Friday Night Lights

At DH, Tami gets ready to make her first speech to the Dillon High PTA; Coach is in attendance and quickly starts chatting with his former coaching staff. They're pretty annoyed with Monty and the golf cart he apparently drives around Panthers practice, but when Coach asks them to come over to East Dillon, they shuffle their feet. The economy's bad, they need their benefits & job security, etc. It is nice to see Mac again, though. When Tami takes the stage, several parents shout out their frustrations at their children being redistricted to East Dillon. Tami talks about how it's just as good as Dillon High, but the parents know better and ask why Tami's daughter is going to Dillon, then. Julie's a little freaked at the tone in the room and being brought into the discussion. Tami calmly states that it's because she happens to be zoned for Dillon, but the crowd is not appeased, and keeps shouting her down.  Tami says that they're not going to get anything accomplished this way; Monty giggles in his chair and can barely keep from squirming happily. Rat bastard.

In a really strange scene, CT takes some equipment to a major department chain to be repaired, and the guy on the floor turns out to be a major Coach Taylor fanboy/stalker, who talks CT into letting him volunteer as assistant coach for the Lions. At the next practice, the guy repeats everything after Coach says it, shouting it at the boys. What the hell? Vince is running well but is having trouble learning the plays. Not quite as easy as Madden football, is it, #5? Cut to Jules, riding shotgun with Saracen as he delivers pizza to Monty's house. JD answers the door and is as much of a prick to Saracen as Monty has been to Tami: he taunts Matt for taking Julie with him on his shift, rubs salt in the wound of Matt not going to Chicago, and stiffs him for the tip. There's an upcoming party that Julie wants to go to, btw, and Matt doesn't because he says it's going to be a "Panthers party."

Panthers party at Chez Monty. Landry's in the house talking with his Crucifictorious bass-player lesbian buddy; Julie walks in awkwardly. JD, hanging all over some half-dressed girl, asks where "Pizza Man" is. Julie awkwardly says Matt's showing up later. JD calls over Luke, who I believe we saw in the promos, who asks Julie if she's coming to the game. Julie brightly says that she'll be seeing the Lions play, thanksSOmuch, and JD smirks that the Lions won't win once their whole season. Then he says something about Julie's chances being better, leans in and strokes her hair. EW! EW OFFSPRING OF MONTY EW. Luke pulls JD back, apologizing for JD's drunken state, but JD brings his & Julie's parents into it, saying that Eric could still be coaching a winning team, and that Monty gave him the chance. Julie: "Yeah? Well, your dad's an ass." LOVE IT. Being the dim-witted, passive-aggressive bastard that he is, JD decides to throw Julie in the pool. Luke tries to hold him back but he picks her up easily, Julie starts screaming, and of course that's when Matt walks in and tackles JD to the ground. Landry and Julie get Matt up and Luke holds JD back. "He should've never taken me out of the game, Saracen!" JD yells, finally getting to the drama of last year's championship game, when JD fell apart under the pressure: "He just felt sorry for you, that's all." I'm about to dub you Revisionist History Boy, JD. Saracen walks away as JD shouts that it's "(his) Dillon now."

Riggins Ranch. Tim and Billy paint the nursery a sickly yellow - because Mindy doesn't want to know the sex of the baby, of course - and Tim rags on the color. The back-and-forth quickly devolves into pushing, of course, and then it's a shoving match, and then the Riggins brothers are destroying nursery shelves left and right and wrestling on the floor. Yay! Oh, I missed this. The carnage isn't much, but there are a few plastic shelving units that will never bear a stack of diapers. Billy's furious that Tim would "come into my house" acting like this; Tim uses Monty's excuse that he was "only joking", and Billy shouts that it's not a freaking joke, that he busted his ass for eight years so that Tim could go to college, and Tim can't even make it through September. Tim counters that Lyla was the one who wanted him to go to college, completely not hearing a word Billy just said. Billy finally tells Tim that he's got a wife and a kid on the way, and there's no room for Tim here. Tim looks like he's been gutted. On his way out, he says, "All I wanted to do was come home." That's what Ulysses said, kid. He goes to drink away his sorrows and nurse his wounds with bar napkins; the comely, middle-aged barmaid asks his name, and I think we all know where Tim's sleeping tonight.

Dillon High. Tami, the VP and what looks like the campus cops walk to a classroom; apparently one of the kids has been redistricted to East Dillon, but has been showing up at Dillon High. Tami asks for... Landry's bass player. Aw. Julie gets up from her seat and watches as her mom walks the girl down the hall and out of the school. Meanwhile, over at Chez Saracen, Matt tries to talk Landry into having a better attitude about the Lions, telling him that he might actually get off the bench at EDH. Landry sees right through this backhanded compliment, but accepts it nonetheless. Grandma Saracen comes out and reveals her dementia by telling Matt that he should be throwing the ball in preparation for the Panthers game on Friday. Yikes.