Parenthood – Recap & Review – The Situation

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Parenthood
The Situation

Original Air Date: Mar 30, 2010

Brittany D. – Staff Writer
brittany@thetwocentscorp.com

So, here’s the situation: We all have problems; we all have issues and situations that we can’t control, but we try to deal with them as they come up. Kids who demand more of us than we think we’re capable of giving, surprise announcements, unplanned events, and whatever else life throws at us. The true test is how we deal with those situations, and it’s time for the Bravermans to be put to the test.

Sarah flirts with an 11th grade English teacher. He tells Sarah that Amber is one of the most engaged students in his class and that she’d be blown away by her. This pleases Sarah. At home, Joel brings out Amber’s English paper that she got an A on and it turns out, Amber copied one of Sarah’s papers from high school. Of course Sarah is outraged, and mutters under her breath: “Bitch!”

The next day when she meets with the teacher, he goes on and on about how great the paper was, and Sarah decides not to drop the paper truth bomb because the teacher wants to write a glowing college recommendation for Amber. Sarah guilts her daughter, telling her she better not let her or the teacher down and to still write her OWN paper. The teacher shows up at the bar where Sarah works, and it turns out he was born in 1983, so Sarah has a cougarish moment. The teacher tells Sarah that Amber told him about the paper, and turned in her own which was passable.

Sydney and her friend Harmony are playing the Princess and the Maid, and Sydney is always the maid or other hired help which bothers Julia. BUT NOT SYDNEY. The next day, Sydney is putting on makeup with her mom, and Julia tries to get her to want to be the princess. Sydney says she DOESN’T REALLY WANT TO, but they come up with a code word (tiara) so that Sydney won’t forget to try. At the park, Julia whispers the code word to her but Harmony is a total tiara QUEEN and tells Sydney she must be a maid in disguise. Sydney cries to Julia that she DIDN’T WANT TO BE THE PRINCESS anyway, but now she’s sad because Harmony was so snobby and staged a coup. Julia finally reads all of my caps lock and admits that she’s a control freak.

Joel surprises Julia at work and in order to get her to loosen up they’re going to break into a private pool after dark. She ticks off the possible consequences, but hops the fence anyway. Even as they get undressed she’s listing what will happen if they get caught, and Joel just pushes her in.

Crosby and Katie are having a conversation with a fertility doctor who tells them that if she wants to get pregnant, she has to now. Cue Crosby’s panicked face. He talks to Julia and she keeps encouraging him to have the paternity test. Later, Katie tells Crosby that three years isn’t all that far away and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is holding the back from having kids now, so why not?

Heading over to Jasmine’s house, Crosby tells her that he needs a paternity test so that he’ll know what his financial obligations will be. Jasmine gets mad because she didn’t want anything from Crosby other than for Jabbar to know his father. SHOULD HAVE CALLED MAURY. She slams the door in his face. He calls Julia and gripes her out for ruining things with him and Jabbar, but he’s still considering the DNA test using Jabbar’s toothbrush.

Just before Katie tosses her birth control into the ocean, Crosby admits that he has a son. She figures out that Jabbar was the little boy he brought to the studio, and she’s more upset that he’s been keeping the secret rather than being upset over him having a kid. Of course, she leaves. After a moment of consideration, Crosby decides not to use Jabbar’s toothbrush for a DNA test and gives it back to Jasmine. Of course by now she’s decided to have the DNA test done.

At a baseball game, Adam assures Camille that Max’s shirt being untucked is the least of anyone’s worries. Max is in line to catch a fly ball, but another player catches it instead and tells Max that all he has to do is stand there. After the game, Adam, Drew, and Max start throwing the ball around and Adam coaches both of them, praising Drew’s arm. Drew teaches Max how to catch and hold onto the ball. Drew calls Adam the next day to see if there’s any way he can get in some impromptu baseball practice. It all goes well, and Adam decides to bond with him some more on Saturday at the batting cages.

Max pitches a fit that they were supposed to go to Yogurt Land on Saturday morning, and won’t go after ball practice. Drew is catching balls by himself at the park and is very disappointed by the cell phone call he gets not BEFORE PRACTICE but during the time Adam is supposed to be there. At home, Sarah gets peeved at Adam for canceling. Yelling at Adam, he tells her that he can’t just change plans on Max because he falls apart over it. She yells back that Max isn’t the only kid who got dealt a bad hand, and that Drew has waited around his entire life for a father figure to show up and one never does. Adam gets it, but tells Sarah that he’s just as upset because playing ball with Drew helped him forget about Max’s ‘situation’ They get all mushy and make up.

Kristina walks in on Haddie and her boyfriend web caming, and Kristina reminds her that she’s supposed to be grounded which means no computer. Haddie wants her parents to take a lesson from Steve’s parents and respect her privacy. Adam talks to Sarah about it, calling Steve Gropey McGroperson, and Sarah helpfully offers up that maybe the more Haddie and Steve touch in public, the less they do it in private. That night, Adam and Kristina over hear Haddie and Steve’s first argument. He thinks Love Actually is LAME, ACTUALLY and she takes it super hard, running to her room in tears after kicking Steve out. Of course, like all teenage angst, it’s over with by the next day and Haddie and Steve are back to texting back and forth happily. Adam hates Steve.

At a baseball game later in the week, Max eyes a fly ball and yells at his teammates that HE’S GOT IT and he does! He catches his first ever fly ball, and that night, he Adam and Drew celebrate with a spur of the moment practice session that’s more playful than practice.

Word around the water cooler is that Parenthood is up for eviction, meaning it’s on the bubble as far as renewing it for the next season is concerned. I would be extremely sad to see it go, but would you? How are you feeling at this stage of the game? Let me know by leaving your Two Cents in the comments!

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