Secret Life: Moving In and Out Recap
Ricky continues to mystify us and be a strange dude. He gets on Ben and his mom, Nora, and tries to act like he knows what choices they should make, but when all is said is done, he’s more mixed up than anyone else. In “Moving In and Out” (May 2nd) Ricky is hoping that someone, anyone, will get him out of his agreement to let Amy move in. Not quite ready for those Big Boy pants, eh?
While Amy is getting ready to make that move, Ashley is furious to be abandoned by the sister who made a pact to get through their parents’ break up together. Amy’s dad, George Juergens, just can’t accept his little girl living in sin.
Amy wants George to just give them his blessing but George can’t. He doesn’t want to see his little girl get hurt. He thinks Ricky will be getting the best of the bargain: the proverbial cow with the free milk and will still cheat on Amy. Ashley’s already got ideas on how to make that happen, or at least let Amy find out it happened more than she knows, and tries to enlist Griffin to bring over someone Ricky already has had a fling with so Amy can find out. Griffin is not going to let Ashley play him like that.
Ricky’s scene with Ben’s dad, Leo, was a lot more comical. Leo has no objections to the shack-up and Ricky tries to think up ones for him. “What would your grandparents think?” Leo’s parents and grandparents were very tolerant and did not judge people, much to Ricky’s disappointment. But Leo is really there to talk about college. Ricky thinks it’s too late to use college as an excuse to get out of letting Amy move in.
Ben is shocked when he wants Alice and Henry to go baby shopping with him and his future bride and they don’t want to go. “C’mon, you guys are my best friends,” Ben says. But Alice and Henry inform him that Adrian is his new best friend. Ben says no, they will always be his best friends and Adrian is just …. “the mother of your baby and your soon-to-be wife,” Henry finishes. Oh, why did they let Henry finish that sentence and not let Adrian walk in and say “Adrian Is just … WHAT?”
Amy and Adrian continue their somewhat challenging friendship when Adrian can’t pass up the opportunity to bait Amy over her lack of sexual experience, as always, throwing her biblical knowledge of Ricky in Amy’s face. Amy gets her licks in with how much work it is taking care of a new-born although it’s not as bad as the pain of childbirth. Adrian concedes that Amy knows more about babies and she knows more about sex, and smiles: “We’re both winners here. You’re moving in with Ricky to an apartment over the butcher shop. And I’m marrying Ben, whose family owns the butcher shop.”
But it does have its impact on poor Amy, who begins to have reservations about not being as good as Adrian in bed. She tells Lauren and Madison: “What if we’re not sexually compatible? What if I move in and we don’t click?”
Madison thinks that’s ridiculous and says she and Jack are much more comfortable with each other than he ever was with Grace. Lauren snickers that she’s heard those church people make wild lovers. The next time we see Madison, she’s trying to drag Jack off to church!
It gets under Adrian’s skin too who sets out to prove to herself, more than Ben, that she’s “still got it.”
In a conversation with Ben, Ricky makes the Freudian slip of all Freudian slips: He say he wants Adrian to move in with him. Ben tells him what he just said but Ricky denies it. OMG! Can you imagine if he and Amy do have sex and Ricky calls her Adrian? But check out what really happens to Amy …
All Amy’s doubts and worries get resolved when she overhears Ashley and Griffin’s conversation: “Do you want Amy to find out Ricky slept with Hayley?” Grants says as Amy walks in and says: “Who’s Hayley?”
She confronts Ricky with the news that they are just not ready for this step and she knows he has not been completely honest with her. The relief makes Ricky horny and he tries to get Amy to stay and play. He says he loves her, and you can see how badly she wanted to hear that. She wavers … but ultimately, Amy just does not trust Ricky and neither do we. Was this a sudden discovery of his true love for Amy, or just the line he thought would get him what he wanted right then. Was that confused look on his face as Amy leaves really saying “I love her and I didn’t know how much til right now” or “Why didn’t that work?”
Did we leave out Grace? We’d like to. Grace doesn’t want to discuss her love life with brother Tom, but she has no such reservations about sharing the joys of sex with her mother. Her mom warns her that she can’t have a relationship just based on sex, because the second time may not be as good as the first. Grace says the second time was even better and promises to tell mom all about the third, fourth and fifth time. Maybe this was supposed to be cute or even funny but it came off very creepy and UBER ICKY!