It is finally revealed that Landry does, in fact, have two parents. The whole fam is together, putting groceries away, and they are adorable. It's like a Norman Rockwell painting, except that Norman Rockwell paintings aren't subtle cover-ups for murder. Child molestation, yes, but never murder. Dad asks if Landry's making any "new or different" friends now that he's a Panther. Haha. Yes, Tyra is both new and different. She has the boobies. Landry denies everything and changes the subject to the crackers that Mom bought, which Dad declares to be "sin in a box." Ha! These two are great. Dad conveniently dispenses a reminder that Grandpa is coming down next month, so Landry better wear that watch that he gave him. You know, the one that's been in the family for 60 years and is currently lying at the bottom of Corpse River. Yeah, that watch.
Buddy puts in a rather cryptic call to Coach, telling him that they need to meet in person. When Coach asks why, Buddy says that if he told him what it was about, he wouldn't come. Seriously? How has this guy ever sold a single car?
Tim flat-out asks Billy if he's screwing Jackie. Billy flat-out admits that he is. They've been doing it for six weeks, and it's pretty serious. Six weeks? Bo must surely be dead by now. There's no way Billy could have the patience or stamina to deal with that little ogre.
"I'm also dating Beer Bucket Girl. It's also pretty serious."
Tim, distraught, leaves the house and starts driving around. He ends up at...Lyla's church?! Wtf? He slinks around until he finds Lyla, who's standing and clapping and singing with the rest of the congregation. She's a little surprised to see him, to say the least.
"Sir, are you lost? The strip club is down the street."
The preacher gives a conveniently appropriate sermon about how no matter what you've done in the past, God still loves you no matter what. Tim appears to be Touched.
While shopping for a new watch, Landry tells Tyra that if (meaning when) he gets caught, he's going to do everything in his power not to drag her into it. "Well, I figured I could always kill you to keep you silent," she says. "That was creepy," he replies. Agreed. Are these two just going to threaten murder at anyone who pisses them off from now on? Like if Smash gets Landry's order wrong over at the Arctic Freeze, the kid'll just pull out a lead pipe or wrench or any of the other various Clue weapons and bash his brains out?
Tim walks in on Lyla as she's changing for bed, which is weird. He tells her that he felt something last night, and for once it wasn't in his pants. He goes on to say a lot of very un-Tim things, about how he's starting to rethink this whole religion thing and it was nice to feel like he's a part of something and Jesus is now his homeboy and whatnot. Lyla is thrilled, and gives him a hug, which he automatically turns into a kiss. She freaks out, thinking that this was all a ruse to get into her jammies, which, let's face it, is not totally outside the realm of possibility when it comes to Tim Riggins. Especially when he follows it up with "I guess I feel closer to God when I'm with you." Lyla swiftly kicks him out and gets back to constructing her "Jesus is my quarterback" float for the homecoming parade.
Buddy is filling in Coach on all of the Panthers' troubles, which are solely the fault of Coach Asshat. "There's something wrong with that guy," Buddy says. "He's mean! I think he's evil!" Once again, Buddy, you've proven your wizardry with the English language. He looks around all stealthily, and says that there's a way he can get rid of Asshat and get Coach his old job back. Coach is all "check, please" until Buddy counters that he's seen the way Coach's family is falling apart: Tami's always crying, Julie's becoming a whore, and little Grace doesn't even have a daddy. Well, that gets the wheels a-turnin' and the tugboat a-tootin', as they say. (Okay, as I say.)
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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