Clueless

The other day, I was reading trivia about Clueless on IMDb and it kept mentioning things that appeared in the trailer that did not appear in the movie.  I was really curious to see any additional dialogue from the movie, since the dialogue that is normally there is so implanted in my mind, so I checked out the trailer on youtube.  

It all started out with Cher's brilliant debate on why the United States should allow the Haitians (accidentally mispronounced by Alicia Silverstone) to stay in the country.  One extra line in the speech about how the chairs at the garden party were mismatched.  It was a really mini line, so I'm okay with them cutting it.  Especially since I have the speech memorized the way that it appeared in the movie.

Then, the trailer cuts to Tai telling Cher and Dionne that they talk like grownups.  Nice transition, but that's where the artistry ends.  

Ugh, a word bubble pops up declaring "Beverly Hills High School."  No 

no, my fair trailer.  We are all well aware that the hip kids from Clueless attend Bronson Alcott High School.  Named after Louisa May Alcott's weirdo father.  

For the rest of the trailer, the cuts are choppy, the music doesn't match the video,

and the lines are sort of different than the way I know them.  For instance, the line "I totally paused," moves the intonation to totally instead of paused and freaks me out. Lines like that keepacomin. New words enter sentences, new scenes show up, bizarro Clueless. Maybe it's good that I was like 6 when this movie came out, so that I didn't have to deal with this crap trailer.

It's not just that some of it is different than the movie. I can handle that.  But after watching some really amazing trailers over the years, and seeing The Holiday, where Cameron Diaz's really annoying

character owns a trailer making company, I expect better.  I mean, word bubbles declaring "it's a jungle out there," have nothing to do with Clueless and also seriously annoy me.  I want everyone to watch the trailer and see if they can count all of the additional things in the trailer that differ from the movie.  I gave you two freebies, so see if you can take it from there.

New Tomboy in Town: The Greekap

I have been raving about Jordan for the past several weeks.  She is pretty, nice, and can hold a conversation with one of the most awkward humans alive (Rusty) and not have an awkward pause.  But then this week, she shows up at KT, chugging beer, playing poker, and emasculating Cappie, Beaver, and the rest of the gang.  Nooo idea where that came from.  She seemed to have a pretty good handle on the whole "being a girl" thing before this episode.  Her hair always looked perfect and she managed to be the perfect girl for Jesse McCartney.  Now, she has three brothers, plays softball, and decorates her room in the drabbest of possible colors.  

Pros and cons of this week?

Prepare yourselves.  FYI, I'm aware that this is similar to the reality index, but it works for them, so why not give it a shot.  

Cons, of course, must go first, so that I have something to look foward to.  

• As I already mentioned, the whole making Jordan a tomboy thing was kind of annoying.
• Casey was weirdly annoying and girlie throughout the whole pledge meeting/Sir Purrsalot giveaway.  I know they were trying to contrast Jordan from the ZBZs, but it was sort of overkill. Plus, I don't like it when I have to get annoyed with Casey because I love her.
• The Dale storyline was also totally pointless.  I don't care if he stays shut in his apartment.  What's the big deal?  It made little sense.
• Oh, speaking of Dale, how did his telling the landlord that he is saving himself for marriage come off as a turn on?  She is older.  No way she is going to date a purity pledger.
• Did anyone else forget that Rusty and Max were friends?  Yeah, random that they included him in Rusty's plotting.  I guess they just wanted to give him something to do this week.
• The idea that Rusty's issue tied into Dale's.  Apparantly he has been spending so much time at the apartment because he is currently avoiding the KT house.  But he was there at the beginning of the episode, invited the brothers all over in the middle, and was back there before the end.  The episode seemed to take place over like a three day span, so tell me, when was this alleged avoidance of the house?
• Biggest qualm of the episode was the case of the missing Rebecca Logan.  The episode seemed incomplete without her.

I think those are all of my issues.  I'm way more excited to talk about my loves.

• I finally realized why I love it when TV shows mention Facebook and pop culture. I realized it the moment Casey called Dobler's their Peach Pit.  It makes me feel like I'm in on some sort of inside joke.  I love it when I understand little things that I never would have caught when I was younger.  Starts with the Peach Pit, goes on with Jordan's softball friends all going to Smith, "if you know what I mean."
• Going along with those little things, Dale just got his 700th friend on Facebook. Not bad Daley.  I totally got you beat though.  Around 1,000 now?  
• I liked the Frannie/Evan thing this week.  I don't totally understand why he is suddenly an emotional money wreck, but I'll go with it.  I liked Frannie's story about her mom's Virginia plantation.  But still, show no sympathy to the Frannie monster!  We will not have a season 1 repeat.
• Although it was fabulous when she said her mother was beautiful, like her. And then Evan called her on it.
• It was so cute when Ashleigh was all afraid of getting hit during dodge ball and when it happened it "wasn't that bad."
• "It's torture to see the girl of your dreams on the arm of some other guy.
• I know I'm forgetting some things, but I can always add them on later.

And OH who saw the preview for next week????  I actually shrieked a little.  

5 Famous People

Last night, on Facebook, I was trying to list 5 famous people whom I have met.  Did I want to seem lame?  Did I want to show off?  Does it matter?  I figured my list could be crazy awesome, because I am known to brag about celebs that I have met.  Freshman year, my friend and I even played a game where we tried to figure out who could see the cooler movies if we could only see movies with the people we have seen in person. She had Elijah Wood on her list and I still won.  

But last night, I couldn't make my list seem legitimately cool.  Most likely because I never actually met Matt Damon.  I suppose screaming his name while walking through his movie set doesn't count.  So instead, on my list, I put Anthony Rapp, Angela Lansbury, Liev Schreiber, Cynthia Nixon, and Dr. Ruth.  All decent choices.  But why isn't my list cooler?  Should I have replaced Liev with Camryn Manheim?  I mean, she has gueststarred on Hannah Montana AND How I Met Your Mother.  Or should have I swapped Dr. Ruth for the girl who plays Mia on Degrassi?  That's sort of a joke question because obvs Dr. Ruth is da bomb.  But Mia is a series reg on one of my fave shows.  Have I met cooler people that I'm blanking on?  Or is my celeb list pathetico?

Jay Baruchel

After I saw Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, I forgot about how much I love Jay Baruchel.  He was just such a convincing toolbag in that movie, that any of his endearing stuff just faded away.  And I had already watched the complete series of Undeclared!  It was sort of a shame, because after that, whenever I watched Knocked Up (which was a lot, since HBO picked it up), I could only see the douchebag.  

Fortunately, I just watched the movie I'm Reed Fish, which was a cute indie romantic comedy starring the precious Jay Baruchel.  It was about a love triangle between him, Alexis Bledel, and Schuyler Fisk (Sissy Spacek's daughter who I know from playing Kristy in the Babysitter's Club movie).  Alexis Bledel was horrible annoying, but Jay was so crazy endearing that I remembered the N&N douche role was just an acting gig.  He totally still can be Steven Karp from Undeclared.  Score one for Jay love!

Guh Reek

Welcome to my friendly neighborhood Greekap, the weekly recap of the incredibly awesome Greek.  So far, my Greekaps have been a little shotty, so I decided to loser it up and take notes during my second viewing of the episode. Here goes nada!

Totally a decent episode.  Not as good as the first, better than the last.  I give it a white gold star.  That is beneath platinum, and right above yellow gold.

First off, I feel the need to mention some of my qualms with the epi.  The Kappa Taus had some lines that seemed completely uncharacteristic of the notoriously riotous fraternity.  It started out pretty mild.  Wade said do do and the boys all laughed, which made total sense.  But then Cappie took it another step further and said "you said doo doo." Unnecesarry.  We caught the doo doo.  We caught the giggle.  You didn't need to point it out.  I laughed anyway.

After the doo doo, the KTs had some more cute banter.  But again, dampered by Beaver's sad story about Scooby.  Cappie explained how the Beaver's last li

ttle brother had to leave because he was a reefer fiend.  Now I know that tv shows have some trouble showing pot unless they are on Showtime or HBO, but The O.C. got through it unscathed.  It just didn't make any sense to me that the Kappa Taus would have such a problem with a pothead.  They all seem like total stoners.  Now I know they say they just drink a lot of beer, but if they were real frat bros, it would be Marijuana Madness.

One more KT issue and then I'll back down.  It goes back to my last point, about how they are known as the crazy party frat.  They are beer guzzling, sex-crazed lunatics. Why are they so angry that Rusty made Jesse McCartney play beer pong?

They made Rusty play last year.  It is normal behavior for a Kappa Tau.  They need to figure out what their boundaries are.

Okay, tirade over.  Now I can talk about the nice things.  Like, it was nice to see Evan back.  He has been a complete tool lately, but it's good to know where it's coming from.  His big bro came to visit.

They sort of looked alike. The brother was cuter, but his cute presence made Evan look cuter than usual. I knew big bro looked familiar, so I imdbed and found out duhhh ex-boyfriend Justin from She's the Man.  I tried to show off my discovery, but Lindsay Fo had apparently known that

for ages. Plus, she knew his real name and several of his acting gigs.  Robert Hoffman. A very normal name.  He was kind of great. He was exactly how Evan's big bro should be.  Plus, he forced Evan and Cappie to hang out.  The show had sort of given up on any hint of warmth between those two characters, and it was cute to see them 

rebond.

Speaking of bonding, at big/little night at the Kappa Tau house, Cappie put Rusty and Jesse into a little light bondage. It was hilario, because every time the cuffs went on, the beers spilled on the pledges heads. Except in Rusty's case.  Because he is the lame active.  So beer spills on his head.  Fab. I did feel bad for him though.  He really likes the precious Jordan and she is fully in friend zone with him.  Even coming to him to help her decide whether Jesse should get a text or an under the door note.

Speaking of JMac, I think it's hilarious that the Kappa Taus actually do call him Andylicious.  Instead of something way cooler.  It's hard to get rid of a nickname if you already started using it.  Poor kid.  Stuck with the worst nickname of all time.  Ah and more speaking of.  Rusty refers to Evan as Bing.  His KT nickname that Egyptian Joe gave him when he was pledging Kappa Tau.  Not referring to Chandler Bing.  I loved that Rusty called him that.

Oh but back to Jordan.  When she is talking to Rusty after class, they have this cute little conversation about art history, in which she imitates Ralph from The Simpsons. And yeah, everyone has watched The Simpsons at some point.  But I have trouble

believing that she perfected her Ralph Wiggims impression. It's just a little anachronistic.  She is also weirdly embarrassed about a random hookup at a frat party. It's not the most embarrassing thing anyone has ever done.  

And what is with Jordan being Casey's little sister?  Yeah, I know that she is the main character and all, but Rebecca is already Casey's little sister.  Can she even have two. The Casey/Rebecca friendship was crazy adorable this episode. They had a couple tense moments, but it all seemed totally natural.  My favorite part was when Rebecca said Fisher was hot and Ashleigh said "touch him and I will cut you even faster than she [Casey] would."  It was adorable.

Other things I liked: 

When Patrick Chambers told Evan to break up with Frannie because she is just like their mom and it is "borderline Oedipal."  

When Rebecca said the first suspect is always the help.

Evan buying Cappie coffee.

Wade blowing the horn to get attention.

All so adorable.  One last problem though is that Ashleigh says Casey never does shots.  I don't buy it.  She is a college girl who spends most of her time in a bar.  She does shots.

Voila!  Covered so much of the episode.  Look for another Greekap next Tuesday!

The boys

A few years ago, back during the first season of Weeds, I wondered why no one ever talked about how cute the kid who played Silas was.  I imdbed him, of course. Hunter Parrish. For a while I just called him Silas.  Maybe because I didn't know his real name. Maybe because no one else did.  

But then last summer he got the lead role in Spring Awakening on Broadway. He also stopped wearing a shirt on Weeds and changed his hair.  And his character dated both Mary Kate and a hot older woman.  I guess with all of those changes, people started to notice him.  I didn't have to call him Silas anymore, unless I was talking to people who aren't huge imdbers.  

A few of my friends saw Spring Awakening over and over again, just so they could keep seeing Hunter sing and strip.  Because he has sort of a Zac Efronish singing voice.  And Zac Efronish look.  Apparently he knows it too, because on an interview with him with Chelsea Handler, he talked about how he originally auditioned for the role of Troy in HSM.  But he skipped one of his auditions for another role.  

It's sort of cool actually.  They both get to have awesome careers, just on separate paths.  Cutting edge TV and risque Broadway star vs. Disney/pop culture sensation/sex symbol/movie musical star.  I never thought I would see them in anything together considering how opposite those tracks were.  But then there they were.

17 Again.  Hunter AND Zac.  The bad boy vs. the good boy/dad/new hottie in school. Hunter had stupid chin hair and a weird neck tattoo.  But he also had some insane makeouts. Much like he always does on Weeds. But this time it was all with Michelle Trachtenberg, originally known for Harriet the Spy, but in the last year, transferred to GG's Georgina Sparks. Zac was just crazy hot.  Like crazy hot. Silas wasn't at his best. I know that was the point, but I guess I'll just have to wait until Weeds starts up again to get my full Hunter dosage.  But nice to see the boys finding a middle ground.

Ice Blue Chocolate

At least I think it's ice blue.  Whatever.  But it's the phone I have.  In fact, it's the phone that my older sister and I both got last June.  Originally I wanted an Orange En-V, because Blair had it on Gossip Girl, but it was a little too chunky, so I moved on to the Chocolate.  Plus, I think Serena might have had a version of the Chocolate.

But it's a good thing I picked this phone, because since I got it, it has appeared in

the most ideal of places.  I first got some big screen glimpses of it in High School Musical 3, in the hands of the lovely Gabriella, who only I like. Because the rest of the world hates her.  But I freaked out and my sister freaked out.

She even created a quiz on Seventeen.com that mentions Gabriella's adorable blue phone.  But it's a little hard to see in the movie, so even though I freaked out when I saw it, I managed to keep a mild cool.

The real freak out came last Saturday night, when the one and only Miley Cyrus appeared for the first time on the big screen in Hannah Montana: The Movie, blue Chocolate in hand.  It got a big screen shot too. Verizon must have paid a butt-load for that product placement.  But I think if I worked for advertisers, product placement is the way to go.  I mean, I almost got the EnV, even though I don't like it, just because the fabulous Blair Waldorf had it.  But at this point, I'm glad I went the Disney Channel way.

Scrapbooking

After my trip to Israel a few years ago, I made this really awesome scrapbook with all this memorabilia.  I put it all my one thousand pictures, plus stickers, israeli trash, and other bits of crap.   I was weirdly proud of it.  I even brought it to California with me after the summer to show my friends from Israel.  But then I accidentally left it in The Valley and never saw it again.

Here I am, 4 years later, with the urge to make another scrapbook. Unfortunately, I haven't had a big trip or program or event that seems worthy of a scrapbook.  Instead I have a bunch of photobooths, movie stubs, concert tickets, notes, and stuff that just remind me of this time in my life.  It's not even that I want to look at all this stuff in the future and remember it.  I sort of just like putting it together.  And showing off the awesome concerts I went to.  And the ridiculous amounts of movies I've seen.  

I know scrapbooking is totally 70s housewife or Barney Stinson, but for some reason, I'm intrigued.  Maybe I'll put in some magazine clippings while I'm at it. But no nude pictures.  I can't be that close to Barney.  FYI, he is from How I Met Your Mother.  Start watching it if you don't.

These Days

In the past two days, I have written a ridiculous number of blog posts.  Maybe it's because I skipped a few days before then and felt like I had to make up for it, but really I think it's because my entries have been so suckish and lacking in oomph, that I want to try again and again until I work it.  Pictures might help that.  Ummm... I can't think of a good picture yet, but I'll put one up in a little.

New on tv tonight, actually ended 3 minutes ago, 90210: The New Class, but still with Kelly and today Donna.  Also, I missed last week, so I rewatched it right before this episode and seriously whoa, like WHOA.  Needs the capitalization because these episodes were insane and AWESOME.  

Silver had a crazy break down a few weeks ago and last week's episode had her spiral out of control.  This week she is trying to recuperate and it was sad for her.  I still hate Annie and whatever, but she didn't annoy me that much this week, which is always good.

But seriously, I have read like 3 of Diablo Cody's columns in Entertainment Weekly, talking about her upcoming stint on 90210.  And she rocked it.  Gah it was so fantastic, with Silver freaking out about meeting her, and Diablo acting so chill.  I mean, I know that my older sister, the hippest chick around, thinks Diablo sucks, but her column is awesome 

and I think that if I enjoy her writing, I probably enjoy her. Not sexually.  That sounded like sexually.

Oh also I am OBSESSED with Adrianna.  I think she is the most gorgeous girl ever, now that she grew out her bangs.  Maybe I just like her because the actress, Jessica Lowndes, was on Greek, but I think it's because her character is so killer.  She is like totally self aware and ironic.  Lately I am very into people being self aware. They can be the most annoying person ever, but if they know it, than they are fine by me. Except for that beardy kid in my Western Civ class.  I can't stand him, even if he does realize he is crazy annoying.

So I know that people are hesitant to watch the new 90210, and I also know that it was sort of lame in the beginning, but it has definitely found its groove.  I'm gonna have to recommend.

Late Greekap

I had to rewatch the episode because it really didn't stick in my mind.  It was purely average. Little bits were good, but the whole of it was pretty boring.  But why focus on the boring for now?  I'm gonna go over the good bits and show my solidarity to Greek. 

Exhibit A: Rusty is taking an art history class with Dale and Calvin.  It's pretty cute that they are all in a class together, even though Dale seems to think that liberal arts will lead to Satanism.  But then the professor shows a picture of a nude woman and Dale gets all giggly.  Every line Dale said in the episode was pretty much phenom.  He made a joke about a girl named Jenna having the last name Telia.  And then giggled some more. He later proceded to look up girls named Jenna Telia.  He kept up his fascination with his first image of sexuality spectacularly well throughout the episode.

Also in the heathen class is Rusty's new crush (just a regular crush, not like Casey's Janeane Garafolo girlcrush) Jordan.  I love her.  She is superpretty, but not intimidating, smart but not dorky, and crazy nice.  She also seems to genuinely like Rusty.  She had this line where she asked Rusty if he was gonna ask her out, which was totally his in, but he wimped out.  It was lame.  I have been trying to figure out who she looks like, and I just keep getting Ashlee Simpson, but I know I can do better than that.  Anyway, Ashleigh offered her a bid to ZBZ and that's cute.  But yeah she made out with JMac and we know it stirred up all this drama.

Oh yes, Rusty decided to take a bunch of jello shots to up his confidence before hitting on the girl.  His mouth got all red, like little kids drinking fruit punch.

Jump to another area.  Well sort of reverse, because I forgot about something else with the art history class.  The professor got all hot and restless during his discussion of the sex-infused art.  

Ashleigh wore these purple pants I didn't like.  They were unflattering.  Max was kinda boring.  He and Casey finally said "i love you", which I assumed happened months ago. The Max/Cappie rivalry isn't that interesting to me.  Mostly because Casey and Cappie actually seem to be sexual tension free, making the rivalry completely irrelevant. 

The new guy working for ZBZ is fine, but he isn't as hot as the girls make it seem.  He is supposed to be like the hottest guy ever.  But we have seen much better.  

Oh it totally made me laugh that they all kept saying douche.  Speaking of, Evan finally did something.  Apparently he is sleeping around on Frannie.  Good, he was completely boring.  He was also in two scenes in the entire episode.  Frannie wasn't in any.  These things happen.

I had all these other awesome realizations about the epi, but I forgot, so I'll leave it at this.  Ta ta!

Voicemail

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/fashion/02voicemail.html

Oh hey.  People agree with me.

Randomosity

Normally, I write a title before I write my post, and write an entry that corresponds to the theme I mention in the title.  But I have no idea what I'm going to write about, so as of now, the title is still blank.

It's Monday night and there was a new Greek and as always, it was great, but I was playing solitaire during it (just regular solitaire), so I didn't give it my normal amount of attention.

There was also a new How I Met Your Mother (no Gossip Girl this week), but it wasn't very good and Lily wasn't in the episode, so I don't want to discuss it.  Except to mention that the guy who played a hottie that Casey dated in one episode of Greek was in it, and it was weird, because he dated Robin, who is an adult in my mind, and Casey, who is my age.  I still can't come to terms with the whole "becoming an adult" thing.  

Everyone around me is growing up to. Which I guess makes sense, because time exists. Blah, I'm bored with thi sentimental crap. Lately everything I watch uses the word "right" constantly.  Like as a question a la "right?", but moreso as a statement like "I know, right." It's everywhere.  And I use it all the time too, but I can't remember it being so prevelant in the past.  I love how my lingo changes like every couple months without me even realizing.  After last year at school, my accent started to change a little bit too.  My midwestern and Texan friends got me into that.  Drove my fam crazy.

BTW, I just put up a title.  When I wrote it, I was thinking of Kevin's band from The Office, Scrantonicity.  I did this quiz today about fictional bands and Scrantonicity was one of them, which I thought was hilarious.  I thought about switching my facebook music into all fictional musicians

For example:

Pop!, The Shagarattes, Here Comes Treble, and other fictional musical groups

But Miley screwed up the whole notion of fictional music groups with her alter-ego. Hannah Montana completely blurred the lines between reality and fiction, because people became obsessed with her character's music, and therefore loved Miley Cyrus's music.  More to come on Miley later.  

Wait for my next Greekap coming tomorrow.  I'm going to rewatch it and make it AWESOME.  Yeah?  Cool.

Oh hey

Gah I haven't written in so long and I missed my cute little blog.  But I don't really have that much to say, because the only thing on my mind is B.J. Novak's new blond hair. He is amazing.  The way he is so cool with making himself so hatable, even though you know he totally isn't since he writes/produces like half of The Office.  Oh, I'm also thinking about Zac on SNL and about HannahMovie, but I'm all jittery since I've been in the car for a while so I can't concentrate enough to write anything legit.  Ya dig?

Miley Hits the Big Screen

It's the moment all of us teeny boppers have been waiting for for so long.  And since I already mentioned what it is in my title, there is no point in a long intro. Hannah Montana: The Movie!!  Can't wait.  It comes out at midnight tonight, but it isn't playing anywhere in the Ithaca area until tomorrow.  But tomorrow, I'm returning to my darling hometown of Cherry Thrill.  

Once in The Chill Zone, I can immerse myself in all the HM craziness I can handle.  I watched a video movie review of the impending film, calling it the greatest movie of 2009 so far.  And it wasn't even a little girl.  Or even a girl like me.  It was a middle-aged man, who appreciated the music, light humor, and overall cheeriness that is The Disney Channel.  

It is still shocking to me that Miley is possibly the biggest celeb in the country, but she is legit talented, so it's kinda nice that she gets to shine.  I mean, when I was in 5th grade and Britney school girled her way into the media, I liked her, but knew that she didn't really have the singing chops.  The singing was really for Christina Aguilera. I admit, I really didn't notice that Christina could sing and Britney was just cute back then.  But I was 10, don't blame me.  Now it's Miley's turn to be the teen queen.  And she is milking it for all it's worth.  I'll be back in the next couple days with a full report on the movie.  I'm prettttty sure I'll highly endorse it.

Number One Commenter

My ultimate blogmenter, Arika Gold-Feinberg (now going to show up on google), just started her own blog.  It's fab and I highly recommend to anyone who likes my little trashy thing.  

Check it out at www.arikagold.tumblr.com

I hope she doesn't mind me spreading it to the world.  But she put up this teen drama list that it completely phenom and I just feel the need to share the love. Of Skins and Degrassi (especially my dear Manny) and Gossip Girl and any other show that she mentions.  But seriously, AGF, check out Greek.  It might take a few episodes to really get into it, but it's totally worth it.

My Feet are Loose

A few years ago, I was hanging out at my mommom's house with my sister and Chinese cousins and Footloose was on tv, so we watched it for a little while. The cousins were only 3 at the time, so we were able to make them do funny things to make us laugh. Like telling them to yell Zach Braff at the tv or teach them the world "canoodling." During Footloose, we taught them how to make their feet loose.  It was beautiful.  Two little 3 year olds wiggling their feet.  That was the last time I watched Footloose.

I watched it again today and was not so thrilled by it.  The other white meat was good in it, but I don't like the idea of it not being a musical. Playing "Let's Hear it for the Boy" in the background while the Willard (what a name) learns to dance does not work.  It feels awkward and forced.  

That is why I was so excited for Zac to star in the remake.  It would have legit singing and famazing dancing, since Zac can totally bust a move.  But then the dreamboat dropped out!

According to sources, the movie is still in production, but whennnn will it come out? And will it even be worth it without Zac?  The answer is yes.  If Chace gets cast and can actually sing and dance. Gossip Girl is not exactly chock full o singing, so I have no idea. In the mean time, I'll just watch Hairspray again.

EL Segundo Greekap: An Escape from Reality Index

My sister Molly, the brilliant writer, tells me that it's not enough to recap an episode. No one wants to read that.  I need to bring up the heat with something new.  But my mind isn't focused enough because The Princess Bride just started on Bravo, and I haven't watched it in months.  Buttercup just ran into the Sicilian and co.  

Okay, focus.  I think I'll just try a tricked out recap and come up with my new strategy next week?  Can you all hold out?

This week's

episode of my dear Greek answered a few of my queries.  Where is Gonzo (Franco)?  I sort of missed the answer and the episode isn't online yet, but at least I know that the Kappa Taus noticed their missing brother.  

Likewise, the ZBZs noticed their missing sister, Betsy.  Not only did they talk about her, but they brought her back.  I was thrilled. I almost put an exclamation point after "they brought her back." But then I didn't and wasted time writing about my punctuation choice.  I think that Casey tried to make up for forgetting Betsy last week by mentioning her name A LOT and putting her in almost every scene.  She also made a funny about how Betsy drank Rebecca's vodka.  Mwahahah.

Okay, I just took a half hour break from writing this so I can't remember exactly where I was.  But while I was away, I was telling my friend allll about my best parts of this episode.  The parts I couldn't resist texting my sister about immediately after they happened.  Frannie's Titanic brush, bringing about the statement "I miss old Leo," followed by a wistful moment to remember him.  Case, Bex, Ash, we all feel exactly the same.  And Leo, although we love you in The Departed

and a littttle bit in Revolutionary Road, your true teeny bopper fanbase comes from the Titanic/Romeo + Juliet days.  

The second textable moment came right after the Pants sketch.  BTdubz Ash, you totally pulled off the America Ferrera look, even if it was more Betty than Carmen. Back to my point.  The rushees fawning over Kostos while Casey is all eh. Casey is crazy about Kostos.  It was genius and exactly the kind of OC-esque self-awareness that I love so much.  On the Pants note, Casey, nobody whines about being Blake Lively. She is frickin Serena! But I too prefer Heidi because she is super-gorg.  

Speaking of Heidi, the IKIs looked AMAZING in the Fashion Week gear.  Rebecca and Frannie beasted the supermodel look.  I think they pulled it off better than Casey and Ashleigh could have.  I love Rebecca now.  I'm even okay with her getting back with Cappie.  But I'm sort of mad at him.

Okay yeah, Rusty messed up by telling Andelicious (or something way cooler) about all the KT stuff, but Cappie way overreacted and was a total douche.  Not cool, Cap, not cool.  But I still love the Beaver like crazy.  Plus, I think Jesse McCartney

is getting more lovable, because he was totally precious and am I crazy or did he look almost hot?

I think the least lovable character this week (even moreso than Frannie) was Evan Chambers.  What a tool.  He is like a nonentity on the show, but whenever he is there, he is just sucking.  On the bright side, when he tried to talk to Rusty, they made an unintentional dirty joke that I appreciated. The former lead singer of Dream Street was totally dead-on when he said that Calvin was the only decent guy there.  Because Calvin is awesome. He may be the best guy ever.  He better find a man of his own soon.  But EW spoilers claim that he gets frisky with a closeted roomie.  Can't wait!

Expect a better Greekap next week.  Sorry if this sucked.  But at least the episode doesn't.

Racism

It's so tricky.  Racism.  You want to acknowledge it, but you don't want to take it so far that it offends people.  It is so difficult to find the perfect balance between offensive and funny.  It's best to start with members of a particular race making jokes and taking a cue from that.  But there has to be some sort of rule.

Liz Lemon, on 30 Rock, talks a little bit about race in every episode.  And by acknowledging how potentially offensive it is, she manages to make it hilarious.  And as a loser white girl, I know that I am not in a position to get offended, but it seems harmless enough.  Seriously, that show has a character named Toofer, because he is Black and a Harvard man, making him Twofer one (two for one, get it, duh).  And then Tracy Jordan brings it with some fab "i"m Black" jokes, that I would feel bad laughing at, if this show didn't make it show okay.

Another great example of workin the race angle: Harold and Kumar.  Mostly just the first one.  The Cherry Hillized, White Castle one.  They rock the whole Asian/Indian stereotypes and defy them.  They embrace their heritage and mock it.  Plus, they have moron cops beating on sweet black men and then getting their commupance.  It's just warm and fuzzy.

Political correctness has gotten so out of hand in some places, that it's cool to try and rebel against it.  As long as nobody gets offended and there is no cruelty or ignorance behind a statement, I think it might be okay.  I'm still working on it.  I think I need to finish watching 30 Rock to fully get there.

Tell Me the Appeal

I really enjoy the movie Center Stage.  It has great dancing, spunky characters, and is totally sexy.  But I don't understand why the main character, Jodie Sawyer, is the main character.  She is the worst dancer out of the bunch and has very little personality.  Yet for some reason, she gets the lead in the coolest dance, all the hottest guys, and is the center of the cool crowd.  

I mean, think back to that scene where she goes to the hip dance class that Cooper Neilson is at.  She gets totally into it and looks amazing, but when it is her turn to do her own dance move, she does a simple leap across the floor.  It's boring and unoriginal. Just like everything that she says.  It just makes me angry when the least deserving characters get all the glory.  Sort of like how Rory gets all the guys on Gilmore Girls, but at least she is smart and quippy.

Sure Things

My best friend, Danit, has this weakness for Jew humor.  If any movie, song, play, or show has a reference to anything Jewish, she falls for it immediately.  It could be something oozing the Judaism, like the Passover episode of The O.C. or something completely stupid, like a guy mentioning his bar mitzvah in conversation.  The Jew humor is a guarantee that Danit will like the material.  It's her sure thing.  

I was watching 90210 2.0 the other night and I finally realized that I have a sure thing too.  It's completely ridiculous and stupid of me, but I can't help it.  I love anything that mentions modern pop culture or popular websites.  Adrianna (formerly Mandi on Greek) was asking Naomi (also from Greek) about her new crush and asked her if he had a Facebook or a Myspace.  I swooned.  Couldn't help it.  Then, later on Annoying Annie (Darcy from Degrassi) was hanging with Adrianna and some guy walked by and said "Hey Juno!"  Again, swoonage.  Get the Juno thing?  Because Adrianna is a preg teen?  Yeah.  Whatever.  

Of course, sure things don't always pan out.  Just think back to the John Cusack movie The Sure Thing, where Nicolette Sheridan is supposed to be a sure thing and he STILL doesn't sleep with her!  On Gossip Girl earlier this week, Blair mentioned Facebook and it just sounded forced and fake.  And in the first episodes of new 90210, the school performed Spring Awakening.  Again, much too forced.  I don't buy it.  But as long as it isn't totally tacky, and it seems realistic to me, I love.  

Now, if anyone wants to make a show for me, you know what I'm looking for.

No Prior Knowledge

The other day, I was trolling televisionwithoutpity.com, or TWoP, and I came across this video blog that mentioned How I Met Your Mother.  Since I can't get enough of that show and it's not on again for 5 days, I checked it out.  The vlog was called No Prior Knowledge, so I understood the basic concept of it.  Some guy was going to talk about my show, never having watched it before.  

So I watched the little video and it was I guessss what I expected.  I didn't love it, but whatever.  And since I was bored, I decided to see what other videos this guy had made. He had made like 40!  I mean, this guy doesn't watch ANYTHING.  What gives him the credentials to make some oh I'm so smart video blog if he hasn't watched any show ever?  He never watched The Office, or 24, or Desperate Housewives, Dexter, or 30 Rock.  

I really don't like this guy.  I mean how can he be some TV expert if he doesn't watch those TV staples?  The only shows I could think of from this gen that weren't on the list were Weeds and Entourage.  Both good, clever shows, but who knows if he has even watched those?  Dumb boy.