Main cast: Deborah Van Valkenburgh (Deborah Levitt), Priscilla Shanks (Laura D’Angelo), Jeff Ware (Brad Levitt), “Little Mike” Anderson (The Household God), and Lynn Frazen-Cohen (Edna)
Director: Michael Warren Powell

Oh boy, I try to keep an open mind, I really do. This episode may be okay if it came out in the 1960s, as one can wave it off by saying this episode is a product of its time, but 1990 isn’t that long ago and… yikes.

Basically, Household Gods sees Mike Anderson in chalky white powder playing a gnome-like “household god” that terrorizes career woman Deborah Levitt from the first day of her maternity leave.

The whole episode culminates with a browbeaten and defeated Deborah cleaning a filthy toilet bowl, and it ends with her happily embracing domesticity—represented by joining a knitting circle—and letting her now smug and satisfied husband Brad, who is in cahoot with the household god all this while, the sole breadwinner of the family.

I probably shouldn’t be shocked that the script was written by a woman, but I am surprised that the people behind this show actually thought this episode is a great idea.

On the bright side, the acting is pretty solid, especially from Deborah Van Valkenburgh and “Little Mike” Anderson. They have a pretty fun Tom and Jerry-like thing going on, and some of their scenes are genuinely funny.

All that is ruined by how, in the end, this episode lets the odious Brad and his nasty mother have the win. The fact that this one could have been a fun episode, were not for the take home message, is just a bonus stab into the brain.

Seriously, what are these people thinking? If they want to push this anti-feminist message, they could have at least made the chauvinist be tad less repulsive!

Anyway, there are many episodes of Monsters out there, so unless one wants watch a MGTOW-esque episode, there’s no reason to watch this one. Skip it, and better yet, let’s pretend that it doesn’t exist.