# Desperate Housewives 10/29 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388 "2006-10-30T02:08:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/1 "2006-10-30T02:08:57Z")
Gabi and Carlos can’t quite extinguish their feelings for each other, and Bree learns a lot more about Orson’s history. Check back with you later… ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/2 "2006-10-30T03:22:50Z")
Best line of the night: “So what grade is he in?” Susan in response to Gabby’s announcement that she has a big secret. I liked how Lynette handled Tom’s mistress in front of her daughter. It was both mean and clever thus very much in keeping with Lynette’s essential character. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/3 "2006-10-30T05:42:52Z")
Yet another episode where I was immensely pleased by the dialog but unable to muster much caring about the people delivering it. I could not care less about Susan and Ian, or Susan and Mike, or Susan in general. Could not care less about Gaby and Carlos. Could care a little less about Lynette and Tom and Bora, I mean Nora, but only because Lynette and Tom are so stupid and Nora has the possibility of some good solid crazy (although Lynette so clearly out-crazied her tonight she might as well leave town now). The only ones I care anything about are Bree and family and only because Bree has such a finely-tuned madness that she’s immensely entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/4 "2006-10-30T06:29:02Z")
Ding Dong! Am I a bad person because I laughed out loud when Gaby pushed Carlso out the window? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/5 "2006-10-30T13:39:31Z")
Oh, crap! I was watching _Grey Gardens_ on TCM and completely forgot! Can someone spoiler me a plot synopsis? ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/6 "2006-10-30T14:15:20Z")
I missed the first 15 minutes…did Gaby really pull the seduction stunt because of the contract? Finally the scenes we’ve been waiting for for weeks arrive when Nora makes her move on Tom andcomes to the pizza place with a bottle of wine, gets him tipsy and then kisses him…but he jumps back in protest, wipes his lips off (Nora cooties!) and declares his love and admiration for Lynette, and his realization that her business sense is sounder than his. Then he races home and tells Lynette exactly what happened, and Lynette, who has come to the realization that she treated Tom like a child, goes off, kicks in Nora’s door and then threatens her…stay away from my home, my husband, my family…and we’ll see the child Saturday, 'k? ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/7 "2006-10-30T16:09:10Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] Oh, crap! I was watching _Grey Gardens_ on TCM and completely forgot! Can someone spoiler me a plot synopsis? [/QUOTE] I’m personally sorry I missed _Grey Gardens_. But I assume they’ll endlessly rerun it like they normally do. In addition to the spoilers in the previous post, here’s a quick few more: [spoiler]Carlos grants Gabby everything she wants in the divorce. This makes her very suspicious. Carlos makes a big show of having a secret stash of papers delivered to him. Gabby naturally tries to find out what’s in the papers. She discovers this is a job offer for Carlos with a huge payoff. Her lawyer tells her to put off the divorce until after the divorce. Of course this is a joke Carlos played on her. After they sleep together Gabby finds out and pushes him out the window. He crashes and shows up in the house covered in glass. Eddie sleeps with Mike. The police ask Mike about the dead women’s phone number but he says he doesn’t remember until Eddie shows up half naked. That bring back flashbacks for him. We aren’t yet told the details. Susan encounters Eddie and Mike apparently sleeping together. She gets drunk on Lynette’s porch and then shows up at a party the English guy invited her to. Being Susan she makes as ass of herself. Tom buys a space to turn into a pizza parlor. Nora tries to seduce him and he tells her off. Lynette goes to her house, confronts Nora (who said Tom started it) and tells her in her ear that she’s not welcome at their house anymore. Her daughter can come but she can’t. The woman who accused Orson of being a murderer comes back to Bree’s house with her husband to apologize. They meet for dinner. In the ladies room the woman brings out a picture of Orson’s wife. We see she’s a redhead. We then see her covered in bruises and a police report blaming Orson. While the ladies are in the bathroom her husband tells Orson he’s having an affair. He pulls out a picture. The picture looks like the one his wife is showing Bree. He tells him that the woman just disappeared. We then see Orson making an anonymous phone call to the police to tell them about the affair. They show up and question the man. [/spoiler] Whew! ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/8 "2006-10-30T16:12:24Z")
[QUOTE=LavenderBlue] While the ladies are in the bathroom her husband tells Orson he’s having an affair. He pulls out a picture. The picture looks like the one his wife is showing Bree. He tells him that the woman just disappeared. [/QUOTE] There’s a resemblance between the two women but they’re not the same woman. The wife shows Bree pictures of Alma and the husband shows Orson a picture of Monique, the dead woman from the golf course. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/9 "2006-10-30T16:24:32Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] There’s a resemblance between the two women but they’re not the same woman. The wife shows Bree pictures of Alma and the husband shows Orson a picture of Monique, the dead woman from the golf course. [/QUOTE] That’s where I got a little confused. I thought the show didn’t make that entirely clear. Is the dead woman Orson’s wife? Or is that a different dead woman? Or have they told us yet? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/10 "2006-10-30T16:25:41Z")
Thanks: but who’s Eddie, and how is Mike suddenly gay? ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/11 "2006-10-30T16:30:25Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] Thanks: but who’s Eddie, and how is Mike suddenly gay? [/QUOTE] Oops. I mean Edie. The character played by Nicolette Sheridan. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/12 "2006-10-30T18:51:46Z")
[QUOTE=LavenderBlue] That’s where I got a little confused. I thought the show didn’t make that entirely clear. Is the dead woman Orson’s wife? Or is that a different dead woman? Or have they told us yet? [/QUOTE] When he dead woman was found, Detective Ghostbuster went to Bree and Orson’s wedding to have Orson try to identify her. He didn’t, and Jackie Harris (sorry, I don’t know her name on DH) confirmed that the dead woman was not Alma, Orson’s wife. As he was walking out, Orson said something to the corpse, identifying her as “Monique.” In the restroom last night, Jackie showed Bree pictures of Alma and Jackie’s puffy husband showed Orson a picture of Monique. Different women. Mike’s little flashbacky hallucinationy woman was Monique. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/13 "2006-10-30T20:01:07Z")
For anyone who missed all or part of the show: _Desperate Housewives_ can be viewed online [here](http://abc.go.com/fsp/index.html?channel=DesperateHousewives). ABC puts each week’s new episode up for online viewing immediately after the broadcast version has aired. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/14 "2006-10-30T20:16:27Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] Thanks: but who’s Eddie, and how is Mike suddenly gay? [/QUOTE] Did you see Susan’s spastic dance last week? How _isn’t_ Mike suddenly gay? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/15 "2006-10-30T23:04:10Z")
I’m finding the Bree/Orson storyline the most interesting of the season thus far. Gabi and Carlos are spinning their wheels, doing the War of the Roses thing next week, while Susan has taken up with dull guy. I do like the escalating tension and conflict among the Scavos and Nora, however. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-10-29/378388/16 "2006-10-30T23:11:07Z")
It puzzles me that Hollywood keeps trying to present Dougray Scott as a really hot guy. I just don’t see it. This has got to be the blandest, dullest Scotsman on the face of the earth.