I love that Eliot obviously knew a lot about baseball. Lord knows I had no idea what he was talking about. It was just something he'd never tried. But he's hand-eye gifted like that. And, club.

Liese, I pine for fraught too. But I guess I'll settle for crumbs of Parker getting more comfortable and Hardison still caring hard.

Yeah, okay. If I have to.

Just had lunch...okay if it's at 5:00 it's probably not lunch anymore, is it? Anyway, just had dinner and watched White Collar. It was a good ep, but my primary takeaway is that thing with the hat!

It is not fair for him to be all cool with the hat and to have a character on there that is not cool despite his hat at the same time. It is to bitterly remind me that despite my ability to do the hat thing, I remain desperately uncool. I was mocked for it, mocked I tell you, by my band leader in the music store. If I cannot be cool doing the hat thing in a music store, where can I? I ask you.

Also, I badly need an animated icon of that. There is one out there, right, surely?

Oh, and yeah, slashy mcslasherson. This show could not get any slashier if it had a machete and a lot of jungle to clear.

Adorable.

I was actually not impressed with Neal's attitude towards his fanboy. It's easy to be cool when you're around cool people doing cool things, but the problem with being cool is it doesn't necessarily make you nice. I mean, I enjoyed his discomfort and I enjoyed Neal acting like a bratty spoiled selfish child, but it was also kind of ugly of him.

Super happy power go.

Neal wasn't rude to Dan's face, though was he? Unexcited, yes, but he didn't say anything meaner to him than being waffley about teaching him the hat trick.

Not rude to his face so much, more mean and ugly to his peripheral vision.

From how Dan overheard their one whispered conversation, then the rest of their whispered conversations that I think were also in similar earshot, to Neal not even trying to be smooth and charming and giving Dan the gosh-darned courtesy of manipulating him like he manipulates everyone else, even though he doesn't have girl-parts or is a sexy femme fatale.

Like I said, I enjoyed all those scenes, and they seemed honest, but I felt that it showed and ugly self-centered side to Neal. Which is perfectly fine.

I don't think we were meant to take away that Dan heard any of those conversations, though.

If he did, he also heard Peter push him off onto Neal the same way Neal pushed him off onto Peter.

Personally I prefer the idea that Neal doesn't lap up being fanboyed, given I think he was polite if distant to Dan's face. He isn't all about the adulation--and there's been a great deal less of him getting off on the women folk recently. Last week he showed surprise that the woman went for Peter over him, but I don't think he flirted at all the episode before that.

I liked Hardison's big smile after Parker expressed her appreciation. Actually, I liked this whole episode so much I'm watching it again with my roommate. So much to love.