Overall wasn't a good episode, but it had good moments. The most enjoyable parts for me were Charlie's struggles with the factory and the two lonely scenes with Kirsten expressing her morning sickness. That's worth the 9 points today. She is in her first trimester of her pregnancy and already is having symptoms like nausea and vomiting (probably she is in 5-7 weeks maybe). For this, it's clear that she can't go to work, surely she already told the situation to her boss. Charlie serves her water and offers to stay with her til lunch as he doesn't like much the management part of the factory, but she says it's fine. She tells him that she feels good because the symptoms means that she is pregnant, that the baby is growing and each breakfast she loses is one toss closer to having the baby. This makes him laugh and she tells him that he should see his job in the same way, to look at finishing lines of furniture as steps closer to what he wants, which is designing again. Then, in the factory, a woman who represents an hotel chain brings an order of thousands of chairs (72 hotels x 50 rooms x 2 chairs, 7200), but with only one factory, Charlie can't produce them. He asks advice to an expert, Dale, who shows him a big place he could turn into a second plant. Dale also mentions taxes for the new location, zoning, highway access, insurance, and a business strategy so Charlie feels he doesn't know much about it. Then, he asks Bailey if he wants to join for some months to help him but initially his brother refuses, saying he doesn't know what to do with his life (a test he made turned out as restaurant manager), only that he doesn't want to waste time doing jobs he doesn't like. He thinks he wasted time in the restaurant (totally the opposite), so Charlie tells him that he's 21 years old, he has plenty of time. When Charlie arrives home next day, Kirsten asks him to buy more of the "pink stuff" (seemingly some antiemetic drug in liquid, for nausea), and tells she's having not only morning sickness, also afternoon sickness, dinnertime sickness, midnight sickness. They sit in the couch together and she tries to make him laugh saying that she's tired and wants the baby now, as a joke, but he seems tired too of thinking ways to take the order. He says, what's the point? He tells her that he wants for his life just two things: spend time with her, their children and design. He doesn't want to be a slave for the job, producing million furniture for hotels, that's not the reason of why he took the job. If he keeps the company small he can be able to design more new furniture instead of commiting to produce endless orders. She asks him if he is sure about turning down the order and when he gives these reasons, she seems convinced and supports him. Unfortunately, the writers didn't want Charlie's paradise yet and decided to cause some trouble: Bailey changes his mind and agrees to join Charlie so they can take the hotel order and gain more money. Bailey says that would be better for him to do something with his brother, work, because if he keeps jumping into wrong paths, he'll never find out what he wants. Maybe is not entirely bad the idea of the brothers as partners for the business, but goes against what Charlie said before about his life. This means less time for him to spend with his pregnant beloved wife. By the way, sadly it wasn't mentioned or showed, but Kirsten still has to watch her pregnancy with a doctor. She can't go off lithium given the chronic illness but she must have blood tests to check levels are safe. That's why I didn't like the final turn out of this story, Kirsten will really need Charlie not only because she's pregnant also because her manic depression has to be controled. Leaving that aside, I enjoyed the rest of it. It's very good to see them dealing with issues to reach their goal. She's finally pregnant, with sickness, but she tries to enjoy it because she knows what it means, that in some months (estimate date, november 2000 I'd guess), she will hold her own baby with Charlie. And he did everything good here. His explanation of what he wants for his life was perfect: He loves his pregnant wife and designing, he doesn't want nothing else. He is aware that commiting himself to the factory to work long hours is not good, he wants to spend time with Kirsten. At the end, it's clear that he didn't expect Bailey's change of mind so probably that's why he accepted it, he was surprised.
Anyway, for the rest, there were no great stories, overall were just acceptable. Claudia fights with Todd, both competing for playing violin, to have the first chair in a jingle session. They struggle initially, because she's kind enough to fail on purpose so he gets the first chair, but then he says he wants to deserve it, that she can't handle competing. Finally, they learn they understand each other's melody. Julia uses Adam to have sex so she can inspire her writing, forgettable plot for me. And also, as this season is feeling like Bailey focused, he resumes his relationship with Holly but they are interrupted by her sister Fiona. Fiona is struggling to find a profession so Bailey helps her in clothes designing, allowing a fashion show in Salinger's. Holly is upset because she knows her sister's whims but ultimately accepts that Bailey helped. He only tried to help her to see if he could feel himself better about not having a career, a goal in life. Will and Griffin appeared and helped too, also being interested in the woman. Griffin hooked up with Fiona (again the age difference like Bailey-Annie, 21 vs 27), which proved me he is pointless in being a regular in this season. Jeremy London should have been recurring this season. Besides, trivial fact, it's a shame that Fiona, Holly's sister, had more scenes in this series than Meg Bennett (Leslie Hope), Kirsten's sister. I recall this because it's important, she is Charlie's sister in law and only had two lonely scenes in Grownups, season 1. And Meg has kids, so Charlie and Kirsten are uncle and aunt for those kids. There were a lot of possible stories to write about that. To finish, Owen's absence wasn't unnoticed for me today, he was missed. He should have been in the main cast this season.
Anyway, for the rest, there were no great stories, overall were just acceptable. Claudia fights with Todd, both competing for playing violin, to have the first chair in a jingle session. They struggle initially, because she's kind enough to fail on purpose so he gets the first chair, but then he says he wants to deserve it, that she can't handle competing. Finally, they learn they understand each other's melody. Julia uses Adam to have sex so she can inspire her writing, forgettable plot for me. And also, as this season is feeling like Bailey focused, he resumes his relationship with Holly but they are interrupted by her sister Fiona. Fiona is struggling to find a profession so Bailey helps her in clothes designing, allowing a fashion show in Salinger's. Holly is upset because she knows her sister's whims but ultimately accepts that Bailey helped. He only tried to help her to see if he could feel himself better about not having a career, a goal in life. Will and Griffin appeared and helped too, also being interested in the woman. Griffin hooked up with Fiona (again the age difference like Bailey-Annie, 21 vs 27), which proved me he is pointless in being a regular in this season. Jeremy London should have been recurring this season. Besides, trivial fact, it's a shame that Fiona, Holly's sister, had more scenes in this series than Meg Bennett (Leslie Hope), Kirsten's sister. I recall this because it's important, she is Charlie's sister in law and only had two lonely scenes in Grownups, season 1. And Meg has kids, so Charlie and Kirsten are uncle and aunt for those kids. There were a lot of possible stories to write about that. To finish, Owen's absence wasn't unnoticed for me today, he was missed. He should have been in the main cast this season.
