Tyra's mother is back home in bed, with Tyra stroking her arm. Tami brings in a glass of water, says goodbye, and turns to leave. She sees the frightful state of the living room, so she takes off her coat and starts to clean. You can almost make out a pair of wings and a halo on this woman. Tyra sees her and thanks her again for bringing her mom home. Then she cops an attitude and says she can leave now. She says she knows that Tami doesn't give a damn about her or her family, and says that she found out that she forbade Julie to see her. She tells her to go home and lock her precious daughter away so that "bad people like me" can't get her. Now, a lesser woman would leave at this point, but Tami is not a lesser woman. She patiently explains to Tyra that she's just having problems with Julie and the choices she's making these days, and that maybe she's unfairly blaming Tyra for that. This whole puberty thing is coming "like a freight train" and there's nothing she can do to stop it. She genuinely apologizes to Tyra, who doesn't really know how to handle these confessions and goes to retrieve a trash bag. Which represents her trashy life. Symbolism!
The next morning, Buddy is packing his things into his car, saying that he's off to hide out in some hotel. But before he leaves, he's got some things to say: "I just don't think it's very cool for you to be meeting with TMU while I'm living right under your roof." There are so many things wrong with that sentence I just don't know where to start. Coach correctly points out that Buddy is too obsessed with football and really needs to start thinking about, you know, his FAMILY. Buddy becomes feral and and grunts that he will always love the Panthers. Restraining order much?
Tami and Tyra have just finished cleaning up the house. Did they clean all night? Tami must have scrubbed the sin out of every one of those couches. She tells Tyra to come into her office on Monday so they can talk about her academic future. Heh. As Tami goes to leave, Tyra stops her with a "Mrs. T?" That's a nice touch. It's such a guidance counselor thing to do, go by an initial. My high school had both a Mrs. Q. and a Mrs. Ratface. Anyway, Tyra thanks her again, this time sincerely.
Smash, still in bed, gets a booty call from Waverly. He hops out of bed and is on his way!
We then join a post-coital Jason and Lyla. Jason triumphantly pumps his fist into the air and promounces "Victory!" Aww, he had sex! Good for him. Better for Lyla, I'm betting. They cuddle and he says that everything will work out, he'll make the team and then travel to Beijing for the Paralympics. Yeah. Because if Lyla doesn't trust you when you're four hours away, she'll surely be fine when you're on the other side of the world. These kids with their crazy ideas.
Jason finally gets it up.
Tami finds her daugher sitting on her bed and gives her a hug. This is quite reminiscent of the scene a few weeks back when Julie saw how messed up other people's families can be and then came home and told her parents she loved them. This scene, like that other one, is lovely.
Tim returns to the MILF's house to fix the gutter. I'm guessing that next time he'll be back to "rake the lawn".
Smash shows up at his girl's house, calling for "Wavy". That is such a cool nickname, I wish I had one like that. Anyway, he finds her in the kitchen, curled up in a ball and crying. Too bad Smash is going to have absolutely no idea how to deal with this.
At the Taylor Household, Tami sits down at the dining room table with her husband, who informs her that he got the call. "TMU made the offer." "Wow," says Tami. They quietly look around the house, not really knowing what to say. Okay, I'll say something. DON'T GO, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!
We all know he won't, because without the Coach there simply is no show. Good episode, I thought. Lots of drugs and alcohol and other ways to alter one's consciousness. I'm not advocating the use of such substances, but they do make for some fine television. Thoughts? Comments? Ever smashed thorugh a glass table? (I have. When I was a kid I sat up under one and shattered it. WITH MY HEAD.)
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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