NASCAR and the Amish is one hell of a mix for an episode. NASCAR driver of the Penske Ford Fusion No.2, Brad Keselowski, plays himself on the show this week.
Ok Cha walks into the bar in a huff, with Keselowski who is profusely apologizing, trailing her. She informs everyone at the bar that he rear ended her, but everyone at the bar is so enthralled by seeing the champion NASCAR driver that they tell her he is a great driver and it is her fault.
Keselowski refutes their compliments, saying that he’s actually a horrible driver and this is the eighth accident this year alone. He asks if they could just settle it the easy way, wish cash. Agreeing, Ok Cha and Brad Keselowski head off to the bank, but not before Keselowski asks Ok Cha for some parallel parking tips.
When Ok Cha returns to the bar, Susan gets another package. But when Ok Cha sees what Susan bought she says that Susan is crazy for buying such a thing like toothpaste off the internet. Susan buys everything off the internet because it is cheaper; the only problem is that you need a credit care. Ok Cha turns her nose up at credit cards, saying they are for idiot Americans.
Then, in walks a young, Amish girl named Ruth (Whitney Hoy). Ruth asks Steve if she is at “the Sullivan and Son Bar, a place of sin and lager.” Quite obviously, it is her first time in a bar. Ruth tells Steve, and Owen’s eaves dropping ears, that she is in town for a rumspringa.
A rumspringais the Amish tradition of testing one’s faith by going out into the modern world. Everyone at the bar contemplates the idea of a rumspringaand Carol remembers fond memories of her rumspringa; it started in 1978 “and [she’s] still on it!”
When Carol introduces herself, Ruth recognizes her from stories of her father’s rumspringa. Her father told Ruth to find Carol because Carol was so great helping him through his rumspringa that she might be willing to help her. Excited, Carol takes Ruth under her wing. They start by going through Ruth’s list.
Even Roy likes the idea of a rumspringa so much he decides to go on a “Royspringa.” A royspringa consists of eating the largest, veggie-less pizza you can buy, watching and downloading whatever you want, and not calling your wife back right away.
Carol looks around the bar and finds a photo of Ruth’s father on his rumspringa 30 years-ago. In the photo you can see a young Carol, a young Hank, and Ruth’s father motor-boating Carol. She says to Ruth and Owen that the photo was taken just nine months before Owen was born. This leads to the conclusion that Ruth’s father is also Owen’s father. Owen immediately becomes over-protective of Ruth, never having a younger sister.
Susan, in an attempt to persuade her mother to change her mind on online shopping and credit cards, gets her mother a credit card and introduces her to the online world of bargain shopping. Seeing how cheap that everything is, Ok Cha is hooked right away.
As Owen is busy ruining Ruth’s rumspringa, Ruth sees how sweet Steve is as a friend to Owen and offer him her little, wooden bird. In the Amish culture, when a woman gives a man her little, wooden bird, it means that she wants him to dance in her magic garden. Meaning Steve is Ruth’s first choice for a sex partner. Eventually, Owen interferes too much and Ruth puts her foot down.
Ok Cha has become so addicted to online shopping that she’s begun buying things she does not need, a Labradoodle for instance. Finding her surrounded by packages and packages of things she bought online, Jack and Susan cut her off and cut her credit card in half.
Against her wishes Ok Cha has to now dip into her savings to pay off the debt. So, Ok Cha tells Susan where she keeps her savings; she wears it and keeps a plaster piece of gold in a safe as a decoy. Ok Cha and Susan connect on a deeper level.
Roy is now in deep trouble with his wife for having not called right away when she called him and for going on his roysprina. Although he attempts to pass it off to Hank and everyone else at the bar as doing some good for his marriage, before he rushes home.
Unknowingly to everyone else, Owen sent word to Ruth’s father, Jedadiah, resulting in him rushing over to the Sullivan and Son bar. At first Ruth is upset with Owen, but when Jedadiah asks why Owen kept calling him dad, the truth came out.
Jedadiah never went on a rumspringa, he was too scared. But his brother Jebadiah did. Owen apologizes to Ruth as Carol remembers that it is indeed Jebadiah not Jedadiah who she met so long ago. Since Jedadiah never went on a rumspringa, Carol persuades him to stay.