Is anyone else completely disgusted that Janet would expose her kids to the affair she’s having with Johnny? I mean, its bad enough that she’s sleeping with her brother-in-law but to allow her kids to know about it just disturbs me on so many levels. Mommy’s sleeping with Uncle Johnny. Needless to say, I’m pretty disgusted by this whole thing and it’s taken my opinion of Janet to a new low. Just had to get my judgementalness on there.
Johnny and Janet’s ridiculous affair wasn’t the only noteworthy moment of Tuesday Night’s episode of ‘Rescue Me’. Lou nearly gets the guys killed when leading the guys through a burning building. His frustration and desperation is now affecting his work.
When Garrity takes the wrong pills and we learn the side effects are sleepwalking and other nocturnal activity, we all know there’s laughter in store. Sure enough, he wakes from his slumber likes a zombie. Covered in the food he fell asleep in, he heads off into the night. First he goes to a supermarket where he eats stuff at random as though he’s digging through his own refrigerator, insults a few people then after announcing that he’s a firefighter and deserves free food for all his work, he leaves the store without paying. His next stop is to his car where a cop is writing him a ticket. He asks the cop to write him some U2 tickets for his mom and friends. He then drives off as the cop calls in the incident, describing Garrity as a zombie. Garrity drops by Maggie’s place where she’s entertaining one of her random gentleman-callers. He punches the guy out and Maggie is clearly turned on by this but zombie-Garrity doesn’t reap the benefits of his efforts because he leaves right away. Apparently on his way back to the station he stopped at a pet store and stole a white bunny because when we see him next, he’s wandering into the station holding this rabbit while the cop, the insulted grocers and the pet store people are waiting for him. Hilarious.
Angie choreographs the big fake-date with Tommy complete with kissing and lingering and thigh-feeling in the hopes that a waitress friend of Janet’s will see them and report the date back to Janet. Tommy goes along with it like a real trooper. In the meantime, Lou goes to visit his uncle who is dying of cancer. He unloads a lot of his emotional baggage over some liquor and then his uncle takes him out to a bar. His uncle tells him a story about saving a kid years ago and it turns out the guy whose waiting on them at the bar is the kid he saved.
Meanwhile Tommy and Angie’s fake-date goes off perfectly with her ex seeing them together and Janet’s waitress friend seeing them as well. Shortly after the date, Janet shows up at Tommy’s place and attacks him in the same way he attacked her a few episodes ago. After they’re done she leaves and Tommy comes to the conclusion that there’s no way she knew about the date. He and Angie wonder who it was that the waitress was blabbing to on the phone. Cut to Sheila throwing a huge fit in her kitchen. Guess that answer that question.
That was pretty it for this week’s episode. There was a little bit of drama with Probie and his roommate but that subplot was barely touched. It was mostly just more hints to Probie and his roommate’s homosexuality. Nothing was really addressed in regards to Franco’s daughter this week. Next week’s episode looks like it will continue to address Tommy’s escalating women drama. At the rate he’s going, he won’t have to worry about fire being the death of him, it’s the women in his life that are bound to do him in.
