Mad Hops 3.11

Dry your tears CIers, we've made it! The end of the Bishop Era. Our Watson comes home to us next eppie.

Anyway, fathers of basketball players split up with their mothers so their kids can switch schools and play for a better team. 

The guy from Ed is here! We miss Ed. Why is Ed not out on dvd???

A bunch of ballers make fun of little white girl Bishop's outfit. Even though this is much more of a Detective Mike Logan atmosphere, Goren is having a blast trading barbs and talking smack with this crew. Suburban girl Bishop is insanely uncomfortable with this inner-city crew.  

JOHN KRASINSKI!? John Krasinski, you got this role based on your height alone, we are certain of this.

Goren tries to take over Rodgers's ME room and do the autopsy himself. He sticks a long Q-Tip of a guy's nose and it is disgusting! Literally, the grossest thing he's ever done in the ME room.

A Social Sciences teacher takes Goren to school and blows. his. mind.: I see a problem with authority figures. You defy them. You disrespect them. But the truth is, you're intimidated by them. It's the mark of a boy with an indifferent father. His absence took the joy out of playing basketball. He coolly shuts Goren down and turns to Bishop to continue his story. Slick. Bobby's our boy but it is interesting to get him shut down for a change by someone other than She Who Will Not Be Named.   

Goren gives up a lot of his back story to Bishop this case, which he totally doesn't have to because she's gone after this case and we don't care about her, but that's probably why he did it. Goren's dad's sad plant was avocado pits in a glass of water. His dad also ate over the kitchen sink while he watched tv, something Goren does not do. He makes a loooong reach with the meaning of a cranberry plant, but at least he calmly defends his decision: I know this guy. He's a lonely man with a shot at happiness. 

Other than the earlier smack down, Coach is a real dull heel. It's sad, really, he's lonely old man who's being used. Goren looks pretty cute in the last scenes with Coach though, his hair is adorable cut short, with his long coat and suit.  

Clothes Call: Goren's and Bishop's scarves. Bishop's maroon velvet jacket.

Quotable:

Deakins: You played ball in school?
Goren: [looks completely confused. As if he never gets asked this question, based on his height] J.V. Power forward. Gave it up.

[Goren moves to stick a cotton swab up a dead guy's nose in the ME room]
Rodgers: Uh -- Let me do that. [Sighs]

High School teacher [blowing Goren's mind by correctly analyzing him]: I see a problem with authority figures. You defy them. You disrespect them. But the truth is, you're intimidated by them. It's the mark of a boy with an indifferent father. His absence took the joy out of playing basketball.

Bishop: These must be his former players and their kids. It's beginning to look a little like Goodbye, Mr. Chips in here.
Goren: At least Mr. Chips had a wife.  

Goren: [looking at a single guy's sad plant] Cranberry seedling. With my dad, it was avocado pits in a glass of water.

Goren: You know, when my father died, [long pause] he had just enough to, uh, cover his funeral. 

Goren: And you paid attention to him, Coach paid attention to Ben, Ben's stats kept improving. It's nice how that worked out, isn't it?

Goren: Well, that's how I beat all my men on the court, Coach -- head fake.

Goren: No, he's right. I stopped lovin' the game ... when I saw it -- it wasn't getting me what I wanted.