Tyra and Lyla (those names fit so nicely together, don't they?) discover that their Pantherama entertainment sign-up sheet is completely empty. So Tyra barges into the boys' locker room to stir up some...interest. She promises that whoever signs up will get to spend the entire week with her and Lyla, rubbing up against a naked freshman as she does so. No, really. The team goes nuts and all start grabbing for the clipboard. Now, normally I disapprove of using slutbaggery as a means to an end, and this is no exception. Shame on you, girls!
Or, perhaps I'm just cranky because we're about a half hour into the episode and...um...no Jason? These chest pains and shortness of breath and numbness in the left arm are all normal, right?
Julie is going over her feature article with Noah. He tells her to cut it down by half, and she becomes all miffed and self-righteous in that classic Julie way. He reveals that he is in fact a Golden Journalism God, having graduated from Columbia and worked for a year at a Real Newspaper. Julie wipes the egg off her face and agrees to cut it down. The article, not the egg.
Noelle, Owen Davenport's sister, is having dinner over at the Williams'. She's giving tips on how to play the recruiters against each other and how to win a Porsche, but Mama is more interested in the education aspect of college. Smash pisses her off yet again, and this time he knows he's in trouble.
Matt arrives home with his new ancient car. Lorraine pops open the hood and proclaims that the engine is satisfactory. Grandma, you old grease monkey, you! She then shoves him into the car and demands a ride. Matt and Carlotta flirt some more. It's pretty cute, I guess.
Mama comes into Smash's room to see if he's given any more thought to Whitmore. He shoots this down. She tells him that he was rude to the Whitmore guy and she has no idea what's gotten into him. Smash flips out because he thinks she's just mad about him inviting Noelle over, but Mama insists that she is only concerned about his education. He of course resorts to the Standard Smash Retort, which is that he's going all the way to the top and no one can stop him! Ha HA! He then swishes his cape and flies out the window.
Lyla is attempting to teach the Panthers how to cheer, to no avail. And for those of you keeping score at home, Landry's Awesome T-Shirt Score is now bumped up to 1,367 with this week's appearance of the Physics Crib Sheet. Nicely done, Landry. Tyra, while ogling the nubile young specimens before her, suddenly gets the idea to choreograph some sort of strip show. To which I say: finally! Any chance we can get Tim back on the team for this? Jason too? Could we maybe throw Coach in as well?
Julie and Noah, still on their creepy date, are interrupted by Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC. I mean Tami. But seriously, with all of the underage shenanigans that go around here? If To Catch A Predator did a stakeout in Dillon, half the town would get arrested. But I digress. Tami is clearly horrified by the fact that the two of them are alone, but she puts on that great smile-scowl (closely related to the whisper-yell) and delivers some strained pleasantries. Julie leaves the room and Tami sticks around for a second, asking "Everything okay in here?" Noah says sure. Dude, a word of advice: if you treasure your testicles, you do NOT want to mess with this woman.
"I'm gonna feast on your brains, y'all!"
Matt is, adorably, practicing his dance moves at home in his living room. Carlotta walks in, so Matt attempts to explain what he's doing but eventually says that the whole thing is stupid and he's not gonna go and who cares about stupid anything anyway, stupid. Carlotta offers to help, because she wants to get into his pants loves dancing. She tells him to loosen up, and walks him through it. There is much hip-holding. Aw, it's pretty cute. Matt's really cranking up the adorableness this episode. Perhaps he's trying to make up for the void left by Jason, which - hey! We're at like forty minutes now! Where the hell is he? I turn my back for five minutes and he's already run off to Mexico again? Unbelievable.
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Comments (4)
Mama Smash is pissed! Even I was ducking for cover!
I am loving the Santiago/Buddy storyline. I can't wait to see where this goes.
And as far as the Julie and the teacher - I've seen some outrage on the web about it, but I don't think it'll go anywhere. It seems as though the writers are flirting with it to get people talking.
In the end though, I can see Tami talking to the teacher...pointing out how it's inappropriate for him to befriend his students. It's probably his first teaching job, so he doesn't see some of the more subtle boundaries, if you will.
That's my thought anyway.
Oh, and I have to be honest...I wasn't missing Jason this week.
1 of 4 | Posted by ThisShowRocks! | Posted on November 28, 2007 7:45 AM
Another fine recap - despite your turkey emergencies!
I found most of the plots at least interesting. I hope ThisShowRocks is right about Julie's teacher.
I like Jason, but can see how it becomes complicated to involve him.
I really like Carlotta's character, but I can see bad things happening for her once the inevitable happens.
Whatever happened to Matt's dad? He must have the longest deployment to Iraq ever.
2 of 4 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on November 28, 2007 9:50 AM
Thanks for the excellent recap, SP! Buddy Garrity with his George Washington hair and the screencap of him and Coach will have me laughing for a long time to come.
I hope the storyline with Julie and Noah doesn't really go anywhere. We already have enough "adults having sex with underage kids" on this show between Tim and the MILF and Matt and Carlotta. Though I would be amused to see what Coach and Tami would do to him.
I love Santiago. When he said that was his first real bed, my heart swelled like the Grinch's. I look forward to a lot of comic relief (plus occasional real bonding) with him and Buddy Garrity.
I'm siding with Smash over Mama Williams, as much as I adore Mama Williams. Smash can always go back to college if/when his football career ends. If he's really not interested in academics (and he doesn't seem to be), he won't get much out of college, anyway.
Sorry, SP, I didn't miss Jason in this episode, either. I don't like what they've done with his character this season.
3 of 4 | Posted by domino | Posted on November 28, 2007 4:44 PM
Buddy's first mistake will def involve alcohol.
I too am feeling Santiago now!
Julie and teach....disturbing but TOTALLY realistic. Except for the fact that both her parents faculty at her school...I would think she would want to distance herself from school...
Yay for Smash storyline!Interesting too..
Awww, Jason Street wasn't in the fridge...but there's always next week!
4 of 4 | Posted by Sweetleaf911 | Posted on December 1, 2007 10:15 PM