Like a good drug, this week’s episode of Greek made me drowsy at points, but ultimately served its purpose well enough. The action wasn’t all that interesting (especially the Casey scandal storyline, which dragged the plot down big time), but the poorly titled “No Campus for Old Rules” displayed the show’s newfound skill at wrapping up overdone stories while also introducing new ones. An OK episode loaded with series-important moments (no more Greek restrictions, U-Sag disbanded, Rusty gets laid) that, with only three episodes left in the season, open up all sorts of possibilities for the show to explore.
Summary
The Cyprus-Rhodes basketball team has made it to the “Basketball Conference Championship,” and Kappa Tau wins courtside seats through the Greek lottery. Rusty mentions this to Dale and his semi-crush Tina, both U-SAG backers, who exploit it and bring it to higher-ups at the school. Soon, the Greeks face not only the loss of their tickets, but also the threat of having the restrictions permanently enforced. Meanwhile, Casey faces a scandal of her own after she grants Ashleigh a “presidential pardon” when she is placed on house probation. The rest of the house (especially Rebecca) doesn’t take kindly to this move.
Representation of College
- Wow, sports in college! Glad to know one of the central aspects of going to a university finally emerged in Greek. It might be hard to fathom if you go to basketball cupcake Northwestern, but schools actually talented at the sport go crazy for it. And, unlike our fair school, students actually have to buy tickets, not just flash a Wildcard. Thank god for lacrosse…
- Evan’s big speech at the end about how great Frats are toed the line between cool spiel and stupid rant, ending up more on the prior. Greek used to be really bad at this, blindly pumping frats up. Today, they do it far less arrogantly and with an eye towards faults in the system alongside all the perks.
Greek’s Bad Writing in Action
- The Cyprus-Rhodes Titans will be playing in the…wait for it…Basketball Conference Championship. Why even bother giving it a name at all? Just call it the big game – even that generic title is better than the stupidly generic Basketball Conference Championship moniker. Can’t they just make up a sports conference?
- “Do you think they miss our Hot Pockets?” Said by Ashleigh in reference to frat boys eating late night snacks at ZBZ. Call me a perv, but I swear that’s one of the weakest innuendos imaginable. Maybe I’m just gross.
Closing Question – Didn’t Rusty have sex with his last girlfriend? Or did they just spoon?