Personally, I liked this episode, as weird and far-fetched as it was. There's probably a little bias here though, because I watch the soap opera General Hospital occasionally and Amber Tamblyn grew up on GH, and she was the actress who played Melissa Campbell.

   As cute and funny that it was how Lauren asked Harry to the symphony, it made it appear as if Lauren and Harry had never even dated at all in the first place. Seriously, someone who just started watching this season would have no idea that they had been together.

   But then she goes on to ask Scott, which is good, because Scott jumps at the chance. This is good not because I want to see Lauren and Scott a couple, but because Scott jumped at the chance, which is what Scott's supposed to do. This, my friends, is the Scott we know from last season! But how, in the end, he chooses Meredith over Lauren just makes me mad! I mean, Scott may have chosen Meredith over Lauren, as unlikely as it seems. But for Scott to choose Meredith over the symphony and Lauren is just so out of character [g]. I now quote Dana Poole in saying "...so un-Guber."

   I have one thing to say about Melissa's friend who was there when she fell down the stairs. If people found it ridiculous to believe that Lisa Grier was supposedly a high school student, this is just absurd! This guy must be 25!

   I've decided to introduce another award to the little collection. The Funniest Line of the Night award goes to Steven for tonight for his "Oh I'm done...but I'd like to stay." Of course this is followed by Lauren's close second: "Or what, you'll bring your hook out of retirement?"

   I suppose, as principal, Steven has the right to withdraw Harvey from the speech-giving contest. After all, Steven's the one who's letting the money get away. But his reason stunk like the garbage that's sitting in his house because he hasn't taken it out because he's at this school until like mignight everynight. Yeah, I don't know about Boston, but where I come from teachers leave school before three. Anyway, Steven says Harvey can't give his speech because it's racist. The speech was offensive, yes; embarrasing, yes; a lot of other things. But I don't think it was racist.

   [Static, click, blip, more static] Houston, we have a problem! Wait...what was that? Sorry...wait...no, it was Hanson we have a problem. See (and I just re-watched episode 23 to check) in the first episode this season Danny decides to be really obnoxious and insult fat people. When he goes to apologize to Marla, she sees how incredibly shallow this character is (oh, sorry, that just slipped in there) and she asks him what he thinks of fat people. He goes on to say some stuff, in which he says "But we're all people, you know; all God's children." Now in this here episode we're supposed to believe that Danny's an atheist. I think we're going to have some trouble there. Maybe that's because we've got some inconsistency here.

   As weird as Melissa's plotline was, I can let that slide. What bothers me is how they never resolved the stair thing. So she really wants this kid, right? Well we definately have reason to believe that because she's like having a cow over the fact that everyone at Winslow is telling her how wrong it is. But then we're also supposed to believe that she tried to throw herself down the stairs to get rid of the child. Yeah, okay...way to make sense BP!

   And I'll make it a wrap with Harvey's speech. I really liked how humble and modest it was. Like the young guy before him was all "I'm such a great teacher and kids learn so much from me and I'm so proud and that's what teaching really means blah blah blah." Harvey was all "I see good teachers around me who inspire, well that's what teaching really is." I can understand why he didn't win first place, I mean he spent the first part of his speech saying what a bad teacher he was, which won't really score you points with the judges. Had he come in first it would have been a bit too unrealistic. Coming in third was perfect!

   And to solve the (up 'til now) mystery..."It's Lip-shitts."