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   Sonya is still stressing majorly about being pregnant – fair enough, after she’s just about to start a business that’s already stretching their budget. After talking and talking and talking about the exact same thing with Jade, she finally decides to do a pregnancy test. First test – preggers!! Second test – negative. What? And Toadie conveniently came home just as she was holding it – and he didn’t seem to thrilled about it either. Now it’s off to the doctor’s to find out – is she, or isn’t she knocked up?

   Lucas is starting to realise how bloody annoying Michelle is. I’ve never known someone to talk so much. She also found out about Lucas’ major wealth from his father – and she obviously wants him to spend it as fast as possible. But Lucas is still wary about it all. And now wary of Michelle, thank God.

   Meanwhile, Sophie, who’s now a pro guitarist after playing for less than a week, is already having a whinge about the school’s guitars – jeez, at least she gets to take it home with her! I’ve never heard of a real school to do that. Anyway, the new Year 12-er Noah lends her his old guitar (why is he hanging out with a Year 8 anyway?) and Kate gets very suspicious. She goes and has a word with him, but he seems like a nice guy. Except, someone really needs to tell him to take that ridiculous beanie off!

   In a highly-dramatic auction, Sonya has finally bought the community garden, and her dreams are finally being realised. Ahh. But the stress of the situation became too much for her, as she walked away feeling nauseous – I instantly screamed at the TV “PREGGERS!” Then what do we find out about three minutes later? Sonya is late (luckily she has her menstrual cycle written in her diary) and is terrified of actually being pregnant. Aha! I was right. She’s now stressing about having to raise a child while just beginning her new business – absolute perfect timing. And Toadie has come home with a massive grin, and a specially made sign saying “Sonya’s Garden” – and after seeing him grooving along embarassingly in his car, he has no idea what’s about to hit him.

   Tash is seriously considering getting a nose job – all she needs is Michael’s signature because she’s underage. But he won’t do that, because it’s HIS DAUGHTER. But he’s still conflicted about letting her make her own mistakes. What to do? I suggest getting a new storyline, because that is getting old. Even Kate has had enough – she gives Michael a stern talking-to, and he’s being all stubborn because Kate isn’t a mother, but he’s forgetting that she pretty much raised Sophie. Oh dear.

   And in a truly hilarious moment, the new doctor Rhys talks about getting a drink; Kate says “sorry, I can’t”; Rhys wasn’t inviting her in the first place. Awkward.

   Lucas is now gettin’ it on with Michelle - Kyle and Jade’s new roomie. The awkward part is that they don’t actually like her. After just one night together, Kyle and Jade start to conspire against Lucas and Michelle, coming up with ways to split them up. And what do they agree on in the end? Let Lucas find out on his own that she’s a “headcase”. Nice. At least it’s providing some comic relief – especially with Kyle falling off his gym ball as he tries to work out.

   Chris – or Christos as he’s called by his father (he he) – can’t tell his dad that he doesn’t want to go to uni. And today was the last day to put uni preferences in (I hope that’s not true, because otherwise I’m screwed), so his great idea to avoid the whole thing was to ‘accidentally’ leave it in the car. But Chris still can’t tell him that he just wants to work in the garage, because his father went to all the trouble of looking at courses for him.

   And Callum’s just about to fail Year 8 English (NO!), and Sophie’s been busy playing guitar with that newbie in a beanie. Callum’s a bit jealous of all the attention he’s getting, instead of him, and Sophie keeps blowing him off to play guitar. In a heated moment, Sophie tells Callum, “You don’t know anything about music!” Which means all of Sophie’s three days of guitar makes her know all about music?

   Mixed bag of an episode tonight. Lucas wants to get rid of the ‘burden’ that is his inheritance, and put it towards something good. Why must people always do that on TV? Just keep the money, and save it for the future. But whatever. So Lucas decides to truly get rid of it, by offering Sonya the money to buy the community garden. But Toadie is a little suss about it all, for obvious reasons. But it’s all for Sonya’s ‘dream’, right?

   Callum and Sophie got a bit of air-time tonight. After deciding that they wanted to take up music (Callum taking it a bit too far by doing a cringe-worthy air guitar solo, as everybody walks away), but according to the ‘cool’ guy with the weirdly occa accent, it’s lame. Wood work is the way to go apparently. But while Sophie enjoyed music, Callum wants to do wood work to get in with the popular crowd. Which has caused a huge rift in their friendship – are they over? No!

   Tash is rebelling majorly – turning up late, interrupting the class, cheating on a test – but her dad’s the teacher, so why should she care? After being picked on in public, her self-esteem has hit rock bottom, and by the looks of it, she seems to be considering some kind of plastic surgery. Smart. There was also a little moment between her and Chris, and he got a little kiss on the cheek. Aw yeah.

   Some more major Karl and Susan drama tonight. Karl is pretty psyched for the big trip to Peru, spending almost all of his time at the gym. Susan is still stuck with having to help Jim, who has now asked her to be his Medical Power of Attorney. Phwoar. How did Susan manage to end up in this situation? Just as she’s sifting through the paperwork (at Charlie’s, of course), that new doctor who just had it off with Kate (I’ll remember his name one day), questions Susan about it. She says “it’s none of your business!”, and he leaves after an intense stare-off. Later, we see Karl and Susan together in tears. Susan doesn’t want to make any decisions for him, and regrets making him that dependent on her, because now it’s too late for her to walk away. Karl (kind of) understands – I’m sure he just wants to hurry up and get to Peru.

   Jade has also decided that she wants to be with Kyle. But she’s terrified to do anything about it, especially with Kyle flustering around Kate every three seconds. With a little whinging to and help from Sonya (I keep forgetting they’re sisters, as they look nothing alike), it seems like Jade will be ready to confess her love for him over dinner. Bless.

   Also coming up tomorrow – some more Tash/Michael drama, and some very bad Wii dancing.  

   It was all about Kyle’s handiman business launch tonight. The episode began with Kyle on the couch in a foetal position, whinging about how he can’t make a speech in front of everyone. Jade’s done everything she can, but of course, Kate has to swoop in and manages to fix it all. Nice. And how did she do it? She told Kyle to focus only on her, and ignore everybody else. Lovely.

   To celebrate, it was drinks at Charlie’s, with Kyle rattling off some lame one-liners about the name “Dial-A-Kyle” , which is now growing on him. Ugh. Kate was busy being chatted up by that new doctor, and she seemed extremely confused as to what was going on. Jade and Kyle reassured her that he was interested. Then, straight after the ad break, we see Jade and Kyle gradually waking up, trying to recover from a major hangover. Then we see Kate in a stranger’s bed – that stranger being the new doctor! Shocker! Never thought I’d see Kate get in a one night stand with anybody, but oh well. And what about Kyle? I really thought they were finally going to get together! The morning after is extremely awkward, so at least it may provide some comic relief…

   And Susan and Karl are still struggling, not even speaking to each other about Jim. More fighting, more concerned Malcolm, more of Karl going to the gym. Yeah yeah, we got it, their marriage is on the rocks. AGAIN.

   Tonight’s episode was actually quite hilarious. It’s good when there’s a bit of light-heartedness (especially when Lou’s involved) to break away from the regular, overly-dramatic storylines.

   Lou has pretty much taken over every little aspect of Kyle’s handiman business. After failing to come up with a name on his own (I quite liked Handy-Can), he discovers that Lou has already done the job for him – Dial-A-Kyle. Brilliant. (Jade said that coming up with names is like writing on a birthday card – there’s so much truth in that.) Anyway, Lou’s put flyers up everywhere (and by everywhere, I mean Harold’s Store) with a hilarious caricature of Kyle. Kyle wanted them taken down, only to discover the full-page spread in the newspaper. Gold! Kyle’s angry because he had no say, but fair enough because Lou’s supplying all the money. Lou’s also planned a huge launch (don’t know why) and now Kyle has to make a speech to everybody. One problem – he has a fear of public speaking. Or Glossophobia according To Wikipedia. He literally wasn’t able to say the speech with nobody watching (and he imagined Kate, Lucas and a host of Erinsborough nobodies laughing at him.) Will he be able to do it, or is the business sunk?

   Sonya decided yesterday she wanted to buy the community garden (with what money?). Toadie, obviously, said no to begin with, but then desperately tried to see if they could get a loan, so Sonya’s ‘dream’ of about five minutes could be realised. She also rustled up a nice drawing of her vision for the garden complete with nursery and office. Unfortunately, they’re unable to buy it. Boo. But Sonya managed to offload her dilemma onto newly-rich Lucas – ten bucks says that he’s going to buy it for her? Come on, Lucas, hurry it up!

   Summer was back to her annoying “Hoyland Report” radio broadcast for PirateNet tonight. And I’m still laughing at the fact that she gets no callers. But her brilliant topic tonight – the power of social media – was actually her way of getting back at Paul. Again. She was being the ‘better person’ by not naming names and giving a fair opinion, but really, there’s only one newspaper editor in town and I’m pretty sure the rest of Erinsborough worked out who she was talking abouut. Summer even managed to drag Tash into the debate (against herself) who was reluctant to help at the beginning, even though she was begging Paul for her story in the paper a mere week ago. But while Tash was admitting her mistakes on air, she eventually played herself out to be the victim.

   Hence, Michael heard, and was once again dissappointed in his daughter (that seems to be the only thing I write about the pair of them). Michael is continuing his non-parenting style of parenting, which is a little difficult to understand, and a little awkward for Tash. How are they going to fix that mess?

   Malcolm made a surprise return to the show – for those who don’t know, that’s one of Karl and Susan’s forgotten children. Of course he wanders into the complete disaster that is Karl and Susan. After Susan told Jim that chemo was not going to help his cancer, Jim decided that he would give up treatment, from Karl’s reccomendation. This pissed off that other random doctor that’s suddenly appeared in the hospital, and somehow caused a rift between Karl and Susan. Jeez. Malcolm decided to come home at just the right time, didn’t he?

   So Lucas has officially inherited more than $700,000 from his late father. Wow-ee. And how is he spending it? By paying Chris $22 an hour at the garage, shouting everyone at Charlie’s drinks and, sigh, gambling it away. Some random chick suddenly took an interest in him after his drink splurge, and somehow managed to get him gambling on the races, after some sexual innuendo (“So, you’re good with your hands?”). Bit risque for 6:30, that’s for sure. I love how Charlie’s gets transformed into something different every episode. It’s a restaurant one minute, wedding reception the next, pub after that, and tonight it was an automatic TAB. Awesome. So Chris is hanging around because it’s their lunch break, then when he asks if they’re going back to the garage, Lucas snaps and tells him to get lost. And now he feels guilty. Aww. But instead of apologising, what does he do? Rings his old bookie to place the biggest bet possible. Tut tut.

   Summer has automatically jumped from her already-unbelievable job at the newspaper to another unbelieveable career path at Pirate Net. How does she get these jobs? Give me one at least. Anyway, Summer’s ‘Hoyland Report’ (I cringed when she said it) was a way of getting her actual opinion on the community garden across. But just as she’s about to say it, Andrew rings (how did she know this was what he would ask her?) and tells Summer to not raise the issue again. She agrees, because it was actually his fault she got sacked, and starts crapping on about some skate park. And she got no callers. Suck.

   Andrew was actually on a driving lesson with Paul – and the only reason he was doing it was to keep him and Summer apart. Ha! Paul says that she’s having too much an influence on Andrew – yeah, like Paul can talk.

   Susan is spending waaaaay too much time with Jim at the moment. OK, so he’s dying of cancer, but shouldn’t he have some family and friends of his own? Susan should know it’s a little weird, especially because they’ve known each other for about five minutes. Ah well. They seem to share a love of classic cinema, so all is well. (Although I would be worried about Jim’s obsession with James Stewart).

   So while Susan’s hangin’ out with Jim as he gets chemo, Karl’s managed to find a good deal on a trip to South America that leaves in 4 weeks. He also managed to dump everything about the trip on poor Lucas, who really doesn’t care, now that he’s rich. But Susan has told Karl to book for a later time – because she has to go to chemo with Jim every week. Seriously, I’m sure he’d be fine going alone for a couple of sessions, while his 5-minute friend went on a holiday. And Susan has covered it up with a lie. Oh dear.

   Summer tries to convince Paul to write a retraction on the community garden article. Come, on Summer, it’s Paul. Paul flippin’ Robinson. Nothing will change that man’s mind. So, like father like son, Andrew convinces her to think like Paul and she decides to hack into his computer and publish the original article online. Not sure if that will actually do anything, but we’ll go with it. And Paul’s not happy about it – Summer has lost her internship! No! Well, it’s not actually a real job for a high-school student so she shouldn’t be too upset.