Greek: Why We're Here

Greek:
"Cross Examined Life"

Most of the time I was watching tonight's Greek, I was thinking that the episode was just okay. There was nothing wrong with it really, but it was a bit of a downer, what with Calvin's crisis of indecision about his major, Rusty and Dale's squabble, Casey encountering friction from her law school classmates, Ashleigh returning after crash-and-burning at her job, etc.

And then Katherine showed up, and all was forgiven. When Casey turned around and saw Katherine in the back of the classroom, it was the highlight of my day. I'm not even kidding. Greek, I love you.

For more freaking out re: Katherine, scroll to the end of the...

Highlights and observations:

• Rusty and Dana started re-watching Lost to count the questions that were never answered.
• A murder mystery dinner party is the first think Dana thinks of when she wants to cheer someone up? That's kind of a strange first thought.
• Rebecca's hair looks pretty fantastic for it being her "middle of the night" hair.
• Casey's going to law school and she doesn't know what habeas corpus is?
• Ash: "Casey?"
  Casey: "Burgler?"
• Oh dear, Ashleigh got fired. Her hair looks nice too though.
• Ash has the option of moving home and working at her dad's accounting firm. I've been there...
• Lol at sleeping Beaver attacking Pledge Spidey for trying to throw away his beer cup.
• Cappie: "That's what Heath said. Ha ha."
• Casey: "No tests? Is this what happens before noon? I freaking love morning time."
• Casey and Evan's law professor is Mike Burton from Ed! Cool!
• Evan should have known that burden of proof thing. Come on, Chambers.
• Poor Casey. Since when does law school involve sitting around and swapping gossip? Mr. and Mrs. Karns, or whatever, are a bunch of Chatty Cathies...
• Dale calling the Tri Pis the "Pi Pi Pis"
• Dana: "You look like a teen movie villain."
• Gosh, Rusty is looking cute this year. He's almost becoming Franco-esque. He can definitely do better than Dana now...
• Now Ashleigh has special drink testing coasters! Greek is still mining Season 3 of Veronica Mars for material!! How endearing.
• Cappie: "Come on. 'Why are we here?' She's ordering us to get high."
• Rusty: "They're going to brand their letters onto your ass?!"
• Study group girl: "How well do you two know each other?"
  Evan: "We used to date."
  Mr. Karns: "Oh, Evan, did you used to work in Undergraduate Admissions?"
  
• Casey getting smacked down by the law students is kind of amusing, but Evan is being way meaner than he needs to be. Go apologize. Ok, good boy.
  
• Casey: "Oh, great! Now I'm Rusty in high school."
  
• Ash: "I said, 'Good day, sir!'"
  
• Ash might be purposeless, but she looks gorgeous this episode. I hereby nominate Amber Stevens for the role of Mary Jane Watson in my dream version of Spider-Man staring Donald Glover. (That was one Twitter rumor that really should have been true.)
  
• Oh my gosh! The Omega Chis are branding people in the living room?! That seems like loads of trouble. Oh, thank goodness, they are just pretending to brand people. I was wondering why no one ever mentioned that Evan and Calvin have letters stamped on their butts.
  
• Lol, so the question is: are stoned Cappie and Calvin half as funny as stoned Casey and Evan? So far, no. High Calvin is funny, but Cappie is acting about the same as Cappie always acts. Plus stoned Casey and Evan were pretty much the funniest people ever.
  
• Ok, I did get a major laugh out of Calvin gesturing at Cappie when he said "me" and then pausing and trying again.
  
• Calvin: "Ohh, no. You've got chips on your butt! (laughs)"
  

• Rusty: "So you can let Trip scar you for life?" (referring to the butt branding)

  Dale: "And this won't?!" (referring to the murder mystery dinner party)

  
  

• Dana's friend is cute. Why isn't Rusty with her instead of Dana?

  
  

• Calvin doesn't have a major?! Oh dear. Time's a-wasting, fella.

  
  

• Ha, Dale knew who the "killer" was without even playing the game. Go Dale.
  
  
• LOL at Ashleigh entertaining herself with shadow puppets.
  
  
• Ashleigh has become a bad influence on Casey...
  
  
• Why didn't Rusty at least take off his Sherlock hat before going out in public?
  
  
• Oh, poor Ash. She got overlooked for a promotion in favor of someone from The City, so she was upset and left on her thousandth coffee run and never came back. And now she's fired for real.
  
  
• Ha ha ha! Beaver drew a unicorn on Rusty's face! Beaver is so adorable.
  
  
• KATHERINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S KATHERINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  
• Katherine: "Can you not interrupt me when I'm waving to my friend? Thank you."
  
  
• OMG. IT. IS. KATHERINE. I'm freaking out.
  
  
• (And I promise to try to stop arguing that Casey, Katherine, and Evan should have gone somewhere else for grad school if for no other reason than to broaden their horizons a bit. I love Casey, Katherine, and Evan, and if this is what keeps them around, so be it.)
  
  
• I wonder why Katherine made a last-minute decision too. Did she miss CRU as well?
  
  
• Casey, Katherine, and Evan need to form a super (study) group!
  
  

And, holy crap, next week's episode is called "All About Beav"! First Katherine comes back and now we get a Beaver-centric episode?! GASP! Please tell me that these two seemingly unrelated occurrences are going to be connected. A Katherine and Beaver hookup!?! You're rocking my world, Greek!

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