He goes on to ask her why she didn't tell him that Matt and Julie broke up. She tells him that Matt and Julie didn't break up. Glenn tells her that Matt and Julie did break up. Coach tells Tami to tell Glenn to sit down and be quiet. I tell myself to stop trying to hug the television whenever Coach opens his mouth. The Taylors agree that Julie's silence is a Problem. A Problem only a better child can fix! Adopt me!
In the locker room, Smash, finally given permission to speak more than five words at a time, is blabbing to the reporters about how wonderful he is and the many various zones that he is in. A few of the other players grumble, and Matt resolves himself to say something to the Smash, or at least stutter in his general direction.
Buddy Garrity gets Tim released from the hospital, and on the way home starts complaining about how Coach Asshat is pushing them all too hard. Tim informs him that, actually, he most likely passed out because he was hung over. Buddy pulls the car over, and Tim and I prepare ourselves for a lecture featuring the words "so much wasted potential" and "throwing it all away." But Buddy is a man of surprises, and instead firmly assures Tim that he CAN play with a hangover, he's seen it many times before, and that this is all Coach Asshat's fault and he won't hear otherwise. Buddy Garrity, Father Figure Of The Year.
Matt corners Smash in the parking lot and tells him that he and some of the other guys think that there's starting to be some inequity on the team. Smash says he doesn't know what that word means, which leads me to conclude that Dillon High could stand to benefit from, oh, I don't know, a single English teacher. Matt explains further, but Smash blows him off and says that it's his job, as captain, to be a pompous ass. He admits that he's loving it, and since he's a senior it's his year, and recruiters are coming, and his life is on the line every Friday night, and Matt can learn to live with it and wait his turn to be captain next year. Oh, Smash. Someday your character will grow another dimension. I can just feel it. This is your year!
Tami sidles into Julie's room with the intent of folding laundry, and casually lets it drop that she knows about the breakup. Julie teenagers all over the place, saying she doesn't want to talk about it. Grace starts bawling from the other room, and Julie snarks "I think your baby's crying." Tami's face is perfect: a delicate blend of surprise, disappointment and hurt.
"I'm trading you in for a ficus plant."
Jason is out on the football field barking out all of your standard sports-themed platitudes. Coach Asshat approaches and tells him to go over to Tim's house and get him pumped up for the game. Jason brandishes a pair of pom poms and eagerly agrees.
He shows up on Tim's doorstep and yells for him to come out. Tim appears with a bottle of beer in hand, and snarkily inquires as to whether he's talking to Coach Street or Friend Street. Haha, Tim is such a little shit. I love it. They start fighting, and Jason calls Tim - get ready for this - a screw up! Oooooh. Harsh words. You kiss your mama with that mouth? They squabble some more and it ends with Jason demanding that he straighten up and fly right, Tim sneering back that he's a lousy coach, and Jason storming away. I think Jason's really taking the wrong route here. Doesn't he realize how much guilt he can get out of Tim with the whole you have legs that work and you can still play football thing?
Over at the Saracens, Matt is confused as to why the Carlotta the nurse is not doing his laundry. She not-so-patiently explains that she's not a maid, that she's here to pay for college and become a nurse and help people. Matt, always a charmer, says that doing laundry counts as helping people. That cracks a smile, but she's still not buying it. Anyone with the balls to work with Lorraine the Beauty Queen must have a steely resolve.
"Where my clean socks, bitch?"
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Comments (5)
So what is coach going to do without a job since it is clearly not going to be that easy to get his old one back?
1 of 5 | Posted by RLR123 | Posted on October 25, 2007 12:23 PM
Love the recap. Love the EP. I really want this show to keep on going.
My wife got a Crucifictorious shirt at NBC.com. You got to get one.
2 of 5 | Posted by neillfilm | Posted on October 25, 2007 12:36 PM
Some of the best storylines are right out of Penthouse Letters (Carlotta n Matt; Tyra n Landry - not complaining; I'm just saying...)
Wanted to slap Julie, too. For that matter, I would like to slap Tami, just not in the same context.
I think Tim will prevent Jason from trading his wheelchair and truck for a box of sugar pills. Or maybe they'll end up in a dirty jail and coach, Landry and Billy will parachute in and rescue them. (But, I think more likely the former.)
3 of 5 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on October 25, 2007 2:41 PM
Ha ha ha, I loved your LolJason screencap. Overall great recap, Screampillar!
I don't buy Tim's religiosity. I thought the whole time he was just trying to make a move on Lyla---though I underestimated her intelligence, because I thought she would buy it.
Landry always has the best T-shirts. I tip my hat to the wardrobe department.
Who gets high and jokes about global warming? I guess there really is nothing to do in Dillon.
4 of 5 | Posted by domino | Posted on October 25, 2007 8:08 PM
Screampillr, I love FNL, and I LOVE this recap. I cracked up throughout the entire thing! Bravo!
5 of 5 | Posted by McSteeny | Posted on October 26, 2007 6:49 AM