Tuesday night, after Buffy and Angel, Mikey and i started talking, not paying attention to what was on the tv, when i suddenly realized that it was 7th Heaven. i've already said before that the show sucks, and that it just generally pisses me off, so i started ranting to Mikey about it. he'd never seen it, so we started watching it. here's it is:

the Elder Son did something to help out a schoolmate and was rewarded with a joint. at least that's what i think happened. i'm a little fuzzy on it. the only thing i'm sure about is that his buddy gave him a joint. for some reason, the son took it home where he promptly lost the joint at the front door. later, mom (Dr. Gillian Taylor) finds it and puts it in her top dresser drawer. don't ask me why.

Middle Daughter decides she needs a scarf for her outfit, but where to find one...? you guessed it. Dr. Taylor's top dresser drawer! so she goes and tells older sister that she found a joint in mom's drawer. now, they think mom's a pothead, which probably isn't far from the truth anyway.

that evening, mom tells dad that she found the joint. dad's pissed. he confronts the kids. the kids say "it's mom's!" she says she found it. finally, Elder Son says he brought it home. dad freaks. dad yells. dad jumps to conclusions. dad insults Elder Son with a personal attack. dad judges Elder Son without even bothering to get the facts or Elder Son's side of the story. dad is a preacher. dad is not a good reflection on Christians. Younger Son is upset that his hero, Elder Son, is a pothead. he runs from the room. boo hoo hoo. Elder Son runs from the house. boo hoo hoo.

mom and dad discuss in oh-so-melodramatic terms. they try to be someones the kids can trust (well demonstrated by the way they jumped all over Elder Son just minutes before). they talked to their kids about Drugs (probably true, but i think they should try saying something other than, 'Pass me the blunt', or 'Lay out a couple of lines'). they just can't believe this is happening in their house (yet, they were so quick to believe it about Elder Son). they're worried.

they decide to leave the house. but do they go searching for Elder Son, whom they claim to be so worried about? nope. they go to church. but, suprise!, Elder Son is there too, crying and praying. apparently, everyone in that family has a key to the church. mom and dad listen, and hear Elder Son tell God that he swears he's never smoked pot and that it was stupid for him to bring the joint home. at no time does he say that he would never, or that he didn't intend to smoke that joint. just that he hadn't yet smoked.

but that's enough for mom and dad. they reveal themselves. they hug. cut to gratuitous shot of a tear streaking down dad's face, complete with pained, guilty expression. they hug again. Elder Son is crying. dad is crying. mom is not. apparently, she's not too impressed with any of this. they all turn to leave, and dad says "We're gonna be ok."

that pissed me off. after everything they'd just done to their Elder Son, everything goes back to normal just because dad cried. please! he didn't even fucking apologize! he'd insulted his son! he'd said to him "Is that why you can keep a job?" like Elder Son would just forget that! dad had just revealed how disappointed he is about the job thing, and he said something really hurtful. is Elder Son going to trust him again? apparently so. that's how things work in that family. i wish my family could have always resolved big emotionally hurtful things in under an hour.

i really hate that show.