When the Rhoades ask the Bundys to look over the house while they go away for the weekend for a trip to New York City to see a show and spend a romantic getaway together, the house goes missing when a guy asks for "Steve's Roadhouse." Apparently, Peggy misunderstood that the guy took the house away leaving the Rhoades homeless. Their trip in New York City was a nightmare when the show was terrible, the airline lost their luggage, and the hotel lost their reservation. So they return home to an empty lot where their house used to be. During the night, Kelly is having a sleepover with her peers at her house. The episode is cute and funny at times especially when Al and Peggy can't stomach Steve and Marcy's speech.
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The All-Girl Pajama Party.
rmax30482316 May 2010
Warning: Spoilers
It has some of the series' more entertaining moments. The Rhodes leave their house in the care of the Bundy's for a few days. Al and Peg immediately loot the house of all valuable. And when a moving truck shows up looking for "Steve's Road House," Peg tells them it's next door.
The following day there is nothing but a hole in the ground where the Rhodes' house was. Steve and Marcy are enraged and are forced to sleep on the Budy's sacrosanct sofa.
But it happens that this is the night that Kelly was promised for a sleepover party for half a dozen of her classmates. The gathering of the girls is the funniest of the two story threads. I don't know how the two writers could come up with such vicious dish among the young ladies but they do it.
There isn't anything of substance behind the episode, anymore than there were messages being lugged behind the others. It's gag after gag, though they're not unthinking gags and sometimes make a demand or two upon the viewer. I'll give an example. In another episode, an old lady's teeth fall on the counter in front of Al. He looks up at the camera with an agonized expression and moans, "Oh, the HUMANITY." I grant you, that's not much of a demand on the viewer but it represents many times the challenge of most of the current crap on TV.
The following day there is nothing but a hole in the ground where the Rhodes' house was. Steve and Marcy are enraged and are forced to sleep on the Budy's sacrosanct sofa.
But it happens that this is the night that Kelly was promised for a sleepover party for half a dozen of her classmates. The gathering of the girls is the funniest of the two story threads. I don't know how the two writers could come up with such vicious dish among the young ladies but they do it.
There isn't anything of substance behind the episode, anymore than there were messages being lugged behind the others. It's gag after gag, though they're not unthinking gags and sometimes make a demand or two upon the viewer. I'll give an example. In another episode, an old lady's teeth fall on the counter in front of Al. He looks up at the camera with an agonized expression and moans, "Oh, the HUMANITY." I grant you, that's not much of a demand on the viewer but it represents many times the challenge of most of the current crap on TV.
Not great.
BA_Harrison30 September 2022
Kelly is planning to have her friends over for a pyjama party, which sounds promising, but then the episode introduces a plot point that baffled me somewhat: Peggy gives the Rhoades' house keys to a man who she believes is the plumber booked to fix their neighbours' sink while they are away in New York. However, the man is not a plumber, and he removes their house, leaving a hole in the ground. Being British, I was bewildered by this, since it isn't possible to remove a house in the UK, plus I didn't understand the confusion between 'Rhoades' house' and 'Roadhouse' (we don't have roadhouses in England). Would anyone actually mistake a residential home for a roadside bar anyway? Contrived or what!
Without a house, Marcy and Steve spend the night at the Bundy's place. Meanwhile, Kelly's friends arrive and sit around bad-mouthing whichever one of them isn't in the room at the time. Bud comes downstairs, dressed like Hugh Hefner to try and impress the girls, but when they mock him, he stirs up trouble by revealing that Kelly has been dating their boyfriends. A catfight ensues.
The House That Peg Lost isn't one of my favourites: my confusion over the missing house meant that I probably didn't appreciate it as much as I might have if I were American. The pyjama party antics lifted it a little, but not enough to make me want to watch this one again in a hurry.
Without a house, Marcy and Steve spend the night at the Bundy's place. Meanwhile, Kelly's friends arrive and sit around bad-mouthing whichever one of them isn't in the room at the time. Bud comes downstairs, dressed like Hugh Hefner to try and impress the girls, but when they mock him, he stirs up trouble by revealing that Kelly has been dating their boyfriends. A catfight ensues.
The House That Peg Lost isn't one of my favourites: my confusion over the missing house meant that I probably didn't appreciate it as much as I might have if I were American. The pyjama party antics lifted it a little, but not enough to make me want to watch this one again in a hurry.
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