HART OF DIXIE: How Do You Like Me Now?

”Weird” Medical Case of the Week: Reverend Mayfair gets hit by Joel as Zoe tries to teach him how to drive. That gives the Reverend whiplash and so he can’t take the tween girls on their zipline adventure.

Gossip: The town doesn’t seem to think that Joel and Zoe are right for each other – at least if we all believe Dash’s poll. Zoe’s worried, especially that Wade was behind the skewed results. Zoe’s now trying to rope in Lavon to help her win the town over to Joel’s appeal.

Lavon wants Bluebell’s gazebo on the front of an Alabama calendar, and with the Bells working on it, Lavon also wants Lemon’s help. She’s staying strong and resisting the pull. Only after Cricket nearly has a fit does Lemon take on leadership of the gazebo project.

As Zoe tries to help Joel adapt to Bluebell, she has Joel hit Reverend Mayfair’s car. There’s nothing in this for Zoe so far. Zoe even goes so far as to try and convince the Reverend to change his sermon to help Joel be more popular. Zoe offers to help with the teen camp with Joel’s help.

Does the town need a battle between George and Joel for Zoe’s affections? Methinks not.

Meatball’s declaration of love to Lemon does land the town on the cover of the gazebo calendar. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? No one really knows.

Relationship Drama: Zoe’s standing up Tanner Haynes is news for the Bells. This can’t be good for Lemon’s image right now. Everyone in the ‘Bells seems to think that Peter is not real and that Lemon’s making up more faux beaux after Wade and Meatball.

Zoe and Joel, despite her best attempts, are not looking good as they argue about helping out Reverend Mayfair. Eventually, Zoe has to blurt out the reason for her insistence about the zipline trip. Zoe’s attempts to find someone to replace Joel are almost unsuccessful; Zoe’s choice doesn’t make Reverend Mayfair happy so he goes off to find George to work with Zoe. Bring on a day of George and Zoe and a group of tweens. Joel finally realizes what Zoe said before and looks rather put out.

When the tweens have to tell Zoe about George’s song about Zoe, you know the town is really against Joel as a new love interest for Zoe. Zoe understands that she has complicated George’s life, but that isn’t to say she’s the only reason for his life going wrong.

Lavon had the town PI dig up info on Peter and now that she knows more about him, she isn’t sure if that’s worth the trouble or not. Of course as soon as she knows that information, Meatball tries to win her back, going so far as to attach himself to the gazebo.

A very drunk Joel has the realization that he doesn’t want to be the Act II lover who isn’t meant to be, so he and Wade are off to the woods to prove to Zoe how much she doesn’t need to be with George. All the makings of a good plan right there: alcohol, a long and sordid past between Zoe and George and Joel’s persistence; nothing can go wrong there. Why does Wade have to interject that he thinks Zoe is still in love with him as Joel proves his worth? Because we need more emotional trauma in 43 minutes. Now Joel’s going to sleep off his drunken day.

George, there’s no reason to tell Zoe that you don’t regret getting her off the side of the road. There’s no need to tread backwards on relationships gone wrong.

Meatball raps/sings for Lemon’s heart, but there’s no way that Lemon would go back to that – she’s found someone in Peter, even if she’s not sure who he is. (Also, Lemon, there needs to be a discussion about how awesome Doctor Who is.)