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Grounded for Life Season 2 Episode 13

Take It to the Limit

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AIRED: 2/13/02

Lily's compulsive credit-card usage sinks Sean's plans to take Henry and his friends to a pricey waterpark; Eddie refuses to open up to his family about the contents of his mysterious locked box.

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By Canogaparkcindy, May 23, 2011

Oh yes, the story line that we've all seen before. A teenage girl maxes out her credit card over something she thinks is an "emergency." She has to suffer the consequences by the end of it. Yes, it's something we've seen before, but Grounded for Life did it so great here, that it just made up for it.

I think we can learn from every single sitcom to not give a credit card to a 15-year old teenager. We learned that here too. What I loved though was the flashback scenes. From the perfect "Gliss" line to Lilly trying to keep her clothes clean. I laughed all the way through.

Also Claudia's absurd fantasy is something worth mentioning. "Credit card!!!???" Hilarious scene. The 'store credit' thing was pretty unexpected. I liked how it tied in too Henry's birthday party and the water part. "Are we poor?" Man, you just got to love the Finnerties. Great episode, one of my favorites.moreless
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A really good episode. =)

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By yay_boredom, Feb 23, 2006

This is another great installment of Grounded for Life, everyone has their funny moments in thie episode. The real standout moment is Sean's rant to the telephone operators, which had me rolling on the floor from laughing so hard. (Way to speak for the people!) Plus, the whole mystery box that Eddie had, was a quite hilarious yet also very confusing thing, exactly what was in that box anyway? (Hmmmm...) I also liked the Lord of the Flies dance Walt died, another moment I was laughing pretty hard. Overall it was a really solid episode, and i give it a 9.6! (-.4 for not finding out what was in the box!)moreless
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Richard Riehle	Walt Finnerty (Season 1-2, recurring otherwise)
Megyn Price	Claudia Finnerty
Kevin Corrigan	Eddie Finnerty
Lynsey Bartilson	Lily Finnerty
Donal Logue	Sean Finnerty
Jake Burbage	Henry Finnerty (2001-2004)

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Kelli Garner	Tracey	Guest Star
Connor Matheus	Perry	Guest Star
Eric Jungmann	Ticket Clerk	Guest Star
Mike Vogel	Dean Peramotti	Recurring Role
Autumn Reeser	Alison	Recurring Role

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- Lily: I was mortified.
  Eddie: Why? Gliss is a perfectly acceptable word. It's short for glissando, where you run the back of your finger across the piano like this. (Into phone) Yes, I was talking to you also!
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- Jimmy: (After not getting to go to the water park Walt has the kids jumping through a little sprinkler) Grandpa this stinks.
  Walt: Well it's just a little pressure problem. (yells) Nobody flush the toilet 'til the party's over. Alright, here we go, ready.
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- Claudia: Your dad is gonna freak when he sees his car....Th-th-that car reeks.
  Sean: Yeah, my dad works in a dump, if he had a sense of smell, he'd be dead by now.
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- [At a water park talking about a water slide]
  Sean: Alright alright, let me tell you. Imagine this, you start from a position so high, ok, that by the time your halfway down your going so fast that the water under you butt actually catches on fire.
  Claudia: Ha ha ha
  All the kids: Wow, so cool.
  Jimmy: Maybe the fire will kill the five millions kinds of bacteria in the water.
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- Sean: [talking on the phone] No it`s alright, put me on hold. I`d love to hear more of the music to kill yourself by collection.
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- Sean: Hello, Rochelle? No, I do not want to give you my account number and I shall tell you why: because I have already keyed it in three times and given it to several different people including a Beth, a José, and someone who was really rude to me named Kevin. And I think I speak for all Americans when I say that we are SICK of having to call something in and key in the number and then being asked what the number was we keyed in before! Alright? So why don't you get a piece of paper - have you heard of that? And a pen AND WRITE THE DAMN NUMBERS DOWN!
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- Tag scene: Eddie gets Sean a credit card from "Canadian express".
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- Walt: Kill the pig, spill his blood!!
  
  This is a line from Lord of the Flies
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- Walt: It's gonna be like Lord of the Flies out there!
  
  Lord of the Flies is a book by William Golding about a bunch of schoolboys who were trapped on an island who turned into savages.
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- Take It To The Limit: Title
  
  The title of this episode was derived from the Eagles song of the same name
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