Worried Anyone episode - aired Jan. 20 on ME-TV

I like this series. It's usually reasonably funny and presents likeable characters.

But this episode which aired this morning on ME-TV just wasn't one of their best. I'm posting, inviting anyone who saw it recently enough to remember it to share their opinion.

It starts with Mary about to go to a dance with a boy named Scotty. She is all nervous about which bracelets to wear, as though the high school boy will care. She proceeds to tell her Mom NOT to worry about Scotty's car. She tells her how he built it himself with parts from cars that had been in wrecks and how proud Scotty is of it. Of course, Mom had no reason to worry until Mary told her how the car was made.

As soon as she leaves for the dance with the nice young man, Donna heads off to bed and Alex tries to join her but he is the one worried about the safety of the car--because he saw how the passenger door just fell off to the ground when Scotty opened it for Mary.

We quickly move to a scene where Mary and Scotty are in a diner-type restaurant--obviously after the dance. They cannot find the house key Alex gave Mary that they are sure is in one of Scotty's pockets, so before they finish searching, Mary wants to phone home to, I guess, have Dad leave the door unlocked so they won't have to wake up Donna by ringing the door bell.

Now we know there's a phone near Donna's bed and the phone call would surely wake her up. Furthermore, they haven't fully searched Scotty's pockets yet, so the phone call is premature.

What really got me was the way Mary, almost panickly, starts off telling Alex, "Now it wasn't my fault. And it wasn't Scotty's fault. It was nobody's fault, really..." She goes on while Scotty finds a hole in a pocket he's searching. Scotty grabs the phone to repeat that "it" isn't his fault. Alex keeps asking to learn what isn't anyone's fault, and what is wrong, but they ignore him and keep blabbering about "please tell Scotty that you know it isn't his fault," etc. and as far as I saw never did let Alex know what was wrong.

I could see the young couple not speaking coherently if something big had happened--like a serious accident or the car fell into the lake while parked near it--but the panicky way they couldn't even report that they had lost the key just didn't make sense. I've seen lots of shows where Lucy Ricardo or Ann Marie or someone got real excited about something big and rambled on without revealing the important fact, but this simple lost key just doesn't qualify.

If they never do find it--remember Mary was phoning earlier than needed--she phones home or rings the bell and one of the three people inside the house that night answers the door and lets her in. Or, they leave the back door unlocked for her, like many families in small towns routinely did, even decades after this show went off the air. Mary's panicked way of being so excited about losing a key that would probably have taken about 49¢ to replace at the local hardware store just made no sense.

I was so annoyed by that stupid scene I switched off. To me, this is a rare episode that is too dumb to watch and enjoy.

What say you?