When a friend is going through a rough patch, you tend to be there for them even if they don't think anything is wrong.
This week's episode puts Emma and Maggie in a situation when Mark enters Silver Linings Playbook mode by wearing a garbage bag while exercising in front of their house. This is due to his divorce after last week's incident.
When they invite Mark into their house, he pretends he isn't too busy.
It's like what Emma quoted from Steve Harvey: "When you don't fix your problems, you'll spend time fixing other people's problems." And that's what Mark has been doing from the sink to the roof from which he fell and sprained his ankle.
Mark has been one of the funniest characters in this series. Maggie tells him that he needs to rest and ice his ankle, but Mark thinks he needs to go to the ER, but tIts out the doctor tells him the same thing.
In the meantime, Maggie runs into an old friend from nursing school and gets her thinking of going back to finishing nursing classes. After being named employee of the month at Rosie's, she quits her job and tells Emma she wants to be a nurse.
Emma is all for Maggie to be a nurse because she knows that Maggie has always helped people for a long time.
One of the best scenes in this episode came when Emma and Mark got hooked on playing a video game, and it seemed like their relationship wasn't over even when she was putting her shark toes on him (shark toe is sharp nails).
In the end, Mark seemed to be fine since he went home the following day. But soon after that's all over with, Tina is outside of their house doing the same thing that Mark did the other day, except not wearing a trash bag.
This episode had many hilarious moments, from Mark doing his exercises to telling Emma she shouldn't speak in a Steve Harvey voice. Hell, I couldn't get enough of Maggie talking to her boss that she quitting.
Also, Mark and Emma playing a video game was the LOL moment of the episode.
Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.
You can catch Playing House on Tuesday nights at 10/9c on USA, and you can see next week's episode On Demand.
