Backbone brings in some thousand and five-thousand dollar donations, which John Rich sees as a victory for country music. Cripes. That’s really the problem with country – it can’t be an aspect of something, it always has to be the thing. You have to wear a cowboy hat all the time, and any success is attributed to country music on the whole, rather than an individual’s merits. Country music fans are expected to embrace a culture, rather than just liking the music or even liking a particular artist. Like being a Joss Whedon fan, kind of.
Katie Cassidy shows up, in giant sunglasses and an old-lady snood. I think she thinks she needs to be in disguise. Is Gossip Girl even a real show? David is thrilled that his daughter took the time to see her dad and donate a thousand dollars. So his daughter, “a big star” donated only a thousand, when Meat Loaf was shown to talk at least one random pizza fan into that much money at the register? A victory for Team Cassidy, to be sure. It comes off like he hasn’t really seen his daughter in a long time, so there may be all kinds of stuff going on here.
