Episode Report Card Drunken Bee: B | 4 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Lost In America
By Drunken Bee | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.11.2007
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Everyone is losing it. Landry is starting to lose it over having killed someone. Tyra tells him to "be a man" and he really loses it, telling her that if her idea of a man is someone who goes around bashing people on the head with a lead pipe and then is okay with it, she's just really sad. An honorable sentiment, except for how it sort of goes out the window the minute Tyra shows up in his bedroom wearing a half-shirt. Buddy Garrity loses the privilege of hosting the annual Panther kickoff party at his car dealership, so he goes whole-hog on his midlife crisis, sweating profusely and wearing his shirts unbuttoned way too far down the chest. He gets irredeemably drunk and sad at the party and keels over into the mud. Lyla tries to manage her dad's drunken "tiiimmmbeerrrr!" but her buck-twenty is no match for his who-knows-what, so she needs Tim's help getting Buddy home from the party. Julie starts losing her virginal blush, making a first move on The Swede and then breaking up with Matt Saracen. Matt Saracen has already lost it; he's been rummaging around looking for his happy life ever since Julie started ignoring him. But a new caliente nurse moving into the Saracen household to help take care of Grandma just might be what he's looking for. Tami is obviously losing it, trying to take care of brand-new baby Grace all by herself, but at least she's still doing it Emmy-style. She's so out there in the woods that she starts leaning on this guy named Glen, a science teacher who's taken over her job as guidance counselor, with whom she has an older-sister love-hate relationship. Coach, meanwhile, is about to lose his cool over getting sent on annoying errands for the fancypants at TMU. He's wondering what exactly he's doing down there away from his family. And Jason Street may be poised to lose a kidney if he listens to an idea from one of his Xtreme Sportz friends about going down to Mexico to get experimental treatment for his paralysis. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
We open on bedheaded and Hanes t-shirted Coach on the phone suggesting that "Maybe it's colick?" Cut to Tami on the phone in Dillon, cradling a screaming baby and somehow rocking the tank top even though she's only a few weeks postpartum. Coach says Julie was colicky, and Tami tells him he doesn't know what he's talking about; the only time Julie cried was when Coach slammed her finger in the car door. I guess she was saving up all the headaches she wanted to give her parents for age sixteen. Coach mutters something about how Tami is the one who let her get her hand stuck in the car door, and Tami puts an end to the useless bickering by asking if he had been asleep when she called. Coach is wandering around a soulless, undecorated, super standard suburban apartment. He says he can't go back to sleep now so why don't they talk.
Tami, keeping remarkably cool even with the tortuous sounds of a comfortless baby in her arms asks him how his job is going. Coach is enunciating like a ill-educated fourteen year old. He complains, "for one thing, dis bed is uncomfortable." He complains that his new job is like being the new kid in school. The baby quiets down just long enough for Tami to be brilliant, and she tells him he just needs to "be indispensable." The baby starts screaming again and they hang up, the camera lingering on Eric's conflicted face.
Over on that other show that isn't Friday Night Lights, it's 3 AM and Tyra's cell phone is ringing as she sleeps. It's Landry, and she gives him a hard time for calling, like, lady, the least you can do for a guy after soliciting murder from him is entertain his predictable, breathless early morning phone calls. Landry can't find his watch and we cut to the two of them getting out of Landry's Death Mobile (oh, remember when Landry just used to drive a Vagina Mobile?) at the scene of the crime. Tyra is complaining to Landry that even if anyone found his watch, they wouldn't know it was his when he mentions -- wouldn't this information have come up sometime between the time of the phone call and their arrival at the scene of the crime? -- that the watch was engraved "To Landry From Grandpa." Landry is hysterical -- in the new sense, the sense of being clinically off his rocker rather than the old sense in which he used to be hysterical, i.e., funny -- and Tyra snipes that what they are doing isn't normal, returning to the scene of the crime. Landry invokes the last shred of interestingness of their relationship to one another -- the old geek in love with the beauty thing -- by telling her he's sorry if he's embarrassing her. She tells him that he shouldn't be nasty and then confesses she's just trying to hold it together, too. They pause, and Landry quietly wonders if anyone is looking for the guy, if he has friends or family. Um, yes, he probably does.