Friday Night Lights

Tami meets with a school board rep to discuss where all the new funds will go at Dillon - she wants to put it all toward the library - and the guy tells her that there are no funds. Tami protests that they talked about this last year, and he has to spell it out for her: they've lost donations since Luke left for East Dillon. "After what you did with Luke... you cost yourself, and the school, any chance we might have had to improve that library." Tami's stunned and dismayed as he shooes her out of his office, but her day's just going to get worse. When she goes out to the parking lot, she finds that her car has, of course, been vandalized with the words "PANTHER HATER" spray-painted across her windshield. Devil town is alive and well, y'all.

Chez Taylor. Eric and his stalker assistant Coach sit at the kitchen table, cold-calling East Dillon Lions alumni in the hopes of drumming up some funds; Eric's decided to make the next pep rally "sort of a Homecoming." The first guy stalker coach calls hangs up as soon as he hears Eric's name.  Tami comes home and calls Coach into the kitchen, pointing out that if he's inviting Lions alumni over, he needs to feed 'em. Eric asks his gorgeous, overworked wife if she's volunteering to cook. "Oh lordy," Tami says, staring weakly at the ceiling, before admitting that yes, she is in fact offering to cook and support her husband. Aw. Julie comes home and her dad introduces her to Stalker Coach (Stan Traub, I believe), which may be important later.

Curly-haired girl comes home, ready to shop for ballgowns, but alas! Her mother's left a note telling her she'll have to go on her own. CHG stomps over to Tim's trailer, knocks and immediately jerks the door open, asking if she can use his truck. Boundaries, girl! Tim says no, twigs that something's awry, and looks concerned when she admits that her mom "blew (her) off... again."  He takes her to the local bridal/gown shop, of course, where she doesn't like anything and just wants to GO, can we please GO? Tim, bless him, looks like he's going to vomit around all this taffeta, but he's trying to be a supportive tenant or help a damsel in distress or something, so he gives her a pep talk. She feels better when he confides that HIS mother didn't help him pick out a gown for Miss Young Texas, so he never placed, "and that's why I play football." HA! Oh, Timmy, I love you.

Chez Taylor, where Julie and Matt are having a confrontational game of Scrabble. Matt insists that "ZA" is SO a word, and what's Julie doing to do at a gay bar? Ah, I see Jules told him about Devon's request. Julie shrugs: "Dance... make out with chicks..." Matt: "See, I *knew* you wanted to experiment." HA! Matt counters that he doesn't care because he's going hunting with Riggins, and Julie wigs out because she's a vegetarian. Matt argues that everyone in Dillon goes hunting; Jules argues that she lives in Dillon and doesn't hunt, so there, and Matt mumbles: "You're not gonna be livin' in Dillon for long." Awkward! Julie asks if this is about her college applications, and Matt's all, no! No it's not! Why would you think that? Subtle, Seven.

Landry picks up Jess and her entourage to head to the Kilroy party. He's playing his Crucifictorius music, and they quickly '86 that. At the party, there is some palpable UST between Jess and Vince. "I think I'm the only one who sees how disposable you treat girls," is how she puts it; Vince counters that he only treats girls the way they let themselves be treated. Is that the "Stop hitting yourself" school of dating? Jess informs Vince that she has a boyfriend and crosses the dance floor directly to Landry, putting on quite a show for #5. At school the next day, Vince corners Landry by his car and asks him if he & Jess are an item. Landry seems shocked and honestly denies any such relationship. Vince seems moved by Landry's openness and honesty; he doesn't seem upset to hear that Jess is actually available, either.