Trama

Tom vents his marital frustrations with a secret diary; Angie disapproves of Danny being with Ana; Orson and Bree play hardball in a fight for respect; Susan and Gabrielle are determined to see whose kid is in the smarter group.

Lynette balks at the idea of seeing a couples' therapist. Meanwhile, Katherine is seeing her own psychiatrist, Gaby and Susan are determined to find out which of if their kids are in the smartest group at school, and Angie disapproves of Danny's new girlfriend.—ABC Publicity

Lynette and Tom have dinner with Lee and Bob, who soon begin to snap at each other. Lee suddenly grabs a notebook and begins scribbling in what he calls his "feelings journal." Bob explains that the two are seeing a counselor and the journal is a form of therapy. "Maybe we should think of seeing someone," Tom tells Lynette, who is less than enthused. They soon begin snapping at each other. Awkward! Cut to Katherine, who is being counseled by Dr. Brent. Katherine explains how she pretended that Mike was still in love with her. "When I was hurting, I would let myself imagine that he was there with me," she says. "I see what I've done to my life ... and how I've ruined it."

Bree, in the meantime, offers to bath Orson, who declines. He then hands Bree a list of "urgent" items to get from the store, including corn nuts. She balks. "I just thought that since you played a major part in putting me in this chair, you'd want to play a small part in making my new life tolerable," Orson snaps. A guilty Bree relents. Cut to school, where Gabby pays Susan a visit. They start gabbing about their kids and it becomes clear (at least to Susan) that Juanita is moving at a slower educational pace than M.J. based on her mysterious designation as a Leopard. "It's the pace, not the race!" Susan says. Gabby is NOT comforted. Later that night, Tom and Lynette get into another spat and the former begins writing in his own journal. "I started seeing their therapist," Tom says. "You can always join me." Lynette refuses.

Angie, in the meantime, is serving dinner to Danny and his new GF Ana. Things start off rocky and go downhill from there. First, Ana refuses to eat carbs (despite the fact that Angie cooked pasta all day) and then she laughs at the idea of college, explaining that she is going to New York after graduation to be a model. "It'd be nice have something other than the porn industry to fall back on," Angie quips. The next day, Gabby interrogates the principal about Juanita's progress in school. The principal more or less kicks the nosy mom out. Gabby then takes cell-phone photos of the math homework of two suppossedly "advanced" kids. Her plan: compare the work sheets to Juanita's assignment. Cut to Orson, who has been admonished by Bree for being rude. When his physical therapist stops by, Orson pretends to have fallen out of his chair reaching for food. The therapist warns that Bree will have to more patient or shell have to "report" it.

Later, Gabby examines the math assignments with Carlos. It looks like Juanita DOES have the toughest homework. Gabby is ecstatic. "Don't you get it?" she asks. "Our daughter is a Leopard. She's in the advanced class!" Naturally, Gabby cant WAIT to tell Susan, whose son M.J. is qualified as a Giraffe. Meanwhile, Karen is visiting Katherine in the hospital. The former urges the latter to come back to the neighborhood to seek forgiveness. "Maybe you are bonkers," Katherine snaps. Later, Susan brings old math books over to Gabby's house so as to help Juanita "catch up." It's too much for Gabby, who explains that she "cracked the code" and figured out that the Leopards are actually more advanced than the Giraffes. "It's the pace, not the race, right?" Gabby taunts.

Later that night, M.J. eats spaghetti and ends up with half of it on his face. Susan takes this as a bad sign. She confronts Mike, who claims there is "nothing wrong with being average." Meanwhile, M.J. has gotten his hand stuck in a glass. Lynette, meanwhile, goes to Tom's therapist, a Dr. Graham. "I can only imagine Tom has been reading you from his big book of waaaah," Lynette says. The wife insists that she did not come to be analyzed. Yet, she soon opens up, explaining that she feels a lack of control in her life. "Like your baby dying?" Graham asks. Says a crying Lynette: "I'm going to sit down ... but only because I'm tired." Uh huh. Later, Tom returns home to find Lynette holding her own "feelings journal." "Where's dinner?" Tom asks. "I mean, you were home all day." Lynette immediately begins jotting down her first entry.

Susan, in the meantime, confronts M.J.'s teacher, who tries to be nice, but is less than encouraging. "Why is he a Giraffe?" Susan asks. "Giraffes are the slow learners!" Other parents overhear that the code has been cracked. The teacher is furious. Back at Bree's perfect home, life continues to be less than perfect. Orson wants the door closed and Bree wants it open. Orson, who hasn't bathed in days, ends up calling Bree a "whore." "Here's the difference," he says, "I can get clean!" That tears it. Bree rolls the man outside, covers him in dish-washing soap and then turns the hose on him. Finally, Orson yells, "Please, stop!" Bree is satisfied until Orson explains how difficult it is having to ask for everything in life due to his handicap. "Orson, I'm so sorry," Bree whispers.

Cut to the principal's office, where Gabby and Susan sit in stony silence. "I got carried away," says Susan, breaking the ice. Gabby explains that she doesn't have a career. "My kids are my job," she says. Susan, on the other hand, worries that she isn't with M.J. enough. They giggle at the ridiculousness of their fight, before comparing their children's reading-class designations. Again, they're quite different. But which is the advanced class? Stony silence, again. Later, Angie takes Ana shopping to "get to know" her. Angie explains that she doesn't think Ana is good for Danny. "Danny has been through a lot and he needs someone who isn't going to hurt him," Angie says. Ana claims to understand Danny and promises not to hurt him. "I'm not going anywhere," Ana says. In other words, war has been declared. Karen, meanwhile, returns to the hospital to confront Katherine. "People on that street have been your friends for years," Karen says. "Do you really think we'd dump your ass just because you went off the deep end?" Sure enough, Gabby, Lynette, Bree and Susan enter the hospital cafeteria. Katherine is especially moved when Susan takes her hand.