Alex’s Story of Love and Football

While most of this episode focused on Alex, there’s always room to continue making Amanda look weird and obnoxious. The episode revolved primarily around Alex and Dan writing an article for the paper about practicing with the football team for a day. Dumbest idea ever. They’re writing for a high school paper, why search for such a difficult article idea when you can get away with writing a movie review? Then again, I guess that’s why these go-getters are going to be snagging up jobs from bums like me one day. I admire their dedication.

Anyway, they went ahead with it. They were made fun of by the players, the coach, and even the nurse who made them turn their heads and cough. Regardless, in the end everyone gave them credit for giving it their all, and Amanda even showed up and laughed at them during the practice because she’s obnoxious. Then, when Alex confronted her about it, she went on to bitch and moan about how the sun exhausts her and she can’t sit in it for long, as if it’s relevant to the situation. Eighty guys are running around a football field in heavy padding, and this girl is bitching about how the sun exhausts her. She is a class act.

After all was said and done, Alex and some of his broskis went to a Dave Matthews concert, and Alex even brought along a lady friend he had grown smitten with. There was some flirting and then, now this is so incredibly middle school, he asked her out via text message…while sitting next to her. Pathetic.

The episode closed with Amanda continuing to call Alex and make amends, and she left us with the closing line, “I need to call a meeting.” Well, that meeting probably won’t go well because I have a feeling she’s going to be a tad jealous about Alex’s new fling, and I’m hoping she is…mostly because it makes excellent television.