That's going to be one well-endowed food bank!

Random thoughts on last night's episode:

• Overall, kind of choppy and without as much of the usual snappy dialogue.


• That sorority could have cured a lot of nausea, a fact we are apparently supposed to ignore. And she never did verify whether the house mother even had cancer, or whether the sympathetic and seed-providing botany professor actually existed. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. Hey, she had a Lance Armstrong poster, for God's sake! How much more proof do you want?


• What are we to make of the campus journalist's four witnesses?


• Effort should be made to not show Keith walking or running on sand. Not one of Enrico's strong suits as a performer—it just makes him look silly. Especially that time at the beach.


• Didn't see Piz, didn't miss Piz, but it kind of seems like a character introduced in the first episode should show up in the second.


• I guess we've confirmed who Vinnie was working for. Those pen transmitters of his sure are powerful. Yeah, I forgot it was too early in the season for Vinnie to redeem himself.


• The Veronica-and-Mac guilt trip at the beginning was a bit much.


• What getting drugged and raped has to do with immaturity escapes me entirely. The show really suffers when they write things that don't make sense in order to advance the plot. I feel like that's been happening more than usual.


• Now we know why QT never showed us what was in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. Inevitable anticlimax. That whole angle was just silly for so many reasons.


• The Food Bank???


• Dick seems to have recovered.


• The humor of "frack" has now run its course. That should not be a running gag.


• Hooray for Dan Castellaneta. The man is a frickin' (not "frackin'") genius. Not even the slightest soupçon of Homer in his Soc professor.


• I really disliked the VMVO at the end recapping what we've learned. Show, don't tell.

I wasn't wild about the episode, which I guess shows. I'd put it in the bottom quartile. I hope that they can execute the three-shorter-mysteries approach without watering down some of the best qualities of the show. I think they will be able to and are still in a semi-expository mode to establish the Hearst universe, but I'm ready for a memorable episode that will go down as a classic.