Landry + Riggs 4Evah

In the plethora of awesome that was presented in last night's episode of Friday Night Lights (Street and Lyla flirting about his imaginary wedding to Clay Aiken, Tami telling Riggs that it's bad for the world for him to grow up stupid, Saracen and Julie as the most awkward and sweet little couple EVER), I have selected the alliance of Landry and Riggs as the most highly supreme of the awesome.

Tami uses her bulldozer charm to make Landry, who's probably just glad she's stopped calling him Lance, tutor Riggs, who has apparently been having girls do his homework since he started Pop Warner. After a few allegations of illiteracy ("Oh my God, are you one of those kids who just fell through the cracks?") a determined Landry begins reading Of Mice and Men to Riggs while the jock goes about his daily life (working out, soulfully gazing off into the horizon, etc.). When Tim heeds his frustrated tutor's advice and draws parallels between his life and the book's subject of friendship and loss, he earns a B- all on his own.

Then he shows up at the woefully unattended Crucifictorius concert (yeah, that would be Landry's Christian metal band) and they have a totally cute buddy bonding moment. Which is good since Matt's busy having a completely deserved breakdown at his girlfriend's parents' house. Poor guy.

If you haven't checked out nbc.com to see deleted scenes from various episodes, you should. One from last night's episode is Riggs making Landry a sandwich and giving him shit about groupies. I hope it goes without saying that it's awesome.

http://www.nbc.com/Friday_Night_Lights/outtakes/index.shtml