Get out of the shower, Estelle! Too many people in the house with not enough showers and the traffic jam is just getting too much. Estelle is off to visit her well-to-do son Frank in Milwaukee, and if we are to believe as she says: each and every one of his bathrooms has a shower (one with a hot tub!). Carl gets the hint and decides a shower needs to be installed in his mother’s bathroom – and much to Harriette’s chagrin he plans to install it himself. Carl has a long track record of disastrous repairs and carpentry projects, including a Bird House that was condemned by the Audubon Society. Rachel meanwhile is bragging to anyone who will listen that her infant son Richie had said “Mama” for the first time, but he utters nary a peep around any other family member. Carl decides to humor Harriette and allows a contractor to come in and survey the project, but he laughs in the contractors face once he receives the estimate – she insists she will be return after his impending failure and is not impressed by the fact that Carl is a member of the “Tool of the Month Club”. Carl enlists Edward as his crew member and things spin out of control – in a wild session of stumbling and bumbling Carl nearly trashes the entire bathroom in a few short seconds when he attempts to find a stud in the wall. Rachel continues her pursuit to prove to everyone that Richie can speak and begins recording his every waking moment – Carl suggests maybe Rachel misheard a burp. The shower instalation is hitting snags but an even bigger kink forms when Estelle calls home and tells Harriette she will be coming home days early because she is sick and tired of her cheap son Frank “Every time he takes her to a restaurant he makes her order from the children’s menu.” Carl calls an audible and changes into a hurry up offense and informs Eddie that they need to finish the project tonight! Harriette is shocked when she checks up on the progress and sees the bathroom is still in a mess, Carl insists he is nearly done – but when they try to run the shower the sink faucet starts pouring and vice versa. After some serious nagging at Carl that he will never complete the project, Carl accepts and feels degraded at his lack of handiness “ …being good with your hands is part of what makes a man.” Harriette prattles off some line about being good with your heart being what makes you a man, and that seems to make Carl feel better. With time running out they hire a contractor in the middle of the night and they complete the installation. Estelle returns home and is eager to use her new shower after long trip back from her cheapskate son’s home “Ya know, I took a bunch of Frank’s towels!” The chapter ends with Little Richie saying “Mama” to an empty room just after Rachel leaves to get new batteries for her tape recorder – whoops!!
LESSON: Don’t let your mother move in with you.
CHARADES WITH EDDIE:
Eddie's guesses for this movie title charade:
-Rainman
-Ghostbusters
-Lethal Weapon 2
The correct answer is “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” – obviously.
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