Tyra's trainwreck of a mother is lying around watching romantic movies. Tyra comes in and says that she hopes she's not watching to remind her of Buddy, as that will force her to "take your life, and then my own." Tyra is awesome. She tries to get her to eat, but she just wants to sleep. Poor Tyra. In a world where amazing moms like Tami exist, she really got a raw deal. Wonder if she'll come to this conclusion, say, by the end of this episode?
Smash, in bed, is woken up by a rather horny Waverly, who climbs on top of him and demands that they go somewhere. WTF? Smash protests but after another sexy kiss he gives in. Ah, the mind of a teenage boy. Waverley suggests a moonlight swim. What the hell happened to her? Is she high? Cut to the two of them naked and jumping into a pool. Smash says he's never seen her like this before. Um, maybe you should investigate this a little further, Smash. You of all people should know about mood-altering substances. They splash around and kiss and, well, you can imagine the rest. I sure am!
Lyla tries calling Jason again but only gets his lame voicemail: "Hey y'all, this is Street. Leave a message." Ugh. Losing cool points, Jason. Lyla, in a veritable orgasm of bad planning, gets out of bed and starts packing for a surprise trip to Austin. Come on Lyla, I just started liking you for your commitment to family and now you're up and leaving your little bro and sis at the drop of a hat? It's almost like you want me to hate you.
After a rather depressing montage of driving through Dillon shots, we arrive at the Taylor household. I'm rubbing my hands enthusiastically, waiting for the hijinks to begin. Julie, bleary-eyed from sleep, shuffles to the bathroom and opens the door to find...Buddy Garrity standing there in nothing but a towel! My eyes! MY EYES!! Julie recoils at the sight and runs away, scarred for life.
The stuff of nightmares
She's in her parents' bedroom, doing that cute little "nononono" thing she always does, demanding that he be removed from the premesis immediately. They all start yelling at each other, with no clear winners in sight. Coach extracts himself from the situation, backing out of the room and wiggling his fingers while snarking "you women are very dramatic, you're very dramatic". That's it. Commence the Plan To Kidnap Kyle Chandler. Who's with me?
Tim Riggins is working underneath a car when a small blonde boy dives down to the ground and asks, "What are you doing, Tim Riggins?" Glad I'm not the only one who prefers to call him by his full name. The kid introduces himself as Bo Miller, the new next door neighbor and second coming of Macauley Culkin, then yammers on about how awesome Tim is. You're barking up the wrong tree, kid. Tim tells little Bo to shut up and go home because he has a massive hangover. Hmm. I don't always love you Tim, but your rudeness and general hatred towards children is appealing to me. We'll have to discuss this further.
Montage of quad rugby tryouts. Aw, Jason's so happy. Gotta love that smile of his. As he and the team leave the gym he notices Lyla lingering outside the building. He goes over to her and says hi and that he's surprised to see her. He fails to notice that she has been crying. Come on Jason, that's a simple Boyfriend 101 skill. Work on it. He corrects himself and says that he's HAPPY to see her as well, but she starts crying and tells him she thinks her parents are going to split up. You know what would make this better? A naked moonlight swim.
Bo prances around with a football for Tim, proclaiming that he too will be a Panther one day. Tim's all like good luck with that. Hehe. Tim is able to suppress the vomit long enough to teach the kid to throw a spiral, which he pulls off decently for a half-pint. Eh, I still don't really like him. He's a little too shrill, and not in the good Tami way.
Go. Away.
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Comments (22)
Another great recap, Screampillar. And another great show. I'm impressed with the writing - even story lines that would normally be irritatingly familiar are handled well. Although I'm not sure how many more scenes with little Bo I can handle.
1 of 22 | Posted by Don Antonio
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Posted on March 5, 2007 2:25 PM
Screampillar, another hilarious recap. Your screencaps in particular had me LOL in my office like a lunatic. Another great episode.
I have a thing for Tina Fey, so imagine my delight at Tim's Feyesque single MILF new neighbor. The kid is annoying, but looks like some interesting days ahead for our boy Tim.
"He points out that her rain gutter is falling off. By which he actually means, 'I want to bang you nine ways from Thursday." LMAO!!!
2 of 22 | Posted by JasonR
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Posted on March 5, 2007 2:34 PM
Who is that un-Tina Fey? she looks totally familiar and I can't place her. as soon as I saw her with her glasses looking all sloppy i just knew it would be the classic "make over" theme where the guy can see the "hidden beauty" and gets interested in the girl, and then they clean up the "unattractive" girl to reveal a sexy hot mama underneath.... Just wait and see, won't be more than an episode or two away....
not that interested in Street's "victory" or his cool new "peace" tattoo - are he and jack from Lost actually twins separated at birth, now with their similar spiritual good karma tattoos?
(LOVE the show, though, just to be clear)
3 of 22 | Posted by lovedoctor
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Posted on March 5, 2007 4:16 PM
forgot to add: also not really a fan of the precocious kid theme, though even I have to admit it was very cute when little Bo presented Tim with his photo and Tim responded with such enthusiasm
4 of 22 | Posted by lovedoctor
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Posted on March 5, 2007 4:18 PM
Lovedoc is right - I sense a makeover in an upcoming episode, where Tina Fey puts in contacts and that little black dress. Maybe coach's kid will babysit Bo that night. I'll probably love it on the show, although in real life that story would be awfully...depressing. High schooler shags single mom in depressing TX town. Nice!
By the way, I've got to tell you that I'm amazed that this site isn't CRACKLIN' with comments! This show is great, Screampillar's hilarious...
5 of 22 | Posted by Don Antonio
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Posted on March 5, 2007 4:59 PM
the mousey (but obviously hot sans glasses) neighbor/milf is brooke langton from melrose place and that keanu reeves football movie, the replacements.
tim riggins must really be a saint, because i would have taken that kid's football and thrown it a mile away so he wouldn't come back ever again. even with a hot mom, NOTHING is worth that sort of torture.
6 of 22 | Posted by dubbledubs
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Posted on March 5, 2007 5:07 PM
There's never much to say about these recaps because Screampillar misses nothing. Thanks!
7 of 22 | Posted by Miss Information
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Posted on March 5, 2007 8:01 PM
I totally agree: Wavy is an awesome nickname. I about died from the cuteness. but I still don't like her... and I don't trust her.
I'm sorry but I'm tired of Lyla always whining and Jason always being naive and optimistic...
Taylors FTW
8 of 22 | Posted by meliasaurus
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Posted on March 6, 2007 12:48 AM
Thanks for the ID on brooke langton, now it all falls into place. she hasn't aged much since melrose (lucky her...)
LOVED the detail about how Mrs. Coach had to cook the pork chops that Buddy Gerrity brought her home to make.
agree, screampillar does a nice review, complete with appropriate tyra compliments. once again she has shown she might be a touch trashy but she has a sweet, sensitive side that ain't all bad
9 of 22 | Posted by lovedoctor
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Posted on March 6, 2007 7:13 AM
I heart U, FNL and Riggens!!!
10 of 22 | Posted by Roney12
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Posted on March 6, 2007 8:10 AM
god, i love this show. thanks, screampillar, for the hilarity and the precision (i missed most of this one due to work).
again, what i like best about FNL is that they manage to take on the 'issues'--the plight of the single mother; the spectre of divorce; the strange things that happen when diagnosed bi-polar/manic-depressives go off their lithium, etc.--without seeming heavy-handed or preachy. yes, the taylors are a bit too perfect at times, but people like this do exist. as far as the likelihood of coach taylor turning down a college job (probably as an offensive coordinator or quarterbacks coach) to stay at a rural texas high school goes: i read a piece not so long ago on texas high school football which explained that, even in rural backwaters with depressed economies (such as odessa, which the original, non-fiction FNL book was about), the high school football coach gets paid a six-figure salary. if coach were to take a coordinator position in, say, dallas (presumably TMU is supposed to stand in for SMU), he'd probably be paid just a little more than he's currently making, in a city where the cost of living is probably ten times what it would be in odessa/dillon. furthermore, his fate would be tied to that of the head coach, and anyone who follows college football knows that coaching jobs are about as stable as waverly when she's off her meds. big-time high school football coaching jobs aren't a whole lot more secure (a famous scenefrom the FNL book describes the permian h.s. coach coming home after a loss to find his yard covered with 'for sale' signs), but at least at dillon, coach controls his own destiny. so it's not entirely unrealistic to think that the coach would choose to stay at dillon rather than move up the food chain--at least until julie is off to college.
it's also telling that schools where many of the students' families are impoverished due to the lack of work since the oil bust pay their football coaches such high salaries. high school football really is a religion out there--hard to believe, but true.
11 of 22 | Posted by jack
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Posted on March 6, 2007 8:58 AM
Awesome episode. Screampillar you are doing a great job.
I recognized th MILF as the chick from Swingers who gives Favreau her number and then he proceeds to call her 50 times before the night is even over. That was 10 years ago and she looks exactly the same. That bitch...
12 of 22 | Posted by dent
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Posted on March 6, 2007 9:11 AM
Does anyone know the name of the actress that is playing Suzy the tattoo artist? She looks very familiar and I just can't place her. Thanks. Screampillar - love your recaps.
13 of 22 | Posted by aloveaffairwithtivo
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Posted on March 6, 2007 9:35 AM
Great recap Screampillar!
If I was Coach, I would have kicked Buddy's spyin' ass to the curb! And if he's so rich, why didn't he just go to a hotel in the first place? Freak.
"A night of bow-chicka-bow-wow"? LOL, I love that! I totally knew that Waverly was off her meds as soon as Smash said he'd never seen her like that before.
OMG, that little boy Bo needed to take a chill pill (some Ritalin perhaps?) ANNOYING!
It's been a couple of weeks since we've been treated to the wisdom of Mama Smash! Maybe this week....
So will Julie be grounded yet again for disobeying and hanging out with Tyra? At this rate, she'll be under house arrest until she's 18!
Looking forward to the next recap!!
14 of 22 | Posted by Jojobear
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Posted on March 6, 2007 10:51 AM
Isn't the tattoo girl Elizabeth from Friends? She was Ross' college girlfriend.
15 of 22 | Posted by coastalcpa
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Posted on March 6, 2007 11:12 AM
Yes, that's exactly who she is...thank you! She was also on an episode of Grey's earlier this season.
16 of 22 | Posted by aloveaffairwithtivo
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Posted on March 6, 2007 11:53 AM
ah, the wisdom of mama smash! very funny! mama smash is awesome, and she'll have some harsh words for Smash as he tries to deal with Waverly turned blair witch.
looks like the writers took her character mood swings right out of the DSM 4 (or whatever the newest volume is) description for manic-depressive
17 of 22 | Posted by lovedoctor
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Posted on March 6, 2007 9:33 PM
ah, the wisdom of mama smash! very funny! mama smash is awesome, and she'll have some harsh words for Smash as he tries to deal with Waverly turned blair witch.
looks like the writers took her character mood swings right out of the DSM 4 (or whatever the newest volume is) description for manic-depressive
18 of 22 | Posted by lovedoctor
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Posted on March 6, 2007 9:34 PM
What a great episode. The chemistry between Coach and Tami is fantastic! I love them!
I thought it was weird that Buddy Garrity would need to shack up on the Taylor's couch. From the way he is portrayed in previous episodes you would think that Buddy OWNED Dillion and it would not be a problem for him to stay at of Dillion's fine flea bag motels. Or at least sleep on the old cot he banged Mama Tyra on at the dealership.
Tyra is the woman! Not many girls could be "the girl who's mom cut her ass on the coffee table" and still have cred. I like her friendship with Julie too.
Love the interaction between Tim and Bo....although Bo needs to take it down a few notches. Shit! The volume on that kid!!! I soo agree...fixing the rain gutter is so the way to get the ladies to fall over with their legs in the air in Dillion.
I wish Lyla had better lines/character development. She never really says anything of substance. I guess it is proof that perfect people are boring.
19 of 22 | Posted by TitsMagee
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Posted on March 7, 2007 11:42 AM
The is an article on msnbc.com today saying that the rating on this show are so low it migh tbe cancelled despite being the best show on tv!!! Noooooooo!!!!!!
www.msnbc.com
20 of 22 | Posted by TitsMagee
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Posted on March 7, 2007 12:13 PM
RALLY THE TROOPS! That Hail Mary article on msnbc includes a poll on whether to cancel the show or not. Call a friend, wake the neighbors. Slip it into your posts elsewhere. Tabloid Baby should be on this story. I can't handle any more loss. We must save Dillon!!!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17472507/
21 of 22 | Posted by Miss Information
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Posted on March 7, 2007 1:18 PM
I don't think I could handle the pain of FNL getting cancelled! That would suck so bad. My favorite show! NOOOOOOOOOO!
22 of 22 | Posted by Jojobear
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Posted on March 7, 2007 4:11 PM