First of all, though I loved this episode, its only March, much too early for the prom. I mean, seriously, prom in March. My proms and all that I have heard of have occurred in May, but whatever.
I'll get to that plot last because it still leaves me with a smile on my face.
Frankie (Patricia Heaton) and Mike (Neil Flynn) have decided to start walking because according to Dr. Oz, sitting is the new smoking. Here they meet others also walking and they get along much better with the others than with themselves. They have run out of things to say to each other. So Frankie decides to throw a dinner party, but that plan backfires. The others have actually traveled to foreign and domestic places, leaving Frankie and Mike out. So they hide in the laundry room where they spy on the Donahues arguing over petty things. This makes Mike and Frankie feel much better about themselves and gives them something to talk about.
Brick (Atticus Shaffer) needs to do something different than the typical book report and enlists Axl's (Charlie McDermott's) help. Axl doesn't want to, but then Brick convinces him that he hit the jackpot when it came to little brothers. So Axl helps him, by placing all the books Brick had read throughout this life in a long chain so it's his life in books. And it would have been so cool, except for the fact that Axl had the camera turned the wrong way, which meant that his face was filmed the whole time. Brick isn't pleased, but Axl immediately shakes it off and informs him that grades don't matter until high school.
Now, to the major plot. Sue (Eden Sher) begins the show by lamenting to her mother about how she doesn't have a date for prom. Frankie lies to her and said that neither did Beyonce. However, that quickly changes for Sue. First, her manager at Spudsy Malones, Edwin (Jimmy Bellinger) asks her and then Sean (Beau Wirick) changes his plans and drives six hours from Notre Dame just to take Susie Q to prom. Then Brad (J. Brock Ciarlelli) insists she goes to prom with him because they are both dateless and he can do her make-up. And if that still wasn't enough, Derrick Glossner (David Chandler) informs her that the two of them are going to prom together. Darrin (John Gammon) asks her also solely to be polite but this is the one that she really wanted. So she begins the long process of cancelling on her other dates. Brad doesn't take it well, because blond guys will come and go, but friends are forever. Sean is actually truly upset and probably won't do Sue any favors anytime soon. Derrick's brother tells Sue and he can't take her to prom because he's in juvie and then Edwin cancels about he heard about her and Brad and isn't pleased with her decision, because it is a step down from him. And then, in the worst possible moment, Darrin leaves her a voicemail because he heard about her other dates, so she doesn't really need him and he didn't really want to go to prom anyway.
So Sue decides to take herself to prom and puts on a stoic face while Axl takes her picture. Brick says that that is the saddest thing he's ever seen. Even Axl has to agree. And when Darrin shows up at the house later, Axl lets him have it. This is probably Axl's finest moment in some time. He defends Sue. Says that she gets all googly eyes and big smiles around him which makes Axl want to throw up. Axl tells Darrin that she really wanted to go with him and that he hurt Sue which isn't cool.
Darrin immediately starts running to prom, where Sue has ended up with Weird Ashley (Kaitlin Mastandrea), because, it just wouldn't be prom unless that happened. And just when you think that Darrin won't find Sue, because she's about to leave, he finds her and redeems himself. He tells Sue that he can't stop thinking about her and though he tells himself every morning he won't think about her, it backfires because then he's thinking about her anyway. He may not care about prom but he cares about her. The ending is truly sweet and romantic, with them kissing and then slow dancing. A great, perfect ending.
This episode was great, solely because of the Sue prom plot and one of my favorite, if not my favorite TV couple gets back together. The other plots weren't that bad, but Sue's was great. Sure, there may not have been many funny moments, but that didn't matter. The acting was great and Gammon deserves plenty of credit for playing Darrin. Grade: A
Side Notes:
-Sue wears a beautiful pink prom dress and tells her brothers that she is taking herself to prom just like Molly Ringwald did in Pretty in Pink.
-The guests at Frankie's dinner party tell her that the food looks great, which sort of surprised me, though she probably ordered it from somewhere because she never cooks.
-Darrin is really interested in the behind the scenes action of Sue doing laundry. I hope he knows how to do his own laundry, but it was still an interesting gag.
-Edwin will not be informing Sue early about the special potato; she will have to wait like everyone else.
-Weird Ashley is still wearing the same cape she wore to prom for the past three seasons, saving her parents tons of money.
-Derrick tells Sue that she will have to pick him up for the prom.
-What did Derrick do to land himself in juvie? Do we really want to know?
-Less is more when it concerns chives.
-The song that ends the episode is the same one that Sue and Darrin danced to before the trash can kiss last season.
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