Matt and Landry arrive at school. Matt's yelling into his phone about getting Grandma some in-home care, but he keeps getting put on hold. Geriatric beauty queens have it so rough these days. Julie pops up and Matt tries to talk to her like a normal human being but fails miserably. Julie obviously doesn't want to talk and tells him to call her later if he wants to hang out tonight. Matt continues to sputter as she walks away. So glad to see he's grown in the past eight months. Dude, put a sentence together! It's not hard!
Lyla's with her prayer circle in the cafeteria reciting a seriously Christ-heavy prayer, coming to the line "Christ above me, Christ beneath me" just as she spots Tim making out with some saucy wench. She becomes Unnerved. And who wouldn't? Tim Riggins playing tonsil tennis against a backdrop of Christian worship is enough to set anyone's loins aflame!
"Christ in my chin donut, Christ in my windshield wiper fluid..."
Football practice. Poor Smash gets even less time this week. Blink and you'll miss him. Tim is mouthing off to Asshat yet again, so Asshat makes him do some more laps or whatever. Jason responds, yet again, by silently putting on his Jack Bauer Aviator Glasses of Badassness and looking sullen. Maybe he thinks those things make him invisible.
"Where the hell did Street go?"
Landry, who has made the team, is getting creamed out there on the field, while someone in the crowd looks on - wait, could that be...? HOLY CRAP IT'S AGENT AARON PIERCE FROM 24!! He's Landry's DAD!! I freak out for a full, FULL five minutes. Aaron is one of my all-time favorite 24 characters and the fact that the best of both worlds is colliding right here on the Dillon field is just too much for me or any mere mortal to handle. Landry is pretty down on himself but Daddy Pierce says he's proud of him. Aww!
"Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go deliver some fruit to my bat-shit insane First Lady girlfriend."
Jason is over at the doctor's office, where he is proudly demonstrating to Doctor Killjoy that he can now make a fist. The guy lets him celebrate for approximately two seconds before informing him that it doesn't mean a damn thing and he'll still never walk again. Thanks, doc! He heads back into the waiting room, where he is met by none other than Mark Zupan, of Murderball fame. The celebs just keep on coming! For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, Mark Zupan is the captain of the US Quad Rugby Team, and the real person on whom last season's Herc was so obviously based. (PS - I caught a glimpse of Herc on Bionic Woman so hopefully Captain Obnoxious be gone for good.) He greets Jason as if they are somehow old friends and informs him that some guy is doing some promising stem cell research somewhere in Mexico. And with a ringing endorsement like that, how could you lose?!
Grandma Lorraine is yelling at no one in particular, and when Matt finally arrives to tell her to turn down the crazy, a woman appears in the kitchen. It's Carlotta, the "in-home nurse that you demanded." Haha. Saucy. She tries to turn off the television and throw out Grandma's tapioca pudding and things just dissolve down into chaos. She asks Matt where she's supposed to sleep, and the stuttering begins anew.
Coach is with Antoine on the way to the hearing. He turns off the rap that the kid is blasting (what, no J Timbo?) and asks him what he's going to say to the board. Antoine, the little cherub, replies, "I'm sorry I took those tickets to Justin Timberlake. Specially when don't have no CrisTAL in the box! Can you believe that? I don't drink no cheap stuff, Coach!" Charming. He goes on to tell Coach that he's not sorry, and to verify this, he yells it out the window.
Coach tells him to shut up and answers a phone call from Tami. She's taking Grace on a walk and shoves the phone into her baby's face so she can say hi to Daddy. Daddy growls a ridiculously adorable hello, then asks to speak to Mom again. Tami says something so fast it's incomprehensible, then hangs up. Antoine, in perhaps the only intelligent remark of his life, asks why Coach is here in the car with him when he has a new baby.
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Comments (10)
I never got a chance to comment on the season premiere, so let me say now, Screampillr, so glad you're back to recap season 2 (didn't you lose an "a" from your name? Can we buy you a vowel?)
I also was a little concerned about the murder plot, but I can also see how teenagers can operate with blinders on and not see future consequences of their actions. After seeing this episode, I'm feeling ok that the plot line will play itself out in character with the tone of the rest of the show.
I'll second your thoughts on Julie's character: she's impulsive and self-absorbed and it ain't pretty to watch most of the time, but it's a fair portrayal of what many of us were like at that age.
Anyone else think the hot Latina nurse is going to make a man of our boy Matt?
1 of 10 | Posted by JasonR | Posted on October 16, 2007 8:01 AM
Awesome show, and equally awesome recap, SP!
Too many things to comment on, so I'll just pick one.
Grandma with the tiara scene was an absolute scream!
Keep it coming, FNL!
2 of 10 | Posted by ThisShowRocks! | Posted on October 16, 2007 8:50 AM
I am glad to hear that you loved Pierce on 24 as well. I was so excited to see him.
It was interesting to see the difference in how he carried himself in this role as opposed to the one on 24. I almost didn't recognize him for a minute, because of the drastic change in demanor!
Way to go Pierce/Landry's Dad! Way to act!
3 of 10 | Posted by fnllover | Posted on October 16, 2007 11:00 AM
Another fine recap!
I'm also getting more comfortable with the murder plot. In fact, most of the story lines felt better. I don't know if that is because the writer's are getting more comfortable, or us trusting that they do, in fact, know what they are doing. (We've all had our hearts broken by shows that lost their mojo in the off season - darn you, Remington Steel!)
4 of 10 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on October 16, 2007 12:10 PM
I'm not a big fan of the murder storyline but maybe that's the plot device the writers are using to make it believable that Tyra would fall in love with Landry. Kind of a messy way to do it.....but I wasn't really comfortable with the racism storyline last season and the way they dealt with that was beautiful. I think that's the episode that I became a full-fledged FNL fan! Whatever happened to Coach Mack anyway?
5 of 10 | Posted by volleydawg | Posted on October 17, 2007 10:14 AM
OMGoodness - I LOVE YOUR RECAPS!! Love love love them! That said - can I die of laughter again from "Community Pool of Sin and Amniotic Fluid" . hahaha.. and Miss Dementia 2007. Hahaha.
Okay, so, I'm totally not feeling the murder thing either. Actually, I kept speaking to the tv that night saying "No, they didn't do that. They didn't go there. Cmon, they didn't write that." But, they did.
I want to marry Matt Saracen. ASAP.
Thanks for such fantastic recaps. : )
6 of 10 | Posted by dainsey | Posted on October 17, 2007 2:04 PM
OMGoodness - I LOVE YOUR RECAPS!! Love love love them! That said - can I die of laughter again from "Community Pool of Sin and Amniotic Fluid" . hahaha.. and Miss Dementia 2007. Hahaha.
Okay, so, I'm totally not feeling the murder thing either. Actually, I kept speaking to the tv that night saying "No, they didn't do that. They didn't go there. Cmon, they didn't write that." But, they did.
I want to marry Matt Saracen. ASAP.
Thanks for such fantastic recaps. : )
7 of 10 | Posted by dainsey | Posted on October 17, 2007 2:06 PM
As a self diagnosed TV addict, I am a huge fan of dragging my enjoyment of a particular show out by reading recaps. In my search for the best recappers out there, you, Screampillr, are in my top two....I can't even tell you how many times I have (painfully) read a recap of some show I love only to be sorely dissapointed with the inane play by plays... "then this happened....then he said this....blah blah blah"
That being said, top notch recappers that write with just the right amount of snark, personal perspective, and obscure entertainment references are hard to come by....
So, Screampillr, I heart you and your screencaps very much.
I was feeling this episode a lot more too....
My favorite parts....
Grandma Saracens tiara and
your Lila screencap...i was howling..."Christ in my windshield wiper fluid.." indeed.
And for the record, I vote that The Swede is both B and C.... "a poor man's Adrian Grenier" AND "Ikea-like in his blandness and affordability"
Keep rocking the recap Sreampillr....looking forward to this season with you!
8 of 10 | Posted by mamabird | Posted on October 17, 2007 2:26 PM
Long time reader, first time poster, I love this show, thanks for your hilarious recaps. Just wanted to let you know someone else watched FNL!
9 of 10 | Posted by RLR123 | Posted on October 18, 2007 2:33 PM
I'm so over Julie. Her huge lips and knockers are distracting and her acting is getting worse by the ep. Someone needs to tell her to turn down the facial tics and quit trying so hard! Oh, and be a nicer daughter and girlfriend. (Wait that's the writing, but I think her acting is even killing that, which is hard to do on this show... hail to the writers!!)
10 of 10 | Posted by I.Heart.MattSaracen | Posted on October 21, 2007 8:57 PM