This weeks episode titled "Operation Save Patty!" was an episode I've been looking forward to since February. Six months ago, while this episode was being filmed, was the first time I met Rob Dyrdek. I decided to take a chance and drive 5.5 hours hoping I would see him somewhere. If you don't remember my story or never got a chance to read it, here is the link.
http://shygirl364.blogspot.com/2010/03/met-rob-dyrdek.html
"Operation Save Patty" was a great episode. I already knew it was going to be hilarious because every episode that features the Dyrdek Family is just so funny. Rob tends to revert back to his 16 year old self whenever he is around his parents and it is so much fun to watch. This episode was based on Rob's idea to go back home and help out his mom Pat, who had just shattered her ankle. Rob wanted to do everything he could to make things easier for her. He decided to get Drama, fly back home to Kettering, OH, and begin Operation Save Patty.
The show opens with Drama on what looks like a snakeboard. I honestly don't know what it is. I tried to google it and I got a lot of different names. It's either called a Snakeboard or a RipStik. It's not a regular skateboard, it looks like the wheels are in a row rather than next to each other. Drama is skating around on it and Rob tells him to drop in on the bank ramp. Drama is hesitant because he is sure he will fall. Drama does it and he does fine until he hits a tiny ramp on the Wildgrinders setup. The board stops moving and Drama doesn't. He ends up skidding across the factory floor, all the way to one of the red rails! Drama took a pretty good slam. I think I mentioned it last week, it was shown in the beginning of the sketchiest moments episode. Rob and Big Cat start cracking up and Rob says to Drama "The new brave Drama is so much better."
The opening credits roll and when we get back, Rob and Drama are sitting in Rob's office. Rob is telling Drama about how he got a call from his sister and she said his mom shattered her ankle while going down the stairs. Rob said that she will be bedridden for two months, and he wants to go out there and help her. He calls his mom up and puts her on speakerphone. They talk for a little bit and Pat tells Rob that when he called the previous week and left a message of himself singing to her, it did not make her feel better and she wanted to tell Rob to shut up! She also told Rob he is not funny. That was all Rob needed to hear, his new mission was to go out to Ohio and not only help his mom feel better, he also needed to prove to her that he IS funny.
Rob gets off the phone and Drama asks Rob if he is sure he needs him to come with. Rob starts a speech in a drill sargent kind of voice about how this is bigger than just going out to Ohio to be there for his mom. "...She can't get to the toilet! She can't watch DVDs! This is BIGGER than ME AND YOU! This is an OPERATION! We need to JOIN TOGETHER in OPERATION SAVE PATTY and MAKE. THIS. HAPPEN!"
Rob asks Drama if he is with him and Drama says he is in, as long as Rob stops screaming. Then Rob asks Drama if he thinks he is funny. Drama responds yeah, he just doesn't think Rob has "mom humor."
Rob brings Drama out into the factory and says watch this, this is action funny. He gets on top of one of those things construction workers use to get high up and he extends it to the top. He brings it over to Jeremy's window and when he gets there he rolls down past his window with his bare ass up against the glass. You could actually hear the squeaking from Rob's ass rubbing against the glass. It was HILARIOUS! Jeremy got so mad and Rob says "That is funny." Jeremy tells Rob that's not funny, that's disgusting. Rob tells Jeremy he is going out to Ohio to help his mom and then the camera switches to the Dayton, OH Airport. When Rob and Drama get there, they have a white handicap accessible van waiting for them and Rob pulls out two purple hoodies with the Operation Save Patty logo on them. Rob wraps a purple blanket around his head and Drama says he looks like a "Barney Terrorist," and he is going to scare his mom. Rob says he will be sending out positivity through purple.
They load up the van with their stuff and drive over to "MedMart," a store that specializes in medical equipment. Rob and Drama grab some knee walkers and start doing manuals with them. Rob says it could be a sport. He picks up a couple of jazzies, a portable toilet chair and a knee walker. Drama makes a funny comment about how it is ironic that they don't have automatic doors at a store that sells medical stuff.
They pile everything into the car and head over to the Dyrdek's house. Gene meets them outside and they bring everything in. Rob and Drama attempt to lift one of the jazzies up the stairs and they drop it. Gene says to be careful, "This might turn into Operation save Drama and save Rob," haha.
Rob drives the jazzy into his parents bedroom and Pat is laying in bed. Rob gives her a hug and tells her he got her a bunch of new equipment to help her. The jazzy wasn't working too well because there was no room upstairs to move around in it. The knee walker didn't work because it hurt when Pat tried to use it. Rob was getting frustrated because Operation Save Patty was failing. He told his mom he had one more thing that he thought she would be excited about. He brought in the portable toilet and she wasn't too amused. Rob started listing off new things he can get to make this operation a success and he said "What if I get Operation Save Patty tattooed across my chest?" Gene replied, "Then it would be exactly like all this stuff. A mistake." Gene is pretty quick witted, he has some pretty funny quotes if you go through all the episodes that Rob's family is in.
Denise, Rob's sister stops by and Rob gives her a hug. He tells her he wanted to make sure the portable toilet went to her, since Pat won't be using it. Rob and his family sit down for dinner and Gene makes a toast about Operation Save Patty being more successful tomorrow.
The next scene is Operation Save Patty: Day 2, and Rob and Drama are driving through Kettering. Rob says it's funny to him that his mom really doesn't think he is funny. They spot a comedy house, which is odd because Kettering really isn't a big city at all. When I was there they basically had one large outdoor mall where they had pretty much everything you needed. It looks like "The Funny Bone," the comedy house they spotted, is in that mall. Rob said he was going to do a comedy show to prove how funny he is to Pat.
They pull up to the house and Rob gives his mom a standard wheelchair, the one thing she really wanted. Rob says since day one was a failure, he hired a bunch of people to help make day two successful. Rob's mom says she feels like she is on Extreme Home Makeover and Rob says he is Ty Pennington, haha. Rob gets out of the way and lets everyone start working.
The camera cuts to Rob, Drama, Pat and Gene all sitting down in what looks like a family room or the basement. Rob says "Mom, Chris thinks I am super funny, what do you think?" Pat says "I don't think so." The workers are busy installing the chair lift on the stairs and they are using a drill. Rob gets up and every time the drill goes off he makes it look like he is farting. This scene was SO funny! My whole family was cracking up. Rob's facial expressions and body movements were so in sync with the drilling, he really pulled it off perfectly. It's extra funny because if you watched the episode last season where Rob goes to Myrtle Beach with his family, you know that Pat despises anything that has to do with "tooting," haha. Rob bought a fart machine just to mess with her and she took it away. I was laughing so hard during this scene, I could barely concentrate on what Rob was saying. Pat actually did start laughing a little bit but she said it's not funny, it was disgusting. Rob said he wanted to go check out the skate plaza while the workers were busy installing everything.
The Rob Dyrdek Skate Plaza is the first place my sister and I went when we arrived in Kettering that morning. I've never been there before so I wanted to get out and actually walk the plaza to see what it was like. We walked up to the plaza and literally almost fell 50 times. I am honestly surprised I didn't. That plaza was SO ICY. It's made up of ramps, rails, stairs and ledges and it is not fun at all trying to walk up icy ramps and stairs. When I got there it looked like someone set it up for snowboarding. The snow was smoothed down over the stairs and it led to a barrel as a gap. It was pretty steep. I was excited to see this episode and see how Rob and Drama did when they skated on it. They did pretty well, they took a few slams but for the most part it looked like they had a lot of fun!
They headed back to see if the workers were finished installing all of the new equipment. When they pulled up to the house Rob noted how his dad dug the snow off of a duck statue that was sitting on their lawn, so its head wasn't covered. I thought that was pretty funny. Rob went inside and showed his mom the new chair lift. Once they got upstairs he showed her the new bed that elevates and the 32 inch plasma TV he bought her. Rob said he also got a cherry on top - the 20th anniversary collection of The Oprah Show. Over 900 hours of Oprah, haha. They deemed Operation Save Patty day 2 a success and Rob told his mom that he wanted to bring her out tonight because he was going to do a special stand up comedy show to show her how funny he really is.
As they pulled up to The Funny Bone, Rob was getting nervous. They all go inside and Rob heads back stage. He asks the other comedians there if they have any advice. They told Rob just to relax and he should be fine. The MC went on and hyped the crowd up for Rob. Rob went on stage and he did good! The crowd was laughing before he even made a joke! Rob joked about how he grew up with a O.D.D.P - Open Door Dumping Policy. It is exactly what it sounds like, haha. I don't want to give the jokes away by writing the whole thing, you just need to watch Rob perform on stage. Rob closes with another hilarious joke and at the end Patty finally admits that Rob was funny.
The next morning Rob takes the chair lift downstairs and says his goodbyes to his family. Patty started crying, she cries every time they say goodbye. It's funny because Patty's crying always starts a chain reaction when I watch with my mom, and she starts crying. I guess she knows the feeling, haha.
Rob and Drama talk about how Operation Save Patty was a success but they are ready to get back to California. They drive away and the end credits start rolling.
I loved this episode, I thought it had tons of funny moments! Like I said before, it's always funny to watch how Rob interacts with his family. Next week Rob and Jeremy have a competition to see who is really happier and they get in to all sorts of crazy fun! Also, we finally get introduced to Mini Pig!
Thanks for sharing, it was interesting to read!
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