Baicker & McQuade recap ‘247': Episode 4

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Sarah Baicker and Dan McQuade recap '247 FlyersRangers: Road to the NHL Winter Classic' each week. In the third episode, Bryz gets testy, bikini babes show some skin and Sarahs hand makes a cameo. Previous recaps: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3.

Preshow thoughts
Sarah: This is it, Dan! The end! The finale! I cant believe its all overwhat will we do on Wednesdays (and one out of every four Thursdays) now?!
Dan: Maybe we could recap Lysistrata Jones, which is a Broadway musical or something? Stan Hochman recently compared it to 247 (and Santonio Holmes!) for some reason, so Im pretty sure its topical to hockey. Or, you know, ABC Familys Pretty Little Liars is set on the Main Line...
'We Lose, 1-5'

Dan: This was an excellent postgame rant from Bryzgalov: How I can describe it? What do you think? Lose 1-5. After f------ 2-4. After 0-6. How do you think I think about my game? What do you think?

Sarah: I was there for that -- my hands have made a cameo now! -- and ever since that moment Ive been thinking that the 247 producers must have been pretty much salivating over it. But that was kind of less exciting than I had hoped for.
Dan: Are you the one in the purple?
Sarah: I was not the one in purple! And you know what? Ive gotten like 10 or 15 e-mails and tweets asking why they elected not to put me on camera. Im going to go with my standard response and just say its because Im not blonde. Everyone knows only blondes get to be on sports TV in Philly.
Dan: Clearly, HBO missed an opportunity to feature you. Hey, where were the female characters in this series? Did David Fincher script it?
Swimsuit issues

Dan: This is the last episode of 247. If they wanted to attract more of an audience using T&A, they should have done it earlier.
Sarah: Thank goodness for animated .gifs!
Dan: Thank goodness for Sports Illustrated, making shots of babes in swimsuits somehow related to sports.
Sarah: That too.
Max Power!

Sarah: Max Talbot was in this episode a lot! He played it so cool with the media talking about going back to Pittsburgh. I guess he really was a little nervous about his return. (Of course, he was mostly welcomed back.)
Dan: Later, the camera panned and it showed that Talbot is also in this photo, but I really enjoyed the brief moment when it looked like this guy was asking him to sign his photo of a referee.
Sarah: Sorry to point this out, but whats with all the glamor shots of Talbot? Last week, we saw him in his underwear, totally randomly, during a one-on-one with Peter Laviolette. This week? The camera basically eyes him up and down in his slick suit as he hops in the elevator to head to the Pens arena.
Dan: Um, I made a .gif of a woman adjusting her bikini for this recap. I think you can point out Talbots glamour shots.
...And a hockey game broke out

Dan: As a somewhat casual fan of hockey, what I really find amusing is how often players push and shove each other after the whistle. In so many other sports, shoving a dude after the whistle would result in an ejection. Theres a little bit of it in football, but theyre more likely to throw a flag, I think. In hockey its never a penalty, right?
Sarah: Well, I mean, what do you expect for a sport that literally pauses so two guys can beat the crap out of each other?
Dan: More sports should stop for fistfights. For example, boxing.
Sarah: Hmmmmm ...
Final thoughts
Dan: Zzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Sarah: Yeah, OK, this episode was a little anticlimactic. But, hold on, Dan! I have just the thing to wake up you!

Dan: Ahhh! Sorry. I was asleep because this episode was so boring.
Sarah: Maybe weve just become immune to the 247 formula, but yeah, I was expecting so much more from this episode than we ended up with. Think about everything that happened to the Flyers this week -- the crazy Tampa loss, the Pens game, the Alumni game, Claude Girouxs sister getting proposed to during the family skateso much was left out!
Dan: It seemed like, with the Winter Classic approaching, they had fewer time for one-on-one interviews and just scrapped together what they could. I liked the series as a whole, but I really think the best episodes of 247 are the first ones. Its the same with the last years and the boxing ones. They could have filled out the final episode with the alumni game or something, though.
Sarah: Or the media game!
Dan: Only if Mike Milbury cursed at a kid during it.
Three stars
1. Eye black. As noted in this episode, its pretentious. And unnecessary.
2. Louis Rard. Obviously! This Frenchman invented the bikini in 1946.
3. Everyone Who Worked on 247. Despite our reservations about the final episode, the series was pretty great and it was fantastic to have it follow one of the teams in our fine city. Now can we get Hard Knocks: Philadelphia Eagles?

Sarah Baicker is a web producer and Flyers reporter for CSNPhilly.com. Dan McQuade writes for SI.com, Phillymag.com, AV Club Philadelphia and edits news for Comcast.net. Once a week in December (and sometimes January!), they get together to drink beer, watch 247 and make jokes about things in the episode you probably missed.You can e-mail Sarah at sbaicker@comcastsportsnet.com and Dan at mcquade@gmail.com, or follow them both on Twitter.

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