# Desperate Housewives 10/1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892 "2006-10-01T22:27:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/21 "2006-10-03T11:09:24Z")
What the hell is going on with this show? One great first season, and then they repeat plot points over and over again. Gabi and Carlos have now burned through 3 babies. Bree’s on serial killer #2. Mike and Susan’s breakups/getting back together outnumber the serial killers and babies combined. What happens next? Baby #4 arrives, but it’s a serial killer. Bree marries him. During the ceremony, several interruptions ensue when Susan and Mike break up and reunite a few times. The baby then kills everyone. Sounds like a good way to end the show. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/22 "2006-10-03T13:03:23Z")
[QUOTE=Arien] I missed the season premiere so I am not sure how Orson and Bree got together. [/QUOTE] Last season Bree checked herself into an institution for a while. While there, she met Orson, who was visiting an older patient (whose identity was not established but viewers seem to be assuming it’s his mother). Bree broke out and Orson saw her and kept mum. Shortly thereafter Orson showed up at her door with flowers (having just run over Mike on the way to Bree’s). The season premiere moved us six months into the future so we missed their courtship. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/23 "2006-10-03T13:33:49Z")
[QUOTE=zuma] Bree’s on serial killer #2. [/QUOTE] Wha? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/24 "2006-10-03T13:45:49Z")
[QUOTE=Excalibre] Wha? [/QUOTE] I think \*\*zuma \*\* is talking about crazy pharmacist guy, who can’t be considered a serial killer since we only know about the one murder. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/25 "2006-10-03T13:53:09Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] I think \*\*zuma \*\* is talking about crazy pharmacist guy, who can’t be considered a serial killer since we only know about the one murder. [/QUOTE] Must have been before I started watching. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/26 "2006-10-03T14:10:39Z")
[QUOTE=Excalibre] Must have been before I started watching. [/QUOTE] He tampered with Bree’s husband’s heart medicine and it eventually killed him. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/27 "2006-10-03T15:01:11Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] I think \*\*zuma \*\* is talking about crazy pharmacist guy, who can’t be considered a serial killer since we only know about the one murder. [/QUOTE] Well, he \*did \* kill himself. That’s two. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/28 "2006-10-03T15:04:43Z")
[QUOTE=kittenblue] Oh, I’m so glad I’m not the only one! I took one look at the guy and said, “Are we supposed to think he’s hot?” Of course, he’s Edie’s nephew, so it runs in the family…great body, but the face, the personality…not so much. [/QUOTE] Did he ever explain why he was entering Edie’s house through the window? And he’s supposed to be \< 18? Did Central Casting run out of real teenagers? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/29 "2006-10-03T15:06:39Z")
He also threw Bree’s therapist off a bridge but I don’t remember if the therapist died. And didn’t he attempt another? Wasn’t there something about a former fiancee who showed up at Bree’s engagement-to-George party with a tale of poisoned something-or-other? Honestly, it’s becoming a Wisteria Lane tradition, Bree can’t throw an engagement party without someone showing up to accuse the groom of dire happenings. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/30 "2006-10-03T15:18:39Z")
[QUOTE=kittenblue] And how long ago did Orson’s wife go missing? Why would any body that old be in a condition to be identified by the face? [/QUOTE] Because she was buried in clay, which has preservative qualtiies. \*Now \* they go all CSI on us. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/31 "2006-10-03T15:51:44Z")
[QUOTE=jsc1953] Did he ever explain why he was entering Edie’s house through the window? [/QUOTE] Presumably he doesn’t have a key to a house where he doesn’t live. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/32 "2006-10-03T16:24:41Z")
[QUOTE=kittenblue] And count me in on the people who thought it was weird that the cop came to the wedding looking for Bree, to tell her they were looking for Orson. All of a sudden they need Bree’s permission to talk to Orson? [/QUOTE] Maybe because, as everyone knows, a wedding is the bride’s day :rolleyes: and they were being deferential to that?? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/33 "2006-10-03T23:36:51Z")
Okay, a brief explanation of where Danielle was, even if she was off studying with the Dalai Lama, would have been in order. The omission is glaring. I thought black babies weren’t born black? Don’t they get the color a few days after birth? So it wouldn’t have been immediately known that the fertility clinic screwed up. So Orson has killed more than one woman? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/34 "2006-10-03T23:39:08Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] I thought black babies weren’t born black? Don’t they get the color a few days after birth? So it wouldn’t have been immediately known that the fertility clinic screwed up. [/QUOTE] My wife said the exact same thing. I think you’re both crazy…but then, I’ve never seen a newborn black baby. But I think you’re confusing eye color with skin color. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/35 "2006-10-03T23:53:45Z")
Maybe we need **Qadgop** or some other DoperDoc in here. I found [this link](http://www.gritman.org/services/fbcnewborn.htm). Scroll down to the section about skin. Now, I don’t know how “reddish-black” looks on a newborn, but the color does darken over time. Would it be readily apparent that the newborn baby was black? ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/36 "2006-10-04T03:42:35Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] I thought black babies weren’t born black? Don’t they get the color a few days after birth? So it wouldn’t have been immediately known that the fertility clinic screwed up. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I said that while watching the show. But I don’t know if maybe some black infants are born with all of their pigmentation and others aren’t. It seemed funny to me, though. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/37 "2006-10-04T05:03:09Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] I thought black babies weren’t born black? Don’t they get the color a few days after birth? So it wouldn’t have been immediately known that the fertility clinic screwed up. [/QUOTE] I helped birth a baby last year (I got to cut the cord!!!) whose mom is black and whose father is white. The baby was a lovely shade of brown when she was born…I’d post the pictures, but I can’t find the disk right now. ---
**Author:** ![DragonAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892/38 "2006-10-05T18:57:47Z")
I’m starting to think that DH’s writers have run out of ideas, so they do what every writer does when they run out of ideas for their show/book - introduce new characters! New characters and crazy storylines are fine - but I wish they’d focus more on the members of Wisteria Lane interacting with _each other_, instead of characters interacting with ‘off-stage’ people (Susan and Ian, Tom/Lynette and Nora, Bree and Orson). Am I the only one who though Gabby looked like she had aged about 10 years in last week’s episode? Was it the new 'do or something? Tom and Lynette continue to be my favorite storyline, but it’s very close between Gabby & Carlos. I liked Bree’s storyline before Orson came on the scene. I’ve never really liked the Susan character, but now I’m beginning to actively hate her; she just grates on my nerves. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-1/374892.md?page=1)