I’ll be watching it in a few hours, but I’m starting this so the rest of you can jump in and fill it up with comments.
Tonight: Drunken Bree! Will Karl and Edie tie the knot, or will he marry Susan on the sly for the sake of insurance on her little wanderin’ kidney? And more conflict is afoot in La Casa de Carlos y Gabi.
Wow! They’re really making up for the crap that was the first couple of episodes of this season. Nice to see where Gabby got her Gabbiness from. Anyone else expect Mama Gabby to pull a Mrs. Robinson on Carlos?
Good episode! Some serious stuff going on here, with Lynnette playing tough with Bree, Susan being concerned for Edie (!), the revelation about Gabby’s abuse, her mother’s denial, and Carlos not considering for a second that mom’s story was true. Bravo.
Oops! I said kidney when I meant spleen. I must have wandering brain cells.
Very good stuff! Edie digging her fingers into the souffle, the kids making off with Penny, Lynnette lining up the bottles on the porch (that was a good way to send the message), plenty of revelations about Gabi and her mom, and could we please have more of Mrs. McCluskey?
Missed it! Anyone want to give me a quick rundown of what happened? 
We open with MAVO explaining, over shots of Susan destroying various of Karl’s possessions, that Susan thinks the punishment should fit the crime. He broke her heart, she broke his stuff. Now that they’re getting married again, Karl wants to use the same wedding ring (a family heirloom). Susan threw it out te window of her car, so Karl makes her find it with a metal detector because he thinks the punishment should fit the crime too.
Bree is at an Italian restaurant, drinking wine and listening to a waiter sing bad arias. The waiter (or perhaps the owner, it’s not clear) suggests she take a cab home. She does, but ends up passed out on the lawn. The next morning the old crotchety neighbor sees her, knocks on the door and alerts Andrew. Andrew wakes her up by turning on the sprinklers. Later in the kitchen, Andrew and Danielle accuse her of having a drinking problem. Bree denies it, blaming it on her antihistamines which she throws out. Andrew: “So you’d rather have allergies than quit drinking?”
It’s Valentine’s Day. Edie’s cleaning up and finds the ring and a pre-nuptual agreement in Karl’s briefcase. She assumes he’s going to propose. She and Karl and Susan and Doctor Boyfriend all end up at the same restaurant. Edie drags Susan into the ladies’ room and gloats about the proposal (she assumes the ring will be hidden in a special souffle Karl ordered). Out of the restroom, Susan gives a note to a waiter and tells him to deliver it to the handsome man at the next table. He delivers it to the wrong man. The note says “be careful, she thinks you’re about to propose.” The man jumps up angrily and tells his date “I’ve told you before, I’m not leaving my wife!” and storms out. Meanwhile, Edie is digging through her souffle with a spoon and then her fingers, not finding the ring.
Later, Susan and Karl meet up and Susan tells him Edie found the ring and pre-nup. Karl’s all. oh well, I guess I’ll propose. Susan congratulates him but she clearly still has feelings for him.
Gabby’s mom comes to visit. She’s broken up with her sugar daddy (and to celebrate her freedom has bought herself some new boobs). Turns out gabby’s injuries from the fall have rendered her unable to carry. She suggests adoption but Carlos says no. Gabby’s mom suggests she serve as a surrogate for them. Carlos is enthused but Gabby flat vetoes it. Later, Gabby suggests she and mama go out to lunch and talk surrogacy. Actually, Gabby dumps mama off at a hotel and throws money for a room at her. We find out later that Gabby doesn’t trust her mother because her mother’s second husband molested her when she was 15. Gabby was afraid that her mother wuldn’t believe her about the molestation and so she ran away. Carlos takes mama’s luggage to the hotel and explains why Gabby is upset with her. Mama says she knew all about the sex but denies the husband did anything wrong. She accuses Gabby of having seduced the husband,but mama has “forgiven” her. Later, Carlos suggests to Gabby that they look into adopting. Gabby is surprised because she thought Carlos wanted a baby with his DNA. Carlos says, “Blood isn’t everything.”
The crooked cop runs down the whole Mary Alice/Zach-Dana/Paul situation for the old dying guy. ODG tells him he wants his grandson and creepy Felicia overhears the whole thing. Mike approaches Paul and tells him about ODG and suggests Paul take Zach and leave. Paul" “If we go we aren’t coming back. You’ll never see your son again.” Mike: “I know.” Zach overhears all of this.
Tom and Lynette have to work on Saturday. Tom gets crotchety old neighbor to babysit but Lynette vetoes it. She takes the three younger kids over to Bree’s who agrees to take them despite being hung over. Bree can’t take the twinnoise so she has a glass or six of wine and passes out. The kids try to wake her, can’t, and bundle Penny into her stroller and take off. They end up in a beauty parlor three miles away. The salon owner calls Lynette, and she and Tom go pick them up. Salon lady starts reading Lynette’s beads and Lynette starts to talk back, but Tom tells her she doesn’t have a leg to stand on. Bree denies that she fell asleep and Lynette believes her at first. But later, she starts to wonder hwo they could have gotten Penny into the stroller and out of the house without hearing it. Lynette confronts Bree as she takes out the garbage, who denies drinking. Lynette checks out the garbage and pulls out bottle after bottle. She ends up lining them up on Bree’s porch, about a dozen of them, with a note reading “do you still think you don’t have a problem?”
Karl and Susan get married.
I do not like the casual careless Bree. I like the anal retentive OCD Bree. Bring back my Bree!
What was up with everyone taking out the garbage? Susan caught Carl as he was taking out the garbage, Lynette confronted Bree as she was taking out the garbage, and I know there was one more.
No Applewhites. 
For all Andrew being a sociopath, he sure knows how to zing his mom! “So, you’d rather suffer allergies than quit drinking?”
If Gabby’s mom never comes back it will be too soon. What a purely evil woman. And so sweet of Carlos to agree to consider adoption. But how long before they ask their new Chinese maid to be a surrogate?
I called Tom and Lynette having to work on a Saturday! (I know, it’s a little thing, but it’s my thing.)
How long will Susan and Carl have to stay married? I mean, get married on Wed, have surgery on Thu, get divorced on Friday? That’s going to raise some red flags with the insurance company. Will they have to stay together for a year? And again, it was her agent that screwed up her health insurance? Does she not have any recourse with the agency, namely, Lonnie’s boss? And I thought Susan was a fairly successful children’s author. Does she not have any other resources than to sell her car?
What is a wandering spleen, anyway?
Yeah, Carl claims he and Susan will be long-redivorced before it’s time for Edie and him to be married. But even if the insurance kicks in immediately, this is still a pre-exiting condition and may not be covered. She says that the wandering spleen could veer off at any time and KILL her?? Wouldn’t that call for emergency surgery and not be something that’s scheduled a few weeks out?
It’s a birth defect:
Who knew?
Agreed, agreed, agreed!
I will tolerate this little vignette if it is just a brief hiccup in Bree’s story, perhaps setting up to something else. I’m very glad that Lynette has already called her on it, only a couple episodes from the point we discover Bree is becoming an alcoholic. I do hope they don’t stretch it out too much, using drunken Bree as a sad caricature of her former self.
I don’t know why I love Bree, exactly, for all the things she believes that I disagree with. Yet I am captivated by her. She’s a lady in a world that no longer has a use for ladies, and this confuses her to death, but she handles it - a little bit of a Hank Hill in pearls. 
An astonishingly perfect metaphor! Well drawn.
Depends on the terms of the policy. It’s been a long while since my days of working insurance but as I recall if one were added to a group policy through marriage then there was no pre-existing condition exclusion. I’m ssuming Carl’s coverage is through a group policy through an employer and not an individual policy. Even with an individual policy IIRC if you had coverage under another policy within 63 days of your coverage starting on the new policy then there was no pre-x exclusion.
I’m glad DiosaBellissima asked for a recap – and even more glad that Otto provided such a great one! I taped Sunday’s ep (as the last of a bunch of other shows I taped while on vacation last week), but didn’t check the tape speed and it ran out just after Carl told Susan he was going to propose to Edie. I knew I could come to CS and there would be a Housewives thread! I love this place. Sounds like I only missed Lynette’s confrontation of Bree, and Carl & Susan’s wedding. It wasn’t in Otto’s recap, but I didn’t miss Carl actually proposing to Edie, did I?
I’m a little disappointed to learn that Bree was still in denial even after waking up to find the kids gone: I was thinking (hoping) that would be the thing to make her realize she has a problem.
I’ve never seen/heard that before … reading someone’s beads … I like it!