Greek: Happily Ever After?

Greek: "I Know What You Did Last Semester"


GREEK! I'm both excited to have the Cyprus Rhodes gang back and very nervous that this might be the beginning of the end. There's a lot of speculation going around that ABC Family may be trying to push Greek out in favor of the (vastly inferior) Secret Life of the American Teenager and Make It Or Break It and other new programming, and after what happened to Wildfire and Kyle XY (see may rants here, here and here), I'm inclined to believe that there may be cause for worry. ABC Family seems to have developed quite a knack for abandoning its well-liked, established shows for whatever is new. I could rant about how ABC Family should not hang its high-quality show (Greek) out to dry in favor of its more lowest-common-denominator fare, but that seems like it should be obvious. If it's not, we've got bigger problems.



Until we know more, if you love Greek, it can't hurt to visit http://www.savegreek.com/ and send some postcards and a red cup or two.



In any event, Greek returned with a delightful episode, as usual. Honestly, I can't think of too many other shows that can make me laugh as loud as Greek does on a regular basis.

The play-by-play:

• Betsy: "With all the stress of burning down the Gamma Si house, I couldn't eat all winter break, so I look fantastic!"
• Lol at Cappie's "Hello, Clarice."
• DALE!!!!!!
• Dale has interns now! Really nerdy interns.
• Dale: "Really? Cappie didn't mention that in his Christmas newsletter. It did have a fantastic date nut bar recipe."
• I'd pay money to get my hands on Cappie's Christmas newsletter.
• Hang on, I just realized that Greek is finally taking place at the same time as real life! Usually, it's winter there and summer here or fall there and spring here, etc. But now, it's winter here! It's winter there! This hasn't happened in a while. It's so exciting.
• Fisher and Ash broke up? Again?! Boo, I liked his cute face.
• Ash: "It's a fun way to start of the semester. You have a boyfriend. I'm single. We're arsonists."
• Aww, I miss Wade too.
• LOL at the KT's "secret knock" (which is "knock, knock").
• EVAN!! And he's wearing a tie! However, Evan cannot compete with the ensemble Calvin's sporting: checked shirt, all-over argyle sweater...very nice.
• NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! IF THIS HAS EVEN THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING THE LAST SERIES OF GREEK, DO NOT MAKE ME SPEND IT WATCHING EVAN AND REBECCA! PLEEEEEASE!
• Ha ha at Beaver looking menacing with the golf club!
• Well, I guess this is why my college never let us have candles in our dorm rooms (even unlit ones).
• Cappie: "If I'm late, she'll make me go as the least attractive dwarf, which I happen to think is Sneezy."
• Yeah, Calvin, it's time to cut Grant loose. This guy just isn't doing it for me.
• Ha ha at Casey freaking out when she walked into the firefighter costume and then the guy in the devil outfit.
• Yea, yea, yea, yea! The Dale/Calvin/Rusty trio is back in action!
• Rusty: "I never liked that Grant!"
• NOoooooooooooooooooooo--this is Evan/Rebecca! I said that is NOT what I want to see!
• It's a little late for Ash to get on the anti-Cappie bandwagon. Where was this input when Casey was trying to decide whether to get back together with Cappie or not?
• I'm sorry, what is with this commercial for Pull-Ups airing during Greek?
• Rusty: "We performed magic together. It would have been awkward."
• Rusty: "I can't see puffy paint making an impact on Dump Truck."
• Ha ha ha at Rusty bringing Dale in to shape up KT's pledges!
• OMG, Rusty just cut off that kid's toe!
• Cappie: "My, she's tall!"
• Cappie: "Apparently your brother cannot handle cutlery."
• The ZBZs sure watch a lot of television. They're my kind of girls!
• They could have burned the clipboard, but I guess they're understandably a bit leery of fire right now.
• Casey: "I remember stepping over a log at some point."
• Ha ha at Evan's wolf nose.
• Calvin: "That is the weakest Big Bad Wolf I've ever seen."
• Noooo, Grant, why did you have to come around? I just wanted rid of you.
• Evan: "They're your brothers! Get out there and support them!"
  Omega Chi brother: (pause) "Do you want to..."
  Evan: "With girls!"
  
• Fisher cheated on Ashleigh again! Fisher is such a little bitch.
  
• So is it time to finally make a go of a Rusty/Ashleigh pair? The idea still intrigues me.
  
• Casey: "We should burn down his house!"
  
• Casey: "And we got away with it until Ashleigh kept the clipboard but we couldn't keep it in the trunk because of Scrubs..."
  
• This Cappie/Casey stuff is actually kinda nice. Ok, Evan, you're so going to start messing it up next week though, right?
  
• Rebecca: "My, what a half-assed costume you have."
  
• Noooooo....Ahh, saved from an Evan/Rebecca kiss by a Casey/Cappie sighting! Phew, that was close.
  
• Cappie listened to Nora Jones and had a good cry.
  
• Jeremy wore eyeliner?
  
• HEATH!! Health was so upset about everyone getting expelled that he bombed all of his finals! Yeaaaa!
  
• If Heath really bombed all of his finals, is med school really still going to be interested in him?
  
• Can we please cut "that Grant" loose and revisit Calvin/Heath? I don't accept "he liked sports and I didn't" as an acceptable reason for them not to be together.
  
• Rusty: "The pledges can't get enough of me!"
  
• Wow, congrats to Rusty on winning the grant. But poor Dale :-(
  

Promos for the season: Ha ha, I can't wait to see whatever inspires Dale to tell Ashleigh that he can't be her boy-toy! I can, however, wait to see Evan tell Rebecca he wants to be exclusive with her. Barf.

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Greek: Mid-Term Mania

Greek:
"Social Studies"

Another good episode. Of course, I'm going to like any episode that features this much Dale/Rusty/Calvin interaction. And hooray for Evan getting to be in a storyline that was NOT riddled with despair and self-loathing! Now I remember why I used to like this guy. And the mid-term stress humor was fun all around. As for the whole Cappie/Casey thing, sometimes its funny and sometimes it gets really old, and there was a bit of both of that in this ep.

Highlights and observations:

• Yea, it's art history with Dale, Rusty and Calvin! This is my favorite class!
• Is it midterms already? It seems like this semester is flying by compared to last spring's epically lengthy semester.
• Dale: "Essays? Oh no, that leaves too much room for teacher interpretation, and frankly this guy's kind of a nutbag."
• Ashleigh's desolate mid-terms face is hysterical. (For a second there when I first saw her expression, I thought Fisher knocked her up while they were "out of town" last episode. I'm glad it's just mid-term stress.)
• Rusty: "I'm looking for my art history course packet. Have you seen it?"
  Cappie: "Paperback? Bunch of naked ladies? Might want to check Wade's room."
  
• Dale is wearing a tie and a sweater vest to study for mid-terms! (Now that I think about it, Dale might actually get along with Evan.)
• Evan saves the day!
• Nooooooo, don't try this Rebecca/Evan thing again, Greek! We don't want to see it! In fact, I would be more than okay with it if Rebecca never has another love interest ever again. Or she can have all the off-screen love interests she wants, just so long as I don't have to watch it.
• Jordan: "Andy just broke up with me."
  Dale: "Oh, that's terrible! But back to the Mona Lisa..."
• Off topic: Did The New York Post really say that The Secret Life of the American Teenager is "brilliantly written"? That quotation absolutely has to be wildly taken out of context. I'm not exactly sure what the NY Post's literary standards are, but I don't see how the writing of Secret Life could conform to anyone's standards of brilliance.
• Cappie hooked up with both of these girls on the same Friday night. Lol. Ohhhhh, Cappie...
• Dale: "That's great--get both of them to waste time. That's fantastic."
• Ahh, okay, Jordan finally gives us an explanation of why she liked Andy (instead of Rusty) in the first place: he reminded her of the boys she knew from home and that made her feel comfortable. That's not a very good excuse, but at least she has one.
• If they'd kick Jordan out of this study group, I'd seriously pay money to sit around listening to Calvin, Rusty and Dale's banter.
• Rusty: "It's time for us to take a little field trip."

  Dale: "No, actually. No, it's not."
• Dale: "We've already lost our pizza break. Do you want to cut the massage circle too?"

  Calvin: "Yeah."
• Cappie and Casey smushed on the couch was entertaining, especially Cappie's horrified "I touched your boob."
• How has Ashleigh not failed out of college by now?
• Casey: "Cappie just screwed us out of it. Literally."
• Casey didn't know that Cappie still isn't over her? I thought everyone was well aware of that. It seems so obvious.
• Rebecca: "Are you looking up my skirt?"
  Evan: "Where else am I supposed to look?"
• Calvin: "Yeah, I remember this now, just not as vividly as the pigeon incident."
• I think Cappie would have better luck getting Casey back if he trimmed his hair a bit. (Although Max's hair is usually pretty iffy, so maybe not.)
• What kind of a flake is Andy that he breaks up with Jordan over the phone and then calls her back an hour later wanting to get back together?
• Rebecca: "Evan, you're really weird to do this for me."
• This is just the kind of jocular, light-hearted plot Evan's character needed.
• Jordan: "You probably think I'm an idiot to even consider taking him back."

  Dale: "You know, it's not so much what happened, it's just how long it took."
• Rusty: "I fell for you. Literally, down the stairs and into the slide projector."
• Rebecca: "What happened to the plan?"
  Evan: "That dog is so fast!"
• Whoa, Jeremy watching people while they sleep is totally creepy! Holy crap, he almost made me choke on my drink.
• Wow, Rusty, how does your problem so perfectly mirror Cappie and Casey's? It's almost like it was specially crafted to do so...
• If "no other girl in the world compares" to Casey according to Cappie, why did he treat her so badly when he had her?
• Casey: "Are you crying?"

  Ashleigh: "I am so tired!"
• Dale: "So, do you guys think we should throw a couple questions so we don't destroy the curve?"
  Rusty: "Don't listen to him, Calvin. It's a trick. He's trying to beat us."
• I can't believe the professor is allowing this much of a romantic interlude in the middle of a mid-term. Jordan seriously couldn't have waited to tell Rusty that until after the test? It was just going to distract him anyway.

(photo: abcfamily.com)