 OPENING: In their most daring move to date, they start the episode with three people: LILLY, BRENDON, AND MARK! Mark watches Lilly and Brendon fake-play video games. How anybody survived past an open like that could be anybody's guess. This episode MUST hold the record for highest number of tune-outs ever before the first commercial break. This covers the Mark and Lilly watch, friends.  JT argues with Frank because he has Sam in his BEDROOM. Frank finds this unacceptable, even though JT is TWENTY. He mentions something about a WEDDING RING, like "you better have a wedding ring on your finger before you have a girl in your room!" I guess The Lamberts are big girly Christians all not believing in sex before marriage. What a bunch of weenies.
This leads to JT moving in with Jean-Luc. Of course they completely ruin his fancy snobby stuff, and as a result of JT and Rich being in his apartment, Jean-Luc blows it with his date he brings home. It's the classic PRETTY GIRL HANGING ON BY A THREAD scene, where the dude wants to get his wick dipped and the girl keeps on going "uh maybe I should just go" while the wick dipper tries to set things right.  I also want to address how much it bothers me when people MOVE in sitcoms, it's always ONE suitcase. That's it. A suitcase is barely enough to go on a week long vacation. If I had to move to another place and only had a suitcase to do it with, I'd probably kill myself to get out of making the decision of what to bring. No, actually... I guess I could transfer my most important files to my laptop... put all my music and podcasts on my (extremely under-used) i-pod... DVDs would just have to go bye-bye, but I could rebuild that empire. Okay, it's doable, but its also horrible.
Jean-Luc tortures JT into moving out, by throwing them around and putting egg in Rich's hair. No really, that's what he does. JT proclaims he's going to move out, but not going go back to his parents. “Maybe I'll become a mooch like Kato Kaelin. He's sponged off people for years and he's dumb as a brick!” What did Kato Kaelin ever do to whoever wrote that line?
JT winds up renting some terrible little shithole that has graffiti on the INSIDE of it. Dad rescues him, LETS CONVERT CAROL'S OLD BEAUTY PARLOR INTO AN APARTMENT FOR YOU" wow good idea, I hope those two fat ladies from season one aren't in there eating rats.
The other subplot: Carol PRANKS her daughters, tricking them into thinking they all have plans for the evening. For example, she calls Karen pretending to be a radio station saying she won tickets to a movie premiere. Just as they are all about to go out for the evening, Carol springs the prank on them, and forces them to go out with HER instead to a Karaoke bar. When they get there some ugly bald shit is singing Tie A Yellow Ribbon. I was immediately jealous of him. Carol goes up and the same ugly bald shit honks out "WOW WHAT A BABE!" Carol browbeats the daughters into coming up and singing "I'M SO EXCITED" with her, but the karaoke track sounds like the opening to the DuckTales theme song, so I got excited for a minute. I wouldn't put it past ABC and Disney to be THAT in bed with each other to do something like that.
The End: Carol and the girls sing "I'm so excited" again, but this time in sultry sequined gowns. Carol sings "I want you" and singles out the ugly bald shit, pointing at him. He sits there shocked. Other cultural name-checks: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Antonio Banderas
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