My only real nit was the cake. It was...weird, and I'm not sure it was worth it, just for Parker to give Veronica the piece with Logan's face. It was nearly so, though.

I read this and thought you were referring to the bar from the teaser and was confused. Then, I freed up some space in my brain, contextualised and understood -- cake like made from dough.

Whatever the talk of declining quality with this program, on an episode-to-episode basis, the level of craft involved in shaping things has, I think, been maintained since the pilot. I've gotten familiar with so it's less of a pleasant surprise but I guess I've gotten familiar with it because it's always there.

Also, this show needs to know when to relent with the pretty day players. How about peppering Hearst campus with a couple of goofy looking people, why would you not?

Well, the Swing-Dancing Banana Fanna man was a little goofy looking.

I dug it. In many of the same ways you guys dug it.

Go Piz! I'm tired of Logan. I want her to stop wanting Logan. I'm tired of Forever Loves on TV. I want her and Piz to fall madly in contrasting love. Maybe it's just cuz Piz is kinda like me, and I want to date Veronica.

Max/Mac is very happy-making.

Go Piz! I'm tired of Logan. I want her to stop wanting Logan. I'm tired of Forever Loves on TV.

I'm completely with you there. I really wish Logan would just be written off the show.

Besides, any resolution that has a Clemmons cameo, and Veronica shooting obnoxious teenagers with paint gun gets my vote.

Especially while quoting (at least in a FCC-friendly fashion) Pulp Fiction. But that whole scene was great.

Is that the Towelie reference everyone keeps mentioning? I saw Pulp Fiction, but I don't remember many lines from it.

The Towelie thing was a reference to South Park, if I'm not mistaken. Towelie was a stoned towel and the guy seemed stoned so... The Pulp Fiction stuff was like next or near to it.

Well, the Swing-Dancing Banana Fanna man was a little goofy looking.

Yeah, I don't really want an end to the pretty; my default pointing out setting is 'whiny'.

Is that the Towelie reference everyone keeps mentioning? I saw Pulp Fiction, but I don't remember many lines from it.

The Pulp Fiction reference was the "Say 'what' again, I dare you" bit.

All the way through, "Check out the big brain on Brett!" Originally all spoken by Samuel L. Jackson near the beginning of the movie, IIRC. In the same scene as "Now *that* is a tasty burger!"

Here's the scene, major profanity ahoy:

Jules Winnfield: What does Marcellus Wallace look like?

Brett: What?

Jules Winnfield: What country you from?

Brett: What?

Jules Winnfield: What ain't no country I ever heard of. They speak English in What?

Brett: What?

Jules Winnfield: ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER! DO-YOU-SPEAK-IT?

Brett: Yes.

Jules Winnfield: Then you know what I'm saying.

Brett: Yes.

Jules Winnfield: Describe what Marcellus Wallace looks like.

Brett: What, I-?

Jules Winnfield: [pointing his gun] Say what again. SAY WHAT AGAIN. I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker. Say what one more goddamn time.

Brett: He's b-b-black.

Jules Winnfield: Go on.

Brett: He's bald.

Jules Winnfield: Does he look like a bitch?

Brett: What?

[Jules shoots Brett in shoulder.]

Jules Winnfield: DOES HE LOOK LIKE A BITCH?

Brett: No.

Jules Winnfield: Then why you try to fuck him like a bitch, Brett?

Brett: I didn't.

Jules Winnfield: Yes you did. Yes you did, Brett. You tried to fuck him. And Marcellus Wallace don't like to be fucked by anybody, except Mrs. Wallace.

Oh man. I love that scene. Thanks for the post, smonster.