Any Moment
| "Any Moment" | |
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| Desperate Housewives episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 8 Episode 18 |
| Directed by | Randall Zisk |
| Written by | Sheila Lawrence |
| Production code | 818 |
| Original air date | March 25, 2012 |
| Recurring/Guest appearances | |
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"Any Moment" is the 175th episode of the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives. It is the eighteenth episode of the show's eighth season and was broadcast on March 25, 2012.
Julie is concerned about M.J. taking advantage of Susan when he begins to do whatever he wants by eating ice cream for breakfast and playing video games during the middle of the night. Julie tries to tell Susan that he can't keep acting up, but Susan is reluctant to discipline him because of what he must be going through now that Mike's dead. When M.J. assaults his teacher Susan realizes that she must show M.J. different ways to deal with his pain. The two of them decide to smash jam jars against the wall as a way to get their anger out. After smashing a few jars, M.J. and Susan both begin to cry and comfort one another.
Carlos is impressed when Gabrielle tells him that she wants to get a job and work her way up in business so that the family can afford to keep up their lifestyle. Gabrielle's later disheartened when she discovers that she has no chance of finding a decent job due to her previous work which causes her to go and spend lots of money at one of her favorite stores. Gabrielle is unaware that she impresses customers and store workers with her sense of what to buy and how to match clothes. She later returns to the same store, after Carlos forces her to return everything, only to be offered a job as personal shopper, she accepts the job and begins immediately.
After deciding that she needs to win Tom back and save her marriage, Lynette recruits Penny to help her. The pair pretend to fall out over Lynette not wanting to take Penny to a Taylor Swift concert which leads to Jane offering to take Penny herself. During the concert, Lynette pretends to be having a problem with the electricity in the house and calls Tom over to in an attempt to win him back and remind him of the good times during their marriage. The pair eventually begin to bond while looking back over photos of their past, but as they're seemingly about to kiss, Tom's shirt sets on fire. Lynette absent mindedly turns on the lights to check on Tom's burn which makes him realize that she staged the whole thing to try and seduce him. Lynette explains that she just wants to save her marriage, but Tom decides to leave. However, it appears that it may have worked as Tom lies to Jane about how he burned himself and he turns down an offer for sex, instead pretending that he has work to be getting on with.
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