“Bring it on, old man.”
Dr. Lance Sweets
[Cross-Posted from Big Damn Heroes]

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This is going to be quick and dirty. But then again, even if I wasn’t pressed for time, this episode doesn’t really need unpacking. It’s pretty straightforward and sweet. What this episode needs is to be squee-ed and cooed over like an adorable baby. Or, like a fangirl . . . but I really didn’t want to go there.

“The Foot in the Foreclosure” features the guest appearance of Ralph Waite — most notably of The Waltons fame — as Booth’s adorable grandfather, Hank Booth, aka “Pops.” While the Adorable Old Man Card is a pretty cheap trick to play on your viewers — it’s straight out of the TV playbook — I didn’t really care because it worked. He is SO FREAKING ADORABLE, I WANT TO SQUEEZE HIM. Other cheap TV tricks that always work on me: babies being born, pregnant people, people accidentally getting high, people accidentally switching bodies, basically anything on Lifetime, etc. Oh, wait, that body switching one is actually awesome. Wrong list.

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