My Boys: Who is it?!

My Boys:
Here we go with yet another summer season finale! Sheesh. September is starting to be as crazy as May. My Boys was renewed for a third season, so at least we know that P.J. and her boys will be back at some point. I don't know if anyone knows exactly when though--hopefully we won't have to wait until next summer.

There were two episodes on finale night: the first focused on P.J. trying to balance her boys and her new Hot Botanist (Evan/Michael Landes/Jimmy Olsen). Something about the-boyfriend-not-fitting-in-with-the-guy-friends storyline smacks familiar... and I think it's because My Boys does this same storyline all the time. Oh well, Andy bought a boat and never went anywhere with it :-)

Episode 1 Highlights:

• Aww, poor Hot Botanist/Evan/Michael Landes/Jimmy. He's so cute and I totally know how he feels when telling a story that suddenly doesn't seem anywhere near as interesting as everyone else's stories.
• The scene where the guys purposely get beaned in the batting cage was hilarious! Probably the funniest scene on My Boys ever. I was a little disappointed that P.J. didn't take a turn getting beaned, but I guess it's nice to know that she's too smart to try that.

The second episode focused on P.J. preparing for her Italy trip and rapidly going from having no date to having the possibility of three (or technically six, as Stephanie pointed out). Go P.J. for suddenly getting three potential boyfriends in one day! That is a freaking coup.

My question: isn't it kind of presumptuous to try to invite yourself along on somebody else's vacation like Thorn and the baseball player tried to do? I don't think I would ever assume that someone who had planned a vacation for months would suddenly just want me to come along. But, good for Thorn and baseball player guy being so flexible that they'd up and fly to Italy with some girl on a day's notice. That displays an impressive amount of spontaneity.

Episode 2 Highlights:

• Evan: "Italy? Oh, you don't want to go there. This time of year it's all mosquitoes and fat people and that annoying accent...oh, wait, that's Michigan. "
• Bobby splashing in the lake and getting algae foot or whatever.

And then came the cliffhanger we all saw coming about a mile away: P.J. picked a date, told him she had feelings for him, and he shows up on the plane at the last second...and, of course, all of this happens off-camera and we don't even get to see which guy it is. Not only is this kind of a lazy cliffhanger, but it's also annoying that this possibly huge event in P.J.'s life (declaring her feelings for someone) didn't make it onto the sitcom about her life.

But, ACK! Who was it? In my soul I hope it was Bobby. He's so cute and adorable and if, in this context, I am ranking him higher than both Michael Landes and Jeremy Sisto, you know how much I like him. What makes me sceptical is that there really hasn't been any building of the romantic tension between Bobby and P.J. in a long time. She kind of gazed at him happily in the museum, but all the other guys were doing that too.

Cliff hangers like this are annoying because I really care for like an hour, but by the time My Boys comes back in 2008 or whenever, I imagine that I will have totally forgotten all about it :-P

Labor Day Round-Up: Greek and My Boys

Greek:
The ABC Family promo makers sure wanted us to think that a Cappie/Senator's Daughter hook-up was coming, but I think it's probably a good thing that didn't materialize. At least not yet. Their scenes together were cute though and I especially liked the background we got on Cappie. So, apparently, he is the result of somewhat irresponsible hippie parents. Things are beginning to make sense.

Best part by far of this episode though was the Rusty/Dale roommate war. Something about it just rang true to me and probably everyone else who has ever been involved in a passive-aggressive roommate battle. I loved it.

• Rusty's "Dale Tracker" was fantastic!
• I loved Dale's comment that his class on thermodynamics and heat transfer (or something like that) was a waste: "My little sister could teach that class!" He he.
• Rusty: "Dale canceled our cable after accidentally watching three minutes of the Dawson's Creek marathon."
• Passive aggressive roommate battles over milk. I've actually heard about one or two of those before :-)
• I would seriously not want to mess with Dale, but Rusty held his own. His bringing his most annoying friend (Beaver) over to hang out was especially well played.

Could I be beginning to love Clark Duke as much as I love Michael Cera? I love Michael an awful lot, so the bar is set rather high, but Clark grows in my estimation every week. And now that Ausiello is reporting that Clark is forming a band with Kristen Bell a.k.a. Veronica Mars? Well, it doesn't get much cooler than that.

My Boys:
I love anything with Michael Landes in it. He's adorable. My one problem is that his botanist character seems to enjoy using bug metaphors almost as much as P.J. likes using baseball metaphors. And if there is one thing this show does NOT need, it's more metaphors.

Wow, so next week P.J. has to pick her Italy date, and both Michael Landes and Jeremy Sisto are choices? That's fantastic. Sign me up for one of those "tough" decisions. Although, honestly, I'm still hoping she'll take Bobby. He's just so darn cute. (Oh, seriously, the best part of this episode was Bobby's suburb doppelganger! That was hilarious.)

Kyle XY, Greek, My Boys

Kyle XY:

I'm weeks behind posting this, so we're going to go with a list:

• Kyle remembers what Amanda was wearing when he first saw her! That's so sweet. Oh, wait, of course he does; he remembers everything.
• Steven is really dense that he hasn't noticed how weird his new job is. There's no reason a normal office has to look this creepy. Does none of this strike him as weird?
• Oh my gosh! For a second there, Kyle was quoting "Lose Yourself"! I knew he liked Pachabel, but I didn't know Eminem had left such an impression on him :-)
• And finally, Nicole notices the freakish similarities between Jessi and Kyle. All it took was hitting her over the head with it...
• Ok, there's probably more pressing stuff in the safe than info that Paige exists... Jessi needs to keep her eyes on the big picture.
• Ha ha--Declan's part in the plan is vandalism? Playing to our strengths, I see...
• Declan: "Why not just taser me?"
  Foss: "I considered it."
• Shoot! Lori shows up just in time to entirely ruin the big, elaborate plan! See? This is what I was talking about last week: you have to let the girls in the freaking loop!
• Paige is a cutie.
• It was brilliant how Kyle timed the elevator so that Valentine would reach in just as the doors were closing and Kyle could snag the ring off his hand! How did he know though that Valentine would reach in with the correct hand?
• Oh, Declan, for God's sake, why'd you fall down the stairs?!
• Wow, Jessi drew Paige one heck of a lion. Especially using just that one crayon.
• And I missed the whole end (and next week's previews) because I switched over to SYTYCD to have my heart broken by Pasha getting kicked off. Poor Pasha.

Greek:

Quote of the Night:
Besides girls, Cappie's other interests are "beer, Days of Our Lives, and mentoring youth."

Whoa and they followed up the hilarious Days of Our Lives reference with a Sydney Bristow reference (though not quite seemlessly used)? This is getting out of hand.

My Boys:
Hmm, one way to keep me from wondering why PJ and Bobby don't hook up (again) already is to bring in Jeremy freakin Sisto as a love interest! Nicely done. (Although I guess I missed Jeremy's episode thanks to the Great Pittsburgh TV Shortage of August '07. Crap. Perhaps it's online; I'll have to check.)