"Children and Art"

seemed like a pretty good episode to me. finally found out what is wrong with the new neighbor, which was only a matter of time.

gabby dressed up as the old lady was pretty funny.

Good episode, but Julie's storyline has to be the worst of the season.

I thought Martha Huber went out of the series prematurely, but thankfully we have Ms. McClusky !!

Should we be getting a Norman Bates vibe between Orson and his mama?

And I guess the P on the "Protector's" shirt actually stands for PERVERT!

Pedophile Man!

Even better!!

It wasn't even the Purdue colors.

that was the first thing i thought too.

Yeah, this show is finally back on track with many threads coming and going at a good pace.

Marcia Cross is now holding all sort of objects in front of her belly to hide her real-life pregnancy. I wonder how they'll write around it. So what could Orson's mom have on Orson?

Art is a swim coach, but it was mucho creepy for him to have a wall of boy swimmers on his wall (the patented short-hand for psycho in TV/Film writing).

Did laugh at Susan's plan to have Julie's dad read her the riot act blow up in Susan's face.

Gabby must have been such a diva in her early 20's.

Lynette's look of horror at the end was a "real" feeling shot of dread and fear. Nothing's ever easy on Wisteria Lane.

her faces and emotions on the last two or three episodes have drawn me back to her character a little. she doesn't have that annoying feel anymore

I was pretty much ready to toss this show aside after last season, but I'm glad I stuck around!

Nowhere near as good as last weeks "Bang" episode. I hope the show doesn't continue to go downhill. At least a bad episode like that one still isn't as terrible as season 2.

I thought it was good.

Liked the Christmas music came on right after Orson's blow up about his mother

I didn't even recognize Dixie Carter when she first came showed up.

Well, the show has been great, but WAY too predictable. I've been annoying my wife by calling lines of dialog and plot points all season. As soon as I saw the toys, I said "child molester". Plus, where the hell is this sister of his, and how is she involved?

I agree with you Josh, I did the same thing. When I saw the train and it led to the play room downstairs I looked to my wife and said "I bet he's a registered sex offender" and sure enough they panned over to the wall of young boys all shirtless. It does get a little predictable at times, but it is funny. I'm just glad that real life is not like it is on Wisteria Lane. Although it would never be boring.

I thought it was a good episode.
Since the divorce is not final, is Carlos gone from the show?
Also, I thought Edie looked unusually good this episode.

How can you be a registered sex offender and work with children as a swimming instructor?

Who said he was registered?

Even more creepy is the fact that someone had to accumulate all those pictures for the episode.

Wiz said he suspected Art was a registered sex offender.

Are registered pedophiles separate from registered sex offenders with adults? Or are they all just "sex offenders"?

watching the scenes with Orson, did they ever discuss who he was visiting at the mental hospital when he first met Bree? (season 2)

That's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw that.

that would be a sucky job. they could probably just call the 60 minutes people that keep pictures from the pervs that keep showing up for those busts they have.

So... Art's a priest? (rimshot)

Anyway, if he's never been caught then yes, he can be a swim instructor. And why didn't Lynette do anything when she saw Art leading a young girl into the house? (though, per the wall, the girl has nothing to be afraid of).

I wondered why Lynette doesn't just call the cops? Isn't possession of child porn illegal in and of itself? It's not like she has to wait for him to make a move on a kid. But judging from the look on her face, I guess Lynette has some other devious plan in mind to get him.

Also, I bet she is struggling a little with rating him out right away since she was so thankful for him "saving her life".