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It's Valentine's Day, and you know what that means: romance-related STUFF! Everyone wants to throw their single friends at Steve and Brandon! In fact, Steve ends up with too many bebs! Brandon's not interested, though, because he's still hung up on Kelly, despite the fact that things are progressing between her and Dr. Jeff -- progressing right into a hotel room! But will Kelly be interested in spending the night in it with him after he informs her that he's received a job offer in San Francisco and basically tells her to tell him whether he should take it and go, or turn it down and stay with her? As bad as some of these Valentine's Days are, though, the ones in the A-plot are worse. Donna gets David to help her pick out a stereo for Noah as a Valentine's Day gift as though he can't afford to buy a thousand of them for himself, but her plan to hide from Noah the fact that she and David spent an afternoon together is scuttled when the two of them get in a minor car accident. Noah's already been on an emotional journey through the episode by this point due to the surprise arrival of his estranged brother Josh, coming to town to tell Noah all about his engagement to the daughter of some other family of old-money swells, and he's barely stopped being mad about that when Donna and David show up and he starts being mad about that instead. Alone at the bar with the brothers Hunter is, alas, the last place Val should be -- and by the end of the episode, everyone has something new to be mad about. Hear how mad we are in our latest Again With This podcast!

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It's Valentine's Day, and you know what that means: romance-related STUFF! Everyone wants to throw their single friends at Steve and Brandon! In fact, Steve ends up with too many bebs! Brandon's not interested, though, because he's still hung up on Kelly, despite the fact that things are progressing between her and Dr. Jeff -- progressing right into a hotel room! But will Kelly be interested in spending the night in it with him after he informs her that he's received a job offer in San Francisco and basically tells her to tell him whether he should take it and go, or turn it down and stay with her? As bad as some of these Valentine's Days are, though, the ones in the A-plot are worse. Donna gets David to help her pick out a stereo for Noah as a Valentine's Day gift as though he can't afford to buy a thousand of them for himself, but her plan to hide from Noah the fact that she and David spent an afternoon together is scuttled when the two of them get in a minor car accident. Noah's already been on an emotional journey through the episode by this point due to the surprise arrival of his estranged brother Josh, coming to town to tell Noah all about his engagement to the daughter of some other family of old-money swells, and he's barely stopped being mad about that when Donna and David show up and he starts being mad about that instead. Alone at the bar with the brothers Hunter is, alas, the last place Val should be -- and by the end of the episode, everyone has something new to be mad about. Hear how mad we are in our latest Again With This podcast!

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As if there weren't already enough reasons to be appalled by both the American health care system and the American carceral state: "Crimes And Misdemeanors" introduces us to Andrew, a recently released convict (as a teenager, he killed his mother's abusive boyfriend, only for her to testify against him) who can only be treated at the Clinic Clinic and thus has no choice but to have Kelly Taylor inviting herself into his personal affairs. Specifically: when Dr. Jeff tells her Andrew's back story -- literally; the reason he's come to the Clinic Clinic is back pain from a beating he took from fellow inmates -- Kelly decides to involve Brandon, recommending that he write a piece about Andrew for the Beat so that someone will understand his plight and offer him a job. Will Brandon impress Andrew with his journalistic activism or piss him off with his ineptitude? (You can probably make an educated guess.) Brandon also gets embroiled in Steve's efforts to hook them up with a cute Peach Pit patron and her girlfriend, because Steve is always horny and rarely observant. Meanwhile, the David/Donna/Noah/Val love quadrangle finds a new way to annoy us, as Donna's grandmother faces a health crisis and uses everyone's visits to her sick bed to advocate for Donna and David to get back together. We remind Grandma that no, actually, David should die alone in our latest episode of Again With This!

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As if there weren't already enough reasons to be appalled by both the American health care system and the American carceral state: "Crimes And Misdemeanors" introduces us to Andrew, a recently released convict (as a teenager, he killed his mother's abusive boyfriend, only for her to testify against him) who can only be treated at the Clinic Clinic and thus has no choice but to have Kelly Taylor inviting herself into his personal affairs. Specifically: when Dr. Jeff tells her Andrew's back story -- literally; the reason he's come to the Clinic Clinic is back pain from a beating he took from fellow inmates -- Kelly decides to involve Brandon, recommending that he write a piece about Andrew for the Beat so that someone will understand his plight and offer him a job. Will Brandon impress Andrew with his journalistic activism or piss him off with his ineptitude? (You can probably make an educated guess.) Brandon also gets embroiled in Steve's efforts to hook them up with a cute Peach Pit patron and her girlfriend, because Steve is always horny and rarely observant. Meanwhile, the David/Donna/Noah/Val love quadrangle finds a new way to annoy us, as Donna's grandmother faces a health crisis and uses everyone's visits to her sick bed to advocate for Donna and David to get back together. We remind Grandma that no, actually, David should die alone in our latest episode of Again With This!

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The premise of our latest A-plot seems to be that Kelly, Brandon, and Steve are having trouble getting through their current romantic woes because they just can't get any perspective on them. Never-before-seen characters to the rescue! At the clinic, Jeff -- and, for some reason, Kelly -- treat Ellen, a teenager who's gotten chlamydia whilst cheating on her boyfriend. Hearing Jeff lecture Ellen about how important trust is in the course of telling her why she needs to tell her boyfriend about her STI convinces Kelly that she should trust Jeff enough to tell him how Brandon broke her trust. (And honestly, if things progress between Jeff and Kelly at all, Val really deserves a thank-you muffin basket for pushing them together with all her self-interested meddling.) Steve's been bumming everyone out at the Beat office to such an extent that Brandon decides Steve should be the Beat's newest unqualified writer: he urges Steve to use his KEG connection to a guy named Harry to get to Harry's fiancée, Christy, who works for the Dodgers and could maybe hook Steve up to interview Mike Piazza. Little does Steve know he's bringing his heartbreak story into Christy's life just in time for her to be experiencing extreme cold feet. Can Steve and Brandon put Harry and Christy back together -- and maybe learn some lessons about their own recent relationship problems in the process? Elsewhere, David is still hanging out/blurring journalistic ethics lines with Jasper's Law; things get more complicated when the band's original keyboard player gets into a car accident driving drunk and decides to sue Noah for overserving him, forcing David to decide which of them he hates less, and what advantages he'll be giving up if he sides against the guy in the band that just bought his stupid song. Donna's latest stupid fashion project gets underway with a photo shoot starring a bratty child model and her overly indulgent momager, putting Donna in the position of being extremely holier-than-thou. Will this be the one time St. Donna doesn't triumph? You probably know the answer, but we're still getting into it in our latest Again With This podcast!

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The premise of our latest A-plot seems to be that Kelly, Brandon, and Steve are having trouble getting through their current romantic woes because they just can't get any perspective on them. Never-before-seen characters to the rescue! At the clinic, Jeff -- and, for some reason, Kelly -- treat Ellen, a teenager who's gotten chlamydia whilst cheating on her boyfriend. Hearing Jeff lecture Ellen about how important trust is in the course of telling her why she needs to tell her boyfriend about her STI convinces Kelly that she should trust Jeff enough to tell him how Brandon broke her trust. (And honestly, if things progress between Jeff and Kelly at all, Val really deserves a thank-you muffin basket for pushing them together with all her self-interested meddling.) Steve's been bumming everyone out at the Beat office to such an extent that Brandon decides Steve should be the Beat's newest unqualified writer: he urges Steve to use his KEG connection to a guy named Harry to get to Harry's fiancée, Christy, who works for the Dodgers and could maybe hook Steve up to interview Mike Piazza. Little does Steve know he's bringing his heartbreak story into Christy's life just in time for her to be experiencing extreme cold feet. Can Steve and Brandon put Harry and Christy back together -- and maybe learn some lessons about their own recent relationship problems in the process? Elsewhere, David is still hanging out/blurring journalistic ethics lines with Jasper's Law; things get more complicated when the band's original keyboard player gets into a car accident driving drunk and decides to sue Noah for overserving him, forcing David to decide which of them he hates less, and what advantages he'll be giving up if he sides against the guy in the band that just bought his stupid song. Donna's latest stupid fashion project gets underway with a photo shoot starring a bratty child model and her overly indulgent momager, putting Donna in the position of being extremely holier-than-thou. Will this be the one time St. Donna doesn't triumph? You probably know the answer, but we're still getting into it in our latest Again With This podcast!

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The spirit of the Minis will live on in the main episodes but, alas, will no longer be released as individual episodes. Here are the last two Minis followed by an archive of all past Mini episodes.

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Kelly having FINALLY been forced to confront the extremely obvious truth about Brandon and Emma's "affair" and dumped him hard, the parting of Mr. and Mrs. The Gang has ripple effects on their friends (and poor Janet, who probably thought she'd accepted a job at a professional workplace where people keep their personal shit at home instead of screaming at photocopiers). Val, improbably assigned to atone for her bookmaking by doing community service at the Clinic Clinic, immediately starts seizing every available opportunity to keep Brandon and Kelly apart -- and with a new, young doctor having just started his rotation, opportunities are all around her. Donna, reeling from this latest evidence that love isn't real, vents to Noah and discovers his attitude toward Brandon's infidelity is that she should just get over it. But Steve doesn't have much time to devote to the breakup of his best friend and his first love because he's got his own problems -- or, rather, Carly does: her dad has had a heart attack, followed by quadruple bypass surgery, and she feels she needs to go back home to Montana to take care of him. Newly minted music critic David decides he's done criticizing, and gives himself the assignment of embedding with a local band called Jasper's Law and doing a story on their rise to prominence -- and why not, since he's equally qualified to do music journalism as he was to do music criticism. We discuss it all in our latest Again With This podcast!

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After Emma lets it be known that she has tape-recorded evidence implicating Brandon in...her pants, Brandon finds himself in a quandary about how to proceed. Will he follow his own counsel and confess everything to Kelly in a sincere and searching WordPerfect doc? Will he heed Steve's advice not to say anything? Will he fail to correct Kelly's misapprehension of a phone call she overhears between Steve and Emma that convinces her the philanderer is actually Steve? If your answer to all of the above is "Brandon will definitely do the shittiest thing he can," you have obviously been watching along with us for lo these seven and a half seasons. David quickly learns that there's a downside to the life of a critic: answering for your challenging opinions to the artists whose careers you might hurt. But since David is actually the frustrated artist, maybe he and stage-frightened Jamie will be able to make beautiful music together -- at least until Val gets the club shut down for using it as her bookmaking HQ. Carly and Donna bring Zack for a fun outing at 8000 Sunset that quickly turns terrifying when the two adult women Zack has trusted to care for him can't resist the charms of a clown. We discuss all the terrible choices of "Illegal Tender" in the latest Again With This podcast!

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