Posted by Dustin on 02.16.2009 at 3:52 pm

Much like last week’s episode, I thought this one was only so so. I’m kind of shocked too, as it’s February Sweeps so I expect a bit more.

Tom and Lynette continued to struggle with the pizza business. Customers weren’t coming in, he had to let all his staff go to make ends meet and they ended up employing their poor kids as the wait staff. This actually angered me, as it’s a family issue I have some experience watching go on. I’m of the mind set that kids should be kids and enjoy childhood, not be made to work in their parents business (which a child under working age can legally do, child labor laws don’t apply to family businesses in a lot of states). Kids will grow up soon enough and have the rest of their adult lives to work. In the end the pressure got to Tom, who almost beat Porter up when he wouldn’t serve kids from his school as it was embarrassing for him. Time Out Tom! After that he realized it was probably time to sell Scavos.

Gabby was ready to spend Carlos’ big bonus check, until she found out there would be no bonuses for anyone. Later Gabby saw Carlos’ boss out in public smooching someone who wasn’t his wife. The night before the wife was telling Carlos and Gabby how much closer they’ve gotten since Carlos had taken on a lot of the husband’s workload. Of course suddenly, Carlos has his bonus. Yup, hush money. When Carlos found out he told her they had to do the right thing and tell the wife. Besides, this amounted to blackmail and was illegal (Gabby talked the boss into giving Carlos a bigger raise than planned!). However before they could tell the wife, she blurted out they were planning a family and wanted Gabby and Carlos to be the Godparents.

Orson learned that Bree had given Andrew a raise, apparently a very big raise. This “raised” issues for Orson, who didn’t feel like Bree’s son should be getting paid more than him. As she told him, Andrew had been with her since the beginning of the formation of this company and was indispensable. Orson cried about how he had gone to college and medical school, yada yada. Bree reminded him he was not a dentist anymore, he was a caterer. Frankly I have had enough of Orson lately. He whined to be given a job, he whined to be made partner so he was equal to Katherine and now he’s whining for a raise because Andrew makes more money than he does. Bree needs to serve Orson a plate of cheese to go with all his whine!

Susan began her new job and was not spending as much time with MJ as she liked. She was further annoyed that Mike kept dumping MJ off with Katherine to do jobs, when in fact it was his days to have custody of MJ so he could spend time with him. Susan was also a bit insecure as Katherine was cooking all these great dishes for MJ, who seemed to take to them very well (because Susan can’t cook to save her life). Eventually Susan blew up, saying she didn’t want MJ coming to spend time with Katherine when he was supposed to be with Mike. Katherine dropped the bomb on Susan that Mike was planning to move in with her, so she’d be spending time with MJ whether she liked it or not. HELLO! I thought Susan had some good points, it was supposed to be Mike’s time with MJ, not Katherine’s. At the same time, MJ spent a lot of time with Jackson, which made Mike jealous and upset too, so I thought Susan should be a little understanding. I guess though as far as we know, when MJ was around Jackson, Susan was there as well.

Finally Dave continued to be mysterious and creepy, sending little signals to Edie something isn’t right with him.