Bunheads Recap: To Teach Or Not To Teach

This week on "Bunheads" Michelle wakes up in the guest house to find a possum curled up at her feet. Proving she's not a nature girl she calls Fanny for help, easily articulating her terror but unable to actually identify the animal. Fanny suggests she hit it with a pan but Michelle decides to flee in terror. When the possum hisses as she bolts her terror seems justified.

Michelle retreats to Fanny's kitchen to look for some possum bait to lure the creature out of the guest house and finds Fanny and Truly sorting through a messy pile of bills. Fanny calmly explains she only pays her bills during paying season which happens to come only twice a year. During that wondrous time she organizes her mountain of bills into three categories: must pay, should pay, and might pay. While Fanny seems completely comfortable with the situation, Truly looks like she might have a nervous break down among the stacks of crumpled bills. Michelle decides to drag Fanny to a real accountant who reveals, among other things, that Fanny doesn't charge the majority of her students. Michelle suggests adding more classes that she would charge for, Fanny suggests Michelle teach those hypothetical classes, and Michelle backpedals, saying she'll get Fanny's current students to pay.

Boo has gotten a job at a local restaurant and the junior manager gives her a quick orientation, making it cleat that she'll be doing a lot of grunt work, with one job in particular causing her to actually grunt: acting as a human trash compactor by jumping on the trash bags in the dumpster.

Back at the guest house Michelle gets an idea of how the town feels about Fanny's bi-annual paying season when the owner of a dance supply store stops by and threatens to repossess the students' shoes if Fanny doesn't pay him. He also (slightly creepily) notices Michelle's dancer's body and points out there are no jobs for a professional dancer in town

At Boo's restaurant Ginny, Melanie and Sasha come in dressed in what appears to be homecoming dresses hoping to catch the attention of a cute and often shirtless bartender called Godot. The flirting doesn't work for the trio of patrons, but when Godot sees Boo in the back jumping in the dumpster he tells her she's permanently off trash compactor duty and offers her his nicer smelling shirt. Later on the girls even look on jealously as he gives Boo a CD of some music he thinks she'll like.

True to her word Michelle storms into Fanny's studio and demands payment while all the parents are gathered getting costumes for the upcoming spring show. Her natural mix of high speed babbling and obscure references seems a little menacing when she's trying to get money out of people, and the parents yank their kids from the show after her tirade.Michelle calls the families and apologies, and while she's apologetic towards Fanny she's still adamantly against stepping into a teaching role.

By show time Michelle is able to get almost all of the dancers back so the audience is able to watch a performance of Fanny's original piece, "Paper or Plastic," a ballet that proves the canvas bag is no match for indifference. Michelle has high praise for the piece and doesn't protest when Fanny brings up teaching again.