Yee haw everyone. We last left the crew down in the dumps, and I am not talking about the house without insulation or pest control that 495 Productions rented. Lyle’s girl had just admitted to cheating and he was having a sad time. The team just wants to know if they have “Wild Lyle” or “Mild Lyle” and Lyle wants it to be wild. They tell him to celebrate by cooking some burgers.
Now that Wild Lyle is back, Tiffany preoccupies herself with proving if there are ghosts in the house. It is a fruitless endeavor because the guys are pranking the girls something good.
Daddy, AGAIN proving he is a good friend, asks Lyle if he is going to find some marlins. When Beaudreax demurs, Daddy says “I am not trying to find someone to marry you, I want to find someone to play with your ding a ling.” I love him. Daddy is happy that Lyle is back in the game. Murray says grace and they chomp down. Burgers look tasty. Afterwards, Mattie goes to bed and says “Goodnight, Father” to Daddy. HA!
With the girls asleep, the guys can get to work on the spooking. Walt and Daddy creep up on Hott Dogg’s room and get the second fishing line prank ready. This time, when they tug on the string, her bedside lampshade goes flying off and the lamp crashes to the floor. BOO! Watch out for broken glass!
Paranormal activity? No, just morons.
Tiffany sleeps right through it. Morning comes and Hott Dogg is nervous. They didnt find the fishing line? Tiffany has more pressing concerns, which is not being late for work. In the car, Tiff, Lauren and Murray discuss Santana. Murray thinks that it would be messed up if Santana knew Brandon was into her and did it as well. I never thought of Brandon’s feelings in all this. Well, he isn’t a (formal, paid) cast member so whatever. Tiffany says you can’t get mad at Brandon anyway. Lauren is over it.
Back at the house, Hott Dogg is explaining her ghost theory. Lyle thinks it was the vibrations from Tiffany’s fan that caused the lamp to fall over. Again, no A/C for these poor, sweaty souls. And sweating is exactly what the three on work duty are doing. In the broiling sun, Tiffany asks the lady boss what there is to do around Savannah. Boss Lady mentions the craft brew fest across the river (why don’t these idiots know about that??) and then says that a bunch of her friends are going up to South Carolina to watch NASCAR. Uh…I’ll stick with the craft brews. Craft brews do not make a stereotype so Tiffany says they need to talk to the family and see if they all want to caravan up there.
Over ribs and fatty foods, the crew agrees to head up to Darlington to see the race. They decide to rent a big RV (which they can also sleep in) and Daddy says he knows someone who can get them into the pit. Daddy knows people?
Gonna need a bunch of pit passes for my friends and some ketchup for this phone
Oh lord, the first commercial is for a NASCAR documentary on CMT so obviously this episode is a tie in. Why do TV shows do this? It is transparently obvious that the NASCAR excursion is a paid getaway so can we just stop with the chicanery around how the idea came about? Rant over.
Daddy secures his passes- but his friend has a caveat that Daddy cannot get too wasted. Apparently Daddy’s reputation precedes him. On to other matters, Hott Dogg has misplaced her stuffed animal. Yes, this is part of the episode. She cries to Walt who, like a gentleman, helps her look and immediately finds the stupid thing at the foot of her bed. Walt grabs the animal and walks out of her room. Hott Dogg walks out to the living room to see Walt sitting there with the toy. She said she looked where he found it but Walt isn’t buying it. Hott Dogg thinks it is a ghost.
Daddy, meanwhile, is excited for NASCAR day and offers to drive the Go Daddy car if they need it. HA. Good line. Lyle makes me smile when, in an interview, he does car revving sounds on his duck whistles. It is actually pretty funny. He is still an idiot, however.
Lyle has baggage
The crew is having a grand time, dressing up in stars and stripes gear and drinking away the miles on the road. They arrive at the track and it is predictably loud and in-your-face. U-S-A! U-S-A! They go meet some drivers, thanks to Daddy’s hookup, including the guy dating Danica Patrick. Danica sucks, from what I have read, so this is his problem.