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What on earth is this running gag about Elian Gonzalez having a friend like Ava? They really couldn't think of anything else to talk about? Like, gee, President Obama re establishing ties with Cuba? No you're right, Cuban Ava is way more important. Maybe this is more comparable to Teacher's Bet in season one of BMW, where it's like yeah, ethnic cleansing is bad, America is not so bad, woo hoo. If he were my friend in real life he would have all of my sympathy, but what does this do for the show? I don't know why shows do this, they tell us about something bad happened so we can be like "Boy you're right, bad things do happen." Like Dangerous Secret in Boy Meets World, but even then we saw this compassionate/vigilante side of Shawn, so we actually did get something out of that. Yeah, very sad holocaust related background for Farkle, but that doesn't tell me anything about Farkle. Riley steals the class to make a really obvious point about the whole "melting pot" thing, I don't care, let's just get to Farkle already. Now she knows like two more things about Ireland, it's whatever. There's a half assed attempt at closing out Maya's branch of the story. My highly trained voice-actor-recognizing ears are tingling, I think that's Shiloh Strong doing the PA announcement to close out the culture fair (he and Rider directed this one). We're clearly building up to something with Farkle, so let's keep moving. And Maya is consistently funny to keep the overall tone from getting too depressing.

I SUPPOSE this is a girl meeting the world, you have technically satisfied the criteria with this episode, fine. If this Cambodian woman's story takes longer than a minute, I'm going to riot. "Nice country you got here" with the touching guitar music? Bad show. OOOOOOH OKAY, I don't need this little Elian Gonzalez stroking America's ego here, okay, come on. If he were my friend in real life it might be some fun trivia to know, but. On a cosmic scale, it's cool that Zay learned about his family's history, but how is that supposed to be entertaining? That doesn't tell us anything about him as a person or as a character, I'm not suddenly more invested in the show. This cultural heritage lineage ancestry stuff is supposed to be important to the individual.

The plot hasn't really taken off yet, so I don't know what to write about, but I'm having fun.