I knew it! Mike (Neil Flynn) totally freaked out when he found out that Darrin (John Gammon) popped the question to Sue (Eden Sher). I mean, he really freaked out. He truly wanted to beat Darrin up.
First, Sue was in shock and just stared at her bedroom ceiling and then finally made it to the dining room table where Frankie glanced at her new ring (shocker!) and even cracked a joke about how it looked so similar to an engagement ring. But Sue wasn't laughing. It was real. And Mike was livid, started screaming and everything because every minute he screamed was a minute he wasn't killing her boyfriend.
She tries to end things herself though that goes horribly. She is pleased and flattered that he proposed to her but Darrin keeps interrupting her before she can finish her pre-rehearsed speech. And then he does the eyebrow thing that she loves so much that I didn't even notice. Did I mention that Darrin has this wedding planning thing down. He has the reception booked already, at this Lodge place and even decided that they would go to Wikiwatch Florida where they can look at mermaids. It doesn't help her case that she agrees with his plans, trying to plunge ahead with her speech that doesn't finish.
The next day, Darrin shows up at the Heck house and Mike goes to talk to him, after Frankie (Patricia Heaton) pulls the knife out of his hand. Though he is furious at Darrin, he gives the diplomatic answer when Darrin asks for Mike's blessing, Mike replies that his opinion doesn't matter, Sue's opinion is the only one that matters. Darrin confronts Sue at work while she is throwing out some trash and still doesn't end it.
It isn't until Sue arrives at Darrin's shed house where his mother and aunt are happily waiting for her with an old wedding dress and everything. While the Hecks aren't pleased, Darrin's family is thrilled, they can't wait for the wedding and then, babies, which finally causes Sue to flip out. She runs away and when she returns home where her parents finally decide to take the matters into their own hands. Sue sobs on the floor and just wants her daddy to fix everything but then they start arguing over who should do it when Sue finally, thank goodness, goes a pair and takes off the dress and sees Darrin.
She just spits it out and then launches on everything she wants to do, travel, cry when her parents drop her off at college, live in her own apartment and bunches of other stuff that doesn't include marriage, at least not any time soon. But Darrin is different. He loves her more than anything and wants Sue to be his wife. She is his future, he has money and a good job and doesn't want to wake up when he's twenty-four and not have kids. He can't accept that Sue probably will want to marry him somewhere down the road, so once again, they are over. They have a final hug and Sue returns home, heart-broken and devastated that his reaction was so final.
I knew Sue couldn't actually marry him, because she said so herself, she has so many other dreams to fulfill first, but I was hoping that this wouldn't be the end of their relationship because I loved them together. Also, since when do guys want to settle down and not have fun first? I should be happy that Darrin isn't one of those guys, but he should have thought that maybe Sue wants bigger things in life, not just a bigger house. And his reaction to having kids by the time he's twenty-four? I just muttered that mu ovaries just died inside me. (I'm twenty-four, for the record.) I don't think that they are completely finished, but for now, they certainly are. I guess Sue's prediction that they would go to prom together won't come true after all which is just a shame.
I should mention Brick's (Atticus Shaffer's) plot. Axl (Charlie McDermott) is taking and Intro to Psych class and decides to fix Brick's annoying ticks but luckily, Brick wants someone to fix him because of how his relationship is going with Cindy. But snapping a rubber band against his wrist every time he whoops almost turns in to a new tick. Finally, Axl cracks open and notebook and gets to the root of his problem, the fact that poor Brick is forced to sit in a lawn chair instead of the normal chairs that the rest of his family sits in. For now, this fixes everything. This was lame, but they needed to give something for Brick and Axl to do.
The only problem I had with this episode was that Sue says that she won't even turn eighteen for two more weeks but this can't be true, because, as I've said before, she is a leap year baby which means that she would be turning nineteen. In season three, her birthday was on leap day though by season four, they had changed the year. This is an annoying inconsistency that is offensive to loyal fans of the show, thinking that we won't pay attention to the simple little details like Sue's birth year. This mistake brings down the grade of the episode to an A-.
Side Notes:
-Axl wonders why Darrin called to ask him to be his best man and then freaks out, and begs his parents to fix everything because they have let this thing go on too long.
-Mike is furious that Frankie let him believe that Darrin wasn't a threat.
-Axl comes home on Valentine's Day because he and Devin celebrated the night before, if you know what he means. Frankie is disgusted though Mike gives him the thumbs up. At least one of the Heck children isn't a virgin.
-One of Axl's techniques for fixing Brick include swaddling him so Sue has to place his drink straw in his mouth because he can't use his hands.
-It is just weird when Sue spends the night with her parents and Mike agrees.
-It is also weird that Sue wants to do that again though Frankie kicks her out until the deed is done. Breaking off the wedding with Darrin, of course, not the other thing.
-Doris makes an appearance at the end of the episode when the whole family is in Mike and Frankie's bed.
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