“Desperate Housewives”

Season 6; Episode 5

“Everybody Ought to Have a Maid”

Originally Aired: Oct. 25, 2009

In this week’s episode, Gabby’s skills as a mother are seriously doubted when Juanita and a friend get hurt playing together. Julie comes home from the hospital and informs Nick (Dominick) that their affair is over.  Since Bree has fired Katherine, the rest of the gals agree Katherine needs help before they have another Mary Alice on their hands. Mike tells Susan about Katherine hitting on him, but not to worry about it. Nick and Danny discuss the affair with Julie and threatens to tell Angie if it persists.

Mrs. McCluskey asks Lynette if she and Tom can hire Roy as a handyman so he can have some walking around money, and therefore, improve her sex life, which Lynette was none too pleased to know about. She agrees anyway.

The maid at Bree and Karl’s coital motel, is none too pleased when she finds out that Bree is cheating on her husband. Which leads to a heartwarming confrontation between the two women, but resulting in Bree continuing the affair, convinced that she doesn’t deserve the love that Orson still has for her.

Everyone’s canceling on Juanita’s birthday because one of the mother’s on the block is spreading the rumor that kids aren’t safe at Gaby’s house. Gaby asks Carlos for cash to solve the problem. He wonders if it wouldn’t be easier to just watch the kids while the play. Yeah, right. Like a normal mom? Gabby goes all out for Juanita’s Birthday with bouncy houses, a clown and a live chimp, which makes the other girls in the neighborhood demand their mothers allow them to attend Juanita’s party after all. The other moms reluctantly give in and it seems that Gabby has the upper hand until the chimp goes berserk and tries to kill the clown, reaffirming what the other mother’s suspected all along about Gabby’s effectiveness as a Mother, until Carlos reminds her that the girls have turned out quite well and were able to protect themselves from the psycho chimp, even with Gabby’s lack of responsibility.

Roy and Lynette argue over where to put a birdhouse. Tom wanted to put it in one part of the yard, Lynette another. Roy calls Tom the man of the house and, unlike Lynette, wants to treat the guy with a little respect. They fight, she fires him and in the process destroys the birdhouse. Tom smoothes everything over with Roy, by telling him why Lynette’s a control freak: an absent dad, a drunkard mom, and he lets her control him because it makes her feel safe and that’s his job as her husband. One of the finest written and acted scenes this season so far! And Lynette and Roy patch things up.

Danny Gives Julie a gun for protection, which ends up being used by Susan on someone outside their home. Katherine ends up getting grazed by the gun, not being seriously hurt, yet the Bolens end up having to cover the mess up. Katherine wants to call the police on Susan but Angie talks her out of it.

What’s in store for the ladies in the next episode?

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