“Here Is My Handle, Here Is My Spout” (“Basketball” Recap)

So did Alex and Cam's little scenes having tea (and being bored to the point of overfilling their cups at each other's stories) make me wish they had done a full tea party story together? Eh.

As much as I feel an Alex/Cam combo is something that's been too infrequent (the only stories we've seen with just the two of them was in “First Days”, and arguably the recent "Thanksgiving Jamboree") in a way tonight might have given us a clue why.

They really don't have a lot in common. OK, that's probably true about Alex and almost every one else in her family (except maybe Claire), but seeing Alex and Cam each trying/failing to keep the other interested in their own worlds made it obvious just how different those worlds are.

I'd still like to see them do a full story together though (hopefully, as usual, with more drama – if nothing else they'd maybe find some chemistry if the emotional stakes were higher).

At least Cam didn't use Alex for a slalom cone, but don't get me started about that...

Alex's Line Of The Night: ”I'm not questioning the methodology behind accelerated mass spectrometry, I'm merely pointing out that it's not singular in its power to separate a rare isotope from an abundant neighboring mass.”¹

Kids, don't try saying that 10 times fast...
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¹ It actually sounded more like Alex said “mask” at the end of this, but the closed caption said “mass”, and that makes more sense in the line's context.