Talk:Seniors & Señors/@comment-25375217-20150217024102/@comment-24589590-20150225041905

I thought I was the only one. Thank you, thank you! I was honestly so annoyed by this episode, and lordy, do I need to vent...

Austin's plotline was okay. I thought it was really creative how they used music to teach him Spanish. But it was really rushed, kind of like how Trish's bullying episode was solved just like that. But I guess that's what happens when you're limited to half an hour including commercial breaks.

Like, dude, basic lab safety: YOU DON'T MIX CHEMICALS UNLESS THE INSTRUCTIONS TELL YOU TO. You just don't. Period. And Ally, TIE TYOUR FREAKING HAIR BACK, YOU'RE IN CHEM LAB. And they blew up the lab! Where are the suspensions? (Also, did no one who wrote the script bother to google "hydrogen phosphate"? It's phosphoric acid, you uncultured swines!)

Also, is it just me, or are the jokes and Dez's schticks getting more annoying (and predictable) and less funny with every season? And Ally's character development is so inconsistent. She's desperate to switch lab partners to Sun-hee because that'll get her an easy A in the class (racist stereotyping much?). But what happened to the Ally Dawson who studied calculus for fun the summer after freshman year? Or the Ally who had never gotten less than a 92 on anything? Did all the fame turn her brain into hairspray? Or are they trying to teach kids that you can't be smart and "cool" at the same time?

It's like they're targeting younger and younger age demographics every year, instead of trying to keep the show enjoyable for late teens/early adults who have "grown up" with the show and expect a little more sophisticated (and consistent) writing. If the rest of the season is like this episode, I will be so happy when they announce there won't be a season 5.