'Mike & Molly,' Season 2, Ep. 8
Mike’s cooking dinner for the girls and it is meat on the table, a lot of meat, like the barn caught on fire and none of the animals got out. Mike serves the vegetables: pickles for the burgers, kraut for the brats, and fresh squeezed tomato from Heinz. And there are rib eye steaks, too. The girls are thinking heart attack (Joyce wants Victoria to make sure the EMTs don’t take off her blouse when they hit her with the paddles because she’s wearing an old bra) and Mike’s thinking dinnertime.
Into this little feast of flesh, comes Peggy Biggs bearing gifts – her seven layer cookies. She gives the recipe to Molly so she won’t have to take it out of her cold dead hands when she dies alone and lonely, and tells Molly that if she calls and no one picks up, she’s not screening; she’s probably dead. Later, when Mike is eating the cookies, Molly calls Peggy. She’s decided they should spend Sunday with Peggy. Mike doesn’t want to give up his Sunday, but Molly insists. She calls Peggy and gets roped into lunch alone with Peggy the next day. Mike says he’d have put his mom in a home a long time ago if it weren’t for her cookies.
Next day, lunch is at Molly’s school cafeteria where Peggy does her brightest and best to charm everyone with her people skills by antagonizing the lunch lady. When Molly and Peggy go to sit down, Rebecca, a blonde in pony tail who is the other contender for the vice principal’s job, tells Molly she and her friends have to discuss something or they’d ask her to sit down, a slight that is not lost on Peggy. Lunch is just as horrid as Molly thought it would be.
The next night Mike goes over to see his Mom bearing the empty cookie container. Jim, the dog, is eating out of a 50-pound dog food bag on the table and Peggy’s sleeping on the couch close to her two best friends, the TV and the bathroom. Mike is worried and tells her she needs to get out and get a job, do something other than lay on the couch. Jim needs walking, too, or he’ll be so fat his package will be dragging the ground.
Molly gets another surprise the following day at lunch. Peggy works behind the counter. She can’t get out of there fast enough and calls Mike, who is eating lunch at the diner with Carl (a bacon double cheeseburger) and lying about what he’s really eating. No, he’s not eating meat, that’s just on the weekends. Meanwhile, he covers the phone and has Carl order him a chocolate milk shake. He’s going to need it as Molly complains some more.
Back at the school, Peggy follows Molly up to her room bearing gifts: fresh made brownies, without the swirl of peanut butter she usually adds because kids today are thin-skinned sissies and might be allergic. Molly tells Peggy that they should keep things professional on school grounds and Peggy, ever the generous soul, tells Professor High Horse that Lola the Lunch Lady should stay on her own turf – where she hears all the gossip. Now Molly’s listening, especially when she finds out that Rebecca is sleeping with the principal, who is married, and might now be the front runner for the vice principal’s job. Molly stops Peggy at the door and they dish a little more about what’s going on in the school. Peggy tells Molly there are pictures of Rebecca and the principal in flagrante.
Molly drives Peggy home and they dish a little more about the blue-haired principal’s secretary who decides how the school budget is spent.. But before Peggy spills all the goods, she extracts a promise from Molly to come over for Sunday dinner with Mike while they discuss a church wedding. Molly balks, but only until she finds out there’s more juicy gossip going on at the school, like the principal’s secretary and her blackmail material – pictures of the principal doing what he ought not be doing.
At Peggy’s on Sunday, Molly’s curled up on the couch and Peggy’s holding forth about more school gossip. She segues into the church wedding at her church just as Mike walks in the door with Jim. Mike wants to know when Molly decided on a church wedding. She says when she accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior. Mike is flummoxed. Peggy is gleeful as she extracts a promise for dinner on Wednesday night, too. Molly thinks that’s going too far, but only until she finds out that pictures will be served with dinner. Mike bowls on Wednesday night, but after Molly finds out about the pictures, not any more.