Everyone is manipulating, guilt-tripping, accidentally physically abusing, or otherwise hurting everyone else this week.

First up, we have Bree, who meets Andrew's soon-to-be mother-in-law, Melina (played by Joanna Cassidy, so NOT maternal on Six Feet Under). It's hate at first site with these two, and unfortunately for their sons, they're both manipulative and sort of horrible. They fight over the holidays, and then they end up in a competition about whether the boys will live on Wisteria Lane or in Oakdale (five hours away, where beer can smashing Melina lives). Melina finds Alex a job as a doctor in Oakdale, but Bree one-ups her by buying them the Adams house down the street as an early wedding gift. Um, best wedding gift ever. Not that it makes up for Bree's insanity ... okay, it sort of does.

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