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The Smile(2/6)
Sue has an incredibly
crabby teach, the kind who goes off on rants just cause he can, the kind who
should really have retired years ago.
Anyway, he tells them to find something they are actually excited about,
and make a science experiment around it.
Sue decides to test if smiling is contagious. After a mid-experiment update in which her
teacher is a complete and utter jerk, Sue is more determined than ever in her
experiment.
In the end, she wasn’t able to prove her hypothesis, but the
paper she wrote put a smile on her teacher’s face(and it actually was a decent
paper), so all’s well that ends well, I guess?
Axl is getting
bummed, and his parent worried, about not hearing anything from any of the
colleges he applied to. He can’t even
get enthused about the prank he and his friends are planning. Frankie accosts the mailman and everything in
hopes of finding a possible lost letter.
But! Axl chose to get the e-mail
notice, and finds out in class that he got in!
After a couple of non-starters attempting to tell his parents at a noisy
restaurant, the three of them group hug, and it’s cute.
Later, he and his friends are going to paint the water tower
for their prank, but Darren forgot the paint.
As the three friends look over their town, Axl is glad he had his
experiences in Orson.
Brick really
wants an iPad, and is super obnoxious about it, seeing as Mike is heating up
his coffee with a hair dryer. After an
entire month of saying no to getting an iPad, Mike and Frankie realize that
Brick is a good kid, and there are tons of cheap ones on eBay and whatnot. They get him one, and everyone is happy.
This was an ok episode.
Lots of character development, not a lot of laughs. No funny lines, though
Valentine’s Day IV
Aww, this episode was sweet.
Axl decides he
wants to grow his BossCo business, and so has a new plan: they’ll break up with girlfriends for
boyfriends who don’t want to. They make
tons of money, but the girls on the receiving end are not impressed. The guys, though, start to realize that they
are doing a truly terrible thing, but how do they make up for it?
Sue, in trying to
avoid thinking about the fact that she doesn’t have a boyfriend, volunteers for
clean-up duty at the dance. That is,
until Matt calls, and asks her to the dance! She’s all excited, but as she’s getting
ready, Matt calls, and leaves a message on the answering machine, which Axl and
co overhears. The boys nominate Darren
to tell Sue the bad news, and Sue starts to have a breakdown. But nice guy Darren says that he’ll go with
her, and it is about the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. They dance, and talk, and eventually kiss
over the garbage can. Aww!!
Brick makes a
really tacky card for Frankie, but she doesn’t save it, and Brick is incensed. Frankie goes to the OCD neighbor next door,
and borrows one of her meticulously organized kid projects, but there’s no way
in hell it was made by Brick, as Mike is quick to point out. Frankie goes to apologize to Brick, but he is
having none of it. That is, until Frankie
gives him a cad with a nice note. Which
he promptly throws away. As you do.
Oh, and Mike accidentally
texted a Valentine’s note to an employee instead of Frankie, and his other
employees are not impressed. They all
want Mike to call them special, so he finally breaks down and tells them it was
for his wife, and not the employee. All
his staff try to therapize him, and it gets into Mike’s head to do something,
so he gets her flowers, and tells her…you know.
I was literally awwing through much of this episode. It was super cute, super fun, and even had
some character development, which I’m sure will be completely forgotten next
week, but it is a sitcom.
I did get a funny line, which I have meme’d for you:
(Axl just called Sue a cat lady in training)
Winners and Losers
And finally, we have the Oscars episode, mandated by ABC for
cross-promotion.
Let’s start with…
Brick, who is very
excited about his class Chicago trip. Frankie is terrible apprehensive,
seeing as Brick will be alone in Chicago with only the chaperones, and since
she won’t be going, she tries to convince Brick not to go. Brick calms her down and convinces her that
he can be responsible in going to Chicago by himself. But then, Frankie forgets to pick him up at
the end, and Brick is pissed.
Axl and Sue have
a rather intertwined story this week.
Sue passes Darren in the hall at school, and is her normal self about
it, that is: completely awkward. She
wonders if anything is going on between them, and Darren is super cute about
the whole thing, though Axl tries to throw a wrench in the budding relationship
at every turn. Beyond the part where he
is just trying to get rid of Sue, and has no idea they might like each
other. Darren eventually sings a horrible
song that shows Sue how he feels, and it is adorable. He
comes over later to watch the Oscars, and he and Sue flirt like mad men. Axl slowly catches on to the fact that they
like each other, and is not impressed, and tries to forbid them from dating,
even going as far as to tell Frankie and Mike, but they are happy for the
kids. And then Sue and Darren are super
cute, the end.
Man, I enjoyed the heck out of this episode. Beyond the shoehorned in Oscar crap, the
storytelling was great, and I really like Sue and Darren together, especially
since the writers have been building it up for a few episodes already.
I got a funny line for you, too!
Darren, singing
to Sue: “It was a moment of bliss, my magical trash can kiss!”
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