Welcome back to Teeny Bopper TV Breakdown! Today we recap Radio Free Roscoe, episode 12, “Call of the Cougar.”

Ray is still rehearsing how to ask Lily out, while Lily herself spills to Robbie that she also has a crush, though she won’t say on whom. She accidentally leaves her Discman behind when she leaves, though, and Robbie opens it to find a CD labeled “Songs for ?”, which he takes to mean “Songs for Question Mark” aka himself…

In the school cafeteria the next day, Ray and most of the rest of the students are excited for a big Roscoe High Cougars vs. Logan High Eagles football game at the end of the week, but Travis doesn’t get the hype. Apparently it annoys a football player named Carter enough that he threatens Travis to do the Cougar Hand Jive or he’ll “make him do it.” Travis could stand to get off his high horse, but threats are definitely also going too far. And then the guy wants Ray to steal the mascot costume so they can pretend Logan did it - there has got to be a middle ground between these extremes, which I suppose is the point of the episode.

Lily and Robbie hang out in Lily’s room, and there are SO MANY MIXED SIGNALS. Robbie thinks Lily is acting flirty, but then he sees photo booth pictures of her with Ray and Travis (separately) and none with him, feels confused, and dips.

Travis finds out that Ray has been set up as part of the “steal the mascot” plot. He somehow finds a clown wig and foam fingers that he’s able to pass off to Ray so he can try and clean up the mess. But the football players took the storage room key Ray was planning on using, so it’s all up to Travis now.

At the pep rally, Robbie almost puts his arm around or holds hands with Lily several times, but keeps chickening out. Good thing, because she eventually reveals she likes a long-haired drummer who’s definitely not Robbie.

Ray is about to tell Principal Waller that he stole the mascot when all of a sudden, said cougar makes his way into the gym! We all know it’s Travis inside, so when he kicks the head off an eagle pinata, and looks like he has fun doing so, it’s a nice surprise. Waller is at first upset that the cougar, Crunch, appeared unsportsmanlike, but he had wanted Travis to have more school spirit, so instead of a punishment, Travis gets to be the mascot now! Which may be punishment in itself.

On RFR, Lily reveals that she went on a date with “the drummer dude,” which unfortunately for her didn’t go so well, so she’d love to not listen to any music with drums for a while. So of course, the next song the station plays is the drum-filled Roscoe High Cougars fight song, and the boys all air-drum along.

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