The offic antics continue, with Lynette putting a stop to them by eating–gulp–a pound of raw bacon! :eek: I would have been worried about worms and such, but I guess that’s why she asked for a bucket afterwards.
Bree and Betty have a heart to heart about Caleb after Bree’s pop-in at the Applewhite house. And Bree’s drinking continues to increase. Next week, it looks like she’s face down in her lawn!
Gabi is more selfish than ever. Now she gets a Chinese woman to stay and be her maidservant by giving her a bracelet and purporting to treat her better than her previous user did.
Susan tries to marry for the insurance, but the gay fellow’s lover puts the kibosh on that. Carl offers to step in to try to make up for having walked out on her years ago.
Interesting stuff, this ep. But then, it’s February, and that means network ratings sweeps are in progress.
I read recently that it’s been decades since more than a handful of people a year get trichinosis from pork, and most of the dozen or so cases a year result from eating wild boar, anyway. Now, most fish, on the other hand, is infested with worms. ick.
I know Mary Alice was trying to hammer home the idea of odd friendships, but I’m not sure that Bree and Betty are really friends. They have some dirt on the other to keep them in check, and a couple sad stories to share, but that doesn’t sound much like the basis of a friendship to me.
My Tivo cut out as Bree took Betty’s hand at the table. What happened after that? And where was Shawn Pyfrom? He was in the credits, but I didn’t see him on screen.
Most/all of the desperate children are in the credits whether they appear in the episode or not. For instance, the Scavo children are listed all the time.
IIRC all that happened after Bree took Betty’s hand was the Mary Alice VO, which nattered on a bit about unusual friendships over a shot of the Chinese woman hemming a dress for Gabi and Danielle and whats-his-name making out, only to get a little odd with a line about how lonely people count on unusual friendships over a shot of Caleb watching Danielle and whats-his-name making out.
Pork products that are raw or undercooked tend to make me nervous because a neighbor of mine once ingested an undercooked pork taco several years ago and wound up with a T. Solium (tapeworm) in her brain. It died, but she’s been a medical mess ever since. That’s why it was hard for me to watch the bacon scene.
I must have missed an episode (or so)
where are Tom & Lynnette’s children? How can he work? Isn’t he supposed to be, well, raising them?
Did they die unexpectedly?
I guess we have to assume they’re in school and day care. We haven’t been introduced to any new nannies, anyway. 
I liked seeing that guy from Mad TV again. I don’t know his name – he’ll always be Stewart, the big little whiny child.
Susan marrying for insurance was a stretch, even for her. How much can a splenectomy cost? Put it on a credit card, take out a loan, or sell something. At least make sure the coverage accepts pre-existing conditions. Just watch – her claim will be denied because she didn’t get pre-approval, or her ex’s plan is an HMO and boyfriend doctor isn’t in it.
The company insurance plan allowed for a daycare but only if a certain number of children were enrolled. They were one short so Lynette manipulated her boss’s wife into enrolling their kid. So Parker is supposedly in school most of the day and the rest are I guess supposed to be in the company daycare.
Except that someone seems to have forgotten about company daycare for next Sunday’s episode since the kids apparently get left with drunken Bree during the day.
It was what Betty said at the end of the conversation, taking responsibility (rightfully, in my opinion) for what her son did. In that instant, Bree understood her.
It’s my guess Tom and Lynette have to go in on a Saturday.
I’ll bet it was Phoebe-nurse who wrote that note about Zach.
Wouldn’t Susan have a case against her former agent’s company for letting her insurance lapse? And what exactly is a “wandering spleen?” She made it seem like she was in imminent danger of death, but she’s running around all over town with Edie and trying to marry a gay guy, so I don’t think it’s that urgent.
I don’t think the writers are paying much attention to the insurance thing, which is understandable – insurance is boring.
Susan should have gotten a COBRA notice from the insurance company when her agent stopped paying. Probably the agent got the notice and of course did nothing, so Susan didn’t know about the lapse.
But if the agent’s company was in charge of that, then yeah, it looks like they dropped the ball, and Susan might have recourse. But leave it to her to do things the hard way. Did she talk to a lawyer when all that happened? I don’t remember.
It’s called *Desparate * Housewives, not Logical, Well-Planned Housewives. 
Thanks. I have to keep reminding myself of this. Ya gotta hope nobody’s modeling their behavior on anything these women do.