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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