"The Great Cappie"

Welcome to Greek-vivor! Every week, we review the week's Greek episode and, in a Survivor-style system, award points to the Greek students best making their way through the college outback. The section ahead contains spoilers for this week's episode.

Well, hence the name, "The Great Cappie, this week's Greek episode seemed to center on Cappie. If I'm not mistaken, almost every other character has a scene with him in this episode. It's also becoming clear to me that Lizzie is going to be a much bigger character this season. I'm debating adding Lizzie to our lineup for that reason, but Greek websites still don't even list her as a reoccurring role. We'll see.

I most enjoyed the brief development of the Dale-Rusty-Calvin friendship. All the characters come from different backgrounds, but still manage to nominally get along (although Rusty and Calvin did ditch Dale at the two-person '70's party). But enough talk, let's award some points!







-Displayed skills at a “What Would Frannie Do?" game. My guess is it was significantly more fun than yet another round of "What Would Lizzie Do?" +1
-Showcased her American Idol audition song at speakeasy. Scores a 9.3 on the Norah Jones Scale of Sultry. +1
-Tries to showcase knowledge of Great Gatsby to Dean Bowman. +2
-Drops name Mia Farrow, rather than the name of her character (Daisy Buchanan) in the 1974 Great Gatsby movie. Ouch. Watching the movie only worked in high school. -2
-Previews Compare/Contrast essay on Jay Gatsby and Ferris Bueller to Dean Bowman. Could be a good argument. +1
-Blocks speakeasy with own body. That's dedication. Are you ZBZ's watching? +2
-Notes weirdness of “I wish you were a boy” Casey comment. We were all weirded out, Ashleigh. +1

Net Change:+6
Sum: 100







-Has enough time on his hands to be concerned about popcorn oil. Hmm. Have you ever considered starting a blog centered around a weekly hour-long TV show? -1
-Suggests rocking '70’s party. Forgets key social rule: any party listed in the newspaper is either above you or way below you. -1
-Interested in mentorship program and academic standing requirements of KTT. Should consider playing "What Would Blutarsky Do?" -1
-Had awkward conversation with Heath at KTT party. -1
-Jumped Trent over the “cosmo for the fairy” comment. +1
-Decides to go back to Omega Chi. (I'm going to give him two points because he seems to think this is the right decision for himself, but I really think this is going to backfire). +2


Net Change:-1
Sum: 103







-Gets written up for open container. -3
-Car removed from official list of secret hookup locations as a result of unpleasant stick shift experience. -2
-Airport's out too. -1
-And the Church. The real question: during service? -1
-Displays lousy spy lying skills. You're going to need to work on that if you're dating into a politician's family -1
-Lacking clean towels. Gross man. Don’t you know dirty towels cause acne? -1
-Sees through the “let’s be friends talk.” Apparently, his spy seeing-through-Casey-suckup skills are intact. +1
-Also needs work on putting on clothes correctly. Did Bond ever look tussled? -1 -Apparently, Plain White T’s rushed Kappa Tau. +1
-Conferred nickname on Evan: “Evian.” +1
-Plan for hiding speakeasy from Dean Bowman includes setting fire to Dean Bowman’s house. Displays thinking outside the box. +1
-Asks out Rebecca in a closet. Even the make-out mobile was more romantic. -1
-Commandeers security golf cart in act of self-sacrifice. +3
-Plan B includes reading of the Great Gatsby. +1
-Got all up in Evan's grill. Called him “Bing.” +1


Net Change: -2
Sum: 112







-Reminisces about wild elementary school parties. +1
-Has to practice rushing a semester early. -2
-Loses sorority girl, Andrea. -3
-Suggests party that somehow ends up being a '20s prohibition-era, Great Gatsby party. This whole "sharing ideas with Lizzie" thing isn't really working. -2
-"Start over" speech to Cappie covers for “let’s have wild Prohibition-era parties together” request. -1
-Rolls up Rusty's sleeves for him. Actually acts like a sister. +1
-Puts rushing skills to good use at Great Gatsby party. +1
-Brought flask in garter belt. Now she knows how to smuggle booze. +1
-Shut down by Cappie. -1
-Wins round of applause from ZBZ girls. +2
-Drops awkward "I wish you were a boy comment." -2

Net Change: -5
Sum: 95








-Attends Bible Jeopardy at Purity Pledge group and possibly drew a girl to the group. Usually these groups have the opposite gender problem. +1
-Won Rascal Flatts catalog on CD last time. Life really is a highway. +1
-Carpenter’s fan. Now we see why the "Darwin Lied" band is going nowhere fast. -1
-Joins into two-person disco dance. In all fairness, it is a cool disco ball. +1


Net Change: +2
Sum: 98







-Dissed Rusty by calling him an “insect.”...Seriously?...That’s it? Maybe he should consider 'yo mama’ jokes -2
-Plays role of Greek Sheriff on KTT. -2
-Expels Trent from Omega Chi. +2
-Gives motivational talk to Calvin in a last ditch attempt to keep diversity alive at Omega Chi +1


Net Change: -1
Sum: 90







-According to the first official "What Would Frannie Do?" Games, Frannie would tie up Lizzie and shove her in a closet. +1
-Still on a Pennsylvania Fat Farm? Omish Episode? N/A

Net Change: +1
Sum: 96







-Has tricked-out car +1
-Makes Cappie walk to class after hookup in the make-out mobile. -1
-Quizzes Lizzie on definition of fun. +2
-Supports the Casey Speakeasy Plan. +2
-Asked out by Cappie. I guess it's good for you, but you'll have to teach him to put his shirt on correctly if you want to introduce him to the parents. +1
-Compliments Casey. A Greek first. +1



Net Change: +6
Sum: 106







-Doesn't know the meaning of the word Prohibition...literally. Should have paid attention in high school history class. -1
-Still suffering hickeys from the ZBZ party last semester. Mistook ZBZ girls for I Am Legend zombies. -1
-Moving recitation of the Great Gatsby. Saves the Prohibition party by display a lack of literacy. +4

Net Change: +2
Sum: 102







-Tries to convince Calvin to join Kappa Tau. +1
-Defends ability to do math in lightning round of "Who Packs The Lousiest Insult." -1
-Defended insect insult by calling himself a tzetze fly. Way to tell him. -1
-Awkwardly uncovers “mystery guy” during Calvin's tour. -1
-Put the pressure on Calvin for going back to Omega Chi. Dude, chill. -1


Net Change: -4
Sum: 86

As you can see the competition is growing fierce for second with Rebecca, Calvin, Beaver and Ashleigh easily within an episode's showing of each other. Cappie slipped a little at the top while Rusty continued his plummet to the bottom. I have a feeling we're going to learn more about the "bing" nickname Cappie used on Evan. Here's hoping it leads to a story about awkward Freshman Chambers.

Standings:

Cappie (112)-2
Rebecca (106)+6
Calvin (103)-1
Beaver (102)+2
Ashleigh (100)+6
Dale (98)+2
Frannie (96)+1
Casey (95)-5
Evan (90)-1
Rusty(86)-4

Panhellenic Panel

"Does that really happen?"
By GreekGirl

...coming soon

Thanks for reading! See you next week!

"A New Normal"

Welcome to Greek-vivor! Every week, we review the week's Greek episode and, in a Survivor-style system, award points to the Greek students best making their way through the college outback. The section ahead contains spoilers for this weeks episode.








*Her iPod is held captive by weird ex-boyfriend from Brown University. -5
*Got told for touching Lizzy’s gavel. -1
*Nailed Calvin with 110 messages. Seriously? Stop at 100. -5
*Received forgiveness from Calvin. +6
*Eight bags indicate she’s shopping for three or 50. -2
*…oh wait, she's actually shopping for all ZBZ. +2
*Outs Calvin to random student. She really needs to work on her "not-outing-friends-in-front-of-large-crowds" skills. -1

Net Change: -6
Sum: 94







*Mentioned putting the Omega guys in chaps. Dude, there are some ugly guys in that fraternity. -3
*Forgave Ashleigh for outing him. +6
*Considers joining Dale's U-SAG group. -1
*Decides not to when threatened with the gay kryptonite of vitamins, prayer and purity pledges. +2

Net Change:+4
Sum: 104







*Scored vacation hookup +1
*…with Rebecca -1
*Mistook Evan for Dean Bowman +2
*Poked fun at Evan: “Good God man, not wristbands!" +2
*Has an issue with braided belts. Hey, braided belts are cool man. -2
*Put Rusty in his place after creepy sister pimping:
”Shame on you for Pimping out your sister” +2
*Gave inspirational speech about having parties +3
*Forced Rusty to delete Jen K messages. Seriously, just search YouTube for LonelyGirl 15--it's all there. I promise. +4
*Covered up Beaver hitting on Heath’s sister.-1
*Has Yeti Wars set at the famous Kappa Tau volcano. Draws bigger crowd than kissing booth. +2
*Scores kiss with Casey. Two girls in one episode? One more and I'll refer to him as James Bond. +2

Net Change: +14
Sum: 114







*Threw Rusty’s burned CD out window. +3
*Admitted to watching Oprah. -5
*Totally told by random Greek chick at Panhellenic meeting. -1
*Came up with carnival idea. +1
*Has to have weekly chapter meetings now. Stinks for you. -1
*Oh, and stuck with crazy ZBZ chapter overseer. Life's just awful. -3
*Drives Prius. Very environmentally friendly. Good call. +1
*Manages to book Plain White T’s for carnival +1
*No one comes to kissing booth. Ouch. -5
*Until Cappie takes pity on them. +1
*Crazy chapter overseer chick busts into her room at odd hours. -3
*Compared Jen K to Satan. +3
*Admits missing Evan. We already figured it out from the forlorn glances at your lavaliere and the awkward conversations. +2
*Straightening out sorority finances. +2

Net Change: 0
Sum: 100








*Admitted to attending Crystal Cathedral -3
*Accurately quoted 1 Timothy 7:14 +2
*Seriously wondered about Jen K’s virginity. Dude, they were borrowing your room last season. Put it all together. -2
*Has a "Greeks Are Weak" sign advertising U-SAG. Hmm. At least he’s organizing something with a catchy name. Appears to have more followers than his previous protest group and Church rock band. +5
*Considered curing homosexuality with vitamins, prayer, and purity pledge -4
*Gave Jen’s “Hair thing” to Rusty. Not smart. -1
*First customer of ZBZ Kissing Booth, Inc. +2
*Tries to score kiss with Casey but sprays breath freshener in eye. Requires med station eye wash. -3

Net Change: -4
Sum: 96







*Totally working that suit +1
*Asked Calvin to give Omega Chi another try. +1
*Doesn’t know what booth his fraternity is doing. All the other Greeks presidents seem pretty involved--you relegated it to your pledges? No wonder you didn't get any air time. -3
*Awkward “I want to get back together with you but not really” conversation. -4
*Can’t win over his frat to get Calvin back. -2
*Strips sweetheart title from Casey. -2
*And wants lavelier back. -2
*Flirted on by Tri-Pis. +2
*Has cliché drunken confession at bar to Calvin. +2

Net Change: -9
Sum: 91








*Rumored to have gained 30 pounds. Did you even try Slim Fast? -3
*At a farm in Pennsylvania. Sounds kind of boring and pathetic. Upcoming Omish episode? -2

Net Change: -5
Sum: 95








*Scored on by Cappie. Your sleeping around has gone downhill. You used to be scoring with a Chambers. -3
*Tried to pull the old manicurist trick. If you don't snap, Lizzy will curse you with frizzy hair. Just ask, it happened to her. -1
*In library, tries to pull off a Nancy Drew look alike costume +4
*...but dressed like Victoria's Secret model underneath. +1
*Used an overdue library fine to trap Cappie. It actually worked. +1
*Has to kiss Beaver. I don't know if he brushed his teeth since last season. -2

Net Change: 0
Sum: 100








*Played ex-girlfriends CD in car every day for four weeks. -3
*Grilled Cappie on Rebecca. +1
*Usually sets up snacks for meetings. What a gent. +1
*Tried to pull the old “I’m writing a paper trick”. The only works when school's in session. -2
*Has Jen K Cyber Shrine. That’s creepy. -1
*Assigned snow machine duty +2
*Found Jen K with another guy. Never bring back the hair thing - they’re $1 for a packet. -5
*Let down his Kappa bros. Neglected to bring snow machine. Bad freshman -4
*Admits missing Jen K. As if we didn’t know. +1

Net Change: -10
Sum: 90

Well, everyone thanks for reading. Sometime in the next few weeks, we look to have a showdown between Evan and Cappie, some more humiliating freshman moments for Rusty, the revealing of Frannie "Gained 30 Pounds on Fat Farm" Morgan and perhaps some more appearances from LonelyGirl 15. This first week leaves us with Cappie rushing into the lead with Rusty plummeting fast. If he doesn't get out of Jen K funk fast, I'm afraid this season doesn't look good for him.

Standings:

Cappie (114)+14
Calvin (104)+4
Casey (100) 0
Rebecca (100) 0
Dale (96) -4
Frannie (95)-5
Ashleigh (94)-6
Evan (91) -9
Rusty(90)-10

Panhellenic Panel

"Does that really happen?"
By Greekgirl

This week I want to talk about Lizzy, the Zeta Beta Zeta nationals’ representative who’s taken up residence in the ZBZ house much to the dismay of Casey and the other sisters. Lizzy is overboard. Seriously, we have all known those girls, on the cheer squad in high school, or even in organizations, or study group; girls that are so enthusiastic about what they are doing, they annoy you. We had reps like Lizzy come to tell us tips on “how to rush,” but none were as positively overbearing as she. There were a few I met during my rush experience, but thankfully none were like that in my actual organization. Her concern that anything fun will cause problems for the girls is beyond me. Perhaps if she stepped up to the front of the kissing booth she might have loosened up a bit. Right now my guess is the writers have a ploy to hook her up with Dale, Rusty’s roommate.
In other mentions, kissing booths and lavalieres. While I have never seen one I would not discount that anything can be convincing if it is for charity. University deans love to say their student body gives to charity, even if it is something that under all other circumstances would not take place. I wish I could have seen what the Omega Chi’s were doing, or someone other than just ZBZ and Kappa Tau.
The sorority rivalry depicted between the Tri-Pi girls and ZBZ happens at all universities in some form or the other. I wish the Tri-Pi calling to Evan would have been a little less realistic though, she could have run after him. And the yeti booth was pretty creative on the Kappa Tau’s part, I think some fraternities that performed at my school’s University Sing and the Kappa Tau’s are thinking the same way.
As for Evan wanting his lavaliere back from Casey, I don’t get why she wanted to keep it in the first place. It is however pretty standard for a girl to return her letters to the guy if he breaks up with her. As for de-selecting a sweetheart, I have not heard of that. Some sororities do not allow their members to be fraternity sweethearts, because a sweetheart is an honorary fraternity member, in a sense.
Mind your letters.

See you next week!

Worst Ideas of All Time

The Christpod

For those who fear the secular influence of those fallen iPod music players, the Christpod offers an alternative. In the shape of a cross (so we never forget who puts the true music in our lives, the Christpod only allows listeners to invest their ears in the best music for their hearts: Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael W. Smith and the many others foundation holders of the CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) business.

"He has the most wonderful toys"

Ten Coolest Movie Scenes



#9 - When Batman saves Vicky Vale from the Joker

Yes sir. In my preadolecent years, I remember watching this scene in the movie theater and saying to myself "Someday, I will have cool grappling hooks like Batman and save a chick at least as hot as Vicky Vale.

For those of you who don't remember the scene, Vicky Vale is invited out to lunch through an invitation which seems to come from her one-night stand all-star Bruce Wayne. When she gets there, Joker gases the place, leaving poor Vicky alone with the Joker. (Kim Basinger hasn't aged well -- am I the only one who noticed?) Then *KAPOW* Batman crashes through the ceiling, grabs Vicky Vale, shoots a grappling hook into Joker's face (not really violent, because, although pointed at him, it shoots into the ceiling) and then rushes out of the museum. Joker's reaction is fantastic: "He has the most wonderful toys."

Question raised: Why do the coolest toys break stuff? Give a kid a choice between a rubber mallet and a jack hammer and you'd better believe your sidewalk's going to need repaving. Give the Gopher a choice between a grappling hook which tears up museum walls (do you know how much it cost the curator to repair those?) and a grappling hook that child-friendly and man, you'd better believe the walls are coming down.

Charity, huh?

Ten Coolest Movie Scenes

#10 - Skateboard Scene in Back to The Future:
Before the intro scene of Back to the Future, I don't think anyone seriously considered it to be a good idea to grab your skateboard and latch onto the back of moving vehicles. But somehow Huey Lewis singing "Power of Love" in the background just made it unbelievably cool.
If you really watch the scene closely, you'll see that riding a skateboard -- while holding onto a vehicle traveling at 50 mph -- helps you make friends. In the intro, Marty McFly passed by a ballet studio and randomly waves to some dancers (the kids are dancing in the middle of a school day by the way--aren't they afraid of Mr. Stricklan?) and the dancers pass him a "If-you-didn't-have-a-weird -time-travel- relationship-with-your-mom-I'd totally-go-steady" wave. Then later, in TV's first skateboard chase scene, everyone in the 1950s (including his mom...creepy) decides Marty is just the man for being able to work that board and get the bad kids covered in manure.
Note: I only tried pulling a "Marty" once. The skateboard kept tipping me over down the driveway. When I got to the bottom, a car went flying by and I was like "Dude, that thing is going fast, if I grab it, I'll loose a hand.

Coming soon....

Out drink, Out flirt, Out pledge.

On March 24, everyone's favorite college drama returns for another season of fraternity frolicking. In a Survivor system, we'll award points each week to the Greek students best making their way through the college out back. Along the way, we'll poke fun whenever Rusty acts out his freshman impulses, take points away from Casey whenever she considers getting back with Evan, and give points to LonelyGirl 15 just for being able to take her acting career from YouTube to ABC Family.

See you soon