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Drunken Bee: A | 1310 USERS: B-

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Black and White

By Drunken Bee | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2010.05.28

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Coach continues to struggle getting the Lions football program off the ground. He decides he should put together a pep rally to get the students and community involved and reaches out to former Lions football players -- from the 1983 State Championship team -- for support. The few he gets to come to his house for dinner take his implication that the eastside -- i.e., the black side of town -- has problems. Luckily, Buddy Garrity rings the doorbell to the delight of the eastside fellows. Buddy Garrity: Yes He Can. And, resistant at first, Jess Merriweather's former-star-football-player dad finally comes around and hosts the pep rally at his barbeque joint. We must wait to find out what tragic events led to his renouncing football so dramatically. Odds are there's some sort of connection to the dead wife. She take a football to the head or something?

Vince and Luke are at each other's throats. Luke thinks Vince stole his wallet as a prank and -- with the help of King Douche J.D. McCoy -- confronts him about it. They get into a brawl which attracts the attention of the cops, who lock both up and call Coach down to sort it out. The police declare that the "white kid" can go free since he doesn't have a record, while the "black kid" has to go to juvie. Coach is like "His name is Vince" and gets some time alone with the boys, tells them to get their shit together, tells Luke to take the fall, springs them both, and then leaves them both on the side of the road. Where the boys seems like they finally start getting their shit together.

The whole town continues to be against Tami, and her reaction to all the pressure is slightly Cathyish: CHOCOHOLIC!

In a series of fantastic little B storylines: Devon asks Julie to go to a gay bar with her on the outskirts of town. Devon spots a cute lesbian to talk to, leaving Julie there to lock eyes with....Coach Traub (who I've been mistakenly referring to as Staub, oops). Billy renegs on his promise to go hunting with Tim. Tim stops by the pizza shop to see Matt and, you guys, THE TEAM IS BACK TOGETHER! Matt sweetly asks if he can tag along with Tim on his hunting trip, and they sit around a depressing fire and talk depressing grown-up talk. Matt is realizing that Julie is going to go away for college, and he doesn't know what's going to happen with them, or with him languishing in Dillon.

His plight gets worse when he returns from his trip to find that while he was gone, two soldiers knocked on his door to deliver the news that his father has been killed. Oh, I have no jokes for any of this, and barely even any words to describe what it was like to see that split second, off-kilter shot of Grandma Saracen's desperate sorrow.

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Open, camera driving through town, fields and shacks and Slammin' Sammy on the radio. He's talking about Luke Cafferty being removed from West Dillon, Tami listens to callers complain about her while driving in to school. Cut to Coach getting coffee in the depressing East Dillon faculty lounge. Principal Levi is strangely sarcastic about Coach's win on Friday, though you can tell he's just using the sarcasm to keep his "tough talking cop" demeanor in tact. Coach mutters something about how pep rallies boost morale, Levi confirms that it won't cost him any money, and tells Coach to go ahead and plan a pep rally.

Matt and Julie are at the diner. Matt is sketching a hand (hands being, so far, the only thing he can draw that doesn't make his mentor puke) and asking Julie about her college applications. Julie remarks that Brown makes you handwrite your essay. Is that true? How "quirky" and "bohemian" of you, Brown. Matt awkwardly asks her about the final list of colleges to which she's applying. "Hmmm, UC Berkeley, UCSB, Brown, Amherst, umm, Mount Holyoke, NYU... UT Austin! Hook 'em horns." Matt is wondering where Dillon Community College is on that list.

Lions practice. After a flailing play, Vince and Luke get into it with each other. Coach calls them over and tells them to keep their personal crap off the field and quit letting everyone down. They "yes, sir" him and go back to practice. Next play, Luke tosses Vince the ball seemingly setting him up to get walloped by a tackle, which he does. Vince pops up and gets in Luke's face, Luke plays dumb, they flex on each other, the assistants try to keep them apart, on the sidelines Coach paces in exasperation when a sign on the fence catches his attention: East Dillon Lion Football 1983 State Champions.

Credits. Tim busts in the house holding two rifles. Mindy freaks out, or, well, uh, whines at him while continuing to stay seated eating potato chips. Tim asks Billy where the gun cleaner is, and Mindy realizes that they've got a hunting trip planned, which Billy has not told her about. Because being pregnant turns you into a huge black hole of selfishness, Mindy pretends like she's "okay" with them going hunting: "I'll just drive myself to the ultrasound appointment." Mindy! Pregnancy is not a disability! Billy tells her that he's going to stay to be at the ultrasound appointment because he can go hunting with Tim any time. Tim is like, not true! That's why they call it "hunting season!" Billy tells him to shut up and it looks like the Riggins' Gun Play Weekend is off. Deer are relieved, male and female audiences alike disappointed.