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This week on K-ON!!

The last broadcast episode for K-ON!! ever! We find that the girls are killing time at school, even though the school year has been over for the seniors for quite some time now. Quickly, we discover why. Offdensen Nodoka told them that the yearbook samples were being delivered to the school.

Especially interested in seeing how the pictures turned out is Yui. As we all recall from the yearbook photo episode, Yui failed a sneeze-check while cutting her hair. When Yui sees her class photo, it's as bad as she fears. She exclaims that in a hundred years, she wants people to remember her for sitting and petting a cat while her minions viciously oppress all who dared blaspheme against the High Priestess of Haruhiism ('cuz nobody expects the Spanish SOS Inquisition) . . . not for her childishly cute haircut in her high school senior picture. The rest of her bandmates decry Nodoka for being an emotionless robot.

We learn that Subway Molester Man Sawako is supposed to look over the pictures, but she isn't at school. Ritsu and axe murderess Mugi take an opportunity to play a particularly nasty practical joke on Azusa, by convincing her that something terrible happened to her. However, it's only the flu. Yui then hatches a scheme to save her high school legacy, by strong-arming her sick, vulnerable, teacher into having Yui's photo for the yearbook retaken; thus putting the "evil" into evil genius. Her bandmates, having nothing better to do, decide to volunteer to take the yearbook to Sawako.

Before they leave, Azusa starts to ask if they'll be at the spring concert; but the bell rings and she realizes she's thirty seconds away from being late to class.

Without Azusa there, the job of "Only Sane Man" falls back to Mio. Only, if we've learned anything in this show, it's that she's lousy at it. She suggests they ought to respect Sawako's privacy because, y'know, she might be getting it on with her boyfriend, or something. The rest remind her that K-ON!! is a pink bishojou ghetto, nobody on this show is heterosexual in any meaningful way. Except Mugi. Mugi wants to see if what she's learned about the mating habits of regular ol' jack-offs is true.

On their way to Sawako's apartment Yui explains how, in the future, she's going to hire Sawako to be her dungeon mistress. She also directs them to collect little paper bags of doggie dung. They set one on fire and set it out in front of Sawako's apartment. Only the prank backfires because not only is it the wrong apartment, but nobody is home.

Afterwards, they show Sawako the yearbook. She announces that Yui's picture is not only adorable, but it captures her so perfectly. Yui volunteers to make dinner . . . Sawako will pay . . . oh yes she will . . . Before that, though, they discover that the Thing from the Addams Family made an unexpected appearance in the class photo. After some Lightning-Fast Yearbook Jutsu by Mio, we learn that it was actually Ritsu. And thus a joke set up all the way back in the early mists of prehistory part of the season comes to fruit.

Sawako's old band comes by to visit her, looking like respectable grown-up women. Deciding that Sawako's apartment would be a bit crowded for nine of them, and upon realizing just how much Dulcolax Yui put into dinner, the girls decide to go back to the school to check on Azusa.

Once they arrive, Yui lights the next bag of doggie-doo on fire and sets it in front of the club door. Only Azusa opens the door before they can knock. The girls flee in terror, Azusa curses "those damned kids!" and then plays "Fuwa Fuwa Time" with her new bandmates. And thus, episode 26 (and season two) comes to an end.

The Good:
- Cute flashbacks.
- Continuity of the light music club of the Stone Age, the light music club of the Moe Age, and the light music club of THE FUTURE!!!111
- Lots of cute hijinks throughout .

The Bad:
- The next episode won't be until the DVD/BluRay only OVA.
- There's a movie, but who knows when that will be out.

Eight unbearably cute yearbook photos of Yui out of ten.