Axl (Charlie McDermott) has entered the world of adulthood. He has found employment and is Brick's (Atticus Shaffer's) school bus driver. His parents are rather relieved, though they wanted him to find something that would use his business degree. Brick thinks that the bus is going to be his new social scene, which it isn't.
Speaking of Brick, he needs to bring in someone for career day and Mike (Neil Flynn) won't do it. Frankie (Patricia Heaton) is banned from the premises. Axl has to literally beg Mike to show up. Brick wants the extra credit, mostly. And then Axl and Mike both end up showing up, but don't have a whole lot to say.
Frankie gives Nancy this old, crappy scraf which Nancy thinks is just gorgeous and then presents Frankie and Mike with her delicious apple pie. As a result, Frankie looks around the house to give her other stuff just so she can get food. And it works, for a bit. Until the pepper steak. Which is just okay. Frankie mentions that to Nancy and Nancy just breaks down, saying that some mornings she just doesn't feel like washing the windows. As a result, Frankie forces Mike to cook real, actual good food for Nancy, which was her plan all along. Nancy is only human after all.
As for Sue (Eden Sher), she is thrilled to go back to school because this is going to be a great year, until she finds out that Andy and Derek, whom they sublet their apartment to over the summer and they turned around and lent it to Sue's new statistics professor. Lexie (Daniela Bobadilla) is livid and hates living in her car, after all, she's a former debutante. Brad (J. Brock Ciarlelli) tries to force Sue to get stronger but she cries anyway. And then Sean (Beau Wirick) comes along to save the day. Which he does. He tricks the professor and blackmails him. Sue and Lexie get their apartment back, but she's upset that a man had to save her. Sean reminds her of the one time, years before the show started, when she saved him from a storm drain. Saving others is a people thing, not just a guy thing.
Sue finally grows up, a little, she gets the glitter off the outside of her binder.
This was a great episode, with some truly funny and touching moments, plus it is great to see Sue as such a feminism. Trust me, I understand, the worst part wasn't a guy that I liked saying he didn't want anything serious on Christmas Eve, it was that I let him ruin my Christmas. And I shouldn't have. That's all in the past now. And it's nice seeing Frankie doing something thoughtful for someone else.
If episodes of this quality keep coming, this could be the best season of this show. Too bad it's also the last. Grade: A
Side Notes:
-Brick's previous bus driver shot her other foot off.
-Nancy's apple pie causes riots.
-The freshmen are all taller than Brick.
-When Brick asks Mike to come to career day, he channels Notting Hill.
-Brad is okay with hair pulling as long as its for art.
-Brick also walks through the wrong door everyday.
-It's all about optics these days.
-It must be nice to be rescued.
-Being a woman is very hard.
-Never lose the glitter on the inside.
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