Okay, so, after the little mini-recap showing Mouth in the kitchen with the cucumber, Kaytee wearing bizarro white lipstick while singing joyously in the band, and Robby "whole lotta lovin'," we're confronted once again, with the white-on-black Blair Witch-ian credits and then suddenly we're in Morgan the Mouth's room...

...and the camera's careening around because Mouth's a spaz, and Mouth's mum is saying, "Shut that thing off! Right now!" and Mouth's saying, "Can I just film my diary entry?" To which his mother responds, "Clean this room up. RIGHT NOW!" Mouth responds by carrying his video camera down to the kitchen to film his father smoking a cigarette at the kitchen table. (While I won't be dining at Kiwi's "Kitchen of Kool Kuts" anytime soon, remind me also to abstain from dining at Mouth's house as well.) Mouth says, "I'm cleaning my room." His father glares at him and launches into what very well might be his golden shining parental moment: "That's not gonna do anything for me," says Mouth's dad. "If you were a decent student, I wouldn't care if you lived in a pigsty. But you're a lousy student and you live in a pigsty. And you have rotten manners and you have no respect. You are an absolutely obnoxious kid and everything that's good about you only surfaces with people outside this house and people you want to impress." Mouth's troll-like younger brother Duncan then flips Mouth the finger and attempts to scurry off to a swamp somewhere as Mouth's oh-so-supportive father physically launches himself at Mouth and his camera and yells, "Get out of here!" and Mouth flings himself up the stairs and into the bathroom, locking the door behind him so he can be alone with his thoughts. Which, as it turns out, are somewhere along the lines of "Like I said, my mom and dad are real pricks."

And we're in the American High car, driving down the Highland Park street toward our introduction...

In what has become the signature lead-in, a brief selection of students spit out singular all-encompassing sentences that give us an idea of what the show is going to be all about. Mouth says, "I'm a front." Sarah says, "I'm so not what people think." Robby says, "Growing up is figuring out who you are." Brad gives us a mouthful of "Why am I here? What is the purpose of life? It would be really hard to come up with an answer. Really hard." Thanks, David Foster Wallace, Jr. Then Kaytee wraps it all up with "Am I different or am I just saying I'm different?" Both, K-girl. Both.

Then Kaytee appears to be getting interviewed at the DMV, because she's sitting in front of this huge blue curtain and she's saying how she hooked up with a bunch of weird kids and by default became weird herself. Isn't that always the way? You're never actually just weird -- it's everyone else who's freaky. Really. So Kaytee says that she started listening to Nirvana and worshipping Kurt Cobain, which made her want to pick up a guitar and learn how to play. I'm thinking that it's fortunate our little Kaytee picked up that particular instrument instead of the other instrument Kurt was fond of, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.

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