TV Recap: ‘Meet the Browns,’ “Meet the Disorderly” and “Meet the Mom”

Brianna’s teenage defiance continues in “Meet the Disorderly” and brings the most trouble she has had yet — putting her friend in the hospital and almost landing her back in foster care.

Of lesser consequence, Mr. Brown fires handyman Jesus as he tries to save money in lieu of tenants London, Colonel and Ms. Edna all moving out recently. By the end of the episode, Jesus reveals he passed the bar exam and already has a new job as a public defender. But the less Jesus, the better. His role in the show has never developed much anyway.

The real meat of the episode came as two fraternity friends of Will’s talk about a frat party they’re going to have when Brianna and her friend Simone are in the room. Naturally, the two girls want to go, but Will wisely denies the request.

“Frat parties are wild and out of control,” he said. “You never know what can happen.”

Later, Will leaves the girls at home as he goes in to work at the hospital for a little. As soon as he gets out the door, Brianna and Simone take off their pajama robes to reveal their party dresses and make haste to the frat house.

One of Will’s frat-boy friends brings Brianna home and is mad about her being at the party — especially since Will had said she couldn’t. After he leaves, Brianna is about to go in the back door when Simone stumbles out of the garage crying.

Her face bruised and her dress torn, she relays the story of how one of the frat boys beat her after she refused to have sex with him. She then starts repeatedly saying, “I need to call my mom,” while crying. But Brianna is more concerned about their parents finding out they went to the frat party at all and so convinces Simone that they can’t tell anyone about what happened.

Eventually, Brianna takes Simone to the hospital. There, Will and Sasha lecture Brianna for her lack of remorse for the situation she helped cause by her insistence of going to the frat party.

“Bad thing happen. You just gotta brush it off and keep moving,” Brianna callously defends her point of view.

But Will and Sasha say Brianna has finally gone too far and threaten to send her back to foster care. In fact, the social worker is standing right there, and an upset Will tells her they are done with her. Nearly crying and dreadful of returning to child services, Brianna finally apologizes and begs to stay with Will and Sasha, who grudgingly accept the apology.

As you could guess, Will and Sasha set the whole thing up to get through to Brianna. They hope this is a turning point in Brianna’s attitude. Let’s hope so too, because up until now, Brianna has been nothing but an ungrateful teenage diva causing family strife.

“Meet the Mom”

Will has a cold and tells Mr. Brown his head feels like a beach ball, and Mr. Brown says it looks like one, too. Miss Daisy comes in and says, “Gesundheit!” as Will sneezes.

“Don’t be cussin’ in here. This is a Christian home!” Mr. Brown rebukes her.

“I was just blessing Will,” she explains.

“Why don’t you bless both of us and leave?” Mr. Brown says.

So Miss Daisy leaves for Colonel and Ms. Edna’s house across the street. And in comes Will’s boisterous mom Vera to help take care of Will. Thus begins an episode-long competition between Sasha and Vera to gain Will’s love.

Vera pesters Sasha about when she is going to give her a grandchild. Sasha says they have Joaquin and Brianna whom they’re adopting, but Vera says, “Those aren’t your kids. You’re just leasing to buy them.”

Colonel and Ms. Edna come in about dinner time, and they say that Miss Daisy never showed up at their place. Everyone begins to worry and search for her.

Meanwhile, Will realizes what Sasha and Vera are doing, trying to outdo each other in their care for him. He yells at them to respect each other, and they have a heart-to-heart later. Vera admits she just wants Sasha to be a better mom than she was for Will.

Miss Daisy finally shows up late at night at Brown Meadows and says she had forgotten where she lived.

“What is happening to me?” she asks, frightened that she couldn’t remember.

Then everyone gathers around her to comfort her, and she weeps with appreciation.

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