Television Without Pity » Friday Night Lights » Black Eyes and Broken Hearts: Tami and Coach sit in their car outside the police station. Coach asks how long they're going to wait out there, and Tami responds immediately and with parental death-ray eyes, 'Lil' bit longer.' Coach says all the other parents have picked up their 'perps' and asks why can't they do the same? Tami, who is clearly a GENIUS, spits, 'because I would like our perp to sit in there a little bit longer so she can think about what she's doing sitting in there.' Holy File That One Away, Too.


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Julie comes in morosely. Coach gives her a falsely bright greeting and then fake whines back at his whiney daughter. He tells her to sit down, and she sighs and does a dramatic full-body eye roll. Coach tells her 'Don't, don't roll your eyes,' and then tells her that she is going to get punished more once he and Tami figure out what that punishment is going to be.
Julie pretty much blows enough air out of her lungs to fill the Astrodome and then peels herself off the couch while telling her father that she'll be in her bedroom once they figure it out. She tries to walk by her father, but he insists, 'Don't be flippant with me. Don't be flippant with me,' and then demands that his little delayed teenager look him in the eyes. Though it takes a Herculean effort, she does so, and Coach pleads with her: 'Please don't do this. Don't break our trust, don't take our trust from us.' Pause. 'Please.' Father of the year!
He has broken her spirit like she's a rebellious Appaloosa. She sort of mucklemouths, 'Sorrytodaybeenjustareallycrappyday,' and you can see Tami softening from Angry Mama to Poor Baby!Mama. As she disappears down the hallway to her room, Julie mutters about Matt yelling at her all day 'about stupid quarterback stuff.' Kyle Chandler literally does a "zoinks!" doubletake. Blink! Blink! "Matt Saracen's got you at quarterback?" then tosses the clicker down and runs down the hallway saying "Wait, hunny!" Tami just smiles to herself, and I'm looking about my lonely house wondering where my own family is. This show is going to engender it's own miniature baby boom come a year from now. yeah I love this family. I love Tami's honesty & toughness and Coach's ~ so emotional.