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"Secret Life of the American Teenager": Thank You God, Stifler's Mom

Posted by Lindy Parker

 

So, week after week, we've watched The Secret Life of the American Teenager  wondering if a show was ever as boring in the history of boring shows.  Fast forward to this week when guest star Jennifer Coolidge shows up at the door of Tom, the mentally disabled older brother of the head cheerleader, and says, "Tom, you know it'll cost you money if you want me to be your friend..."

Presumably, Tom needed a friend, found JC on a sex website, asked her to come over during his parents' weekly date night, and ordered a pizza to share.  JC can see right away that Tom's not after sex, so she decides to charge him two hundred dollars for a conversation instead.  Here's the highlight:

"If you don't pay me the money, a very mean guy is going to come and beat you up with a bag of oranges that he keeps in his trunk."

Our response: Yes! Finally, the writers of this show have thrown in the towel and said, "Well, let's just write the most bizarre stuff we can think of."  Genius.  But, wait...

Out of nowhere, JC launches into a public service announcement decrying the dangers of prostitution.  Sigh.  We should've known the creator's of 7th Heaven couldn't just leave it at bizarre.  Still, JC's little interlude with Tom was the best time we've had on this show in...ever. 


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Posted Aug 27 2008, 03:20 PM
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Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She now writes for nerve.com's TV blog, "The Remote Island." She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

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