Well, Rusty (Norm MacDonald) is back. And he comes baring new business news. This guy has had the worst luck with his cockamamie ideas, such as a pancake cup and the uniboob, two boobs squeezed into one but this idea isn't actually half bad. Okay, it is pure stupid, but compared to his other ideas, it's brilliant. It is a diaper that has the enemy team on the inside so you can teach them to hate early. To Frankie's (Patricia Heaton's) dismay, Mike (Neil Flynn) is actually on board with the whole thing. However, while Mike is business focused, Rusty gets hung up on even more stupid opposites. But despite this almost fatal flaw, Rusty is the one who manages to get them a big interview to pitch their idea at the Baby Barn. Mike is painfully nervous and can't even get a word out and the guys hate Rusty but they love the idea so much that they place a small order to see how it will sell. Frankie is utterly thrilled and pulls out the expensive booze from her late Aunt Edie. The best part? Mike is finally happy again. And Frankie is glad. He just needed something to look forward to, something different in his life because he has been doing the same thing for the last twenty five years and needed to finally mix things up.
Still, this problem is small compared to Sue's big roommate fiasco. She is thrilled to return home and see Brad (J. Brock Ciarlelli) but she doesn't want to take her car when they hang out. First of all, since when did Sue get a car? I thought she was saving up all of the Spudsy money for college, yet, it is a good thing she has a car because that is where she is living. Yeah, life with Holly (Lyndon Smith) is that unbearable. Brad can't stand for that and so, if Holly has her boyfriend over all the time, then so will Sue. Only poor Sue doesn't have a boyfriend but Brad is more than willing to practice his acting chops and will gladly be her fake boyfriend. They return to Sue's dorm room where Holly is making out with a guy who isn't even her boyfriend. Brad informs them that they are going to do stuff that only married people do. They hide under her duvet but Holly gets even dirtier so they hide behind the duvet and leave the room, terrified.
Sue feels like she has failed but she's in an impossible situation. At first, Brad blames his acting because he hasn't been in a play in months. Sue assures him that that is not the case, he was a great fake boyfriend and an even better friend. And then comes the moment we have been waiting for for six years. Brad comes out of the closet more or less, and Sue already knows. Wait, she does? Since when? Oh well, his big revelation forces her to grow up. She tattles on her roommate to the indifferent, lackluster RA. This is a big move for Sue. Sure, it would have been better and more grown up to confront Holly first, but Sue normally tries to deal with everything, making the best of a bad situation. Still, I am glad she told. No one should have to put up with sleeping in a car because your roommate has wild sex all the time. We will have to wait until the next episode to see what happens. I doubt Sue will get a new roommate, though, maybe Holly will just get better.
I did have a few problems with the episode. I can figure out why Sue understood the truth behind Brad's sexuality, but I can't understand when she bought a car. Used, but still. I feel that she would have come home every weekend especially since she is less than an hour away and she missed them all so much. Whatever.
This was still a solid episode, certainly better than last week's as it had more emotion but still managed to have those genuinely funny moments. And Rusty is always welcome. Grade: B+
Side Notes:
-Axl (Charlie McDermott) is so desperate to ride Mike's new motorcycle, he risks him life in some stupid ways. He jumps off the roof onto a trampoline. He has Brick hit him where the sun don't shine, after he stuffed packing peanuts into his sweatpants because he must protect his germ pool.
-Mike finally throws him a bone and lets him ride the motorcycle, while hanging onto Mike.
-Brick (Atticus Shaffer) also wishes his parents would take more risks with him. He just wants to walk home from the library by himself, though they have reason not to trust him as he did get lost that one time.
-She is hopeful that Holly will get pregnant soon and then have to live in married housing. She also feels that Holly shouldn't be a nurse. She is dead wrong about the first thing, but the reason one, she's right. But that isn't for me to decide.
-Also, Holly, wearing someone else's shower shoes is just disgusting.
-When Sue returns home, she is surprised to see the toaster moved. Frankie remodeled the kitchen, after all. Also, a reference to Doris. She is currently sleeping in Sue's closet.
-Brick informs his siblings of the chores they need to do now that they are home
-Rusty knows the diapers are reliable because the dye doesn't run. He tested them himself.
-Frankie does get involved by saying that this would be a good way to get dads to change more diapers.
-And Rusty, the opposite of Hitler is not Big Bird.
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