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Original Air Date: April 7, 2008
Now that she and her best friend CASEY are definitely single, ASHLEIGH is intent for them both to move on and get it on as soon as possible. Casey’s not in the mood, however, partly due to all of the responsibilities of being Zeta Beta Zeta president.
Speaking of which, LIZZIE, the national representative who’s hanging around to put the Cyprus-Rhodes University chapter back on the right path, informs the group that it’s national ZBZ Big Sister, Little Sister Week. As a result, Casey has scheduled several relevant, mandatory activities for house members, such as volunteering in pairs at a local animal shelter and having a double date event.
After the meeting is over, Casey approaches her estranged little sister REBECCA LOGAN and — shocker!!! — makes nice. Casey tells Rebecca that although they don’t have to be friends, it would be good if they could at least try to be non-enemies.
Nobody’s more stunned by this attitude change than snarky little Rebecca, and she makes sure to tell CAPPIE as soon as possible. She also reveals she’s ready to go public with their relationship, as he suggested earlier. Cappie agrees, but he wants to break the news to Casey himself beforehand since they have a history.
He gets the chance to do it when he bumps into Casey and Ashleigh (going on and on about the exchange student from “Hotmanistan” in one of her classes) when he’s completing his community service one night. Casey recovers from her shock quickly, telling her ex that she’s cool as a “polar ice cap” about the situation before rushing off to go watch To Catch a Predator. The NBC show about pedophiles becomes significant later. Keep reading…
Elsewhere, CALVIN stops by to see RUSTY, who isn’t in his room. But, his roommate DALE is, and Dale is also still determined to help “fix” Calvin’s “decision” to be gay. Maybe it’s the fact that he’s knitting when Calvin arrives or maybe it’s because he’s just so darn confident he’s right, but Calvin takes Dale up on his offer, and with a bear hug that makes Dale queasy, they agree to meet the next day.
Calvin returns as planned to find Dale and three of his nerd-ish friends gathered for a very special purity pledge meeting. Dale starts off by apologizing for a staring Sanjay, who’s never seen a “gay in the wild,” and then explaining that the dorm room is now a safe room for the conversion process, where everyone can express their feelings.
Calvin catches on quickly and summarizes just to be sure: Dale and his friends get together every week, talk about their feelings, and never have sex with women. When the others nod in agreement, Calvin is more than eager to sign up.
Dale continues his attempts to convert Calvin afterwards by using his conception of aversion therapy (sticking a rotten banana peel in Calvin’s face when he looks at pictures of men in their underwear) and spouting his interpretation of the bible’s Leviticus.
When Calvin counters that Leviticus also forbids eating shellfish and wearing mixed fabrics like Dale’s poly-cotton blend shirt, Dale clams up. Calvin eventually gets Dale to at least accept that Calvin’s happy being gay when Dale says he doesn’t believe in homosexuality and Calvin reminds him that attending college is supposed to be about challenging your beliefs.
While Calvin is dealing with Rusty’s roommate, Rusty is coping with his pledge group’s obvious dislike of him. While he was busy being involved with traitorous Jen K., they were doing things together without him, such as playing pranks on other frats. When Rusty asks Casey for advice on what he should do, she suggests he make a sincere effort so they’ll give him a second chance.
The group’s latest fraternity task is to complete a pledge project so grand, it will outdo the remarkable Vesuvius Volcano of 1999 that frat icon Egyptian JOE is still enthralled with. Rusty suggests creating a video game with a few Easter eggs and characters based on house members. The group nixes the suggestion immediately as being too ambitious, although Rusty offers to teach them the computer programming required.
The guys rapidly decide on a lame tire swing, which requires minimal effort, although Rusty tries to warn them that’s not what Cappie wants. They don’t listen, of course, and as Rusty predicted, Cappie thinks the so-called swing-o-ling sucks. He orders them to start over and do better the next time. Instead of doing that, however, they try to force Rusty to convince Cappie the swing is great since they think Cappie is stuck on Rusty.
Rusty bumps into Joe afterwards, who recognizes Rusty’s big brain, and tells the pledge he needs to do whatever he wants and attribute it to the entire group. They’ll thank him when it succeeds and they get partial credit. So, Rusty goes ahead and creates his Tetris-style video game, Kappa Tau-tris.
His pledge group is not too thrilled about yet another display of what they perceive as showboating, even if Rusty gives them credit for the game, too. The situation improves after Rusty, exasperated, admits he’s not a team player but wants to try. The guys brainstorm an idea together that results in a homemade custom beer brewery.
Cappie is happy, despite the first batch’s strange resemblance to sludge, because the group collaborated. He later tells Rusty that’s what fraternities are all about — bonding with people outside of your comfort zone whom you might not meet otherwise. Rusty has succeeded at that, too, and when his pledge group leaves to go to IHOP, they invite him this time.
Later, the ZBZ chapter arrives at the animal shelter for the volunteer session. Rebecca remains shocked that Casey is being nice to her, although Casey repeatedly gets in jabs, reminding her little sister that her new squeeze is actually used and “mistakenly” dousing her with water from a hose while they’re washing the dog they’ve been assigned.
Rebecca finally retaliates by informing Casey that Cappie will be accompanying her to the double date dash. Now in need of someone so hot that he’ll make people forget Cappie and Rebecca are in the room during the event, Casey sets her sights on JONAH, the animal shelter’s canine caregiver who is both cute and seemingly nice.
Unfortunately, he’s a little too nice and earnest for Casey, who’s just using him anyway. And, that’s exactly what she does when Cappie and Rebecca start kissing at the dash. After she kisses Jonah in response, she begins drinking even more, although Jonah can’t because he has to drive home.
The next morning, Casey wakes up in bed with Jonah and a hangover, right before his mother walks in to wake him up to get ready for school. It turns out Jonah is all of 16 years old — WOOPS! — and Casey can’t get away fast enough.
She meets with Cappie later to explain why she’s having a tough time with his relationship with Rebecca. She’s convinced Rebecca is nothing but bad news, and she also still cares about Cappie.
Cappie is moved, but he maintains that Rebecca has a good side, plus she likes him for who he is; he’s not dating her just to screw with Casey, or so he claims. Resigned to the fact that she can’t break up Cappie and Rebecca, Casey makes sure to inform her little sister that if she hurts him, Casey will hurt her.
MY TAKE: The official network description of this episode states that a large part of the plot focuses on Cappie planning his revenge against Omega Chi and Evan for snitching about the last episode’s party. Either I temporarily lost consciousness during those parts or the description is wrong. My money is on the second alternative. Maybe that particular storyline will pop up on the next episode. Otherwise, this was a pretty good installment, especially the Calvin and Dale subplot.
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