Desperate Housewives

Hey, everyone! I told you I was going to recap and I am a woman of my word (even if it is a little bit later). Since she and Mike were the teaser scene, let’s start with the Mayer/Delfino family shall we? It starts with Susan and Mike attending a meet the parents night at MJ’s school. The teacher (the same lady who taught the Scavo brats… nice continuity!) has had each of the kids draw a picture of their families for the occasion as usual. Susan and Mike are disturbed to find out the MJ has drawn him, Susan and Jackson, which Mike very small and off to the side because he’s “always so far away”. Ouch! This leads Mike to get all insecure about his place in MJ’s life and causes him to buy his son a bike earlier than he and Susan had planned. As soon as he gets time, he wants to teach MJ to ride it. Unfortunately for him, and unknown to Susan, Jackson teaches MJ after the kid begs him over and over. Susan is upset to find this out and tells MJ to fall on purpose to Mike will think he’s getting to teach him after all. MJ finally relents to her pleas and actually hurts himself, leading Susan to confess what happened and to lecture Mike because he shouldn’t have expected a 5-year-old to sit back and wait after being given a bike. Mike ends up moving back to Wysteria Lane to be closer to MJ. I’ll tell you how that happened later. By the way… I’d love to know what the Scavo kids drawings looked like back in the day. What do you all think those pictures looked like?

Next, I’ll take you to the Solis house, where Gabby and Carlos are having a hard time getting “alone time” together. Gabby decides to set Juanita up a play date once a week so they can get a couple of hours alone. Unfortunately for them, Juanita is dropped off early one day and walks in on their “alone time”, forcing the Solises to explain the facts of life to her. Juanita then goes around telling every kid she comes across everything she’s learned, making the other parents not want her around. So, their basically right back where they started.

Bree is having some home issues, too. Orson has become a bit bitter about everything he lost and Bree’s success is making it worse for him. He practically begs for a place in her company, but Katherine vetos the idea since she’s already been made pretty insignificant as it is. When Bree tells him she can’t let him join the business he decides to freeze her out and stay in the guest room. He also skips out on seeing her win the Business Woman of the Year award because of it. That becomes the final straw for her and she gives in to Orson’s demand for a job. He, of course, then goes back to staying in their bedroom at night. I get his issues, but wow…. he’s turning into a bit of a jerk this year. Anyway…

Let’s move along, shall we? Orson isn’t the only one bothered by the success of Bree. Lynette’s feeling pretty inferior herself. Especially after she finds out the receptionist from her old company is now running his own ad business (and Bree’s book campaign). She’s convinced she can do better and comes up with a whole big presentation for Bree, which Bree rejects. This leads to Lynette having a few too many at the awards ceremony for Bree and causing a scene. She actually takes responsibility and apologizes for what she did, promising Bree that she’ll be on her side no matter what. That’s more than I can say for Bree’s husband, who has become increasingly controlling and manipulative this year. Which leads me to the Williams home…

Dave is determined to get Mike in the band, even though Mike has said he can’t do it because he lives too far away. Edie, meanwhile, wants to buy a house on the Lane as an investment property and rent it out. Dave is flat-out against it and even yells at Edie to forget about it. He apologizes and goes upstairs to take some pills. Later on, he tells Edie to go ahead and buy that house and rent it out to Mike so he’ll be closer to the Lane and more likely to join the band. He doesn’t tell Edie that, though. She just thinks he wants to do a good deed. One, by the way, he won’t let Edie tell anyone their doing. Mike just thinks Edie knows the person renting it. He doesn’t realize Edie and Dave are now his landlords. He seems pretty obsessed with getting everyone together, doesn’t he? And I thought Lynette, Bree and Gabby were good at getting what they want out of people. I think Dave is putting them to shame lately.

Well, that’s about it for now. Take care and enjoy this promo for next week!