# Desperate Housewives 11/26 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 26, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882 "2006-11-26T23:33:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/1 "2006-11-26T23:33:44Z")
There’s a block party on Wisteria Lane this time. Beyond that, I am in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/2 "2006-11-27T01:02:21Z")
I’m sure Bree could give you some advice on some tasteful lighting solutions. After she and Orson kick Grandma out, if the previews are to be believed. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/3 "2006-11-27T03:51:58Z")
I thought Lynette was going to throw up when the pedophile outed himself in his smarmy way. It was a good twist - I didn’t see it coming. Other stories are so back and forth and back and forth…Bree believes Orson, then MIL, then Orson…Susan loves Ian (is that his name?) but still feels for Mike… Gabby is just evil, isn’t she? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/4 "2006-11-27T04:21:04Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] I thought Lynette was going to throw up when the pedophile outed himself in his smarmy way. It was a good twist - I didn’t see it coming. [/QUOTE] I was hoping that they’d stick to their guns, though, and have him be innocent. I like following a witch hunt to its natural conclusion–the burning of non-witches. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/5 "2006-11-27T04:25:59Z")
Susan is such a moron. She ought to have stolen Bree’s recipes rather than Orson’s keys. A year in a hospital for depression is meaningless. I liked how Gabrielle turned the tables on the little girl. That 's so in keeping with her character. The Lynette storyline was well done until the end. I was disappointed they took the he’s guilty tack after all. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/6 "2006-11-27T04:37:40Z")
I really liked the twist with the pedophile. I had expected a formulaic storyline in which he turned out to be a great guy who was an innocent victim. This show still has the power to throw in a shocker now and then. And Orson’s evil mom meeting with the long-lost Alma took me by surprise, too. I like being surprised. Now I am hoping that they won’t go for the painfully obvious plot development in which Ian’s comatose wife wakes up. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/7 "2006-11-27T04:50:48Z")
Gabby: Nicely played. Good to know that a grown woman can still outsmart a couple of pre-teen girls. And I hope we keep seeing Vern (played by the gigglelicious Alec Mapa, who previously played a gay guy named Vern on the short-lived CBS series _Some of My Best Friends_). There was something odd about Gabby’s new intended beau, Bill. Can’t quite put my finger on it, but somehow he just seemed built weird. Maybe it was the turtlenecks. Susan: Still can’t bring myself to care, and wow is she stupid. Fine, steal the keys, whatever, but do you really think you’re going to find anything there on the night when Ian is (unreasonably demanding and) expecting you to cook for his parents at your house (when Ian has an actual _domestic staff_ which I would bet includes a cook) that isn’t going to be there in the morning? Does she really think Orson is going to think “oh, someone else has been arrested for this murder that I committed, maybe now would be the time to finally cleaning out that big pile of evidence I’ve been saving”? Although Susan and Bree did get the best exchanges of the episode. “Necklace of human teeth.” Hee! Well-played on Ian’s part as well, getting her away from Mike by agreeing to pay for the lawyer. Any bets on how many episodes that will last? One perhaps? Bree: I think that from now on, going in, she should assume that any man who’s interested in her is Messed Up. She’s smart enough that she should’ve have caught the discrepancy between Orson’s saying his mother thinks divorce is a sin and the mother just hours earlier encouraging her to find a divorce lawyer. Although speaking of holding on to evidence, “depression” may be a euphemism for something else on Wisteria Lane. I wonder if we’re _ever_ going to find out now who Orson was visiting in the nut hutch when Bree was committed? Maybe he was having a fling with someone there while he was in-patient? Was it the same facility? Lynette: I was actually quite pleased with the way that the pedophile story ended. Art had apparently never acted out beyond the creepy pictures before, out of fear of his sister finding out. If Lynette hadn’t done what she did and set in motion the events that led to the sister’s death (which, wow, that made the news? I didn’t see any media covering the protest) then Art may never have felt that he was in a position to offend. It’s like Lynette loaded the gun, and she knows it. Excellent extreme example of the end result of her incessant meddling. Well done, show. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/8 "2006-11-27T12:10:17Z")
I don’t know…I think Art is messing with Lynette’s mind. He never actually admitted to anything. Just implied that anyone who lives with another person they care about might restrain themselves from behavior that might be embarassing…don’t we all do that? And that now that he was free from having to be a caretaker, he could live life the way he wanted…again, not admitting anything, but just expressing a fact of life that any caretaker has experienced. So he never really said, “hey, you were right, I’m a pedophile” though the implication was there. I thought his statements left a bit of wiggle room…but then I never saw the “evidence” that made Lynette flip out, so I could be totally wrong. And a hint of the old Mike’s personality finally reappeared. Even though he still can’t remember much, he no longer reacts like a zombie. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/9 "2006-11-27T17:14:23Z")
With all the people being killed, can’t someone shoot Bree and put us out of her miserable storyline? Does anyone even care anymore? There was no way the pedophile could’ve turned out to be innocent. Those pictures, and there were dozens of them, just can’t be explained any other way. Kind of a bland episode. Was that Orsen’s ex-wife in the car at the end? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/10 "2006-11-27T17:20:53Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] Was that Orsen’s ex-wife in the car at the end? [/QUOTE] His missing wife, whose death might have been assumed by many viewers, including me. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/11 "2006-11-27T17:31:14Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] With all the people being killed, can’t someone shoot Bree and put us out of her miserable storyline? Does anyone even care anymore? [/quote] Bree’s is the only currently active storyline I care anything about at this point. Gabby teaching pageants and trying to land a man with a freakishly large head. Don’t care. Ian and Suszzzzzz…sorry, can’t even type that all out while staying awake. Lynette vs the Pedophile was interesting but it’s over. Mike’s Murder. He was in a coma so who cares about the murder that he couldn’t have committed. But Bree, she’s completely insane and she’s married to someone who’s completely insane whose crazy mother is plotting with his nutty wife. What’s not to love? ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/12 "2006-11-27T17:47:35Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Lynette: I was actually quite pleased with the way that the pedophile story ended. Art had apparently never acted out beyond the creepy pictures before, out of fear of his sister finding out. If Lynette hadn’t done what she did and set in motion the events that led to the sister’s death (which, wow, that made the news? I didn’t see any media covering the protest) then Art may never have felt that he was in a position to offend. It’s like Lynette loaded the gun, and she knows it. Excellent extreme example of the end result of her incessant meddling. Well done, show. [/QUOTE] There are times that I think Lynette should have done something else - but here? Watch Art’s house all the time? I’m seeing a lack of good options for her personally. Of course, my favorite moment of the night was when one of the camerapeople used Mrs. Landingham’s head to block Marcia Cross’s body. Speaking of which (speculation, not an actual spoiler)my guess is that Alma and/or Orson’s mother are going to conveniently disappear Bree sometime soon. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/13 "2006-11-27T18:00:02Z")
I’m rather hoping that Art will show up again. It was a great scene at the end between him and Lynnette, nicely played by both actors. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/14 "2006-11-27T18:05:56Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Gabby teaching pageants and trying to land a man with a freakishly large head. [/QUOTE] He looked like he could swallow Gabby whole with that mouth. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/15 "2006-11-27T19:28:27Z")
[QUOTE=jsgoddess] His missing wife, whose death might have been assumed by many viewers, including me. [/QUOTE] I kinda figured that it was too obvious for her to be dead. But, are they still married? I don’t remember anything about a divorce (even though I called her his ex-wife above). ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/16 "2006-11-27T19:56:17Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] I kinda figured that it was too obvious for her to be dead. But, are they still married? I don’t remember anything about a divorce (even though I called her his ex-wife above). [/QUOTE] Orson told Bree that he was granted a divorce on the grounds of abandonment. He could be lying but that would be a rather strange thing to lie about. Why would he make himself a bigamist? ---
**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:** [November 27, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/17 "2006-11-27T20:00:16Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Orson told Bree that he was granted a divorce on the grounds of abandonment. He could be lying but that would be a rather strange thing to lie about. Why would he make himself a bigamist? [/QUOTE] Because he’s a nut? I expect the bigamy angle is just the sort of the thing the writers might want to spice up the plot with. You could well be right, but I don’t put anything past these guys. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/18 "2006-11-27T20:01:09Z")
[QUOTE=jsgoddess] He looked like he could swallow Gabby whole with that mouth. [/QUOTE] Which Gabby might like, might like very much indeed. I think it has to be the turtleneck. In his [IMDB](http://imdb.com/name/nm0215293/) shots he doesn’t look at all freakish and is actually quite the hot number. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/19 "2006-11-27T22:39:39Z")
[QUOTE=LavenderBlue] Susan is such a moron. She ought to have stolen Bree’s recipes rather than Orson’s keys. [/QUOTE] I thought she was going to steal the food on the table at first. I’m definitely liking this season better than the last, with its “WTF?” moments. Reminds me of the first season. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882/20 "2006-11-27T23:13:52Z")
How did the sister die? I was flipping back and forth from the sapfest on CBS. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/desperate-housewives-11-26/381882.md?page=2)