I think she's hurt because she's trying super hard to love him and it's not going that well for her, so his resentment of her puts a spotlight on the fact that mothering him isn't coming easily and she's ashamed of herself and hurt that his love for her isn't unconditional either.

Forget the "troubled backgrounds" specification, kids don't know how to be grateful.  They're entitled sociopaths.  But so darn cute!

She's given up parental rights - I think he goes back to foster care if he leaves the Grahams.

They also seem really unprepared for the dynamic of two kids - suddenly their (somewhat spoiled) only child has a brother - and kids totally do "HE SAID __!  PUNISH HIM!"  even when it's not sudden. Parents who have been dealing with this for years will silence the kid with a look or a "You're not the parent, and I…

I figured it'd one of those things where you get counciling if you request it and requesting it requires them admitting there's a problem and it's humiliating to have failed at being a parent (even if you could be objective enough to recognize that parenting until-very-recently-someone-else's kid is effing hard)

None of the adults are talking to him for real. Someone needs to say, "Your birth mom gave you up.  Maybe you're not into Julia, but she's all the mom you get now and you're being hurtful to someone who cares about you.  You're not too young to decide what kind of man you are."

I feel like that opens you up to slip and fall injuries.

Of course there's a whole lodge of beavers in Portland.  There's a reason that OSU are "the Beavers" - Oregon's first nickname was "The Beaver State" - there are a lot of beavers (of the non-Wesen kind) in Western Oregon.  The first industry in Oregon was fur trapping.  And what did they trap?  Beavers.

I maintain that Abed was Jeremy Sisto.  He wore a burgundy scarf just like that for a whole winter.  And the guy who was with Jeremy Sisto who played the lead on K-Ville who I will almost certainly google after I hit post wore a leather jacket like Troy is wearing.

It's funnier if you're an L&O watcher - Abed wearing Jeremy Sisto's scarf, Shirley, Abed, and Troy in front of the fish tank as if it's one-way glass.  She even taps on it!  Sitting on the edge of the desk at the end…

Is her therapist Lieutenant Worf?  The voice sounds like him, but it's hard to tell without the forehead ridges.

Doesn't he know she bicycle commutes?  She is beyond reproach!

That's because the episode needed Gina Torres.  A little Zoey would have made the ass kicking WAY more interesting.

Because if she did, there would be no show.

Does anyone else have a problem with the way class and regional accents are used on this show?  The Pope has a posh RP accent, the prostitutes have a low class kind of cockney accents and when the French King comes to Italy, he speaks English with a French accent?  Presumably all these people were conversing in…

You're probably right. I think they're really all actors.

It's the power of the Neg.  He's the original Mystery.

I don't understand why he didn't just claim he got it from a toilet seat.

I've never done an organized 10k, but I've done it on my own - 6 miles ain't nothing, but yeah, you could walk the whole time and make it in about two hours.  Unless there was like 1000 feet of climbing or something.

I'm guessing that's the secret-dog-whistle-to-runners funny.  But I just took it as proof that the writers were seriously out of shape.