In West Canaan, Texas a back-up quarterback who cares more about his friends and his Ivy League scholarship than the weekly game gets thrown into the spotlight after the starter goes down. Earning more than three times its budget and holding the #1 spot at the box office for two weeks in January of 1999, Varsity Blues may not have been a runaway hit, but it did well enough to catch interest.
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After making his appearance known to the Crocks at the end of the last episode, Icicle (Neil Jackson) returns home offering a message of peace (despite the whole murder thing just hours before). From there, Blue Valley’s favorite son makes his public return to a shocked Barbara (Amy Smart) who is able to guess his role in the death of the Crocks without any difficulty. Meanwhile, the JSA help Artemis (Stella Smith) search for her missing parents leading them to discover the villain’s lair and the fate of the Crocks at the hands of the JSA’s proposed new ally against the Ultra-Humanite. While the Humanite is the looming threat, it’s Icicle and the question of his role in Blue Valley moving forward (and the unique combination of fear, hatred, hope, and forgiveness his reemergence brings out from various characters) that is central to the episode.
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Yolanda (Yvette Monreal) shares her discovery with the team, but gets caught by Cindy (Meg DeLacy) while putting back to laptop as the years of animosity between the pair boil over leading to more dirty laundry aired by the increasingly dysfunctional team. Feeling appropriately betrayed and her privacy invaded, Cindy to have little interest in helping the JSA moving forward. Mike (Trae Romano) and Jakeem (Alkoya Brunson), unaware of what has happened within the JSA, continue their attempts to recruit Cindy to get their own team off the ground. Will Cindy’s split with the JSA be their opening?
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The third episode of the Frenemies season finds Sylvester Pemberton (Joel McHale) out of control again jumping to conclusions after discovering that the the Gambler (Eric Goins) was blackmailing the Crocks leading to a very unheroic destruction of a grocery store by Starman. After being talked down by Pat (Luke Wilson) again, a more under control Starman will step into a different kind of trouble the by episode’s end. From the grunting we hear, has an undead former foe finally emerged from his slumber?
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After crushing Yolanda (Yvette Monreal) and Rick (Cameron Gellman), but failing with Beth (Anjelika Washington), Eclipso turns his attention on Courtney‘s (Brec Bassinger) family by targeting Barbara (Amy Smart) and Mike (Trae Romano) for their guilt over Icicle‘s (Neil Jackson) death while Pat (Luke Wilson) gets lost in memories of the old days involving Eclipso’s previous appearance decades before and the dark days following the death of Charles McNider’s daughter. Set against a raging storm in the background, Barbara is able to find some light from an unlikely source while Courtney arrives just in time to save both Mike and Pat from their nightmares.
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