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Later that night on the pier, the similar technique is being used, as Sandy and Frankules (aka Ryan Atwood's Dad freshly released from the Big House) are chatting about Frankules' shady past, while Julie is explaining things to Kirsten. It seems that someone was brushing up on their Charles Dickens when he was writing this episode, because Bullet and Frankules becoming BFF's in prison seems like a bit of a stretch. I mean, Bullet was in jail for Tax Evasion, which I have to imagine might be just a hop, skip and a jump away from where Frankules was locked up on several counts of being poor, white trash. Anyway, Frankules has convinced Julie, and subsequently Kirsten, with his sob story that he's put booze behind him and he's ready to be a part of Ryan's life. Sandy and his eyebrows aren't so quick to jump on the Frankules bandwagon however. Despite some obvious reservations, Sandy agrees to broach the subject with a just-recovering- from-his-true-love's-tragic-death Ryan, to see if he's fought in enough cage matches to be emotionally ready to see his Pops.

In what turns out to be the night's most pleasant surprise, the B-story involves brilliant but lazy Kaitlin, needing to get tutored by new dork in class, Will. It's a pleasant surprise because Will is played by watered down Usher clone (who himself is a watered down Michael Jackson clone), Chris Brown. Now, don't get me wrong, I can bust a move to Run It! with the best of them, and if this was 7th grade and Christy Hencken was dating Rob Delbagno instead of me, I'd spin Say Goodbye once or twice to pass the time, but actor? Chris Brown? And boy was I right! The kid stinks. And he's so tall and gangly, he's not even believable as a band geek, while still not laughable UNBELIEVABLE at playing a band geek. The pleasant surprise here is young Willa Holland, who has officially stolen my heart as Kaitlin. I thought it was last week we she tried to learn to Two-Step with Bullet that did it, but it was actually this week when she gave an oral presentation on the Call of the Wild speaking as Buck the dog in a series of "woofs". Hilarious. Said stunt leads the "unlikely" duo (I love her and all, but Kaitlin is as likely a "rebellious bad girl" as Chris Brown is a band geek) to have to work together to tutor Kaitlin through one of the easiest books ever assigned to a sophomore class.

Sandy drops by El Pavo Guapo to talk to Ryan about Frankules. Ryan isn't so shocked that Frankules got out of jail (Ryan has always had a pretty firm grasp on the obvious), but he is kind of surprised to hear that Frankules took time off from Mt. Olympus to come to Newport to find him. But Ryan decides that he's just fresh out of his Fight Club stage, and isn't ready for his father to come back into his life. Besides, he's got Sandy. Barf.

Seth and Summer have set off on a madcap plan to drive each other so crazy that the other one breaks off the engagement first. It's no longer about hurting one another's feelings, as it is about losing the upper hand. Ahh love. Here again, a plotline that could just be very irritating, takes flight and is hysterical. Seth brings Summer a copy of the Torah (for her conversion, of course) and Summer counters with a weekend of taking care of her pet bunny, Pancakes. Hilarity ensues.

Sandy pops in to New Match, where he finds Frankules slayng a Cyclops, as he has just finished pleading with Kirsten about helping him see Ryan. Sandy is steamed. That is until Julie drops the bomb on him: Frankules has got the big C. Cancer. Cancer of the handsome! Okay, so now not only is Sandy steamed, he's awfully suspicious. And so are his eyebrows. You know, I thought these eyebrow jokes would get old, and sure, they have, but all I keep imagining is Dr. Octopus from Spider-Man 2 and his mechanical arms telling him what to do. It's exactly like Sandy and his eyebrows, with less phallic symbolism (come one, those mechanical arms had to mean SOMETHING).

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