Felicity: Optimist vs. Cynic

Sean, our favorite documentarian, is heavy-handed with his interviews in his attempt to bring Ben and Felicity together for a happy ending for Docuventary. Ben continues to be defensive. Felicity continues to deny feelings for Ben – until the final moments? Maybe? It’s time for a Sadie Hawkins dance fundraiser for the student government elections. Julie asks Noel to go as friends (?), Felicity ask...

Fish has a bone to pick with Greg in this episode.  Felicity wants to take the newly-vacated role of Greg’s assistant at the health center. Jim, a guy who does work-study at the health center, wants the position, too. Greg has to hire someone and wants it to be Felicity. Greg and Felicity also decide to go on a date. Greg: Egregious perpetrator of the #metoo movement, or just a badly-written scena...

Leila Foster shows up at the health center and asks Felicity for an appointment to get the morning after pill. Greg lets Felicity know that – due to a trustee decision in the last year – the health center no longer administers the morning after pill. Felicity gets riled up, does some research on protests, and sets the wheels in motion to start a sit-in at the health center. Burkey helps with promo...

Ben tries to go on a date with the perfect, wonderful Pam, but isn’t into it. His heart is with Felicity. Sean tells Ben to go talk with Felicity about it, and Ben makes a beeline for the health center to declare his love...just in time to see Felicity and Greg celebrating a passed health center review. Felicity hangs out with her dad after a couple of weeks of not meeting up with him. When she dr...

This is a historic podcast.  Why?  Well, you'll just have to listen to find out! No one wants to look at the terrible wallpaper in Elena and Noel’s apartment anymore (including Fish), so Elena decides to host a painting party for the whole crew.  All of our main characters converge on Noel and Elena’s apartment for a wild scene of dancing, love triangles, Meghan drooling over Greg, and tactless pr...

Be blue! Fish and Melissa want to discuss this episode, but are so distracted by the darn piano music underpinning the Noel and Ruby scenes. Ruby's pregnancy test is positive, and the couple grapples with this new reality. Noel and Ruby go to health center make an appointment for an abortion, but in the end Ruby decides to have the baby. Felicity and Ben get their punishments from Dr. Pavone: comm...

We meet Dr. Pavone, and Melissa can’t contain her excitement.  Felicity and Ben are assigned to start counseling with Dr. Pavone, which is just in time as Felicity starts to sink into the depression and uncertainty she faces as her parents split up.  Barbara Porter comes to town so Felicity can hear the news of the split from both her parents together…except Felicity already knows! Commence an epi...

Melissa and Fish are switching optimist and cynic roles for this Twilight Zone tribute episode.  With the most mixed feelings we have ever had on an episode, we tackle the purpose, value, and timing of this themed episode within the context of the early second half of season 2. "Help for the Lovelorn" examines the idea of whether it is better to heal a broken heart by forgetting your heartache alt...

After the holiday break, Felicity’s dad flies back to NY with her for “professional reasons,” then proceeds to spend every waking minute with or looking for his daughter, then throws her into disarray when he reveals that he is thinking about sticking around NY because Felicity’s mom is splitting up with him. (Note: We talk a lot about emotional manipulation and techniques for dealing with it in t...

Felicity is having confusing dreams about the men in her life and realizes that she has feelings for Noel. Noel and Felicity pair up on a final art project to draw each other’s portraits which gives Felicity an opening to declare her feelings for Noel.  Noel declines, but then immediately begins to reevaluate and withdraw from Ruby, who approaches Felicity to plead for mercy. What a triangle these...

Felicity is staying in NY for Thanksgiving and loosely plans to hang out with David – until Felicity’s parents drop in for a surprise visit and invite themselves and David (and eventually his mother and Meghan) to new Thanksgiving plans.  Elena and Noel decide to host the big event, and the game is on! Felicity’s parents start off judging the many changes in Felicity’s life and then change their t...

Felicity finds a stray dog on the street and proceeds to try to get everyone she knows to take him in. Mami – Javier’s fan favorite cat – makes an appearance, rejecting having Lucky stay at her home. Felicity and David’s relationship has progressed. They are kissing and spending the night, but is Felicity secretly avoiding sex? Lucky the dog is used as a welcome disruption anytime it seems to be g...

This episode is brought to you by mono. Carl is ground zero, of course. Felicity is wondering why David hasn’t made the first move yet. But, thanks to Meghan now having mono, Felicity is going to stay with him at his apartment!  Until he cancels and tells her his apartment is being fumigated, much to the suspicion of Felicity, Javier, and Elena. Noel asks Felicity not to tell Ruby about their past...

Awkwardness, muffins, and coffee. That pretty much sums up this episode! We open on an awkward candlelit dinner between Noel and Felicity where we learn that they are both concerned about each other’s dating lives. Noel gets a PlayStation and becomes obsessed with the game Crash – and takes Elena down with him. What pulls them out? Rock bottom. Also known as yelling at a 7 year old. Professor Sher...

We open on an eye.  Like another J.J. Abrams show we know. Felicity finds out that Julie has been singing mean songs about her at Epstein Bar, and Fish waxes poetic about the Rocky Horror Picture Show. “The Modern” (AKA The MOMA) and the subway are featured prominently in this episode, with multiple characters planning a trip to “The Modern” on this same day. Felicity gets on the subway to meet No...

It has officially happened. Felicity’s short hair is revealed, sparking conversation both within and outside of the show. Felicity finally has to choose art or medicine and drops pre-med so she can take art courses. The catalyst for this decision, Ruby (one of Felicity's new advisees) makes her first appearance. Even though Noel got rejected by Bridgid the first time around, fortune has it that he...

It all starts when advisee Gretchen, filled with angst, introduces Felicity to the teen magazine list that sets off the whole episode. Felicity is excited about the start of her relationship with Ben.  But Sean, the heavy-handed voice of reason, is telling Ben that Felicity is more serious about the relationship than he is. Ben is panicking, and Felicity tries to hold his interest by trying some o...

We’re back for season 2! And we, like the show Felicity, have a lighter, more summery aesthetic. Meghan and Felicity are somehow roommates again as co-RAs, beginning a sequence of many convenient plot devices. The cliffhanger is resolved. Felicity went on the road trip with Ben! Noel is seething about Felicity’s choice and never wants to see her again. But that seems unlikely since Noel and Elena...

We did it!  Season 1 is in the books...almost.  All that's left is a recap episode! Melissa and Fish tackle the following questions at the end of a full season 1 of Felicity: Ben vs. Noel? Felicity’s greatest achievement? Felicity's biggest fail? Most shocking moment or reveal ? Funniest thing that happened? Favorite minor character? Don't miss our superlatives - the “5” Best and 5 Worst of the se...

Melissa and Fish shatter their previous podcast length record with a meandering examination of the season 1 finale.  The Ben and Noel cliff hanger is firmly in place! Felicity and Ben go from an almost-kiss to talking about almost kissing to actually kissing.  But which version of Ben is Ben? Noel invites Felicity to join her for two weeks in Berlin instead of road tripping with Ben.  It's decisio...

Did you ever laugh so hard that no sound came out, but then you remembered that you were hosting an audio-only podcast and had to make sound come out?  No? Only Melissa? It happened here in episode 21 of season 1. Fish isn't loving how the magic drives the plot in this 8-act episode, but we do like the levity of Meghan’s clumsiness and forgetfulness spells. Nicole is back, she’s coming in hot, and...

It’s proving time! Felicity is applying to be an assistant manager. Unfortunately, Danny, the inept employee at Dean & Deluca, rejects being fired under her charge. Fish has a hot take about Abby and Danny’s relationship. Felicity and Noel are confused about being just friends, and Noel getting a summer internship in Berlin is about to raise the stakes.  Richard is now Noel’s temporary roommate, t...

It's the first documentary-style episode of Felicity, and it gave us a chance to witness all sorts of fun new character interactions we wouldn't have otherwise seen! We see how difficult it is to get Ben to talk, but he does reveal that his parents have split up. Noel and Felicity finally start to think about the idea of exploring - just maybe - what the future of their relationship might look lik...

Melissa and Fish are reeling over the introduction to Walter and Faye, Meggie’s parents!  Melissa does her best imitation of Walter, and we revel in the comedy that comes from Meghan giving Felicity the box for safe keeping. Fish explains the classifieds and the entire plot of Escape (The Piña Colada Song). Felicity and Noel are starting to own their respective parts of the breakdown of their rela...

It's the aftermath of the Noel and Felicity's break-up and Felicity's night with Eli, and tensions are running high. We are asking some big questions. Should anyone get the blame for these events? Does this change how we see Noel and Felicity? What does forgiveness really entail? We give one more ode to Eli, and we reminisce about the actual size of freshman dorm rooms.  We are amused by Sean's pu...