Loveday Writing

The episode kicked off with Greg waiting for Sophie to leave her friend, Lindsay’s, house. Lindsay’s house is considered the cool house and Greg wants Sophie to make the choice of inviting Lindsay over to their house or letting him meet her parents. Sophie decides to invite Lindsay over after school on another day.

Sophie gives Greg and Em a set of ground rules to follow. Greg and Em try their best to meet them, but of course these rules were broken by Brad and Chloe not going to the pool as planned, Em’s curiosity as to what Marlo was talking to them about getting the better of her and gatecrashing Lindsay and Sophie hanging out on the trampoline, and Greg intimidating Ravi (an Indian exchange student that is living with Lindsay).

Em ends up befriending Lindsay by telling her a story of a girl she had a crush on when she was in high school, as it’s implied Lindsay is gay, and when Ravi finally admits to Greg that he actually hasn’t seen Star Wars, Greg makes him watch it and he ends up enjoying it. This infuriates Sophie and she ends up going to her room and lying down on her bed where she finds Chloe’s class turtle, Hannibal (formerly known as Warren).

While Lindsay and Ravi are over, Brad and Chloe are looking for Chloe’s lost class turtle, while the latter is making graphic and grim conclusions as to his fate. When Sophie finds Hannibal, Chloe comes into the room and tells her that she “didn’t see him.” Sophie tells her that she doesn’t want to be the one who loses the class turtle, but Chloe wants to keep him, as they are patting him, Chloe asks Sophie why she’s embarrassed by the family, a question that goes unanswered as Hannibal pees on Sophie’s hand.

The episode ends with Brad emotionally apologising to Chloe’s class for losing Hannibal, while Chloe is smiling and her classmates ask who Hannibal is.

Overall this was a solid episode as it had a realistic A and B story and no over-the-top, zany elements to it. I hope the remaining episodes are similar to this.

Stray Observations:

-Terry didn’t appear in this episode.

-Brad and Nadia are still dating.

-Em was reading a book in bed titled, “Write that best-seller F*%#stick!“

-Chloe has a sign at the bottom of the tree where her treehouse is that states “No big people allowed”.

-Chloe changed the class turtle’s name from Warren to Hannibal.

-Some of Sophie’s rules for Greg and Em included not embarrassing her, for Greg not to go on about Star Wars, and for Em not to ask thousands of questions.

Best one liners and interactions:

• “Chloe, what’s daddy doing?” “You don’t want to know.” (Em on the phone to Chloe, while Chloe is in Greg’s car as they are picking up Sophie from Lindsay’s house)
• “How am I suppose to know what’s going on in your life?” “Just read her diary like I do.” (Em to Sophie and Chloe’s response to Em’s question)
• “Your father is scaringly intense, is he ex-army?” (Ravi to Sophie)
• “He’s not going to be in the freezer.” “You don’t know that.” (Brad-Chloe on finding Hannibal)
• “He probably got on the barbecue and accidentally turned on the grill with his foot and got roasted.” (Chloe to Brad on Hannibal).