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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Greek: Star-Crossed Lovers

Greek:
"Gays, Ghosts and Gamma Rays"

Some highlights and observations:

• Casey's dream was both romantic and educational!
• Casey's fishing for Ashleigh to suggest that she get Max to help her was pathetic.
• Max's hair looks even worse than normal at times in this episode. But in other scenes, it looked okay. He needs to be more diligent about his hair maintenance routine.
• Casey: "Well, I'm big on second chances. Actually, I'm big on third and forth chances too."
• Of all the would-be TV couples in the world, right now I'm pulling for Casey and Max more than anyone else except for Blair and Chuck. Which is kind of funny, because while Casey does have her Blair-esque moments, Max is basically the anti-Chuck Bass.
• Rusty and Ben trying to crack the password was funny, esp. Rusty's prognosis that it would take him "between 2 hours and never."
• Wow, Max and Officer Leo in the same episode! (Unfortunately, Leo's character on Greek alternates between pushy and boring.)
• Of course Calvin has never been to a gay bar, he's 18! He shouldn't be in any bars!!!
• Max tutors football players too? Poor Casey.
• As soon as Joshua Whopper was mentioned, I guessed that he was really Cappie, which turned out to not be the case. I don't feel too bad though, because Rusty thought so too. I'm confused though. If Rusty got an official list of all the active members of Kappa Tau, shouldn't both Cappie's real name and Joshua Whopper's name have been on the list? So by process of elimination, shouldn't Rusty have been able to figure out what Cappie's real name is? It seems unlikely that the official list wouldn't have had the name of the fraternity president on it. Sorry if I'm thinking about you too hard, Greek.
• Ashleigh: "Oh, he's cute! Weird. But cute!"
• Rusty: "You're not joshing me?"
• Rusty: "Margaret Thatcher was one whopper of a prime minister, huh?"
• Dale helping Rusty study the info on the active Kappa Taus was funny.
• Dale: "What kind of parents name their kid Fairy?" (Did I hear that correctly? Ha.)
• Dale eaves dropping on Casey's conversation about liking someone on the honors physics floor was great. Rusty's expression when he caught him listening was hilarious.
• Casey: "I like Max."
• Rusty: "I should warn him. You date like Sherman's March, Casey. Scorched earth and broken spirits left in your wake." (Now try to imagine someone saying something like this on 90210, and you falling off your chair in surprise.)
• Dale (throws his headphones): "Max? Really? The guy's a freaking loser!"
• Max: "Dale, maybe you can answer me this: why do they always put the environmental awards on the wooden plaques?"
• Dale: "Nobody likes a show off, Max."
• Casey: "I don't get it. I asked him to tutor me; why didn't he just tell me he had a girlfriend?"
• The Kappa Taus (esp. Heath and Beaver) reading the gender studies literature was the funniest they've been for a while. I think it was the funniest KT moment since Beaver read The Great Gatsby aloud.
• Come on, Casey, stop being dense. We could all see the dead girlfriend reveal coming a mile away, but she kept yammering and making herself look very self-centered.
• Wait, Casey ran over Rusty's cat, and last week she was bellyaching about him crashing her car into a mechanical horse? That's like an extremely black pot calling a steel gray kettle black.
• Ashleigh will make a great campus tour guide! Yea for her finding her part-time employment calling!
• This is a little random, but how awesome is Amber Stevens as Ashleigh? She would be a shoo-in for my favorite character on Greek if I didn't already adore Dale, Rusty, and Calvin so much.
• Fancy astronomy lab they've got there.
• This was a good episode, but I didn't love it as much as I loved last week's Casino Night episode. At least we found out what Max's secret is. My horrific event theory from last week turned out to be on target. (I did a lot better at figuring this out than I did at figuring out what "bing" meant.) I'm not sure why his girlfriend dying makes him not want to talk about working for NASA though. I don't understand where NASA fits into the timeline.
• Casey and Max were so cute together! It will be interesting to see where they go from here. What will they talk about now that Casey doesn't need Max to teach her something (card counting, astronomy)? Seeing how this is Greek, it seems likely that Casey's new relationship will hit some major snags soon enough. I'm also excited to see how Cappie and Evan react to the new couple. And I'm holding out hope that super sweet Max doesn't turn annoying like Casey's other love interests have been known to do.

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