Two weeks back, Run practically forced Russy and Diggy to have friends come stay over, dubbing it “Camp Rev.” But this episode it’s Run’s turn to have a sleepover! Kid Rock is coming to town, y’all. I haven’t seen the Reverend this excited since he was planning Diggy’s wedding with Ja Rule. He even gets a little possessive, telling Justine Rock is HIS friend. But when Uncle Rock shows up (even brings his hat box), he seems to do the most bonding with Russy. This includes a trip to Sam Ash, where “Uncle Rock” buys the 11-year-old a $3,000 guitar. “Lucky you got a rich uncle,” he tells him, and for a second I thought he meant Russell.
But the best trip of Episode 8 comes when they go out to eat, and nothing spells good family fun like the Hooters in Hackensack, New Jersey. Kid Rock suggests to the Simmons they have a “fresh tee-shirt contest,” but no one else really participates, and I’m pretty sure it was just an excuse for him to finally wear his “I Heart Black People” shirt anyway. The “contest” pays off for Russy, though, who gets showered with compliments from the Hooters girls for wearing a shiny hand-me-down from Rock.
Vanessa and Angela aren’t around because they’ve been asked to meet with the anti-Hooters girls: The Girl Scouts of America. Impressed with their entrepreneurial skills (aren’t we all?), the Girl Scouts ask the sisters to come in and offer the girls some mentoring. They happily oblige, and the young girls they meet have lofty goals. One even plans to sell A MILLION boxes of Girl Scout cookies. I say she asks rich Uncle Rock.
Run and Rock do finally get a little time alone toward the end of the episode, talking about the joys of fatherhood. But it’s time for Rock to jet, and in a moment of television history no one could have predicted, they tell each other “I love you.” But the sentimentality is short-lived, as Rock stickers Run’s car before he goes. Now Run wants revenge. So watch your back, Kid Rock. Run, I suggest you hit ‘em where it hurts: Go after the hat box.
Like they say, if you don’t know you better ask somebody, and a few of you have left comments asking what song it was Run was playing by the pool at the end of the Camp Rev episode. It was Kurtis Blow’s classic track “The Breaks.” Bump it proudly…
