haha! good one. Little did Tony and Carm realize that Meadow and her friends knew how much power they had over their parents. One of her friends made the comment later in the episode that all she had to do was threaten to not eat....

I remember when Meadow's idea for her "punishment" was to have her credit card taken away for 3 weeks....then she walked out of the kitchen with an evil grin.

Meadow knew how to manipulate her parents - A.J., however, was dumber than a bag of hammers.