Travis Cobb, the giant inflatable gorilla who has never had much feeling in his butt, has graduated! (“We know.” “He’s blue.”) In the walk-up to the “everyman student” speech-giver’s ceremony, Grayson and Jules made the transition from secret lovers to public affection-displayers rather seamlessly. Grayson has ceased to be overly concerned with Jules’ “relationship-y” tendencies and has moved on to being a little annoyed that she (and her new wardrobe) can get pretty wrapped up in her son and suddenly shun the idea of sex. “Quit your bitching and get me some coffee. Welcome to the second week of dating!” said Jules the “asexual man-goblin.” After the jump, one of the best actor-inserts-real-life-into-new-series moments ever. Bruuuuuuuuuce!
Meanwhile, Jules wasn’t insistent enough that Laurie attend Travis’ graduation, even after Laurie backed out of her trip to “a country where handsome black men are wandering around.” Do you know how hard that was for her? Laurie worried she wasn’t as important to Jules as Ellie, so after cutting up Ellie’s enormous new lady hat, those two had another one of their adorable/bitchy heart-to-hearts, Ellie dropped the hint to Jules, and eventually all, except Laurie’s conservative tan dress, was well.
Cut to graduation. Barb was there, of course, penciling in her picks for the Class of 2010 Fantasy League. Travis was going to deliver a speech about his dad, because he didn’t want Bobby to feel so bad about peaking in high school, but instead that elusive red balloon showed up so they all chased that instead, except for Grayson and Ellie, who huddled all adult-like under version 2.0 of the giant floppy hat. Congrats, grad!
FAVORITE MOMENTS:
–”Is that you with Bruce Springsteen?” Why, yes, that is Courteney Cox with the Boss!
–The ridiculous high school musical about teen-queen Jules
–Laurie knew that “That would be acceptable” sounded like Booty Talk
–Andy’s patterned shirt reminded me of Cosmo Kramer’s lobster shirt
–Ellie watching Laurie sleep: “What else have I got to do? I’m Ellie.” Reminds me of commenter Meow’s suggestion that if Cougar Town‘s title is changed, perhaps they should consider Sleepwatchers.
–At least Ellie had 12 pictures of Taye Diggs to keep her company Chez Laurie.
–”You’re coming to Travis’ graduation. You’re family.” Awwwwww!
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The Bruce thing was genius.
genius it was. i LOVE this show.
Agreed. I couldn’t stop laughing at that.
I LOVED how they made reference to that. Just shows how far these “cooler” single-camera sitcoms have come now. Friends would never have done anything like that.
The Springsteen thing was great…
However, it’s not even the funniest “actor-inserts-real-life-into-series” moment in a Bill Lawrence show!
That would be the brilliant episode of “Scrubs” where J.D. noticed that his nemesis the Janitor had a bit part in “The Fugitive.” (As Neil Flynn did in real life.)
“Kimball! … You tell anyone and you’re dead.”
Hooray for Scrubs! I LOVE that episode. I assumed at first that they somehow reshot it with Neil Flynn to make it look like he was in The Fugitive because I didn’t remember the movie that well…but NO. I looked it up, and it was for real! I loved that.
This show is fantastic. I will now sigh a happy, contented sigh. *sigh*
Agreed! The Dancing in the Dark insert was fantastic. On top of the yearbook photo, she did her moves from the video. LOVED it!
I don’t know why this show isn’t more popular. I think a lot of people (and critics) wrote it off because of the title. Now Barb is the only real “cougar” in it.
“Damn, I do love pretzels.”
I love Bobby!
Best exchange from last night (somewhat paraphrased):
Ellie: I tend to drift out of the conversation when I realize it’s no longer about me.
Laurie: You have really pretty hair.
Ellie: And I’m back in!
I love Bobby with the notebook “I do love pretzels.” Loved Ellie’s statement about having nothing to do. And I laughed so hard when I saw that giant Travis gorilla. As Bobby said, it was the only sensible thing to do.
“asexual man-gobbler.” … I think that he called her a man-”goblin” (Man gobbler sounds more like Barb…lol)
The first time I heard “gobbler” – when someone repeated it I heard “goblin”
love love this show. it just gets better and better. terrific cast and writing. i initially was afraid Ellie would be playing the same exact role from Scrubs but she owns this and has changed it for the better.
I LOVE Ellie!!! Love her.
sucky suck suck
And your purpose for posting is…..?
If you don’t like the show, why did you even access the article?
Go away.
I love Travis!
Great show…not SCRUBS, but still a great show. I don’t think the title fits anymore…I’m sure that by now it could survive a name change. The Bruce insert was genius!
so many things I loved about this episode I could write an essay!
best episode of the season IMO!
genius stuff!
and the show remains stuck, in a good way, to its best mix: fun & sweet!
cant wait for the finale!
also Kuddos to our beloved CC for showing off that she has not lost her on stage moves more than 20 years later!
Loved the Boss moment. This show is amazing.
Just as an aside, Courtney Cox is even lovelier now than when she was a teen.