![]() Rated at 8.4 on IMDb, this episode has plenty of fans - us included. The tension between the Chase matriarch and her eldest daughter melts away as soon as Rayanne overdoses and a desperate Angela calls for her mother's help. Patty, annoyed at her own father's refusal to attend the celebratory gathering (even though the menu is tailored to his diet), reels over Angela's decision to ditch the family for her friends. ![]() Rayanne - justifiably upset about a thoughtless birthday card her father sent her - makes plans to throw a wild party. ![]() Katimski (Jeff Perry, who you might recognize as Thatcher from "Grey's Anatomy").Īs Rickie frets over his shaky standing with Angela's parents, Angela gushes over Amber and Patty stresses over hosting her parents' 45th wedding anniversary celebration. Eventually, the reality of his situation becomes more than Rickie can handle on his own, prompting him to reach out to his compassionate English teacher, Mr. Rayanne, recognizing her friend isn't actually okay, believes Angela's mom kicked him out (which is, of course, not true), but Angela, in all her naivety, thinks he simply went back to his aunt and uncle's house. So a stunned Rickie, not wanting to be a burden, tries to suffer in silence. Trouble is, his aunt and uncle have moved in his absence. The arrangement seems to be working, but when Rickie overhears the tail-end of Patty and Graham's conversation about him - and how he can't just stay there forever - he decides to go home. Note: Don't get The Hater confused with Sean O' Neal's The Daily Buzzkill, which is a baby-step up from Amelie's digital mess.Set right after the "So Called Angels" holiday special, the episode finds Angela signing Jordan up for peer tutoring (where Brian tutors him on "The Odyssey," and where he tutors Brian on how to score a girl's number), and Rickie still living with the Chases. If you decide to listen to this piece of audio-torture, you might as well enjoy it by playing the drinking game to Amelie's giggling-you will be dead by the first minute. The Hatecast (clever title) features Amelie spouting off platitudes about the stuff she hates for no good reason. And because writing articles just wasn't enough, she came up with the bright idea of recording a podcast about her half-ass thoughts, because she decided that there wasn't enough pop-culture podcasts gracing everyone's iPods. The relevance of her articles reflect the relevance of her subjects: becoming old and forgotten within the same day they are printed. Her writing usually consists-hypocritically-of why Ashton Kutcher, Zach Braff, and Dane Cook suck, while ignoring the fact that the barrel of fish she shoots into have already been shot at many times before. When you waste your life paying attention to so much pop-culture, like Amelie has, you don't have much of a future to look forward to, except, well, regurgitating your thoughts on the very subject, thinking you're actually contributing something helpful to society. You see, most people like Amelie decide to waste their (read: parents) money for college to become pop-culture writers and critics when they first realize that they don't need to actually prove why their opinions are correct, knowing that their reasons are, in the end, subjective (which they will usually deny), unlike science which requires different forms of testing to prove their hypotheses. Why? Because Bill Nye's disembodied head exclaiming "science rules!" was too damn hard for Amelie to mentally digest. In a country that needs more good doctors, scientists and science journalists, she decided to, instead, become a pop-culture celebrity snark writer. Amelie Gillette is a "writer" who decided that there wasn't enough pop-culture blogs gracing the web, so someone at The Onion and/or AV Club allowed her to start a blog called The Hater.
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