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Wed, Jan 26, 2005
After his cowardly roughing-up by a gang while putting out the trash at his restaurant job, Jack decides to return to daily athletic team training, leaving Bobby without a jogging partner, but refuses to involve the police just for suddenly pseudo-maternal Grace's sense of 'civic duty'. Courtney meets charming Sig frat pledge Nate Edmonds by freeing him from the tree in the chancellor's home front lawn which he was tied to naked by way of hazing, albeit cupping. When Nate invites her to a frat party, she lies to be a Sig(ma), but the real problems are the age-gap and his girl-friend back home... Bobby notices Jack's knee is killing big brother, and takes the chancellor's chessboard-advice to courageously do what's best at the risk of being despised for it, but Grace isn't nearly so brave; Bobby still gets her to drag Jack to the doctor before the match, but even knowing he risks permanent damage seems less pressing to Jack then 'conquering his fear'... After Grace's lame patronage was probably he last straw for the colleagues assessing Tom's graphic novels thesis progress, she realizes to have given their romance game away to a student, and unlike him feels like giving in to subtle threats by sparing her a failing grade...
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Wed, Feb 2, 2005
Jack's wrecked knee has also wrecked the family budget; Mindy almost lost interest in him, drags him to her ex Randy's party, where the rivals have a fist-fight. In the doctor's waiting room Jack gets blatantly lectured by inconspicuous scoliosis patient Katie, just for never noticing her before. Grace accepted to spend the weekend naked in Tom's parents' St. Louis property, without even remembering the annual meteor shower camp she promised Bobby six months in advance; Tom decides to go camping there 'coincidentally' instead. As their endless unrelated tattering makes the fun turn torturous for Bobby, and she blatantly dismisses his plea to get rid of Tom, he exposes cleverly the man's utter astronomical ignorance and her hypocritical crush. Both pa the chancellor and Nate himself see trough Courtney's 'mandatory invitation' for a Negro students event, he tells her his girlfriend back home was invented to prevent an accident with a minor, yet turns up the next morning to invite her...
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Wed, Feb 9, 2005
Bobby wants substitute-father figure Peter Benedict to teach him deer-hunting, badly enough to blackmail hypocrite pacifist meat-eating ma Grace to permit it by threatening to tell Jack about her affair with Tom, who stops her wining about the 'bloody killing' by stripping for love-making- till they see Jack, still on crutches, staring at them in their underwear, most unamused, doubting she can love any more then be honest, disgusted Bobby had to hide it for her, worried he'll be left with the pieces when the age-difference explodes in her face. Courtney uses her dad's absence that Saturday to invite Nate at home, sweetly kissing on the couch till she insists it's time to go further- then unable to stop because they have no condom... Bobby enjoys the nature - and hunting lesson as well as the bonding, but is unable to kill, even as a mercy-shot, even Peter and Jack fail to console his bruised male ego.
Wed, Feb 16, 2005
Because his mate Warren feels they're ignored by the cool crowd, Bobby decides to organize a sleep-over for them and show a porn DVD on his PC, which he must steal from the video-store- of course the disk itself is missing unless you pay; only a snow storm keeps the cool kids in, but Tom tempts them to indoor 'catch the flag' by promising the winning team a beer each, without telling it's non-alcoholic, still great fun and a feather on Tom's cap. Married but flirtatious professor Roger Hennessy accidentally catches his old flame Grace kissing student Tom, which he insists is against department policy. She's trapped by the storm at Peter's as he wanted female advice about now 'dubious' student-boyfriend Nate since the campus doctor reported Courtney got the morning after-pill, they get drunk and dance. Meanwhile the suspects, Jack, Randy, Missy and Katie, trapped in JR's bar, play truth or dare; Nate eagerly accepts stripping on Courtney's lap, but only has to show his boxers.
Wed, Feb 23, 2005
Bobby and Warren's odd jobs firm's first customer, an old bag, hires them for a mean job: carry from her garage, reeking of her cats' piss, the boxes stored for months by her cousin Timmy Swain, to put with the trash. When Warren drops a box and goes trough it with dubious motives which Bobby rebukes, they find several wallets, including the one stolen from Jack, who thus is able to identify his violent robber in the hardware store where the fiend works, but is told by police officer Burke prosecution isn't realistic, so he asks Marcus to make sure he doesn't 'get away with it', starting a curious series of lies and difficult choices after Bobby finds out and refuses to stand by... Nate wisely refuses to take Courtney to a formal frat party where the chancellor would probably learn they still see each-other, she still buys a fancy dress for it and learns another twist... Professor Roger Hennessy formally files a complaint against Grace for willfully disregarding the department policy against professor-student relationships the hypocritical feminist helped draft, chairman Merle's attempt to sweep it under the carpet because Tom is consenting results in a formal disciplinary ethics commission chaired by Peter. After it is lifted without pronouncing, Grace who now has lost everybody's respect, even the student representative's, dares doubt Tom's love because of his reluctance to start over his entire 'tainted' thesis but is baffled by the real consequences and driving force.
Wed, Mar 2, 2005
Bobby has a school preparation on his ancestry, which requires help from ma about her and pa, but as Jack warned it's hard enough to get her to start talking at all, about pa she sticks to the utter lie the Mexican busboy was a Chilean archaeologist. Instead of behaving like an educator she even insists Bobby either goes along with her fake family history or takes a failing grade 'for once'. Because of a suspicious classmate's questions he's found out and utterly embarrassed, but still she expects him to accept 'she has a good reason', so finally he breaks open the box she keeps mysterious keepsakes in, and finds pa Juan's letter to 'Querida Grace', to her fury... Meanwhile Tom is sweet enough to show his convention text to Grace, who claims it needs a complete work-over but promises to do it- poor Tom, and of course it's all his fault if she dumps him somehow for expecting her to keep her promise... When Katie sees Nate kissing Tiffany at arrival in the station, she makes Jack risk his friendship by telling to his ex Courtney, who viciously turns on Nate without any consideration and blames him for her own deceptions...
Wed, Apr 20, 2005
When Missy tells Bobby she's pregnant of his baby, all Grace's feminist obsession simply subside to tell him there's no greater burden then raising a child alone, except doing so with a girl like Missy. Reverend Belknap could equally have spared himself the trouble to preach about Christian duty, atheist Jack feels it's up to him to do the right thing and wreck his life. Courtney finally manages to make Missy admit to her and ultimately to Jack the father is not him bur her irresponsible ex Randi... Meanwhile Bobby's exploration of religious services has concluded he wants to be baptized into the Episcopalian church, but he has a hard time finding a suitable god-parent while his fanatically atheist ma keeps pretending it's just a phase he'll quickly outgrow, till she learns he has been devout there for five months and considers Peter the right man for the job...
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Wed, Apr 27, 2005
It's not bad enough that Grace ignores Bobby's warning not to volunteer as chaperon for his class trip, she pedantically takes over from the admiring female history teacher and turns the weekend in Philadelphia into such a teenager hell that all his classmates blame the poor boy, who cleverly gives her exactly what she deserves: their own declaration of independence, providing she may never play any part in any class activity. Yet Bobby grants her some time together, without third parties... Jack scolds Missy for attending a party with Randy, only to hear startled that's just to make him jealous. When the kids drive home, drunk Marcus and a passing deer cause them to have an accident in which pregnant Missy dies.
Wed, May 4, 2005
After the accident, Jack wisely refuses Grace's 'help', but decides to tell the police he was driving, so his drunk teammate Marcus avoids criminal prosecution. Bigot reverend Belknap tells the boys to stay away from Missy's funeral and delivers a grim sermon without any compassion for the sinful kids coming to Old Testament justice, even her, which his wife Evelyn leaves him for. Warren makes a big production out of a prankish collection for a time capsule to commemorate their transition from junior - to senior high school with Bobby, but when he hears from Grace that's because dad Feide's new job is in Chicago so they move, Bobby is so hurt he wasn't even going to say goodbye he pretends no longer to have a best friend, but Jack makes him realize that's wasting his chance to say goodbye, which goes well. Jack makes a stand against parental urgency to tell the truth, Peter reconsiders and carries the day. The four boys make and bury a videotape in a time-capsule.
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Wed, May 11, 2005
When Grace drags poor Bobby along to Huntsville, the clever kid works out it's for the only notable institution there, a jail. He learns their Mexican dad, Juan Roberto Alba, is doing time there, she claims it's a mistake. Jack is furious that she took his kid brother there, and decides to come along to protect him. When Bobby, who first thanks Peter for being his de factor substitute father, wants to finally meet his biological pa, ma confesses she lied again: Juan may never be released as he was convicted for homicide. Now Bobby is disgusted and refuses to come, but Jack can't resist doing the brave thing and actually finds they see eye to eye.