| "From Bed to Worse" | |||
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Rallo sleeps with Donna and Cleveland so they wont have sex. |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 8 |
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| Directed by | Anthony Agrusa | ||
| Written by | Teri Schaffer, Raynelle Swilling | ||
| Production code | 1APS05 | ||
| Original air date | November 29, 2009 | ||
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From Bed to Worse is the eight episode of the first season of the animated American television series The Cleveland Show. The episode first aired on Fox on 29 November 2009.[1] In this episode, Cleveland and Rallo battle to become the man of the house.
This episode was written Teri Schaffer and Raynelle Swilling and was directed by Anthony Agrusa.
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Rallo becomes upset because Cleveland has taken over the house. While telling his friends about his troubles he decides it has to be either him or Cleveland. He plots to come between his mother and Cleveland, temporarily driving Cleveland from the bedroom. When Donna tries to reason with him, Rallo escalates the conflict by breaking his own leg, sending Donna on a one-way guilt trip. Cleveland tries to talk with him and discovers just how far Rallo would go. When Rallo discovers how much his mother misses Cleveland he agrees to a truce.
Meanwhile, Cleveland Jr. expresses concern about going on a school trip to Washington D.C.. Cleveland bribes Roberta to watch after him. She dumps him immediately after they leave. Chaperons Tim the bear and Arianna have their own problems deciding their lives have fallen into a rut and spend a wild night riding around the town on a scooter. Cleveland Jr. embarrasses Roberta and the kids plan their own night out. When Oliver Wilkerson bring back a beaten-up Federline, Cleveland Jr. become really concerned for Roberta and goes searching for her with Ernie. He finds her in a club where she is being pressured to show her breasts. Cleveland Jr. distracts the photographers by showing his 'moobs' until he reveals he is a boy making them ill so they can escape (one of the boys becomes so disgusted and schocked by the revelation of Junior's true gender that his face literally melted away in horror).
The A.V. Club graded the episode a B-, stating "I doubt The Cleveland Show has the sheer insanity at its center to ever be as good as American Dad, nor does it have the pop cultural strand in its DNA that might make it as big of a mainstream hit as Family Guy, but it's good to see the show is carving out that identity".[2]
IGN rated this episode 6.9 Passable and said "Cleveland and Rallo are a good pairing. The two don't exactly see eye to eye, and their conflict leads to some pretty entertaining exchanges. It's definitely nowhere nearly as entertaining as watching Stewie and Brian together, but it's one of the few pairings on the show that seems to work somewhat consistently. It's interesting to see what lengths Rallo is willing to go to just to make sure he gets to sleep in his mother's bed. Add to this the fact that he's probably only doing this out of spite because Cleveland ate all the fish sticks and doesn't fast forward through the commercials for a show that's on the DVR. The exchange between Cleveland and Rallo on the merits of watching commercials instead of fast forwarding through them was one of their better exchanges. Also entertaining was to see Cleveland talk through the entire process in getting his name on the mortgage."[3]
| Preceded by A Brown Thanksgiving |
The Cleveland Show (season 1) | Succeeded by A Cleveland Brown Christmas |