Friday Night Lights

This week, Matt comes to a hard realization, Tim shows Lyla some love, and Monty reaches a whole new low. Oh, and there's some redistricting thing going on. I'm sure it's nothing important.

Previously on FNL: Monty felt threatened by a teenage girl and manipulated his teenage son into giving up girls until football season was over; he was shocked to see JD sneaking out on game night to hang out with the girl. I know, who'd have thought that a teenage boy could be deceptive, much less give in to his hormones? Shocker! Buddy lost Lyla's college fund in a bad investment, which was the final straw for Ms Garrity, who stormed out of the Condo of Shattered Families and moved in with Riggins. I think that's a win on a whole slew of levels. Tyra started to realize Landry's worth. Again.

Mindy and Buddy register for wedding gift items in a department store; Angela and Tyra follow along like the supportive little entourage that they are. Well, Angela's supportive; Tyra's on scanner duty. Ten-hut! Mindy squees over a “Sangria Set” and asks Buddy what he thinks. Billy wants whatever she wants, so he's just counting the seconds until he can go home and get his brewski on. Billy says he'll go over to automotive to register a leafblower, and Tyra practically tosses the scanner at him, but Mindy's not having it: she takes the scanner herself, and Billy takes off for the land of lugnuts and wrenches. Angela asks why Tyra's not on board, again, and Tyra exposits that she's worried about her SAT results. Mindy appears: “Hello, ladies, are we here to register for my wedding?” Sir, yes sir! Tyra takes the scanner back as Mindy starts to talk about her bridal shower. I love how Mindy is one of those women who uses her wedding day as an excuse to boss everyone around for six months. Maybe she thinks it's training for when she has kids. Anyhoo, Tyra says that she's called all of Mindy's friends to meet at their favorite nightclub, but Mindy isn't feeling that. She'd like to have something special. “Oh, honey, it will be special! All the girls are gonna buy you new thongs to replace the old ones,” Tyra beams. Even Angela can't not laugh at that. Tyra's gonna pay for it, though, because Mindy glances down and spies... a china tea set. Oh, lord a mercy. Tyra's jaw drops at the suggestion of an afternoon tea for her stripper older sister; Mindy picks up a cup and saucer and raises her little pinky finger at her little sis, which cracks me up. Angela says that it's square, but Mindy corrects that to “classy.” Tyra tries to snark Mindy into submission, but Mindy has made up her mind: “My bridal shower's gonna be a tea!” she says softly, a gentle and sweet smile on her lips. Dang, Stacey Oristano really is a pretty girl. “Make that happen,” she says, tapping her index finger gently against Tyra's nose. For a moment she does look kind of classy and grown-up, and of course Billy chooses this moment to run up with the mother of all leaf blowers, and Mindy nearly busts a gut laughing with that big, horsey laugh of hers. Awesome.

Panthers practice. JD is, you'll excuse the phrase, nailing every pass; Madison stands at the chain-link fence and practically glows as she watches him play. Coach calls a water break and the team jogs to the coolers, but JD makes a beeline for Madison. She tells him that he looks hot out there. “Yeah... it is pretty warm,” JD says, because he is a dork. Heh. Coach sees what's going on and doesn't like it – he tells Wade to tell Romeo to get his head in the game, and calls the team back. Wade tells JD to focus, because it's State, like everyone and their dog didn't already know that; Coach tells JD to romance his girl on his own time. JD apologizes, falls into line and they start running plays again.