Last Two Episodes of Greek: Recap and Review

Before I talk about this week's season finale, I want to quickly comment on last week's episode, "Tailgate Expectations." I was trying to wait for my screen cap site to upload pictures, but they haven't uploaded any for the last two episodes. Oh well. I did some searching and YouTube pausing to get a few shots.

In Tailgate Expectations, it was great to see Heath again! Heath used to be Calvin's boyfriend (sort of), but as Heath points out, Calvin liked sports and he didn't. So, they didn't work out. Heath approaches Rusty and volunteers to help with the float competition all the Greek houses are participating in. The Kappa Tau's are paired with the ZBZ girls, and both houses have their reasons of why they want to win. Kappa Tau's enthusiasm for the project comes from Rusty, who wants to win the competition money to rebuild the fallen Vesuvius (a volcano that was able to make it rain beer). Heath wants to help because he wants to leave his mark on Kappa Tau history before leaving for medical school. It was nice to hear he was going to medical school since a lot of the frat guys are just silly and random in the background. It was like the writers were making the not-so-subtle statement, "Slackers have goals, too."


The float competition forces Casey and Cappie to work together despite vowing to stay apart. They manage to avoid each other pretty well, but when the float breaks down on the way to the competition, Casey turns to Cappie for help. He calls her out on always dragging him into her life as he tries to move on and they get into a shouting match on the street. We never see where the argument goes because the tow truck guy finally comes and breaks it up. At the end of the episode, Casey admits to Ashleigh how much she misses Cappie (not so much of a shock) and we're left wondering how she is going to deal when Max comes back to CRU. I felt this plot line was pretty much a bridge to the finale. There wasn't much depth, but it was necessary to set up the next episode.

While Casey and Cappie are having their own issues, Rusty, Heath, and Ashleigh plot against the Omega Chi and IKI float and attempt to sabotage it. The float was of Marc Antony and Cleopatra, and it was rigged so that the figures hugged each other. Heath and Rusty find a way to re-wire the float so that Cleopatra is the only one moving in for a hug and ends up in an interesting position. Once she is in place, the float exploded with beer. Ashleigh was really excited with their victory, especially after she got to see Frannie drenched by her own float.

The float gag was genius. I was glad Heath finally got the credit he deserved for pulling off one of the biggest pranks in Kappa Tau history. He even got a nickname, "Doc." I'm glad Calvin and Evan weren't upset with the float and just rolled with the punches. It's nice to see Cappie and Evan getting along for a change. Evan's new friendship with Rebecca was also a good move by the writers. I didn't see how much they could relate to each other from their family backgrounds, but now I get how they would uniquely understand each other. Ashleigh's little side plot with her boyfriend was okay, but I don't ever think it's that dumb to run around with body paint at college. That takes forever to do, and the Garnet and Gold guys were a huge part of FSU culture. You gotta show those guys respect for their craziness, not be embarrassed by them.

Okay, on to the big one...the season finale. "At World's End" centers on Casey's decision to finally choose once and for all between Max and Cappie (It was cute that Ashleigh compared her to Joey Potter and Felicity to give a shout out to other teen dramas!). Max comes back early from England to surprise Casey, and immediately pick up on the weirdness between her and Cappie. He is kind of an ass to Cappie, and is surprised when Cappie doesn't come back at him with the same attitude. This made me sad because Max is so polite, and I hated that the writers made him come off bad in this episode to make you root for Cappie. I think the whole audience roots for Cappie anyway. We don't need more reasons. Casey eventually realizes Cappie is the one for her and tells him at the Kappa Tau's end of the year bash. He tells her she isn't thinking straight and turns her down. Max sees them together, and even though Cappie covers for Casey, she decides to break it off with him anyway.

While all the usual Cappie/Casey drama is going on, Dale and Calvin devise a plan to battle their temptations. They decide to start a new purity pledge so that Dale can ward off his cougar girlfriend, and Calvin can avoid letting anything happen between him and his hot, gay roommate. The support they offer each other is awkward and humorous. Dale pretends to be Calvin's boyfriend when he catches him with his roommate, and Calvin returns the favor when he walks in on Sheila all over Dale. With barely any emotion he says "Sheila stop. Dale is my boyfriend." It's pretty funny. They end up giving into their desires anyway, and there's a great moment where Calvin throws his purity pledge ring aside and Wade picks it up and utters "My Preciousssssss." Haha, I love Lord of the Rings references.

The episode ends with the cliffhanger we all saw coming. Ashleigh joins Cappie up on the roof and tells him that Casey's attraction is sincere. She then asks him what he is going to do now that is is the "end of the world." He just looks up, and it fades to black. Will they get together? I don't know. I still stand by the idea that they won't get together until the show ends, although I'd really love to see them as a couple for a bit. I guess we will find out in later. Greek returns August 31st at 9 pm. Set your Tivo's now, people.

Greek Episode Recap 6/1 (New Format!)

Quick Note: I liked using a lot of pictures for the last episode's recap, but it took too long, and eventually ended up being way too much. I'm going to keep it much shorter visually and try to add more text. I know this recap is late, but hopefully I can get the next one up within a couple days. I'm just waiting for the screencap site I use to load their pictures.

This episode was the first to start off with Jordan and Rusty officially dating. As excited as the audience was to see their romance progress, we were quickly interrupted by a bored and lonely Casey. Since Max is in England for a month, Casey doesn't have anyone to make plans with and ends up foring herself on her friends. She runs into Rusty and Jordan when they are out to eat, and once she is ditched by her own friends, she joins her brother's date and makes it her own social outing. Rusty and Casey end up fighting over who gets time with Jordan until she points out that she feels like a remote control being fought over by siblings. I still felt bad for Rusty because Casey came off so obnoxious. I hate girls that don't have a life outside their boyfriend, and it made me mad to see Casey had NOTHING to do without Max. And the fact that she would ruin Rusty's social life when he is just getting it together was pretty lame.

This story line was saved for me when the two siblings talked at the end of the episode. When Rusty said "If you had told me why you wanted to hang out, I probably would have gone to Dobbler's with you." I smiled. It was a good message that everyone should just let people know when they need them instead of just being upset over it later. My favorite line of the episode, though, was when Rusty was talking to Cappie about the problem.

Rusty: Casey would always go out when we were in high school, and I would stay at home watching Joan of Arcadia with my mom.
Cappie: Is that the show with the all the Navy Lawyers?
Rusty: That's JAG. I watched that afterwards with my dad.

Calvin's little story development was pretty interesting....in the hot sense. Calvin discovers one of his other frat brothers is gay, and the next day, Calvin is assigned to be his new roommate. Ashleigh tells him there is no way they can be just roommates and insists something will happen, but Calvin brushes it off. Unfortunately, being in close quarters with a half naked fellow gay frat brother doing crunches ends up being harder than he thought. He avoids any romantic involvement in this episode, but we all know that's coming. It'd be nice to see Calvin date again. He needs some loving, too.

The last part worth mentioning in this somewhat filler episode is the story between Cappie and Evan. As new brothers in a secret society, they are trying to keep up some sort of friendship. This attempt is thwarted by a fellow sister in the society whom they both have an eye for. Lucky for the guys, the girl turns out to be a crazy pet killer. She describes how she killed her first three pets by accident when she is doing the sharing ritual in front of the society members, and both Evan and Cappie (and probably the whole group) are pretty appalled.


I love when she stars describing how she used to love an animal so much that she squeezed it all the time, and Cappie makes a comment like "Please tell me this pet was a horse." They soon find out it was a cat, and it doesn't end well.....

This week's episode (the Homecoming one) was really good, so look for that review soon. I'm also really excited about the season finale, but I'll miss this show when it goes on hiatus until August.

Greek Episode Recap 5/25

Greek 5/25/2009

This is my first episode recap post. It will take some time to find a good format, but I'll start with a picture heavy post first to see how that works out. Greek is actually my favorite show on television right now (including those that have already wrapped for the season). The writing is always well-balanced (not too depressing or too happy) and fresh. I'm going to recap this episode by dividing it into the three main plot lines. First is the short, but funny adventures of Rebecca and Evan. These characters haven't interacted much since the beginning of the show, so it was fun to see them together. Here is how their story played out:

First, Rebecca's car was towed for parking in the faculty lot. Since Ashleigh had to study, Evan surprisingly offered to take Rebecca to the impound lot to retrieve her car since she needed to get to her laptop to turn in a paper.

No one was at the impound lot, so they tried to jump the fence to just get the laptop out of the car.

Unfortunately, the reincarnation of Kujo stood between them in the car.

After a few failed attempts, they managed to trap themselves in the car. Rebecca finished her paper and sent it in wireless, and the two realized they might be able to form some type of friendship despite all of the awkwardness.

I thought this side plot was great. The rest of the episode was tense, so it was nice to watch these two characters try to thwart a guard dog, especially after it swallowed Rebecca's remote control. They had to lure the dog near the car so the key would wirelessly unlock it, and this became higly amusing as niether one was able to outrun the dog, and instead opted for hiding in it instead. I'm glad it all worked out okay =D

Casey agreed to study with Cappie for their midterm since he invited a third girl he was dating to come along. Unfortunately, the new girl brought someone else Cappie had recently slept with, and so Casey and Cappie had to flee the study group and settle for studying elsewhere.

They tried the library next, but after things got too intimate on a crowded couch, they left and finally ended up at the Kappa Tau house.

Rusty showed up and explained his crisis with Jordan and how he decided that he could never be just friends with her. Casey and Cappie saw the obvious parallels to their relationship, which made things uncomfortable.

Cappie confessed his fears that no one will ever match up to Casey, and decided he will never find out unless he cuts her out of his life. They reluctantly agreed to end their friendship.

I'm a Cappie and Casey Forever person. Although I love Max, too. It reminds me of Ugly Betty a bit with Henry/Betty/Matt, but unlike Matt, Max is actually likable. I'm sure these two (Cappie and Casey) will eventually end up together. It just has to be the right time. Once they are together, though, the series will probably end. Their unrequited love story is the backbone of the show, and keeps it going (and good!) episode after episode.

And finally, Jordan and Rusty. Jordan had previously stated she and Rusty couldn't be friends after she kissed him when she was still dating Andy. But she decides she misses him and asks as innocently as possible if she can be a part of the guys' study group.

Dale and Calvin like the idea of a fourth person to spread out the art midterm material, so they leave it up to Rusty, who quietly agrees.

Before the study group starts, Jordan clears the air with Rusty by saying she wants her friend back. Rusty likes the idea of having Jordan at least as a friend (rather than no Jordan at all), so he says okay.

The study group is going great with Dale's crazy schedule and special Trivial Pursuit questions, but then Jordan's cell phone keeps ringing.

It's Andy, but she ignores the calls. He gets a hold of her by calling Calvin's phone, and breaks up with her.

After discussing the Sistine Chapel for their midterm, Rusty decides to re-create it for Jordan (who has seen it in person) by projecting it on the ceiling. This particular shot reminded me of the Breakfast Club for some reason...

The plan works perfectly as expected.

And Jordan can't get over how amazing it is, and in this moment, falls for Rusty.

Apparently going against her feelings, she gets back together with Andy when he calls back. Rusty decides it is too painful to be just her friend, and confesses that he had loved her from the moment he met her and tried to be cool with her dating Andy. She's overwhelmed and leaves him standing in the middle of the street.

At the art midterm the next day, Rusty gets passed a note from Jordan.

The professor thinks he is cheating, but Jordan stands up and tells him they aren't cheating. She goes on to ask him to read it outloud to prove it.

The note describes how she fell for Rusty the night before, and that she wants to be with him because he is new and is not the safe guy she usually dates like Andy.

The professor gives him back his midterm and tells him to talk to Jordan after class. The last line of the episode is Rusty happily muttering to himself "She fell for me!"

Wow. I LOVED this. How amazing was this storyline? My parents just happened to be in the room during the episode, and even my dad cracked a smile when the professor read the note aloud. It's that great "underdog gets the girl' story that just resonates with everyone. The Sistine Chapel scene was great, and made me wish a guy would project it on my ceiling. Or better yet, take me to see it in person ;) I can't wait to see how their little romance evolves. It took 9 episodes for them to get together, so I'm hoping the relationship lasts for awhile and doesn't get messed up right away by something stupid (reference Lana being infused with kryptonite right after she and Clark are back together....ugh Smallville, why?).