Greek: Indecision 2008

Greek:

"The Popular Vote"

Wow, Ashleigh is the new ZBZ president! Congrats to her. I'll admit that compared to the cut-throat antics of Frannie and Casey, Ashleigh did look like a big breath of fresh air. I do feel badly for Casey though--she wanted to be president so desperately. And she did mean well; she just got too caught up in the frenzy of politics. Oh well, life lessons will be learned. And now Casey will have more time to devote to her complicated love life and flip flopping from one soul mate to another.

Hmm, what's interesting is that Ashleigh coming out of left field to become ZBZ president is not the big game-changer that Ausiello recently talked about, saying: "A major defection in the Oct. 28 season finale will shake up Greek life like never before." What's that going to be? My first guess is that someone--Rusty or Casey--disassociates and leaves fraternity/sorority life behind. Casey leaves to find herself, maybe? We shall see.

As for Rusty, in this week's episode, it turned out that Jen K. wasn't "the one" after all. I'm a little surprised/disappointed because they really used to like each other, and I liked Jen K. for the most part. However, it makes sense that they may never be able to get past the fraternity expose.

And before I get to the customary list of the episode's funny quotes, I gotta make special note of a comment of Rusty's that I can't believe he said (while speed dating!) but find especially hilarious:

Rusty: "Yes, I am in a frat, but we prefer fraternity, actually. I mean, would you call your country a--"

Other highlights:

• Ashleigh: "That was just last semester? It feels like forever ago!"
• Why would the seniors (the other members of Frannie's pledge class) vote in this election? They're graduating, what do they care who is ZBZ president next year?
• Cappie: "Is it a rainy day or Monday? Those always get me down."
• Rusty: "This year's almost over and I only dated one girl."
  Cappie: "And you see no obvious connection between this fact and the diary?"
• Casey: "I did not have sex with that man."
• Rusty: "And then she said something else that I'm not even going to repeat because I think it's kind of Fascist."
• Ashleigh: "Please tell me you're not carrying Cappie's love child!"
• How hard can it be to find some dirt on Frannie? We already know about 20 awful things she's done.
• Calvin announces that he cheated on Michael while Michael's talking on the phone to his mom!
• Wow, you just can't get rid of this guy (Michael).
• Casey and Ashleigh using code names from The Hills.
• Ashleigh: "Oh no. They're removing the cotton balls! I repeat, they're removing the cotton balls!"
• I assumed that Jen K. moved away or something. I guess she just stayed under the radar for a while.
• Frannie shouldn't have kept those dirty secrets in a scrapbook in her room. You'd think she'd know better than leaving a paper trail.
• Rusty: "I wish someone would just tell me what I want."
  Calvin: "Tell me about it."
• If Calvin likes Heath, he should just break up with Michael already.
• Does Casey really want to lead a group of girls that are this stupid? I would just want to run screaming.
• Wow, Max put star stickers on his ceiling that depict what the sky would actually look like if there was no ceiling. That's so cool.
• Max realizing that he and Rusty used to play the computer game against each other.
• Max: "That bitch?"
  Casey: "I love it when you pretend to be catty."
• Ugh, it's hard to break up with someone when they've just redecorated their apartment to match the ethnic takeout food.
• Whoa, Cal shouldn't be dating someone who is 7 years older than him in the first place.
• Woohoo, Betsy won social chair! Go Betsy. I hope this means she'll be sticking around forever; she's funny.
• I hope Rusty did a better job of deciding what Cal wanted than Cal did of deciding what Rusty wanted.
• Cappie: "I had the exact same thing happen to me with The Goonies!" (This Cappie quote inspired a post in EW's PopWatch.)
• Don't worry about it so much, Cal. Trust me, Michael is not your soul mate. I'm pretty confident about this, because you should enjoy spending time with your soul mate at least occasionally, and you never looked happy when you were with Michael.
• Cappie: "I've only got like 5 or 6 years left on this campus, and I'll be damned if I waste a second of that time."
• Ack, Cappie fell off the roof! Luckily they didn't return the bouncy castle. Cappie dying from a fall off the roof would definitely have been a game-changer of massive proportions...

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