Post by Ruthie Camden on Aug 1, 2005 11:55:30 GMT -5
Originally aired: Monday August 26, 1996 on WB
Writer: Brenda Hampton
Director: Sam Weisman
Guest Stars: Alice Hirson (Jenny Jackson) , William Thomas Jr. (Organ Player)
Production Code: 01496003
In the premiere of this series it introduces Eric Camden (Stephen Collins) who's a minister, father of five, happily married, and a soon-to-be dog owner. His wife, Annie Camden (Catherine Hicks) is a stay-at-home mom raising their children. Matt Camden (Barry Watson) is the oldest child who has picked up a habit of smoking and not being able to keep a job. Mary Camden (Jessica Biel) is the oldest daughter who likes to play basketball a lot and is having a craving for wanting to kiss a boy.
Lucy Camden (Beverley Mitchell) is the middle child and is hoping to become a woman and getting her period very soon. Simon Camden (David Gallagher) is the youngest son and is hoping to get a dog very soon, even though his parents already told him that he's too young. Ruthie Camden (Mackenzie Rosman) is the youngest child and is a happy and adorable 5 year-old. Also, Annie learns some devastating news when her parents come for a visit as her mother has leukemia.
Episode Quotes:
Matt to Kids: "It's Saturday, the day mom and dad sleep late."
Simon to Eric: "May I please say the blessing now?"
Annie to Simon: "What's your hurry you got a date?"
Matt to Annie and Simon: "I hope he doesn't because I need the car."
Mary to Matt: "I thought you were gonna help be with my foul shot."
Simon to God and the family: "Dear God, thank you for this food and if their really is a god, god I know you'll find a way to get me that dog I wanted."
Eric to Simon: "Well let me assure you there really is a god and secondly congratulation on going over our heads to get what you wanted."
Simon to Eric: "You know Dog is God spelt backwards."
Eric to Matt: "We play you win, we don't talk, or, we play I win we talk."
Eric to Lucy: "Your looking awfully grown up these days."
Lucy to Family: "I'm not a baby you know, I want to eat in my room."
Eric to Annie: "I'd go anywhere with you babe."
Eric to Annie: "So you took up pluming when we were pregnant with Simon?"
Annie to Eric: "No, Electrical and Plumbing was Mary, Simon was ethnic cooking."
Annie to Eric: "You wanna talk dog with Simon or puberty with Lucy?"
Simon to Eric and Annie: "Can I have mom, please dad please?"
Simon to Annie: "It's just I was the baby for a long time and I miss the individual attention, and I can get that from a dog without having to bother you so much, and I would feet it and walk it and it would be no trouble at all."
Annie to Simon: "Simon, the bottom line is your dad and I have talked about this and the decision was no dog."
Simon to Annie: "Lucky for me, you have a mind of your own."
Mary to Matt (who is smoking): "Have you lost your mind, you're gonna get caught."
Mary to Matt (referring to kissing): "The point is, I don't know where my hands go or his hands or my face or his face or his lips or my lips, and I don't want it to be awkward…couldn't you just show me so I have some experience."
Matt to Mary: "Don't kiss me."
Mary to Matt: "Would you stop, I'm not gonna kiss you. Ok, so do I touch his face with my hands. "(Mary moves her hand toward his face.)
Matt to Mary: "No, look if anybody touches face, he touches your face or maybe he doesn't, I don't know."
Mary to Matt (starts moving toward a kiss): "So I close my eyes and..."(Eric sees Mary trying to kiss Matt).
Matt to Eric: "Oh dad, this isn't what it looks like."
Eric to Matt and Mary: "That's a relief."
Lucy to Annie: "Can you please tell dad to stay out of this?"
Annie to Lucy: "He just wants you to feel comfortable talking with him about everything."
Lucy to Annie: "I don't wanna talk about it, I just wanna do it, all my friends are doing it and I'm like some kinda freak."
Annie to Lucy: "You're not a freak. You'll start your period."
Lucy to Annie: "What if I don't?"
Annie to Lucy: "Have you ever heard for everything there is a season, a time to uhh…hmm a time to do something or other. The point is that you just have to let nature take its course you can't hurry these things."
Eric to Waiter: "I'll have a cup of coffee black."
Eric to Matt: "Filter or non-filter, what is it you smoke?"
Matt to Eric: "It's not like its pot it's just cigarettes."
Eric to Matt: "Not really a good point, Matt. So, the cigarettes cost me what in allowance."
Matt to Eric: "You know its not like I'm walking around with all kinds of money."
Eric to Matt: "Welcome to the club. Do you know how you get money?"
Matt to Eric: "Yeah, you get a job."
Simon to God during Amazing Grace: "Please God, just let a dog come into our yard today, that's and I promise I won't ever let him die ever."
Eric to Church: "I'd like to read something from Ecclesiastes although most of you may have thought this was from the Byrds, indeed it is from Ecclesiastes, for everything there is a season…"(Lucy runs out)
Lucy to Mary: "I'm gonna stay in this house for the rest of my life until I become a barren old woman."
Mary to Lucy: "Well you can't its not out house, it's the churches house, someday someone is gonna make you get out, so you might as well get out now."
Lucy to Mary: "You think the person who died and left this house to the church was insane. Maybe she's still hanging around maybe I'm possessed."
Mary to Lucy: "Your not possessed, you just have P.M.S."
Simon to Eric: "I think if there is a god, he knows me a little better than you do, and believes I am plenty responsible."
Eric to Matt: "If you loose this job you owe me 6 months of Sundays in church."
Matt to Eric: "Its not gonna happen. You know that talk you and mom had with me about men and woman?"
Eric to Matt: "One of my finest moments."
Matt to Eric: "Well you and mom might wanna have that talk with Mary."
Eric to Annie: "How come they like your parents and they don't like mine?"
Annie to Eric: "Cause, mine are better."
Mrs. Bink to Matt: "Where are my cigarettes."
Matt to Mrs. Bink: "Didn't you say you lost a lung."
Mrs. Bink to Matt: "That's none of your business I thought you smoked, well you got any on you."
Eric to Lucy: "Are congratulations in order here…then congratulations this is a important day."
Eric to Simon: "Simon, well you know sometimes we don't always get what we want.'"
Simon to Eric: "Yea I know, but it would be good if I did, just this time."
Eric to Mrs. Bink: "How did it go?"
Mrs. Bink to Eric: "Worked like a charm."
Matt to Eric: "Dad, I quit."
Annie to Eric: "I don't know what came over me."
Eric to Annie: "Annie, what are you doing."
Annie to Eric: "Well, I was going to the pound and I was just gonna look."
Eric to Annie: "Well, the pound is not a good place just to look."
Annie to Simon: "I told the dog, we'd see it isn't definite. I got the dog at the pound, he didn't just run into the yard."
Eric to Simon: "So, even though I assure you there is a god, he had nothing to do with this."
Simon to Eric: "Sure he did, mom wouldn't do this on her own."
Eric to Annie: "I just want to know where the communication broke down."
Annie to Eric: "When the guy told me the dog was going to be put down in 24 hours."
Eric to Annie: "Just so I know."
Annie to Eric (referring to Mary being out with Jeff): "So, we'll postpone this talk with Mary."
Eric to Annie: "I already talked to her."
Annie to Eric: "I thought we were gonna talk together, lets just say were even."
Eric to Annie: "What do you think Matt said he'd be happy to drive to the airport and pick your parents up?"
Annie to Eric: "Matt our son, who has only had his license for 2 months doesn't mind driving to the airport to pick up my parents."
Annie to Eric: "Where's Matt?"
Eric to Annie: "Probably heading for gate 3 now."
Annie to Eric: "What, you know you and I have got to set some rules for the kids that we both agree on."
Annie to Matt: "Matt, could you check on Simon and Ruthie for me?"
Annie to Charles and Jenny: "So, mom and dad what's up?"
Jenny to Annie: "I have acute leukemia."
Annie to Jenny: "Well they have treatments for leukemia?"
Jenny to Eric: "Well they don't give me much hope."
Matt to Simon: "I think I know why Happy is so happy, I think Happy is going to have puppies."
Simon to Matt: "Don't tell dad."
What did you think of this episode? I thought it was a great opener for the show. It was sad though, you know, about Annie's mother. I give it an 8/10.
Writer: Brenda Hampton
Director: Sam Weisman
Guest Stars: Alice Hirson (Jenny Jackson) , William Thomas Jr. (Organ Player)
Production Code: 01496003
In the premiere of this series it introduces Eric Camden (Stephen Collins) who's a minister, father of five, happily married, and a soon-to-be dog owner. His wife, Annie Camden (Catherine Hicks) is a stay-at-home mom raising their children. Matt Camden (Barry Watson) is the oldest child who has picked up a habit of smoking and not being able to keep a job. Mary Camden (Jessica Biel) is the oldest daughter who likes to play basketball a lot and is having a craving for wanting to kiss a boy.
Lucy Camden (Beverley Mitchell) is the middle child and is hoping to become a woman and getting her period very soon. Simon Camden (David Gallagher) is the youngest son and is hoping to get a dog very soon, even though his parents already told him that he's too young. Ruthie Camden (Mackenzie Rosman) is the youngest child and is a happy and adorable 5 year-old. Also, Annie learns some devastating news when her parents come for a visit as her mother has leukemia.
Episode Quotes:
Matt to Kids: "It's Saturday, the day mom and dad sleep late."
Simon to Eric: "May I please say the blessing now?"
Annie to Simon: "What's your hurry you got a date?"
Matt to Annie and Simon: "I hope he doesn't because I need the car."
Mary to Matt: "I thought you were gonna help be with my foul shot."
Simon to God and the family: "Dear God, thank you for this food and if their really is a god, god I know you'll find a way to get me that dog I wanted."
Eric to Simon: "Well let me assure you there really is a god and secondly congratulation on going over our heads to get what you wanted."
Simon to Eric: "You know Dog is God spelt backwards."
Eric to Matt: "We play you win, we don't talk, or, we play I win we talk."
Eric to Lucy: "Your looking awfully grown up these days."
Lucy to Family: "I'm not a baby you know, I want to eat in my room."
Eric to Annie: "I'd go anywhere with you babe."
Eric to Annie: "So you took up pluming when we were pregnant with Simon?"
Annie to Eric: "No, Electrical and Plumbing was Mary, Simon was ethnic cooking."
Annie to Eric: "You wanna talk dog with Simon or puberty with Lucy?"
Simon to Eric and Annie: "Can I have mom, please dad please?"
Simon to Annie: "It's just I was the baby for a long time and I miss the individual attention, and I can get that from a dog without having to bother you so much, and I would feet it and walk it and it would be no trouble at all."
Annie to Simon: "Simon, the bottom line is your dad and I have talked about this and the decision was no dog."
Simon to Annie: "Lucky for me, you have a mind of your own."
Mary to Matt (who is smoking): "Have you lost your mind, you're gonna get caught."
Mary to Matt (referring to kissing): "The point is, I don't know where my hands go or his hands or my face or his face or his lips or my lips, and I don't want it to be awkward…couldn't you just show me so I have some experience."
Matt to Mary: "Don't kiss me."
Mary to Matt: "Would you stop, I'm not gonna kiss you. Ok, so do I touch his face with my hands. "(Mary moves her hand toward his face.)
Matt to Mary: "No, look if anybody touches face, he touches your face or maybe he doesn't, I don't know."
Mary to Matt (starts moving toward a kiss): "So I close my eyes and..."(Eric sees Mary trying to kiss Matt).
Matt to Eric: "Oh dad, this isn't what it looks like."
Eric to Matt and Mary: "That's a relief."
Lucy to Annie: "Can you please tell dad to stay out of this?"
Annie to Lucy: "He just wants you to feel comfortable talking with him about everything."
Lucy to Annie: "I don't wanna talk about it, I just wanna do it, all my friends are doing it and I'm like some kinda freak."
Annie to Lucy: "You're not a freak. You'll start your period."
Lucy to Annie: "What if I don't?"
Annie to Lucy: "Have you ever heard for everything there is a season, a time to uhh…hmm a time to do something or other. The point is that you just have to let nature take its course you can't hurry these things."
Eric to Waiter: "I'll have a cup of coffee black."
Eric to Matt: "Filter or non-filter, what is it you smoke?"
Matt to Eric: "It's not like its pot it's just cigarettes."
Eric to Matt: "Not really a good point, Matt. So, the cigarettes cost me what in allowance."
Matt to Eric: "You know its not like I'm walking around with all kinds of money."
Eric to Matt: "Welcome to the club. Do you know how you get money?"
Matt to Eric: "Yeah, you get a job."
Simon to God during Amazing Grace: "Please God, just let a dog come into our yard today, that's and I promise I won't ever let him die ever."
Eric to Church: "I'd like to read something from Ecclesiastes although most of you may have thought this was from the Byrds, indeed it is from Ecclesiastes, for everything there is a season…"(Lucy runs out)
Lucy to Mary: "I'm gonna stay in this house for the rest of my life until I become a barren old woman."
Mary to Lucy: "Well you can't its not out house, it's the churches house, someday someone is gonna make you get out, so you might as well get out now."
Lucy to Mary: "You think the person who died and left this house to the church was insane. Maybe she's still hanging around maybe I'm possessed."
Mary to Lucy: "Your not possessed, you just have P.M.S."
Simon to Eric: "I think if there is a god, he knows me a little better than you do, and believes I am plenty responsible."
Eric to Matt: "If you loose this job you owe me 6 months of Sundays in church."
Matt to Eric: "Its not gonna happen. You know that talk you and mom had with me about men and woman?"
Eric to Matt: "One of my finest moments."
Matt to Eric: "Well you and mom might wanna have that talk with Mary."
Eric to Annie: "How come they like your parents and they don't like mine?"
Annie to Eric: "Cause, mine are better."
Mrs. Bink to Matt: "Where are my cigarettes."
Matt to Mrs. Bink: "Didn't you say you lost a lung."
Mrs. Bink to Matt: "That's none of your business I thought you smoked, well you got any on you."
Eric to Lucy: "Are congratulations in order here…then congratulations this is a important day."
Eric to Simon: "Simon, well you know sometimes we don't always get what we want.'"
Simon to Eric: "Yea I know, but it would be good if I did, just this time."
Eric to Mrs. Bink: "How did it go?"
Mrs. Bink to Eric: "Worked like a charm."
Matt to Eric: "Dad, I quit."
Annie to Eric: "I don't know what came over me."
Eric to Annie: "Annie, what are you doing."
Annie to Eric: "Well, I was going to the pound and I was just gonna look."
Eric to Annie: "Well, the pound is not a good place just to look."
Annie to Simon: "I told the dog, we'd see it isn't definite. I got the dog at the pound, he didn't just run into the yard."
Eric to Simon: "So, even though I assure you there is a god, he had nothing to do with this."
Simon to Eric: "Sure he did, mom wouldn't do this on her own."
Eric to Annie: "I just want to know where the communication broke down."
Annie to Eric: "When the guy told me the dog was going to be put down in 24 hours."
Eric to Annie: "Just so I know."
Annie to Eric (referring to Mary being out with Jeff): "So, we'll postpone this talk with Mary."
Eric to Annie: "I already talked to her."
Annie to Eric: "I thought we were gonna talk together, lets just say were even."
Eric to Annie: "What do you think Matt said he'd be happy to drive to the airport and pick your parents up?"
Annie to Eric: "Matt our son, who has only had his license for 2 months doesn't mind driving to the airport to pick up my parents."
Annie to Eric: "Where's Matt?"
Eric to Annie: "Probably heading for gate 3 now."
Annie to Eric: "What, you know you and I have got to set some rules for the kids that we both agree on."
Annie to Matt: "Matt, could you check on Simon and Ruthie for me?"
Annie to Charles and Jenny: "So, mom and dad what's up?"
Jenny to Annie: "I have acute leukemia."
Annie to Jenny: "Well they have treatments for leukemia?"
Jenny to Eric: "Well they don't give me much hope."
Matt to Simon: "I think I know why Happy is so happy, I think Happy is going to have puppies."
Simon to Matt: "Don't tell dad."
What did you think of this episode? I thought it was a great opener for the show. It was sad though, you know, about Annie's mother. I give it an 8/10.