Episode Report Card Drunken Bee: B | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Great and Noble Men of Dillon Panther Football
By Drunken Bee | Season 1 | Episode 19 | Aired on 03.20.2007
So Julie gives her opinion. Coach tells her he is listening, and she tells him that she dreaded moving to Dillon, and when they did (some very confusingly unspecified time ago), all her fears about moving came true. But that then something changed, and for the first time in her moving-around life she felt at home. She tells her father that she knows the Austin thing is his dream job, "but I have dreams, too." And I don't care how cheesy this is, I love it. Coach looks at her and says, "I hear you." Julie brats a bit that they should just go in and get the dance over with, but she leans over and kisses her father on the cheek and hugs him. He tells her, "I love you."
Angela and Tyra are out at a restaurant, Angela apparently having traded the Valium for some uppers tonight. She goes on and on about what they'll order -- margaritas, ribs -- until Tyra demands to know what is wrong with her. Angela flips out and says that she can't sit there "with these fathers and daughters and their little flowers" and rushes herself and Tyra out of the restaurant. Cut to the car, where Angela continues spazzing out, telling Tyra that she doesn't want her to feel pressure to be something that she's not. By which she means successful and unslutty? I presume. Tyra interrupts her mom to say that she doesn't feel pressure to change, but that she WANTS to change. That she wants to go to college and break the Collette mold. She then says that she can't do anything without her mother. Which, frankly, I'm not buying, given the frequency with which Tyra says it. Angela tears up and then does that insane car swerving screeching thing she does, peeling off at the last second toward a different road.
Cut to the gymnasium, where Julie and Coach dance contentedly together. Angela pulls Tyra past the ticket-takers and onto the middle of the floor, where Tyra has again waited until she has been dragged into the middle of something by her mom to ask what the hell she is getting dragged into the middle of. Angela launches into a speech about how she knows she's a mess but she's going to try to do everything she can for Tyra, she promises. Seriously, haven't they already had this conversation? But Tyra is a sucker for a crazy-ass mom who's constantly doing terrible shit and then promising she won't do terrible shit anymore before going on to do some more terrible shit. And I guess that's what TV is all about, anyhow.
So Tyra and her mom dance at the father-daughter dance, they both make silly eyes at Julie and Coach and generally look like they enjoy being their loopy selves.