My favorite part about watching this show is the way they end it each week. Sometimes they wrap it up sweetly in a way that makes you smile. While other times, like last week and tonight, we get a shocker that leaves us hanging until the next episode. Sure, we knew Mike would come out of his coma eventually, but I didn't think it would be tonight. How wonderful that they didn't do it the clichéd soap opera way where his eyes suddenly opened up while the camera was on him. Instead, we got a great Edie reaction shot of shock, followed by scenes with other characters (interspersed with the usual Brenda Strong closing narration) and then back to Edie's face looking over at Mike with his eyes wide open. Loved that! It was already hilarious for Edie to stop by the hospital to retrieve her CD player, grab a chocolate and take a peek under Mike's blanket to see if he still measured up: "Damn! That's with the coma!" While we're on the subject of my goddess Nicollette Sheridan, she had some of tonight's best lines. Once again proving she was robbed of an Emmy nomination two years in a row for best supporting actress in a comedy, she delivered the following as Edie to Julie, after Julie told her Susan brought Edie's CD player to the hospital for Mike: "This Florence Nightingale act is really chapping my ass!" This was followed immediately by this line to her nephew Austin: "Hey, science guy, I have an experiment for you. Go home, mix two ounces of gin, a splash of vermouth and see if it improves my mood when I drink it." The first line gave me déjà vu to my childhood when my mother (Joan Anderson) screamed from the front seat of the car to me and my two brothers as we were loudly arguing in the backseat: "You three better be quiet! You're aggravating my ass!!" Swear to God.

Tonight, we finally got to see Bree interact with both of her kids. First, Danielle with that bad perm (nice that she made that indirect reference to Matthew Applewhite). Then, at last, Andrew. How "perfectly Bree" of her to finally see her son, but to see him while on her honeymoon on the news being interviewed as a homeless teen. The honeymoon was over, for sure. Luckily, Orson didn't go ballistic and showed love and support by locating Andrew in his state of homelessness, giving him cash and taking him to lunch. Good to see Andrew come home at the end - the dysfunctional family is back together. But you know Orson's innocent act won't last long. Orson to Bree: "I don't want there to be any secrets between us," and to Andrew: "I know about rage. But when it goes away, you just live with the mess you make." I was very impressed that they addressed Bree's alcoholism and her ongoing frustration when Orson asked her why she was gardening. Better to tend to her azaleas than drink that entire bottle of Chardonnay in her fridge.

When John ( Jesse Metcalfe) just so happened to be at the resort that Gabrielle was at for her and Lynette's spa vacation weekend (that Lynette bailed on), I rolled my eyes. But I soon got over it (remember, Dave, this is just a TV show) because I had forgotten how much I liked seeing the two of them together. Hot. You knew Gaby was going to dig the new and improved version of John since he now owns his own gardening company: "Oooh... I like rich John!" (after he offered to buy a bottle of Dom). When John's fiancée, Tammy ( Michelle Pierce), showed up at the hotel her daddy owned, how on earth could they hide Gaby? Having her hide inside the suitcase was ingenious and hearing Gaby scream "That bitch!" from inside the suitcase after Tammy accepted John's sudden gift of Gaby's watch (followed by John kicking the suitcase) had me rewinding my TiVo. How to top that? Having Gaby come out of the suitcase in front of the couple on the elevator: "Don't laugh! I saved a bundle on airfare." This should be interesting since John claims he won't cheat once he gets married. Gaby: "Marriage is hard."

I enjoyed the Susan/Ian "weekend in the country" plot since they were taking "it" so slowly. It's fun to see a couple in the early stages go back and forth with the "how many people have you been with?" conversation. I'm usually the one who pulls a Susan and tries to make it look like I haven't been too much of a slut. Loved that she whittled 11 intimate lovers down to nine and said: "Nine lovers does not make me a slut!" Of course, just as Susan and Ian were getting comfortable, Mike came out of his coma. One ridiculous thing: Susan and Ian had the exact same suitcase. Yeah, right.

I was so glad that the weakest link story line of the show showed some promise, especially after Lynette suggested she might play a game called "Finding Fault with Nora" (a game lots of us play each week). Having Nora be the one to tell Lynette that Tom wanted to branch out of advertising proved she wasn't a complete irritant. When the characters compare their lives to each other's with sympathy, it's worthwhile, like Lynette saying to Gabrielle: "I hate my life" and Gaby replying with: "I know. I wouldn't trade with you for anything." She may take that statement back next week.

In conclusion, I leave you with these two random funny lines:

- Gaby (seeing the two rabbits closely together at the resort): "What is this, freakin' Noah's Ark?"
- The drag queen Pearly Gates explaining her name to Bree: "Because you can't get to heaven without going through me." Bree: "How very saucy." (source:tvguide.com)