It's the steps of grief for Summer, and I say s it's about time. Poor Sum just hasn't been the same since her BFFL Coop went to the big Hermes sale in the sky. Luckily, it only takes her a week to power through the five stages of grief. Once she lands on Acceptance (kind of like Free Parking in Monopoly, I suspect), she thinks that it is time to become her old, shallow self again. Hopefully, this means she'll also rediscover her long dormant warm and fuzzy feelings for bodily hygiene, but one step at a time, I suppose.

Seth, also hopeful to reconnect with the vapid, yet clean Summer of yesteryear, has taken an impromptu trip to Providence (the frequent flyer miles these kids are wracking up!) in the hopes that who he'll discover on the East Coast will more closely resemble the old Sum. Lucky for Sethala, when she meets him at the airport she's being shot in slow-mo, with a fancy new dress on and a fantastic song in the background. She saunters up to him and plants a wet one on him, with all the passion of a racist Michael Richards rant. If that doesn't sound like the old Summer, I don't know what does.

In what may be the most unintentionally funny moment of this new, mucho fantastico season, we get an insider look at Ryan's intense beach workout routine, This is how they roll in Chino, however, I assume the bum fight portion of the work out regime was edited out. The only thing that's missing is "Eye of the Tiger" in the background. At the beach for completely different non-Apollo Creed related reasons is Sandy, who is impressed with Ryan's moves. I'm telling you, forget Summer and Seth, the sexual tension between these two this season is INTENSE. We need some exposition on what's going on with Ry Guy, so we learn that Ryan is starting his new job at the local Taco stand. Sandy also hopes that once Ryan starts his deferred admission to Berkeley College, Ryan will start getting back to his old self. He'll be tap dancing again, in no time.

Further driving home the point that Summer is back to her old self, she takes Seth back to her dorm room and gives him all the sex. Yummy. After the second round of ride the Challah, Summer apologizes to Seth about being such a liberal zealot to distract herself from her own grief. Seth accepts said apology easily, but will Ann Coulter be so understanding? To welcome the old Summer back in all her glory, Seth pulls out a surprise from his backpack. That's right! Its Marissa's excavated skeleton! Hooray! Okay, it's not, but let's take just a second to think about how funny it would be if it WAS. What Seth really whips out is Season Three of Summer's fav show, The Valley.

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