan ends up going on a blind date with a weird guy who makes stupid jokes. The date is not going well, but to make matters worse, Susan accidentally head butts him. So of course she has to take him to the emergency room where she meets Dr. Ron and instantly falls for him when he helps her end her awful date. Some old pictures of Gabby turn up on the internet, and are brought to her by her gardener. She is upset when Carlos won't defend her honour, but eventually he ends up throwing the guy who posted the pictures through a window, much to Gabby's pleasure. Tom is worried when the kids get chicken pox, because he has never had them before, and he asks Lynette to look after them. Lynette asks Tom to get a vasectomy. Susan wants to see Dr. Ron again, so she lies about her symptoms, and ends up being made to have a cat scan she doesn't really need. Bree goes on a date with the Inspector from Rex's case, to find out some more information about the Applewhite's, but he is hurt when he finds out why she went out with him. Bree has a few too many glasses of wine and ends up getting arrested by the same Inspector on her way home. Later he feels bad about the situation and gives her a call with some information.

As Lynnette and Tom test their marriage when Tom says that he wants options for if he wanted to start another family, Gabby and Carlos test theirs.



Carlos caves in to his aggression when Gabby's ex- boyfriend says that she isn't pretty enough for the internet. Is the old Carlos coming back?



Bree is arrested by a police officer she was going on a date with. Is it her perfume that attracts such crazy men?



Betty Applewhite wants to move. Will she leave Wisteria lane for good? Something is bound to happen before she leaves.

Tom (to Lynette): “You expect me to calm your irrational fears. I expect you to calm mine”.



Fear, sickness, addiction and the usual bout of lies and deception are the main topics under the microscope in tonight’s episode and they are delivered in quite an unusual style as too. Despite irrationality playing heavily in “We’re Gonna Be All Right”, there are quite a few pleasant moments in store too.



Like most viewers, I love the rivalries on this show – Susan vs. Edie, Lynette vs. Karen McClusky, Gabrielle vs. Sister Mary Bernard and now, judging by this episode’s sour turn of events, it looks like it’s going to be Bree vs. Betty and I, for one am intrigued by this.



Ever since a dead body popped out of their car last week, the ladies have been gunning for the Applewhites like a pack of crazed bloodhounds and ever the smart woman, Betty has tried to be super nice while Matthew urges her to sell the house and move away from the neighbourhood. Seeing as secrets aren’t easy to keep in this area, you’d think that Betty would take heed and scarper while the going was semi-good. However, switching the roles from last year, it is now Bree who is first asked by her friends and then on her own steam to use police contacts to dig up some information on the Applewhites.



This greatly re-enters Detective Barton who makes his feelings for Bree clear during a lunch which he misconstrues as a date, right after he tells her that he can’t help her in her enquiries. Aw, the poor Detective likes the repressed homemaker but sadly for him, she doesn’t feel the same way. This then leads to Bree being arrested for DUI a few minutes after leaving the restaurant.



At first I thought he was being rather petty in charging her but observing more closely and taking out his more selfish motivations, Bree did consume an awful lot of alcohol in the afternoon before she started driving and she did refuse to take a sobriety test as well. Her brief stint in the slammer wasn’t without it’s moments and they were funny too, ranging from a hooker who looks like she’s come off the set of The Sopranos asking how much she charges and a rather unhelpful copper telling her to walk home when she throw a hissy fit.



Now here’s the part where I don’t feel bad for Bree. She may be having a hard time just of late but when somebody has the courtesy of giving you a ride home and nicely points out the obvious without being judgemental, in this case the kind stranger being Betty, the least you can do is be thankful instead of launching into a rather frenzied tirade like Bree did. Not only was she well out of line to insult Betty the way she did but if you’re determined to get to the bottom of that person’s secret, it’s probably not a wise move to let them know that you’re aware of them hiding something. If it wasn’t for an apology call from Detective Barton with information on Monroe, Bree wouldn’t have an advantage on Betty, who really needs to watch her back now.



Speaking of watching out, there must be nothing more annoying than going on a blind date with a total moron as Susan discover when she accepts a dinner reservation with Jim (Ally McBeal’s Greg German) a guy so politically incorrect and socially inept, a gagging order would only be a fair infliction on him and dare I say, less painful than the head-butt he received by accident from Susan, landing him in hospital where he apparently suffered more head injuries. Like I said, just have Jim gagged every time he says something stupid or check to see if his brain cells are still functioning, either option is viable.



Ditching the bad date, Susan meets the rather cute but seemingly normal (does that jinx things?) Dr Ron and then uses her freakishly extreme methods of trying to get close to him, including feigning a few symptoms as well as subjecting herself to the usual bout of humiliation at the same time. Ron then learns she faked her illnesses to get to him and instead of running for the hills like anyone else, he decides to give her a chance, even though he admits to being mad about her irresponsibility. Oh Ron, you haven’t seen anything yet. This also should mean that Susan and Mike won’t be getting back together so quickly, but seeing as their break up this season is being handled maturely and the fact I like Jay Harrington who plays Ron, I can deal. Besides I want to see what the writers can do with Ron as well.



Men in this show can often get a bad wrap and tonight the usually loveable Tom doesn’t come off the best as he finds the domestic life unsatisfactory. It was after all, his idea to do the whole house husband routine when he told Lynette point blank in “One Wonderful Day” that she was going back to work and now we learn that he feels emasculated because he isn’t providing for his family anymore. His case also isn’t helped with him being afraid to touch the kids who are all struck with the chickenpox. As someone who has never had them either, I did sympathise but Tom was behaving rather immaturely about it too.



Then there’s also the issue of him refusing to get a vasectomy after Lynette asked him too. Here I side with Tom, Lynette may be his wife but she has no right to ask him to do that, even if they don’t plan to have anymore children. If Tom had asked Lynette to have gotten snipped, there would be such an out roar of complaints from viewers, so why should it okay for Lynette to ask Tom to do the same?



Meanwhile the past comes back to haunt eternal sinner Gabrielle, when her pervy gardener Ralph shows her some nudey photographs of herself that he downloaded on the internet before asking if she can sign them too. The cheeky little so and so obviously fancies his materialistic employer and although she repulsed by him, I think there was a part of her that was flattered as well. Although not flattered to bully Carlos into getting her ex-boyfriend Scott to remove the photographs from his website.



I had to hand it to Carlos in this episode as he made several attempts not to be manipulated by his wife and to control his rage but this episode only proves that there’s in Sister Mary Bernard’s words and that Gabby ultimately brings out the worst in her husband. Then again, ex-boyfriend Scott was such a spineless idiot that for once, Carlos’ random act of violence was slightly justified.



The best plot of the episode I reserved for last as another connection is made between Zach and Mike as the latter visits a dying Noah and lies about what really happened with Deirdre. I don’t know why - Mary Alice is dead, so there’s no need to kill anybody and Paul could get his just desserts but that’s just me thinking out loud. Anyways Noah reacts to the information badly and fires his carer, even though viewers are given the impression that we know that Noah is aware that Mike is lying anyway. The carer is then replaced by Felicia in a surprise end to proceedings. So, who’s willing to bet that Felicia may create more damage than good, then?



Also in “We’re Gonna Be All Right”



Housewife of the week: Jim makes a bad impression on Susan with jokes about her age, Chinese people, risqué talk and comparing her to a Nazi.



Susan (to Ron): “It was an accident”

Jim: “In some cultures, it’s a mating ritual”.



The connection between Zach and Mike is that they are AB negative. Zach is also starting to get more vocally suspicious of Mike too.



Edie (re Applewhites): “I don’t trust friendly people”

Lynette: “They don’t trust you either”.



Betty mentions Susan’s birthday, will we be seeing that next week? I also think that Jim’s age related jokes made Susan wary about Ron. There’s at least six or seven years apart and they’re both adults, so what’s really the big deal?



Susan (to Julie): “Dr Ron I think you’re hot, thanks and let’s talk about your hip replacement”.



Mike (re Deirdre’s murder): “I thought learning that would make you happy”

Noah: “I thought that it would too but it doesn’t”.



This episode was loaded with a few casualties – Jim being head butted, the twins and Parker with chickenpox, Susan’s MRI scan showing that she has a wandering spleen, Ralph cutting off Luis’ finger and Scott going through a window.



Detective Barton (to Bree): “When do I get to have lunch with a beautiful lady?”



Ron (re Susan): “How long are you going to let this go on?”

Assistant: “Just a few minutes”.



The full opening titles are back. Are they back for good though?



Escort (to Bree): “What exactly do you have to do for $5,000?”



Betty: “I won’t say a word, I swear”

Bree: “That’s good because most people in this neighbourhood can’t keep a secret to save their lives”.



This week we had Andrew, Danielle, Caleb, Paul and Karl missing from proceedings.



Carlos: “If you really love me, you wouldn’t ask me to go in there”

Gabrielle: “If you really loved me, I wouldn’t have to ask”.



Susan: “I love sushi. I’m available tomorrow night”

Ron: “No, no, no, tomorrow’s no good, I’ll still be angry. I should be cooled down by Friday”.



How come we aren’t getting any specifics into how much time has passed with each episode?



Phew, this was eventful but only during the very end though. “We’re Gonna Be All Right” is a painfully obvious misleading title because judging by certain plots, things are looking set to get worse, at least for Bree, whose alcoholism is getting more apparent and Betty who’s secret in becoming harder to avoid. It’s also nice to see that the writers haven’t forgotten about the not quite resolved Deirdre angle from last year.

As an episode nothing really happened there... but they set many things for episodes to come:



Susan and the doctor... and probably a disease for Susan....

Lynette and Tom... I'm hoping that this couple doesn't fall apart

New things will going to happen now that for sure Noah will find out that he has a grandson... the appearance a quite familiar nurse leads things that way

Carlos and Gaby prove somehow that they love each other... things might heat up when a certain Sister shows up again....

Bree developing a problem whith alcohool...

And Let's see if the Applewhites really go away... I doubt it... at least not so easily...

"Illnesses can take on many forms. Those of the body are easy to treat...much more difficult are the hidden maladies that fester in our hearts..."--Mary Alice



I have to admit I liked this episode, even though it seemed as if it was average compared to last week's awesome episode. To me it was enjoyable, you really look for something to hit the spot, Sunday nights for me are always the best and always have been: Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Desperate Housewives and newcomers Grey's Anatomy and The West Wing. And 3 good episodes of Grey's, West and Desperate back to back to back is pretty great. Now enough about that and let's get on with the episode review.



At the annual Wisteria Lane blood drive, the ladies gather and talk about how Betty Applewhite is becoming quite suspicious. When Gabrielle recommends that Bree ask Detective Barton for a favor, Bree hesitates at first but decides to ask him out on a lunch date which Barton takes a little too seriously. When Bree tells Barton that it is strictly a business lunch he becomes all upset until Bree decides to pay the bill. Just as she is leaving he offers to drive her home seeing as she has been drinking. Bree scoffs at this since she has only had a little to drink and believes Barton is trying to lure her. Bree then leaves and then is pulled over by a police car. Barton then plays the bad cop and arrests Bree for drunk driving. Bree is then put in jail where she chats it up with a prostitute. The hooker then believes Bree is also a "lady of the evening", Bree plays along in order to shut her up in one of her very Bree moments--(Oh, how I love her).



Bree quickly makes bail and is forced to walk home when her car is impounded. She is then spotted by Betty who offers to give her a lift home. Bree makes up a lie telling Betty that she has a flat. Betty then offers to call autoclub and Bree is forced to tell the truth. Betty assures Bree that everyone has rough patches but that she is at the bottom of the barrel between Andrew and her drinking. Bree quickly defends her drinking saying she drinks occasionally. Betty pulls a whatever you say and Bree lashes back saying how they have been so sneaky and creepy since they have moved in and that everyone is talking about them. Bree then gets out of the car which causes Betty to make a quick phone call to Edie. She wants to sell her house. Uh-oh...



Meanwhile Susan goes on the worst date of her life with Greg Germann from Ally McBeal. He manages to make Susan never want to date him again but wait there's more: they bump heads which creates a hospital visit. Susan's fine but Jim is checked by the doctor. Susan then pulls the doctor aside and asks if he can make Jim stay an overnight. The doctor tells her that Jim is going to be fine but Susan continues to tell him that she is on the worst date of her life. The doctor then tells Jim he may have to stay for a night for observation. Susan then revisits the hospital however after realizing that the doctor is busy and can only see serious patients creates a fake illness in order to ask him out. Dr. Ron asks when these symptoms began and recommends Susan has an MRI. During the MRI, Susan asks Dr. Ron out on a date which provides no response. Later, Dr. Ron visits Susan's house and tells her that her symptoms are virtually impossible and that he has searched every type of illness with none matching Susan's. Susan then confesses she made the symptoms up in order to see him. This causes the doctor to become pissy and yell that he was so worried she might die that he stayed up the entire night researching. Susan feels bad but before Dr. Ron leaves recommend they go out on Friday when he will be less angry. Susan looks relieved and happy.



Her ex-boyfriend Mike is less then happy when he has to reveal to Noah who Dierdre's killer was. Mike makes a lie that a man named Todd Forrest-- (could this be Paul's real name) a deadbeat drug dealer killed her and Mike therefore killed him. Noah looks far from ecstatic due to the fact that he is on his deathbed and is gravely ill. At this moment, Noah tells his nurse she's not doing a good job and that she's fired. When Noah asks if Mike will visit again, Mike asks if he will be having an open casket.



Gabrielle is told by her gardener Ralph that his wife left him due to the fact that he was looking at porn a lot. Gabrielle feels sorry for him as Ralph continues. He then tells Gabrielle that he recently found a new site which features several obscene but hot pictures of Gabrielle. She notices that they were taken by her ex-boyfriend Scott and that she gave them to him as a Christmas present many years ago. When she tells Carlos about it, he is amazed but decides not to do anything since he is slowly reforming and one incident could cause him to revert back to old ways. Gabrielle tells him that the ex-boyfriend only needs to be riled up and he will give in. They decide to do this and everything goes smoothy until Scott tells Carlos that Gabrielle was not really Internet hot. This causes Carlos to push him through a large window and onto the sidewalk. Gabrielle looks happy as Carlos has defended her honor.



Finally, Tom tells Lynette that the kids have chicken pox and that they are extremely contagious. Tom decides that he must stay away from them since (1) he has never had them and (2) they can cause infertility (like they need more kids, honestly). Lynette tells Tom that he is being a baby and that she needs someone to watch the kids. Lynette then decides to take a few days off in order to properly take care of the kids without Tom. Lynette then asks Tom if he will get a vasectomy. Tom balks at this seeing as he may want to start a family again if Lynette and he get divorced or she dies. Lynette is shocked at this since she would remain widowed forever. Tom reluctantly agrees to a vasectomy but cowers at the last minute stating that he wouldn't feel like a man anymore. Tom then tells Lynette he doesn't want to be a stay-at-home anymore and that the marriage might be in trouble. Gasp.



Just as Bree puts away groceries, she receives a reconciliatory call from Detective Barton who provides her with information on the dead man in the car in front of Betty's house. His name was Curtis Monroe and he was a detective from Chicago. Bree writes the information down and will definitely be eager to tell her friends.



And finally here's a treat to everyone, Noah begins to feel very sick but just as I believe he is about to croak his nurse arrives and begins to care for him. The nurse tells him they're going to be alright. The nurse is everyone's favorite neighbor, Felicia Tilman! Welcome back! It looks as if Mike is about to be in the doghouse. Wow!



"We're Gonna Be All Right" is a fine example of how the series is continuing to get better with each passing week providing us with the juicy details of our favorite housewives but also remembering the perfect ingredients of soap, mystery, drama and the big one comedy! Maybe that is why the show has one the Golden Globe two consecutive years in a row. Until next week, everyone will have to be a little desperate but rest assured we're gonna be alright!

Being a guy I rarely watch show like this, however I have to tell you that I find take me on a weekly journey to some street in some city called Mysteria Lane. Just when I think I have it figured it out, Bingo, they put a twist in there like the batmobile turning around in the cave. It is truly stimulates ones mind as it has enough twist and turns in each espisode to keep you going HMMMMMMM??? LOVE IT!

I love this series because there is always this funny/serious tone involved in every episode or almost. For instance take this story with naked pics of Gabrielle put on the Internet by some ex-boyfriend. I love when the gardener comes to her and says that he saw her on a porn website. Then there is this funny talk between Gabby and her husband to decide how to solve the problem. I love the two of them when they are arguing :-) Another entertaining thing, Susan making up health problems in order to get closer to Dr. Cute... Awesome! Meanwhile, Bree wants the policeman to run a background check about the black neighbours and he seems to find scary thing about the former father of the family... Not to mention the difficulties Lynette and her husband are confronted with in their couple. And finally, that last shot with Felicia Tilman as the new nurse at the mysterious man\'s bedside surely means trouble is underlying... Waiting for next episode!

I disagree that this was a placeholder. While Lynette and Tom's marriage has always seemed like it's the most stable on the show, Lynette discovering that he's unhappy is certainly interesting, and her reaction to that discovery is also almost certainly going to be even more interesting.



I'd pegged Tom's fear of sterility from the mention of the word chicken pox, and I'm just intrigued by how that storyline played out on the screen. Lynette's insistence that he get a vasectomy so she didn't have to deal with bloating from the pill seemed a little over the top, along with the image that she had, where she wanted him to be so miserable after she dies that he couldn't have a relationship with anyone else. That seems really wrong to insist the vows extend beyond the death that did them part.



By contrast, Gabi and Carlos seem stronger together. Anyone catch that url ... ? I loved Gabi's brinksmanship (her nude yoga) but her nude scene wasn't nearly as much fun as Susan's (mostly because of the, um, mutilation).



Carlos has been trying to deal with his rage issues, but there are times you do need to step up and break a guy's jaw. It was really wrong for him to be posting those photos. I'm just kind of impressed that Gabi knew not only her gardener's name, but his wife's name. Gabi sometimes seems a little superior to others.



I understand the nun is on her way back. It'll be interesting to see if she can find a way between them now that Gabi knows Carlos is willing to throw a guy through a window for her.



Zack finding out Mike has the same rare blood type was interesting. And Mike laying his cards out on the table for Diedre's father was a nice piece of closure. Of course, Felicia's been tied to that storyline through her sister's murder so it'll be fun to watch where that ends up going.



Bree's storyline was a little weak this week, but Marc is always trying to get her into these wondrously uncomfortable situations, and Bree being asked by a hooker how much she gets for that classy, repressed thing she's got going -- "You don't have any pores at all" -- gave Bree an excellent opportunity to prove once and for all that she does have a biting sense of humor, even about herself. "$5,000 a night." Hilarious!



And just like the continuity we're going to explore with the Scavos' marriage, Bree's drinking is going to be a longer-term exploration. I think she's sinking into it naturally -- unlike that story that she just kept getting deeper and deeper into with Betty -- she doesn't have a flat tire; she doesn't even have a car with her. Betty assuring her that the DUI is no big deal -- especially since the charges were dropped -- was cold comfort in light of the fact that the gossip mill was about to kick into high gear.



And Betty's story about her mom isn't going to stop prospective buyers from doing due diligence on that ... really secure suana the Applewhites have built in their basement.



Susan. Julie was going to be so grounded, pushing her mother to try making a date with young Dr. Ron. From her misremembered line -- "You're hot, you're funny and you're desperate, and guys go for that."



Her blind date was a disaster, and I'm no expert, but I imagine that that was one of those dates where she should've excused herself to the bathroom and forgot where she was seated.



Susan is very manipulative, but she was sending out every signal she could and she was doing it well. It's just that Dr. Ron was preoccupied and ... diligent. The MRI scene was hilarious.



Doc: She's trying to put on the dustcover.

Ron: How long are we going to let this go on?

Doc: Oh, just a couple more minutes.



I know she's superthin, but she can abosutely doff her clothing any time she wants.



Ron coming to her house being all concerned, and then getting upset with her, and then making a date with her -- only Susan, am I right, people? Only. Susan.



All in all, this was a clever eppy. Bree's field sobriety test would've been fun to see, but the jail cell was delicious. And the Applewhites are making overtures for moving out -- I'm certain something significant will happen with that. Gabi's item was more of a one-shot, but we got some nice deepening feelings there. As for the Scavos and Susan and Ron and then, of course, Felicia ...



... lots of places for this story to go.



Well done, people.

while this episode had a lot going for it, Bree being pulled over, Susan and the cute Dr., and Gabby and the nude photos, nothing really happened. Sure Bree is suspicious of the Applewhite's and maybe just maybe Zac is beginning to suspect something is up with Mike and the ending with Noah and Felicia. But there really didn't feel like anything was happening. It was like the calm before the storm episode. Sure it's about to hit the fan but this was the episode just before it all goes down. So while it was a decent episode, it was not the best, but it was crucial to the development.



3.5/5

"Desperate Housewives" never ceases to amaze me. The stories are both realistic and fantastic, hilarious and serious, etc. But most of all, they are original. In this episode, quite a few little things here and there happened. Here are some pivitol (or just cute/funny) details:

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~Zack found out that the only other person in town with his same rare blood type is Mike Delfino

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~Tom started to do as his wife asked and get a vasectomy, but can't bring himself to do it. He already isn't bringing home the money, and feels that getting a vasectomy would take away the last thing that makes him a man...

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~Susan, who actually gets an MRI and makes the poor doctor stay up all night to determine what was wrong with her, when really she had made up all her symptoms because she liked him

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~The doctor, who actually DOES like Susan, and even agrees to go out with her, despite his anger with her

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~Bree, who discovers that the Applewhites are going back to Chicago, and the dead guy is also from Chicago

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~Bree, who gets a DUI (Driving Under the Influence of alcohol penalty), goes to jail, gets her car impounded, and is rescued by Betty Applewhite

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~Betty, who decides to sell her house immediately after hearing Bree's summary of all that the housewives know about them (the Applewhites)

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~Bree, who actually agrees to ask her "policeman friend" for a favor, and gets her way because she was drunk...

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~Julie, who flat out tells her mother that she's obviously desperate

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~Lynette, who is horrified at the prospect of Tom imagining a future wifeand kids

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~Penny, who is frightened of Tom wearinf a surgical mask

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~Susan's bad date

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~Susan getting undressed for the MRI and trying to put on the dust cover

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~Gabrielle, who desperately wants the photographs of her naked self taken off of the internet, but is willing to strip for the whole town in order for that to happen

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~Carlos, who wants to be a good Catholic, a good person, and be past his fighting days despite his wife's pleas

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~Carlos, who can't stand a man who doesn't think his wife is beautiful enough for cyber-porn

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~Carlos, who is taken aback by Gabi's accusation of him not loving her when he doesn't want to beat up her ex-boyfriend to get the photos

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~Gabrielle, who deflects the accusation of her not loving Carlos (because if she REALLY loved Carlos, she wouldn't be asking him to beat up someone and not remain his changed self)

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Overall, a great episode!

What is it about Bree? I mean, yes, she's gorgeous but to get so many men faling over her? I did enjoy her reaction when the cop asked her if this was a date and you could see her thinking "Oh, not again." I think it was interesting how, despite the fact it seemed to be beacuse he was turned down, it seems the cop did have good reason to arrest her for drinking, which could play into the season well.



The Gabrielle plot was also silly but fun to see how her marriage with Carlos works. I thought it a bit much that Gabby would just strip naked before the entire neighborhood but it did get her point across. And her reaction when Carlos threw the guy through the window was funny to see.



Another one that seemed silly but turned much better was the Lynette/Tom one, which seemed to devolve into jokes about a vasectomy. However, it brought up what we've known for a while, that Tom is not happy being the "housewife" and it may threaten his marriage to Lynette which seems to play into next week's ep.



It was fun to see Susan flirt with the doctor who was more fun than I expected. Their final argument leading to the date was funny and I can't wait to see how this progresses.



Not much as I expected with the Applewhites but it is progressing well. And just when I though the bit with Mike's dying father-in-law was dragged out too long, we get that awesome final shot that I didn't see coming and shows once again why you should never underestimate this show.