DH was pre-empted by an Eagles game tonight (I live in the Philly area) and I didn’t know it! They aired DH before the game and are airing Grey’s Anatomy (another show I love) after the game.
If anyone who taped the show would be willing to send me the tape, I’d be eternally grateful. I would cover all expenses, of course.
In lieu of a tape, any juicy details would also be appreciated.
Feel free to hijack this thread to discuss tonight’s episode.
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Man, you picked the wrong week to miss it. They reaired DH and GA both at 12-2am last week, but they’re not doing it this week. At least not where I am. 
In brief so far
Let’s see…people at work made fun of all of Lynette’s suits. Paul is back inexpicably and mowing his lawn. Bree got hives from kissing the phramacy guy. And I think Carlos’ lawyer got shot.
Thanks for the update, elfkin.
Damn. I thought tonight was a repeat so I watched Rome instead. Damn.
Good thing you guys are here. 
What’s wrong with Lynnette’s suits?
Dude, this is why they made yet another update to iTunes. You can download the show Monday for $2, should you be so inclined.
And despite several weeks of suckitude, tonight’s ep was quite good, with an ending that can only be described as Desperate on Susan’s part. I guess sweeps really does have an effect…
Oh, and supposedly Lynette’s suits are covered in baby vomit and badly worn. I couldn’t tell on my TV set, but maybe things are different if you’re watching on a $10,000 HDTV.
Lynette:
She’s gearing up for a big presentation and her nasty boss tells her not to wear a particular suit because it is fugly. Lynette suggests several other suits and various co-workers make fun of them to her face. She goes out and buys several thousand dollars’ worth of new suits, including one for $900. Tom freaks because of the expense and Lynette agrees to return them. Lynette’s resolve fades when she heads in for the meeting and everyone there has on killer suits. She puts on the $900 suit, intending to return it anyway. Nasty boss compliments her, Lynette pretends like she owned it already and just forgot about it, but Boss busts here in the meeting, tearing off a second price tag from the skirt. Later, Lynette bribes Tom with some new golf clubs, explaining that spending thousands of dollars on themselves instead of their children will make them better parents. Tom is seduced by the clubs and swallows it whole.
Bree:
Bree breaks out in hives when George kisses her (as would I, especially after that line about his tongue). She sees a therapist who suggests, based on how Bree rubs her ring finger every time Rex’s name is mentioned, she feels like she would be cheating. She thinks that’s silly and calls George to set up a romantic getaway. At the hotel, she breaks out in hives again and they get separate rooms. At dinner, George gives Bree some “antihistamines” (from an unmarked bottle) which she takes with wine, causing drowsiness. George takes Bree back to her room and it looks for all the world like he’s going to date-rape her. Instead, he just watches her sleep it off. When she wakes up, he guilt-trips her about how he won’t wait for her forever and needy Bree sleeps with him.
Gabrielle:
Lawyer tries to take her home from the court house to change into a more matrnal outfit. Before they clear the building, the stalker of another of Lawyer’s clients (who is a cashier of some sort so how exactly does she afford a $700/hour lawyer?) waylays him about a restraining order, pulls out a gun and fires, missing. He then throws the gun at Lawyer, who catches it just in time for Security to round a corner and shoot him in the shoulder. Gabrielle visits him in the hospital two days later; she’s his first visitor. His office sent flowers, with a card reading “Who knew you could bleed? Your shocked co-workers.” Gabrielle cuts up his hospital dinner and feeds it to him. At Carlos’ next hearing, Lawyer quits in the middle and walks out. Gabby chases after him and he tells her he’s in love with her. Gabby later tells this to Carlos, who is convinced it’s a clever ploy to allow Gabby and Lawyer to sleep together. Still he tells her to do it. Gabby makes a move on Lawyer, then totally busts him that it’s not love, just lust with post-traumatic stress disorder mixed in. I guess he takes the case back up again.
Susan:
Susan is fitting her mother for her wedding dress and Mike is there. Mother suggests Susan wear the dress and she pin it since they’re the same size (Susan: “since when?”), then says it would be bad luck for Mike to see her in a wedding dress. Mike says it wouldn’t because when he asks Susan to marry him she’ll pick her own dress. Susan presses for when Mike’s going to pop the question but he’s all cagey and leaves. Later, Susan drives up while Paul is mowing the lawn. She freaks and starts to call 911, but doesn’t. Bree and Gabby, who were watching Paul, come out to Susan and tell Paul they’ve called the police. The police arrive and Susan tells them that Paul confessed to murdering Mrs Huber and that Mike has Mrs Huber’s journal which has a motive. The police and half the neighborhood go to Mike’s, who tells the cops Susan is mistaken. Later when Mike returns from work, Susan confronts him. Mike explains that he lied to the police because if he told the truth Mike would go to jail for kidnapping, gun possession and probation violations. Later, Paul confronts Susan in her kitchen about Zach, and Susan tells him she gave Zach money to go to Utah. Later still, Mike confronts Paul, who tells Mike what Susan said. Mike then confronts Susan, who is back in the wedding dress. She confesses that she sent Zach away because she was afraid for Julie. Mike leaves, Susan in the damn dress follows. Mike gets in his truck, Susan sobs hugely and blocks his truck, Mike throws it in reverse and drives off. Susan collapses in the middle of the street as the rst of the Housewives rush to her to comfort her.
I’ve just put in a tape; the show hasn’t aired here yet.
I’ll be back later for discussion; let me know via email if you still want the tape.
Nice recap, Otto. You didn’t miss a thing, except that Mike had reminded Susan that she would get in trouble for the arson if Mike showed the police Mrs. Huber’s journal.
Thanks. I realized the omission as soon as I hit SUBMIT. Ain’t that always the way?
I have it on tape - I tape everything for my DH when he is coaching hockey
Doesn’t ABC usually re-run the show on Saturdays?
Otto, that recap was amazing! Thank you!
Yes, please. Email sent. Thanks a million!!
They did for most or all of last season. This season seems to be hit-or-miss with that.
Nice recap, Otto!
I found it very tacky and rude of Bossy Boobs to make fun of Lynette’s clothes in front of everyone else, even bringing in some peon so he could do his “imitation” of Lynette. She has been out of the workforce for six years, it’s not unreasonable to believe she may need to update her wardrobe. And while I can get away with shopping at Target and Burlington Coat Factory, Lynette is in a more high-power position, presenting to clients. I didn’t see her buying the clubs for Tom as some sort of ulterior motive thing, but more of a realization that adults need adult things. She was rather a drudge while she was HouseMommy, and maybe being back out in the rat race made her realize Tom needs something to play with that doesn’t involve primary colors or plushy toys.
I SO thought George was going to rape her, but he manipulated her anyway. Gross icky gross. Do you think Bree regretted it? I couldn’t tell by the expression on her face as she watched George sleep. Also, I’m sorry, but I really wish they would take a few minutes and pay attention to the actress’s hands. Bree is so put together, seeing chapped hands and unpolished nails seemed so unBree. I would expect her to have a French manicure, at the very least.
One question…exactly WHEN is Gabby going to start showing that she’s pregnant?
I hated this. I hated this with a passion. Susan did not do anything wrong. There is a violent boy in her neighborhood with an unhealthy fascination with her daughter. I would have done the same thing. If I had to quibble with Susan, it’s that she didn’t tell Mike right away what she did. “Darling, Dana was really skeeving me out with his talk about Julie. I sent him to Utah. Here’s a bus schedule. Call me when you get there.” But her wailing and begging in the middle of the street, wearing that wedding dress, made me so embarrassed for her. Have some pride, Susan, yeesh. Protecting your daughter is nothing to be ashamed of.
Good ep., and I was very disturbed, too, by what happened to Bree in the hotel room, as well as what almost happened.
I’d be nervous about Zach around my daughter.
Paul Young just creeps me out. There’s something menacing about him.
I’d like to know why Lynnette finds it so important to please her boss, and what it is that makes that boss so demanding and difficult. I hope it’s not going to be the same thing all the time with them getting back at each other.
Oooh, next week, Caleb (?) the Basement Guy gets out!!
Could it be the “complicit in the kidnapping of a child, complicit in the murder of and subsequent decade-long cover-up of the murder of the kidnapped child’s mother, beat a woman to death with a blender” vibe he gives off? Because that’s what I find kinda disturbing about Paul.
Bossy Boobs never wanted to hire Lynette in the first place and pretty much got overrulled by the Magical Uber-Boss of Immediate Departures. BB resents Lynette because she’s a constant reminder that she, BB, got faced by MU-B. Lynette missed a golden opportunity to improve the relationship while BB was dragging her along for slut-fests at the Generic Irish-named Bar, but Lynette, who can’t, you know, handle problems head-on, sneaked her way out of it and back to the Bossy Boobs Shitlist.
Oh please, the golf clubs were totally a bribe. Lynette, being pathologically unable to just explain the situation and let it go, had to sneak her way into a stand-off. Now if Tom ever complains about her clothing spending again she can point to the golf clubs (so what if she’s the one who actually bought the clubs, Tom went directly to the Dark Side without passing Go) and shut him up. I hate Lynette.
Sorry, gotta disagree with you on this one. The show has been pretty good about showing Lynette’s sneakiness (like buying the mouse to make Tom clean the house) that I thought buying the golf clubs was a rather nice gesture. Yes, having nice things when you have kids is expensive, but I think Lynette was trying to show Tom that it’s necessary to treat yourself to that one thing so you don’t turn into just a child caretaker. Plus, she did need new clothes. I didn’t fault her for that.
You give Lynette waaaaay too much credit for being nice.
Especially when she pressed Tom’s button with “Carbon…Fiber…Shafts.”
Great recount, Otto…I would just add one thing that Gabby uttered “Sexual Harrassment” to blackmail Mr. Lawyer to take her husband’s case back.
I think there’s something wrong with the water on that street that arrests growth. I rewatched the season opener recently, and I did hear what I thought I did weeks ago: Mary Alice says it’s been a year since my death. So why is Penny still being played by a baby only a few months old? She looked at least 5-6 months old at the beginning of the series, so you think a year later she’d be walking or something. I know she said “momma” once during Lynette’s interview, but that’s something any kid over seven or eight months might do.