Today’s guest clacker is Kelly Bedard, who’s guest clacked for us once before.

If there’s one thing that I took away from last week’s Private Practice (other than the urge to vomit after that horrendous Violet/Pete hookup), it was a sense of nostalgia for the quality teen programming of yesteryear. Week after week, Chris Lowell’s Dell is the most charming and engaging character on the show; a surprisingly mature rock, if you will, surrounded by a sea of sex-crazed adolescents in the bodies of 40-year-olds.

And every week I can’t help but remember when Lowell was on shows that were actually about adolescents but were full of interesting, thoughtful and diverse characters. Veronica Mars, and even Life as We Know It, were miles ahead of Lowell’s current gig in terms of maturity, a sad fact when comparing a show about teenage boys to a show about grown-up doctors.

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(Season 2, Episode 1 – Season Premiere)

Either get back on top of me and shut up, or keep talking and watch me walk out that door.” – Charlotte to Cooper

Life is messy, isn’t it? Especially if you’re one of the doctors at the Oceanside Wellness Group. Nice place for a clinic. Plenty of drama, though.

OK, first things first. Naomi took $80K from a couple so she would get them pregnant so they could use the umbilical cord blood from the baby to help save their 7-year-old son from a deadly illness?

Whoa! I thought Naomi was supposed to be this ethical, uptight doc who always did the right thing. And for $80K? That’s nothing in the grand scheme of things. Then again, if I was a parent in that situation, you can bet I probably would have done the same thing and sold a kidney to get the cash.

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