The title alone brought back some memories of a great TV show and album from the '70s.It is Jessi’s first day at the same school as the gang, but she has some reluctance about going to school. There is a SADD exhibition at the school, and Josh is obsessing over the car that they are showing. He tried to swipe the radio out of the car. They should have better-integrated SADD into the story line of the episode, and not just had a five-second view of them in the background.Amanda brings Kyle flowers because he gave her a piano that he found. Then she asks Kyle out on a date to the Spring Fling dance. Watching Kyle tell Lori about the date was so classic. He was so clueless.Kyle is having a panic attack over his date with Amanda. Kyle finally tells Amanda that he likes her. Amanda tells Kyle she likes him, and they sort of cuddle on the love seat.Lori and Hilary decide they want to go to the dance together, using a couple ticket instead of two single tickets. They are denied entry,...
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Finally a Foss-free episode.This episode was so much more interesting than last week's. It actually held my attention for most of the time.Someone breaks into Amanda’s house. Kyle knows that because he was working on bettering his hearing skills. Amanda’s mother really does not like Kyle. I know this started last season, but I still do not have a clear understanding as to what the root cause of that dislike is.Steven is bored and trying out Josh’s games. He tries multi-player gaming and uses Josh’s headset to see what keeps Josh so absorbed all of the time. He hears some interesting conversations. He is convinced that Josh is smoking pot and it turns out that his parents are his suppliers. I like to see them explain this to Josh. It does not go well, but Josh ends up getting grounded. However, Steven feels really bad about it. He tries to explain his reasoning to Josh.Meanwhile, Jessi arrives for her first session with Nicole, and it disrupts Kyle — he stops...
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Before the second season of Kyle XY premieres next Monday, June 11, here's a refresher of where we left off. I spent last weekend watching Season 1 on DVD (available at Amazon), and the special extended-cut version of the DVD has some differences, but I think it works better.At the start of the last episode, Kyle's in the hospital recovering from his seizure on the merry-go-round, which befell him while straining to hear Declan and Charlie’s conversation. While he is in the hospital, we find out that Kyle supposedly disappeared five years earlier on his way to school. He was living in Hong Kong at that time. We also find out that the supposed reason that Kyle has no belly button is because as a child he had several operations to reposition his organs, and as a result, he was left without a belly button.Does anyone else find this hard to believe? First, if they really did that type of surgery, there would be visible scars on his skin that a trained eye, like a doctor, would be a...
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