You're no Tammy Lynn Michaels!

Or so thought Gustave when a poster claiming to be Popular's Nicole showed up on the Popular forums. Well, it was her. And fortunately for us, she doesn't hold a grudge. In fact, she even let us interview her. So come see Tammy talk about her new rock-star girlfrend, and watch Gustave eat crow. This may be the last time you ever get to see him admit he was wrong!

Extra	You're no Tammy Lynn Michaels! Tammy Lynn Michaels Interview - Or so thought Gustave when a poster claiming to be Popular's Nicole showed up on the Popular forums. Well, it was her. And fortunately for us, she doesn't hold a grudge. In fact, she even let us interview her. So come see Tammy talk about her new rock-star girlfrend, and watch Gustave eat crow. This may be the last time you ever get to see him admit he was wrong!	2001.07.12 2001.07.12		Gustave
Extra	Mary Cherry Will Rise Again Leslie Grossman Post-Second-Season Interview - Leslie told me I could ask her anything. Her only stipulation was that I wouldn’t let her swear. Last time I interviewed her, Leslie’s father found the interview while surfing the web and was shocked at the profanity.	2001.07.01 2001.07.01	A	Gustave
2-21 Recap	"Who's your daddy" isn't necessarily a rhetorical question Promblems - The question of Mary Cherry's paternity is answered when her long-lost Latino twin shows up. RuPaul guest stars. Josh and Lily find out that love is not, in fact, enough. Harrison chooses Sam. Nicole runs Brooke down with a car.	2001.05.18 2001.05.26	D-	Gustave
2-20 Recap	'Til cancellation do us part You Don't Tug On Superman's Cape... - Josh and Lily get married. Bet you didn't see that coming, did you? Well neither did the writers...until a bunch of them went on a crystal-meth binge upon hearing they'd be out of job pretty soon. Mary Cherry, yet again the only redeeming feature of this episode, incurs the wrath of a seventh-year senior and finds out who her friends really are.	2001.05.11 2001.05.18	D	Gustave
2-19 Recap	Screaming Queens! I Know What You Did Last Spring Break - Being peerless in its use of fantastic, obscure, and campy film references, you'd think Popular would avoid making a parody of the most picked-over genre in the history of film: the teen slasher flick. I mean, what's left to say now that the Scream trilogy pretty much deconstructed the genre to death and then Scary Movie deconstructed the Scream trilogy? Two words: Mary Cherry and a banana peel.	2001.05.04 2001.05.12	C+	Gustave
2-18 Recap	Some Heads Are Bigger Than Others The Brain Game - Mary Cherry wins our hearts all over again as she forms an academic decathlon team at Kennedy just so she can be on TV. Josh and Lily almost break up over the intellectual disparity in their relationship. Carmen makes an big ass out of her newly Latina self.	2001.04.27 2001.05.04	B	Gustave
2-17 Recap	Coup The Bitch is back! Long may she reign! Coup - Brooke is forbidden to date her new college boyfriend and Harrison, Lily and Josh have a dance-off. This gives everyone some much needed time to go make popcorn in between the scenes in which Nicole KICKS ASS.	2001.03.16 2001.03.23	A	Gustave
2-16 Recap	Black-eyed pea-brains Fag - There's no such thing as discrimination when Gustave looks for a substance that will dull the pain of having to recap this antediluvian episode, in which everyone suffers some form of social oppression.	2001.03.09 2001.03.16	D-	Gustave
2-15 Recap	Frat chance! It's Greek To Me - The girls decide that they are sick of the immature boys in their lives, so they decide to sneak out and attend a frat party. Carmen is almost date-raped. Brooke almost gets her ass kicked by a truckload of anorexic sorority girls, and Lily and Sam have to stay home with Mike and Jane. Furthermore, Nicole wraps up her birth mother plotline.	2001.03.02 2001.03.09	C-	Gustave
2-14 Recap	Tuna 69 The News Of My Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated - No Mike and Jane. No “fat Carmen” jokes. A shout-out. Lily being tolerable. In other words, an amazing episode.	2001.02.23 2001.03.02	B+	Gustave
2-13 Recap	Sweet (and sour) charity Mary Charity - Everyone's too proud to beg. Except the po' folk, who huddle in front of fires in garbage cans. Thank God Lily has their best interests at heart and comes around every so often to smile at all of them warmly. Speaking of charity, now that Harrison has had leukemia, Brooke wants to date him.	2001.02.02 2001.02.09	C+	Gustave
2-12 Recap	Which one of you cross-dressing bitches is my mother? The Shocking Possession Of Harrison John - Will Popular's newfound triumph of camp over schmaltz gain much-needed ratings and critical success in time to prevent impending cancellation? Judging by its banishment from February sweeps, Gustave says, sadly, no. Nicole finds out she's adopted. Harrison, who has her bone marrow, starts acting like an uber bitch.	2001.01.26 2001.02.03	B+	Gustave
2-11 Recap	Feelin' crabby Fire In The Hole - Chem makes the kids take part in her play about STDs just as Sam and George (remember him?) start thinking about doin' it. Mary Cherry takes her role as a case of crabs too seriously. Harrison decides that since he came thisclose to dying a virgin, he'll do anything to get some experience.	2001.01.19 2001.01.30	C	Gustave
2-10 Recap	Harrison Hears A "Who Cares?" Consequences Of Falling - It's Christmas, and Harrison finds out what life would have been like if he'd never been born. Sound familiar? Yawn.	2000.12.15 2000.12.23	D	Gustave
2-9 Recap	In heaven, there are skateboards for everyone! Are You There, God? It's Me, Ann-Margret. - Harrison meets God and finds out she's got a great plastic surgeon. Carmen's mom hits her again. Sam's not a doctor, but she plays one on stage. Lily and Josh get naked. And only Nicole's deliciously bitchy appearance tonight has stopped me from throwing my TV out the window.	2000.12.08 2000.12.16	C+	Gustave
2-8 Recap	Whole lotta Sugar Daddy Misery Loathes Company - On so many levels. And less Brooke. But more so. Oh yeah, and a toilet seat gets stuck to Carmen's butt, and Harrison doesn't like his roommate at Cancer Sleepaway Camp.	2000.11.17 2000.11.26	C+	Gustave
2-7 Recap	Nothing's campier than cancer! Ur-ine Trouble - In the strangest ploy for ratings yet, Popular actually assumes we care enough about the health of any of their characters to sit through a really heinous cancer story line. Carmen grabs the homecoming crown because she's just so GREAT. I'm sure I'll see it someday. Goodbye, Michelle Phillips.	2000.11.10 2000.11.17	C-	Gustave
2-6 Recap	A glass of Robitussin and thou Style and Substance Abuse - Lily and Josh get it on over the counter and under the sheets. Sam, Carmen, Nicole, and Mary Cherry run for homecoming queen. Brooke, Harrison, and April Tuna run for student council president. Chem's high school nemesis shows up.	2000.11.03 2000.11.10		Gustave
2-5 Recap	He knows how to dance, and he's not gay... Joe Loves Mary Cherry - Sam and Brooke have a catfight over the new, dull quarterback. We finally find out why Mary Cherry calls Harrison "Joe." Nicole schemes and plots. Lily and Josh hook up. Jane and Mike live and breathe.	2000.10.20 2000.10.27		Gustave
2-4 Recap	The lamest taboo The Sweetest Taboo - Everyone is supposed to be laughing at how big Mary Cherry's lip implants are, but in reality we are all laughing at Sam's hair, which just gets bigger and bigger throughout the episode. Josh's mom is back, so you can count on a lot of uncomfortable situations.	2000.10.13 2000.10.23		Gustave
2-3 Recap	Citizen Shame Citizen Shame - Carmen needs a place to stay. "My house is a war zone," she explains. Her parents are fighting. As she takes off her jacket, she's got a tank top on underneath, and there's a bruise on her arm that she hides just before Sam can turn around and see it -- in the unlikely event of Sam actually noticing something happening to someone else.	2000.10.06 2000.10.06		Gustave
2-2 Recap	Baby, Don't Do It Baby, Don't Do It - Brooke has to actually be concerned about where her "child" is. You know, before she actually moves away, because that's totally going to happen.	2000.09.29 2000.09.29	C+	Gustave
2-1 Recap	Timber! Timber! - Josh is not buying the power of the "forever" tree due to his recent disillusionments, i.e. his parents divorcing and him growing apart from Brooke. I'm not buying "forever" either, due to the fact that Exquisite isn't in the credits and therefore is not a series regular.	2000.09.22 2000.09.22	C-	Gustave
Extra	Mary Cherry Speaks, Part Three Mary Cherry Speaks, Part Three - "These scripts we're doing are so tight and so well written. There are going to be some dramatic developments too -- that don't involve me, of course. It's all really really good. I'm really proud of the stuff that we're doing."	2000.09.13 2000.09.13	A+	Gustave
Extra	Mary Cherry Speaks, Part Two Mary Cherry Speaks, Part Two - "That's another reason why I was such a big pig when I lived in New York. I lived across the street from the Second Avenue Deli and I would eat my way across the city. I can't express how fat I was."	2000.09.13 2000.09.13	A+	Gustave
Extra	Mary Cherry Speaks Mary Cherry Speaks - How did I ever get to meet Leslie Grossman, the talented actress who plays Mary Cherry on Popular? I accomplished this the old-fashioned way. I stalked her manager.	2000.09.13 2000.09.13	A+	Gustave
1-22 Recap	Two Weddings And A Funeral Two Weddings And A Funeral - Nicole is loving the fact that the school year is over, but adds that she doesn't like what happens to her favorite TV shows during May sweeps.	2000.05.18 2000.05.18		Gustave
1-21 Recap	What Makes Sammy Run What Makes Sammy Run - Hey, if the motif of tonight's episode is going to be Crime and Punishment, how come I didn't see any spoilers about anyone being chopped up with an ax?	2000.05.11 2000.05.11		Gustave
1-20 Recap	We Are Family We Are Family - Brooke and Sam agree to join forces to stop the wedding between their parents.	2000.05.04 2000.05.04		Gustave
1-19 Recap	Hard On The Outside, Soft In The Middle Hard On The Outside, Soft In The Middle - If Lily's teen activism award is being given to her by a right-wing organization who chose her because she did more this year to make liberals ashamed of themselves, then she definitely deserved it.	2000.04.27 2000.04.27	C+	Gustave

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