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SEASON 1 – ABC

Theme music written by WAZ

• 001. Pilot – 9/23/2009
  • Jules Cobb (Courtney Cox) is a forty-something real estate agent in Gulfhaven, Florida, divorced from slacker husband Bobby (Brian Van Holt), with one teenager son Travis (Dan Byrd). Having spent her twenties and thirties raising her son, she is now torn between her married neighbor and best friend Ellie Torres (Christa Miller), who lives a relatively calm suburban existence with her husband Andy (Ian Gomez) and their baby Stan (Christopher and Zachary Randazzo), and her much-younger friend Laurie Keller (Busy Phillips), who works for Jules and is trying desperately to get her back on the dating scene. Jules has a rocky friendship with another neighbor, Grayson Ellis (Josh Hopkins), another forty-something divorcee, who works as a bartender at Gray’s Pub and has no problem getting back into the dating scene…generally with much younger women. Grayson has no problem antagonizing Jules, who wants to be his ‘paper buddy,’ having chats each morning when they get their newspapers. Laurie posts provocative real estate posters for Jules all over town, which the classmates of Travis are stealing. Adding to Travis’ humiliation is his father who takes a job cutting grass at Travis’ school. Laurie takes Jules out to a nightclub called Soho, where Jules meets a much younger man named Matt (David Clayton Rogers) and ends up sleeping with him multiple times, getting caught in a sexual act by her son and ex-husband when they come home unexpectedly. Travis gets into a fist fight with a classmate over the posters. Jules and Laurie track down the kid named Robbie (Tyler Steelman) stealing the posters and follow him back to his house where they confront him and take back the posters. Jules explains why she feels the need to go out and live to Travis, and as soon as he takes off for a friend. Jules sneaks Matt back in. Carolyn Hennesy plays competing realtor Barbara Coman. 12/28/14

• 002. Into the Great Wide Open – 9/30/2009
  • Jules is seeing another younger man named Josh (Nick Zano), but now insisting that they have ten dates before they sleep together. She gets into a discussion with Ellie, Andy, and Bobby about ‘war-stories’ of partying in their twenties and realizes that she doesn’t have any since she was busy raising a baby. Laurie and her friend Nezzie (Yasmin Deliz) take Jules out for a wild night on the town, that includes her getting drunk, in a fight with Nezzie, thrown out of a bar, and reprimanded by the police, eating pancakes, and then partying with the police. Hungover the next day, she continues her quest by trying to throw her leg up on Josh and injuring herself…all the while ignoring Ellie and hurting her feelings. She tries to go out with Laurie and Nezzie again, but she is so worn out that Laurie sends her home. Ellie eventually forgives Jules. Meanwhile, Ellie sends Andy to be friends with Grayson, but Andy just ends up eating pizza and drinking beer alone at Grayson’s house. Bobby’s new mode of transportation is a golf cart, which highly embarrasses Travis…until they use it to get back at the bouncer (Derek Graf) who threw Jules out of the bar, but dousing him with a fire extinguisher. Ellie and Jules keep scaring each other by jumping out and yelling “Monster!” and after they’ve made up, they team up and scare Andy. 12/28/14
• 003. Don’t Do Me Like That – 10/7/2009
  • Jules and Josh are approaching their 10th date, which means they can finally sleep together. She plans to spend the day getting waxed and her eyebrows trimmed, among many other tasks, before the big night. Laurie keeps getting back with her idiot ex-boyfriend Dale, and Jules has to come to her rescue when he steals her clothes in his backyard.  Jules is able to get ready in the nick of time and she and Josh sleep together…but she is concerned that she didn’t perform well, based on the high-pitch of his voice. After laboring over it, she decides that Josh can take her or leave her, but she is going to make sure she is going for her own satisfaction…which proves a better experience for him as well. Meanwhile, Jules berates Grayson for never letting his conquests stay for breakfast. But when he lets Candee (Jennifer Holland) stay, her chattering nearly drives him crazy. Bobby buys a boat to live on, embarrassing Travis even more. Bobby comes through as a parent and gives Travis a lecture, which earns him some respect. Ellie is concerned because she doesn’t like her baby. Julie Emilen is Carol the waxer. May Wang is Lisa the manicurist. 1/2/15
• 004. I Won’t Back Down – 10/14/2009
  • Jules gets obsessed with proving that Grayson finds her attractive, which he denies. She demands that he turn on his porch light at 10pm if he decides to admit that she is attractive. She finds him so smug that she searches out his ex-wife Vivian and when she finds out that she is engaged and pregnant, she plans to use the information to make him feel bad. Grayson confesses to Bobby that his ex left him because she didn’t want kids, so when Jules drops the bomb, it crushes him. Bobby finds an old sex tape of him with Jules, and Ellie and Laurie keep watching it. Ellie becomes self-conscious of her aging after watching the tape, and Andy wants Ellie and him to film their own video. Ellie and Laurie give each other back-handed compliments, which help Ellie get over her reservations. She allows Andy to film them, but after he sees how disgusting he looks, he immediately wants to erase it. Bobby tries to bond with Travis by having him eat a very old Cheeto. Travis can’t get on board, but he determines that their ‘thing’ can be Travis making his father do stupid things. After Jules gives Grayson an apology and a pep talk, he finally turns the porch light on. 1/2/15
• 005. You Wreck Me – 10/21/2009
  • Jules thinks Bobby has so much more potential than just giving golf lessons at the golf course, and he points out his fame from holding the course record. She arranges to have Grayson play golf with him, but Bobby gives him so many great pointers that Grayson beats his record. This causes Bobby to become depressed and Jules to try and come up with a plan. Meanwhile Jules needs more time with Josh so she gives Laurie more responsibility, by giving her a house to stage. While Jules tries to demonstrate P.D.A. with Josh, while giving him kissing pointers by using an apple, Laurie finishes staging, heads to a party where she gets in a fight and gets a bloody nose, then returns to the house, where she mistakes the boy living there for an intruder and beats him with a wooden banana. Jules takes Bobby to see Grayson, who finally opens up and admits he had a good time with Bobby. After lecturing Laurie, Jules continues letting her work with clients so she can spend time with Josh. She kisses him in front of Ellie, who also criticizes his kissing skills. 2/22/15
• 006. A Woman in Love (It’s Not Me) – 10/28/2009
  • When Josh is particularly tender with Jules in front of his friends, she starts to think he is in love with her. When she confronts him he denies it at first, but eventually admits it, causing her to break up with him. However she is so sensitive to his pain that she keeps sleeping with him to help ease his pain. Meanwhile Bobby is in a financial crisis and is selling off his stuff. He also uses Jules to pretend they’re married and win a $1000 bet, but stiffs her on giving her half of the money. She steals his golf clubs in retaliation and he is forced to play a doubles game with Grayson as his partner using kiddie clubs. They still manage to win, and Bobby repays Jules money. She is particularly tender with him in telling him that his future is going to be okay, right before she coldly breaks it off with Josh. Bobby is then seen digging out his old wedding ring and staring at it longingly. Jim Hanna is Walt. 2/22/15
• 007. Don’t Come Around Here No More – 11/4/2009
  • Jules has an erotic cream about Grayson, but is woken up by the neighbor dog Tuffy. When Jules goes out with an elderly client named Larry (Madison Mason), Grayson bets her $20 that she can’t spend an entire day alone. But she ends up needing Andy to chase off an alligator, has to pick up Laurie, and ends up inviting Bobby and Travis back over for the newly christened Barbecue Saturday. Meanwhile Andy gets angry at Ellie when she won’t thank him for cleaning up his shaved hair. Grayson wins the bet, and is then stubborn about coming to the barbecue. He nearly snags Bobby and Andy by showing them Rudy, but Jules gets them back with the ultimate Shawshank Redemption experience. Jules finally talks Grayson into coming over. Laurie gets good advice from Travis about dumping her loser boyfriend Dale, and jokes to Jules about having a crush on Travis. Bobby makes amends with Ellie, whom has seemed to like him since he and Jules got divorced, and talks her into thanking Andy, which she does. The alligator attacks Tuffy. 4/5/15
• 008. Two Gunslingers – 11/18/2009
  • Jules runs into her old friends Frank (Alan Ruck) and Shanna Miller (Rachael Harris) while she is wearing a wet white swimsuit, and Frank’s reactions causes Shanna to shun Jules and badmouth her to her friends. It’s Jules 41st birthday so she drags Ellie and Laurie to the Playa del Roca beach resort in Siesta Key. Since Ellie and Laurie can’t get along, Jules gets irritated and goes out on her own, only to end up hanging out with the gay cabana boy Trent (Alex Schemmer). Frank and Shanna show up at the same resort and problems escalate when Frank winds up with a topless Jules in the hot tub. Ellie and Laurie team up to threaten Shanna to be nice to Jules, who thinks they are now getting along… but realizes they are only faking for her benefit. Meanwhile at home, Grayson has agreed to keep his eye on Travis, fully intending to let him do what he wants. But when Andy tells Grayson that he once did that and Jules sought brutal revenge, Grayson tells Travis that he has to send his girlfriend Kylie (Spencer Locke) home. Travis then proceeds to tell Grayson that he is gay until Grayson confesses that he had once kissed his male cousin when they were twelve. Travis uses this to do what he wants and collect $50… even though he has already told Andy. Jules finally gets someone to believe that it’s her 34th birthday. 4/6/15
• 009. Here Comes My Girl – 11/25/2009
  • Jules hosts Thanksgiving for everyone, making Grayson beg to come. Laurie is not permitted to bring anyone. Travis brings his Kylie  and confides to his mother that they are going to sleep together the next day. Jules tries to be cool and maintain her ‘friend’ status with Travis, but can’t resist lecturing them about condoms, which causes Kylie to storm out. Jules tries to force her to stay by burying her purse, but is caught, and forced to explain her friendship with her son… but it entices Kylie to stay. Andy lets Bobby’s secret about having high cholesterol slip to Ellie, who in turn tells Jules. Andy gets banished for the misstep. Things get a bit awkward for Grayson and Bobby when they both recognize that they are vying for Jules, and they take it out by fighting on the basketball court with some neighborhood children, even though they are on the same team. Ellie tries to get Andy to tell her the secret about Grayson and Bobby’s strange behavior. Jules delivers a heartfelt toast and everyone enjoys Thanksgiving together. Aja Bair is neighborhood kid Lisa. 6/28/15
• 010. Mystery Man – 12/9/2009
  • Jules and Ellie attend spinning class and later see one of the other students named Ryan (Aaron Blake) working as a topless male jeans model. Meanwhile Laurie has trouble with a rude client named Jeff (Scott Foley) who keeps looking at the same house over and over again. He finally gets to Jules and she lets him have it, which leads to them kissing. Jules gets angry about it, but can’t get him off her mind and ends up agreeing to date him. Meanwhile Grayson is clearly upset about something and Bobby tries to get him to share, and gets frustrated when he continually refuses. Grayson ends up telling Bobby that his ex-wife just had a baby, which he has always wanted. Ellie allows Andy to babysit Stan, and he finds any means possible to be lazy and keep Stan occupied while he relaxes. She finally catches him pulling Stan across the room by a leash, but then uncharacteristically lets him off the hook. Andy finds out it is because she fell in the bushes with Stan and he now has a cut on his head that was on Ellie’s watch. 6/28/15
• 011. Rhino Skin – 1/6/2010
  • When Travis finds out from his mother that women aren’t always as they appear at first, he falls under the tutelage of Andy, who shows him how to manipulate women who generally are with men to whom they feel superior so they won’t get hurt. One case is Jules who is scared to play Scrabble with Jeff because she doesn’t want to show her dumb side to him yet. Laurie, while dressed in business attire for a meeting at the bank, attracts the interest of a rich young man named Smith Frank (Ryan Devlin), but seeks help from Grayson to bone up on politics to attend an event with Smith. She nearly gives up on Smith until Grayson convinces her that men couldn’t care less about how intelligent a woman is. Jules finds out that her mean and condescending dermatologist Amy Evans (Lisa Kudrow) is dating Bobby, and buying things for him while making him feel inferior. Jules warns her to back off, but that just causes Amy to double her efforts with him. Jules ends up playing a game of Scrabble with Jeff and quitting while she is ahead. 8/28/15
• 012. Scare Easy – 1/13/2010
  • Jules decides to take her relationship with Jeff to the next level and declare exclusivity, but then starts to react strangely by berating him for being ten minutes late, and gets irritated that they are getting too comfortable. They eventually decide to part ways when Jeff realizes that Jules is still enjoying her post-divorce independence. Meanwhile Grayson and Bobby are clearly jealous of Jules’s relationship, and Andy finally lets out the secret to Ellie that they both have feelings for Jules… but he is disappointed when she mocks his secret as being obvious. When Smith goes back to medical school, Laurie is left angry that he left her and tries to have revenge sex with Doug (Ryan Biegel), one of Smith’s friends. Grayson sends Travis to stop the affair and retrieve her. Andy, despite not wanting to learn any more secrets, then spots Laurie kissing Grayson in his house. The guys play a game called Penny Can, and get hooked on throwing pennies into things. 8/30/15
• 013. Stop Dragging My Heart Around – 1/20/2010
  • Laurie starts to regret sleeping with Grayson when she finds out that Jules is Grayson’s ‘someday’ girl, and then finds out from Jules that Grayson is her ‘someday’ guy, but that doesn’t prevent her from sleeping with him a second time. Meanwhile Jules is depressed about losing Jeff, and when Ellie is pulled away from her by Andy for their ‘quiet night’, Jules turns to Bobby… and they also sleep together. Bobby tells Grayson that he slept with Jules, but Grayson bribes Andy not to tell anyone about him and Laurie. Travis consummates his relationship with Kylie, but then rushes home quickly afterward so that Jules doesn’t know has been out all night, when in reality she has been out all night with Bobby. Andy sees Travis sneaking in, and bribes him to wait on him hand and foot so that he won’t tell Jules. Bobby is told by Jules that they will not be getting back together, while Travis tells Kylie that he loves her. Ellie tells Andy that she is thankful that she is in their stable relationship, even if he drives her crazy. 11/25/15
• 014. All the Wrong Reasons – 2/3/2010
  • Ellie requests that they have an “Ellie day” since all focus has been on Jules lately, but she gets blown off, and then Jules hones in on her ‘fake boyfriend’ tennis coach Alex (Kristian Capalik), who ends up asking Jules on a date. This causes a rift between Jules and Ellie, and Jules ends up pushing Ellie into a neighbor’s pool. Eventually Jules agrees that she’s been selfish and show up with wine for an “Ellie evening.” Meanwhile with Ellie busy, Andy has been able to indulge in going on two nights worth of benders with Grayson and Bobby, who is struggling to get over Jules’ rejection. Grayson sends Andy to talk some sense into Bobby about finding a better way to recover so that Andy doesn’t lose respect for him. Bobby puts aside his drinks. Laurie gets Travis to help her retrieve her things from Dale’s place, and ends up stealing a bunch of his things. Travis talks her into returning his stuff, but when Dale comes home unexpectedly, the two of them get trapped hiding in Dale’s closet… where Laurie confesses that she doesn’t make the best decisions. 11/26/15
• 015. When a Kid Goes Bad – 2/10/2010
  • Jules and Bobby agree to be a team in parenting after Travis skips school waiting to be one of the first people in the new Chicken Dandies in order to get free chicken. When Travis wants to go to a party with beer, Jules forbids him from drinking, while Bobby says he can always call him for a ride. When Travis does in fact drink, Bobby picks him up and Jules grounds him. Jules looks as though she’s going to attack Bobby, but when Travis leaves, they congratulate each other on their teamwork to keep Travis safe. When Grayson joins the coffee circle with Jules and Ellie, Jules warns Grayson not to let Ellie become the ‘Alpha’ by obeying her wishes for him to take down his Christmas lights. Ellie ends up cutting down Grayson’s bush, and Grayson decorates her entire house with Christmas lights. Andy courts a rich client named Roger Frank (Barry Bostwick), who happens to be Laurie’s boyfriend Smith’s father. Roger thinks Laurie is trashy, and Andy goes along with it to get his business. His feelings of guilt drive him to recant what he said, and thus he loses Roger as a client. Roger and Ellie later play a joke on Smith together. Grayson refuses to spend Valentine’s Day with Jules, but ends up sitting with her under the Christmas lights at the Torres house. Production staff member Josh Halloway is Andy’s secretary Paul. 1/27/16
• 016. What Are You Doin’ in My Life? – 3/3/2010
  • While Jules is showing a house to a potential buyer named Beth (Brenda Vivian), Laurie jumps in and says she’d like to buy it. After Andy goes over her finances, they realize that she will need a co-signer, so Laurie calls her mother Sheila (Beverly D’Angelo). However Sheila ends up borrowing mother from Laurie, and generally treating her terribly. Jules tries to intervene but Laurie resents Jules butting in. Eventually Laurie comes to appreciate how much Jules cares for her and stands up to her mother for being horrible. Jules co-signs the loan. Meanwhile Bobby wins $200 in a basketball pool, and Grayson wants him to use it to pay his bar tab. Bobby is mugged by a woman (Dot-Marie Jones) before he can do anything with the money, and Ellie, Andy, and Grayson tease him mercilessly, even arranging a fake mugging from Ellie’s young niece (Charlotte Labadie). But when Ellie sticks up for Bobby when Sheila puke-punches him, Ellie finally admits that she now thinks of Bobby as a friend. Travis responds to Barb’s ad to be her errand boy, and ends up having mercy on her when her face is burned by a bad chemical peel.  1/27/16
• 017. Counting on You – 3/10/2010
  • Andy buys a motorcycle from Laurie after ‘asking’ permission from Ellie as she is falling asleep. Ellie gets angry at both Andy and Jules, for giving him permission to buy it, prompting Andy to get upset and stay with Bobby on his boat. Meanwhile Jules and Grayson argue over whether a man and woman can be friends without sex interfering. Jules tries to make friends with their awkward neighbor Tom Gazelian (Robert Clendenin), who ends up falling for Jules. Bobby goes on a fishing trip with Travis and teaches him the art of ‘noodling’, catching a giant catfish using his arm as bait. Travis is appalled but continues for the sake of his father. Ellie confesses that she is lost without Andy, but gives Andy an ultimatum that he’d better make it to Stan’s baby dance recital. Jules ends up taking Andy to the recital, as he feels the same way about losing Ellie… but they miss it. However they reconcile anyway, much to Jules’ relief. Ellie allows Andy to ride his motorcycle in short intervals. Grayson threatens Tom for hitting on Jules, who realizes that the ideal situation is to have both romance and friendship in a relationship. Travis eventually catches his own catfish. Jules and the gang get hooked on their Blumfys. They also try to catch each other in ‘gay traps’. 4/8/16
• 018. Turn This Car Around – 3/24/2010
  • When Jules tries to talk on her cell phone and drive, she crashes through the Peterson’s fence and into their swimming pool. Thinking her life has been spared, she decides to give up drinking wine for a month. Although she becomes productive and full of energy, he friends can’t stand this new Jules and stage an intervention to get her back to drinking wine. Meanwhile Grayson goes on a date with a Hurpes wine saleslady named Sara (Sheryl Crow). Grayson is turned off quickly when she asks too many questions about his history, but slowly ends up realizing that the younger women he dates are stupid. Bobby gets a dog that he names Travis, which makes Andy jealous. The two do battle and end up calling a truce… but not before the dog Travis pees on Andy’s motorcycle. Grayson finally admits how badly he was hurt in his last relationship, which leads to a passionate kiss with Sara. The gang discovers a stand-up comedy tape of Andy’s, who begins to re-employ his catchphrase “bitches be loco.” Shaughn Buchholz is the driving finger-gun guy. 4/8/16
• 019. Everything Man – 3/31/2010
  • As Grayson struggles with writer’s block, Jules has her bathroom enlarged and remodels, and then hosts a bathroom-warming. Grayson brings along Sara, and everyone notices how submissive he has become. Jules tries to intervene, but Grayson gets angry and Ellie and Laura convince her that she is meddling. However sure enough Sara starts to ask for alone time away from Grayson. Travis works on a photo shoot for his photography class, and snaps a picture of his girlfriend Kylie with Travis the dog, as well as a candid nude of Ellie. Both decline letting him use the photo, but Kylie gets angry that he fights harder for Ellie’s photo than hers. Ellie denies Andy sex since it’s been a while and now he wants it too bad. He tries to take Bobby’s advice to picture her with a bucket for a head, and then ultimately resorts to alone time with photo on her drivers license. Jules is finally convinced by Gerald (Windell Middlebrooks), the guy who installed her bathroom, that it is her gift to meddle. She tells Grayson that he is much more sexy with his edgy attitude. This gives him the idea for his next song Everything Man, and he and Sara perform it together – happy as ever – for the group. Jules isn’t sure if she is happy with the outcome of her meddling or not. Kylie is happy when Travis begs to use her photo, and Ellie presumably has mercy on Andy. 7/8/16
• 020. Wake Up Time – 4/14/2010
  • While playing a game of ’emotional chicken’ with Bobby, Andy is coaxed by Jules into crying because he doesn’t spend enough time with Stan. He desperately tries to connect with him, going along with Laurie to a petting zoo to see if they both have a love of baby animals. He ends up getting bit by a goose, and a video of it goes viral. Scared to death to tell Ellie that he went with Laurie, as he will face the same repercussions as for ‘cheating’, he eventually admits it. Ellie has mercy, and also shows him something he has in common with Stan… a large penis. Travis is depressed because Kylie dumped him. Jules is initially thrilled that she will be able to comfort Travis, but then she finds out that he cheated on Kylie. She and Bobby confront him, and Jules finds out that she is the only one on whom Bobby cheated. She and Grayson visit Jeff to find out if he had cheated on her, which he hadn’t… unless she counted the three weeks before they were exclusive. Jules tries to comfort Kylie, but it turns out that she and Travis had each cheated by kissing one of the Spangler siblings Tina and Joey. Sara and Ellie become close friends, but Sara breaks it off with Grayson when she starts to fear that his close relationship with Jules is more than just a friendship. Grayson assures Jules that she just needs to find a man who couldn’t bear the thought of cheating on her. Bobby serves the gang ribs that were made from a pig he stole from the petting zoo. Alex Ball is a customer who recognizes Andy from his video. Michael Earl Reid is the carny. 7/9/16
• 021. Letting You Go – 4/28/2010
  • As Jules introduces morning drinking into the group’s routine, she has to contend with the fact that Travis might be going to California for college. Meanwhile Laurie is excited when Smith returns from law school, but starts to become bored with him when there is no drama in his life. Andy finds that he can do whatever he wants in the middle of the night when Ellie can’t yell at him. Grayson convinces him to play Enya music while wearing a cowboy hat and not using coasters. When Laurie got in a fight over her, she is turned on again.. but then finds out that merely got run over by Travis the dog on the golf course. Laurie tries to curb her addiction to drama, but Smith realizes she can have some of it as long as he brings her around his father, who highly disapproves of their relationship. Travis tells Jules that she is making him feel guilty by letting him know how difficult of a time she will have if he leaves. Ellie catches Andy with all of their friends over in the middle of the night, and assigns him to get rid of a wine glass stain on the end table. Andy tells her that he purposely got caught because he likes have a domineering wife, but just prefers some free time in the middle of the night. Travis decides to go to the local college and Jules takes him to look at the campus. Jules is depressed about being lonely when she returns, and when Grayson comforts her, they end up sleeping together. Eddie Alfano is the robber. 10/1/16
• 022. Feel a Whole Lot Better – 5/5/2010
  • Jules and Grayson try to figure out how to handle their new relationship so that it doesn’t mess up the cul de sac friend dynamic. They decide to remain remain ‘friends with benefits’, but soon Jules realizes that she wants more. Bobby tries to find ways to scrape money together to get his boat back in the water by driving around old people on his golf cart, and his new endeavor, trying to catch a red balloon full of $2000 released as part of a car lot promotion. Meanwhile Andy gets a nanny named Marina (Angelica Pulido) for Ellie, but Laurie finds it a way to ridicule Ellie since she has no job and only one child. Ellie ends up feeling like she has to spend the day away from home while the nanny is there, and then ends up firing her. Andy yells at Laurie and tells her that the nanny is him, so that he can take Ellie out dancing occasionally. Laurie solves the problem by telling Ellie that she actually lives the perfect life that Laurie can only dream of. Bobby nearly kills himself jumping off a building to grab the balloon. Travis berates him, but then finds out that the money is actually to buy Travis a new car. Jules breaks it off with Grayson, until he decides that he is going to go all in with their relationship. The girls institute using the phrase “that’s what he said.” Whit Spurgeon is the car dealer. Keith Burke is the cop. Ben Kronen is Mr. Whitfield. 10/2/16
• 023. Breakdown – 5/12/2010
  • Jules and Grayson continue their relationship but still try to keep it secret to everyone but Ellie. The gang discovers from a study that drinking keeps women skinny. Travis is nearing graduation and his mom encourages him to submit an ‘everyman’ speech to deliver at graduation. He wins the chance to delivery it, but Jules is depressed when she finds a copy and realizes that Travis only thanks his father, which after Jules tries to guilt trip him by telling him everything she’s done for him, Travis later explains is because he feels sorry for his father that he peaked in high school. Laurie gets her feelings hurt when it is obvious Jules doesn’t care if she makes it to the graduation, while she tells Ellie that she has to be there. She takes it out on Ellie by cutting up her hat, but when Ellie tries to retaliate, Laurie is too depressed to care. She tells Ellie about her feelings, and Ellie secretly tells Jules so that she can make sure she makes a big deal about her coming. Bobby keeps looking for red balloons to find the $2000. Bobby gets a notebook for ideas, and buys an inflatable gorilla with Travis’s face to celebrate the graduation. Bobby doesn’t allow a red balloon to distract him at the graduation, but when Travis sees it, he runs off the stage and convinces his dad to pursue it with him. Jules and Grayson let Andy in on their relationship so that he will pick up take-out for them. Jules keeps stealing Grayson’s darts. Travis Guba is the coach. 12/28/16
• 024. Finding Out – 5/19/2010
  • Jules and Grayson finally let everyone in on their relationship, but then everyone simultaneously realizes that no one has told Bobby. Jules, Grayson, and Andy argue over who will be forced to break the news to him and play Penny Can – with answering questions about Bobby – getting each closer to the can. Andy wins first, and although Jules gets a close second, she misses the can even when standing over it, leaving her as the one. Meanwhile Grayson tries to get Jules to stay at his house for a change, and Jules records him saying that sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to in a relationship. Jules tries to use this persuade Grayson to tell Bobby. Travis has ticked off Kylie by forgetting their 7-month anniversary so Ellie and Laurie try to help him find his ‘defense mechanism’ for fighting with women, viewing the men around them and how they behave. Travis settles on the ‘yes-man’… which works for Kylie. When Jules and Grayson try to tell Grayson together, Bobby preempts them by telling him how much he feels like a third wheel with everyone but them as the two other ‘singles’. After annoying Jules by being too insensitive, Grayson hatches a plan that they will all go to the beach together as singles, and when Bobby invariably buries himself in the sand and is unable to run away, the will tell him. It nearly goes bad when Bobby sees them kissing before they can tell him. He prefers to remain buried but finally gives them his blessing and they agree to take care of each other… and him. Jules finally stays over at Grayson’s house. 12/28/16

SEASON 2

• 025. All Mixed Up – 9/22/2010
  • Grayson introduces the new movie mash-up game, while Andy gets everyone to take 2pm siestas. With Travis leaving for college, he insists that Laurie will miss them because he is closer to her age than the others. This leads to a bet that Laurie can stay awake longer than him, but she cheats just to mess with him. When he finally falls asleep, she admits to him that she will miss him, which he has stayed awake to hear. Meanwhile Grayson decides he needs 24 hours away from Jules, which is approved by Jules’ new psychologist Glenn (Jennifer Aniston). Jules thinks Glenn is terrific and that they both have trouble letting go of their sons… until Jules and Ellie stalk her to find out why Grayson needs the time off, and learn that her ‘son’ Gabriel is actually a dog. They also witness Glenn hit a car and not leave a note. Andy becomes obsessed in cleaning a bench with Jules face on it that keeps getting defaced. Bobby admits to Grayson that he is defacing the bench as a way of acting out that he really isn’t quite over Jules. Grayson comes to see Jules before the 24 hours ends because he misses her and lets her win a game of movie mash-up. Grayson learns about Bobby and Andy’s skin-on-skin hug battles. 4/9/17
• 026 Let Yourself Go – 9/29/2010
  • Everyone starts greeting Grayson like they greet him at the sushi restaurant. As Travis prepares to leave for college, Jules starts to smother him spending time with him, leading to an argument between them. Meanwhile Ellie forbids Andy from talking about their son Stan as it bores people and makes them appear pathetic. However they do let their neighbor Tom believe that Stan has died so he will do chores and make meals for them. When Andy lets a Stan story slip, Ellie punishes him by not making eye contact with him. Travis passes his laptop on to his father, who uses Laurie to learn how to use it. When Stan takes his first steps, Ellie can’t resist talking about it, opening the floodgates for talking about him much to everyone’s annoyance. Travis says his goodbyes to everyone and then heads off to college… twenty minutes away. Lemarcus Tinker is Travis’s new roommate Kevin. 4/9/17
• 027. Makin’ Some Noise – 10/6/2010
  • Jules not only has empty nest syndrome now that Travis is in college, but she is also scared of intruders. In showing how she can defend herself with a wooden spoon, she leaves a welt on Andy’s head. Fearing that Jules will now pour all of her attention into him – by making him wear glasses and tight pants for example – he tells her that some of his DVD’s have been stolen, so she forms a Neighborhood Watch to keep her busy. The group ends up getting bored with the watch, so they end up drinking wine and spying, first learning that the wine that Tom gave to her came from his own grape stomping. Meanwhile Ellie gets a new nanny named Rosa (Gloria Garayua) who is doing a great job, but keeps trying to become friends with Ellie. Laurie warns her that she needs to play along to keep Rosa doing a fabulous job. Travis is having a hard time fitting into the college crowd when his new roommate Kevin mocks him. He calls Bobby for advice, and Bobby and Andy end up coming to the college to hang out with him, making it even more apparent that Travis isn’t as cool as his father. Jules finally gets the call from Travis, and rushes down to retrieve Bobby… but ends up staying as well. Ellie and Laurie advise Grayson that he needs to be there for Jules, so he comes to the college to get everyone to leave… and also decides to be there for Jules by converting Travis’s old room into a ‘jam room’ so that Ellie can play drums along with Grayson’s singing and guitar. Ellie finally can take no more of Rosa, so she tells her that they can’t be friends. Rosa advises her that Laurie had told her that Ellie wanted to be friends: a practical joke from Laurie in retaliation for Ellie marking her purse as “FAKE”. The group sings Slow Ride together. Travis squeals like a girl every time he throws something. 11/13/17
• 028. The Damage You’ve Done – 10/13/2010
  • When Jules and Grayson run into ‘visor guy’ Matt (David Clayton Rogers), a guy whom Jules once slept with, Grayson decides it’s time to tell Jules that he once slept with Laurie. They follow her to the license bureau where she’s trying to replicate a 20-year old photo she’s been using on her license. Meanwhile Bobby becomes seeing a sword swallower (Murrugun the Mystic), but every time he swallows it, Bobby seems to be looking away. He then refuses to watch the swallower until Smith admits that he is bothered by Laurie and Grayson. It turns out that he is bothered by not being bothered. Jules shaves a tiny beard off of Travis, who spies Kylie on the back of a guy watching the sword swallower. He becomes even more suspicious when Kylie begins lip-biting while they are kissing. Jules isn’t upset enough about Laurie and Grayson that Ellie tries to goad her into being angry, but she only ends up angry at Ellie for never telling her about them and expels her from the group as punishment.  However when Laurie admits that she knew Jules liked Grayson, Jules kicks her out of the group instead. Grayson and Ellie try to convince Jules that her forgiveness is one of her best qualities but she refuses to budge… until she consoles her when Smith breaks it off with her. Travis tries to break up with Kylie, but she simply tells him no and advises him to ‘eat the sword.’  Karen Y. McClain is the DMV lady. 11/15/17
• 029. Keeping Me Alive – 10/20/2010
  • During a game of Penny Can, Ellie takes a jab at Bobby for accepting alimony from Jules, so he decides to cut his financial cord from her. However to do so, he drops his health insurance and then promptly injures his shoulder while trying to catch a Frisbee in his mouth at the pool. Jules tries to help him, but he won’t have any of it, so she eventually hires him to work for her. His first promotion idea is to give away free cans of beer with Jules face on it, but this only leads to a wild party in her office. Eventually she agrees to be more open to him helping her instead of always the other way around, but in his first act with particularly fussy client Dwayne (Van Epperson), he blows it by referring to Dwayne’s wife as his mother. Meanwhile Lori and Smith make a clean break encouraged by his father Roger, but continue to occasionally sleep together. Although Grayson and Andy expect her to get emotional, she is rock solid and find the whole thing humorous. However eventually once prompted by them, she breaks down and lets on her appreciation of the cul-de-sac crew. Travis, home from college, and Ellie begin to realize that they are the intellectual superiors in the group, but Ellie fears she has been dumbing herself by hanging out with them. Eventually Travis confesses they aren’t as smart as they think they are, and only pride themselves on pretending they’re superior. While Bobby is teaching golf to Roger, he lets out a yell becuase of his injured shoulder, and the yell becomes the preferred tee-off method at the course. Alex Ball is a golfer. 7/7/18
• 030. You Don’t Know How It Feels – 10/27/2010
  • It’s Halloween and Jules’s father Chick (Ken Jenkins) is coming for a visit from the south, but she isn’t excited because he always seems to avoid spending time alone with her. Julies hopes that he will dislike Grayson, driving him to spend time with her… but he ends up enjoying Grayson and they form a duet. Eventually Jules brings this to her father’s attention, and when she doesn’t get the reaction she wants, she throws him out of the house. She feels bad about it, especially when he leaves without attending the big Halloween party at Grayson’s bar. Meanwhile Ellie and Andy reject Bobby being Stan’s guardian now that he and Jules are divorced, but when they have trouble getting Stan into the pre-school they want, they need Bobby to shmooze with the headmaster, with whom he golfs. Bobby wants to be made guardian again, but they refuse… but then Ellie finds out that despite rejecting Bobby, he still arranged to get Stan into the school, she invites him to be guardian again. Travis and Laurie engage in a war of trying to scare each other, while Laurie tries to make Travis admits he still loves the holiday. Laurie and Ellie dress like each other at the party, Andy dresses like Burt Reynolds, Grayson dresses as the singer Prince, while Jules dresses up as a princess, not realizing the type of prince Grayson would be. Travis finally comes around and comes dressed as Andy. Chick shows up at the party in a bear costume, which Jules finally realizes. They have a talk and Chick admits that it pains him to talk to Jules because she reminds him so much of her deceased mother. Laurie gets revenge on a kid (Azar Beaudoin) for taking more than his share of candy by making him listen to Chick and Grayson sing. 7/7/18
• 031. Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It) – 11/3/2010
  • Jules in turning 42 and holding her annual contest to see who gets her the best gift. Laurie and Grayson fear Ellie, whom they describe as the ‘gift whisperer’, so they team up to sabotage her gift and decide to go in on cooking classes and cookware together, after Laurie dismisses the notion of getting her a charm bracelet. They also plant a piece of Asian art in Jules house so that Ellie will be lead down the wrong track with her gift choice. Meanwhile the gang institutes the ‘fake gun to the head’ whereby everyone must tell the truth when being pointed at with a fake gun. Andy wants to go dirty dancing for Jules’ birthday, and also makes Jules feel guilty when he uses the ‘fake gun’ to find out that they might not be friends if it weren’t for Ellie. They go to lunch together and during the lunch, Andy falls and sprains his ankle after skipping away gleefully from dismissing Barbara. Feeling bad, she agrees to his dirty dancing idea, but Ellie tells her that Andy is a master manipulator in the vein of Keyser Söze. Jules confronts Andy with the ‘fake gun’ but he insists he was not lying to her. However on the way to the birthday dinner, his limp suddenly disappears ala Söze. Travis gets Bobby to try a Neti Pot, which Bobby considers a college item. He winds up taken away in an ambulance when he gets it in his lungs. Travis finds it humorous that Bobby regularly ejects water from his lungs through his nostril and has recurring dreams about drowning, bur eventually works with him until he can use the pot. Ellie loses the contest when she gives Jules a miniature Asian gong. Jules also has contempt for the classes and cookware, but Laurie has fooled everyone and hidden a charm bracelet in the cookware, thus winning the contest. 1/24/19
• 032. Little Girl Blues – 11/17/2010
  • Travis brings home his 23-year old girlfriend Kirstin (Collette Wolfe) – whom everybody calls Kristin – home to stay at Jules’ house for the weekend. She makes an initial bad impression with Jules, who tries to be nice to her up until she mentions that Travis might go to her family’s house for Thanksgiving. From then on she is so mean to Kirstin, that she has to enlist Laurie to be her ‘Cobb-stopper’. Laurie coaches Kirstin to stick up to Jules, but when she tries, she ends up breaking Jules’ prized wine glass Big Joe. Meanwhile Travis is nervous about his next sexual encounter with Kirstin because he was sick during the first time and doesn’t remember what he did. The guys all try to coach him, but it is only his father who comes clean and tells him that every man lives in perpetual fear of disappointing a woman. Grayson has a different problems: he’s invited the gang into his house – including Tom, who roamed over – and now he can’t get rid of them no matter what he does. Eventually Ellie coaches him that he has to draw a boundary, so he lets a skunk spray the inside of his house. Kirstin, who was about ready to give up when Travis called her Kristin, finally makes up with both Travis and Jules, who tells her that despite her clinginess, she has taught Travis to be the kind of man who will always be good to her. Jules holds a funeral for Big Joe and introduces his replacement Big Carl. 1/24/19
• 033. When the Time Comes – 11/24/2010
  • Jules is thrilled to be hosting Thanksgiving with Grayson, but he warns her that she may be too overzealous with her hugs. She gets to try it out when Travis brings home his quiet college roommate Kevin to spend the holiday with the family. When Jules and Grayson go shopping for Thanksgiving, they run into Grayson’s ex-wife Vivian (Jennifer Cortese). He follows her around, but tells Jules it is so she can see how happy he is. She responds by telling him that she loves him, but he can only muster a thank you. Later at the Thanksgiving dinner, he seems ready to tell her that he loves her, when he is interrupted by having to vomit after eating oyster stuffing, which he is allergic too. He retreats back to his house deathly ill. Meanwhile Andy loses his cell phone, and it flabbergasts Ellie and Laurie when he doesn’t seem concerned, thinking that it will find its way back to him. When it does, they decide to teach him a lesson about being over-optimistic by stealing his wedding ring. He seems just as optimistic about that as well, thinking there is a reason that it is missing. Then the girls actually lose the ring and are forced to come clean about what they did. He joins in looking for the ring outside, and consequently he is there to intercept Jules from going to Grayson’s to ask him if he loves her. He sees this as the reason that the ring was lost. Eventually he comes back to dinner and tells Jules how happy she makes him and that he appreciates her being patient. Laurie vows to beat Katy Perry’s record at the Grammys by wearing more than twelve outfits, but she ends up wearing nine because she runs out of boob tape. Bobby is called out by a coffee shop barista (Rachel Rovner) for mumbling, and when he realizes that his family and friends all think he mumbles, he attempts to change the cadence with which he speaks. Kevin turns out to be a mumbler as well, and tells Bobby that he should be thankful they love him for who he is. They then spend the afternoon playing games trying to guess what Bobby and Kevin are saying. Zach Braff provides his own voice on Laurie’s phone app 1/15/20
• 034. The Same Old You – 12/8/2010
  • Roger Frank suggests to Bobby that he should enter a PGA golf tournament, but Bobby seems to lack the confidence to do so. Jules believe it is because Bobby is unhappy with his boat home, especially since the mailman won’t deliver to his boat. She gets the idea to have Travis distract him by challenging him to eat a tub of cheesy popcorn, while she and the gang all clean up his boat. She tries to make it fun like an 80’s movie montage while playing “Walking on Sunshine” but end up regretting the paint free-for-all that splatters the boat. Eventually they finish, but when they go to put the boat in the marina, it sinks. As the friends attempt to retrieve Bobby’s belongings, Jules tells him how much he’s grown by not throwing a tantrum, and convincing him that his friends all care about him. He does in fact enter the tournament with Andy as his caddy… and wins. Meanwhile when Ellie insults everyone’s occupations, Jules counters by revealing that Ellie worked as a tequila shot girl. Ellie realizes she knows nothing about Grayson’s past life, so she starts digging for info, starting with his ten-year old self (Bailey Forman) being part of a dance pageant circuit. She and Grayson escalate into a war of digging up old dirt on each other. Meanwhile when Travis and Kirsten attend a Zeta sorority party, they find Laurie there pretending to be one of the Zetas. Kirsten gets jealous when she sees the flirtation between Travis and Laurie, but it is Bobby who has to point it out to them. Laurie ultimately decides to pretend she has drowned so she can leave the Zetas and not crowd Travis and Laurie. Andy and Bobby start referring to each other as Batman and Robin. Laurie decides to stop laughing and simply say the word “laugh” when something is funny. Daryl Keith Roach is the tournament official. Jamie Lea Willett is a Zeta girl. 1/16/20
• 035. No Reason to Cry – 1/5/2011
  • Jules competes with Travis on who has the better relationship, her and Grayson or Travis and Kirsten, and she likens their relationship to two doves… but when she empties a skillet outside the kitchen window, one of them flies into it and dies. Jules is devastated by this, and while going on a drive with Grayson, she runs over a squirrel. She takes it to the veterinarian (Sean Smith), who along with Grayson, agrees the squirrel is not worth the effort. She tries to convince Grayson that the trip was worthwhile by substituting a healthy squirrel and freeing it, but Grayson knows it is a fake, compounded by neighbor Tom finding the dead squirrel in his garbage. She then accidentally steps on a lizard. Already upset that Grayson has never said ‘I love you’, she questions how different they are due to his stoic handling of the animal deaths. He makes it up by holding a funeral for the three animals and telling her that he relishes their differences… and this is why he loves her. Meanwhile Kirsten realizes Bobby had no knowledge of current events, so she fills him in… causing him to become preoccupied with all of the sadness in the world and flailing at his golf game. She and Travis are able to teach him to take so much of it in that he becomes desensitized and can image the sound of the fizzing of Diet Dr. Pepper and regain is concentration. Andy and Ellie spot old friends Doug (Andrew Thacher) and Tina, but Andy tells her their names are Steve and Nancy. They do this is a joke because it is ‘their thing.’ However when Andy does this to Laurie regarding a barista (John Ruby), whom she likes and has gotten to change all of the names of the coffees for her, Ellie is furious. She refuses to have sex with him, but finally forgives him when he comes up with something new for them to share: sending fake apology notes to Tom for being mean to him and signing her name. 4/28/20
• 036. A Thing About You – 1/19/2001
  • Jules and Grayson are now telling each other ‘I love you’, but when Jules starts asking more questions about the future, Grayson convinces her to stop being ‘future girl’ and live in the present. When Ellie asks Bobby if he is concerned about Grayson become a father figure to Travis, it not only triggers some jealousy from Bobby, but also sparks a debate on whether women are better friends with each other than men. To prove the point, Laurie asks if she can stay with Jules while her house is painted. She quickly drives Jules crazy with her constant wound-up chatter, forcing Jules to ask her to leave. Laurie confesses that her house wasn’t really being painted, but she just missed spending time with Jules, which prompts Jules to tell her how annoying she is. To Jules’ surprise, Laurie gets over hurt feelings immediately and is back to being friends. Jules tells Laurie how much she loves and admires her. Meanwhile, the gals find a new wine bar, but the owner Wayne Gibbons (Michael McDonald) insults Julies. Ellie however finds them to be kindred spirits as they both like to make fun of and judge others. When Wayne continues to insult Jules, Ellie finally lays it on the line and tells him to stop. When he keeps it up, she brings Andy to watch her obliterate Wayne with insults. From that point, Wayne is forced to be nice to Jules and follow Ellie’s every direction. Kirsten tells Travis that her last boyfriend was rich and had taken her to Paris. Travis looks to the guys for help on what to do, but Bobby gets jealous of Travis asking fatherly advice from Grayson. Bobby asks Grayson to stop, and then gives Travis the idea to cover his boat in lights and then invite Kirsten over and watch the beach, which proves to be successful. Bobby and Grayson watch from afar, and Bobby thanks Grayson for not only stepping aside, but coming up with the idea. Jules, now trying to be more like Laurie, decides to own her own quirks and becomes ‘future girl’ again. 4/29/20
• 037. Lost Children – 1/26/2011
  • Ellie decides she wants to be a tomboy and buys herself a pickup truck. Jules institutes her ‘friend test’ in order force Ellie to come over for movie night to watch Waiting for Superman. Bobby begins dating a girl named Sam (Anne Leighton) but doesn’t want to bring her around because he’s afraid everyone will criticize her. During a game of Penny Can, Grayson makes fun of Andy’s belly, which causes him to give Grayson the cold shoulder. Jules has broken the TV so she can’t watch the movie, and Travis comes up with the idea that she could cheer herself up by re-visiting a childhood memory. She decides she wants to play Sardines in a Can, whereby one person hides and each successive person who finds them, hides along with them until there is one left. Ellie is ‘it’ and hides in the back of her truck. In order to get more people, Jules allows Tom to play along as well. Everyone searches through the cul-de-sac houses, and one by one they find her and join her in the truck, starting with Tom. During the search Ellie and Jules bicker via phone because Jules always gets her way. Grayson confronts Andy about being upset with him, and when Andy won’t tell him why he’s mad, Grayson ties him to a tree. Bobby and Laurie hang out at Grayson’s house and eat his steak, and Laurie convinces him to bring Sam around. Once Grayson finds Ellie and the others, Ellie tells him that Andy was made fun of by pretty boys like Grayson in the past, so Grayson goes and lets him loose and the two make up. Eventually everyone loads up in the back of the turck with wine, leaving Jules as the final person. Ellie is still angry so she won’t reveal their location, but finally Jules gives her the ‘friend test’… and they make up as well. Sam is welcomed by everyone, until she finally dumps him at which point everyone pours out the insults about her. 8/12/20
• 038. Cry to Me – 2/2/2011
  • With Valentine’s Day coming up, Jules test her theory of putting love out there and seeing if it finds its way back. It does in fact, as her kind words to Travis end up getting her surprise sticky buns from Tom. Unfortunately it works in reverse as well, and Tom takes back the buns. Grayson get Jules flowers the day before the holiday, and gets some for Kirsten as well, making Travis look bad. Kirsten tells Travis that all she wants is a sexy picture. Travis is reluctant but enlists Laurie to help, but the photographer (Brian Atene) turns out to be creepy. Laurie tries to take pictures of hi but he is too embarrassed, so he finally has his father take them… and his mother walks in during the session. When Grayson mentions that his father died on Valentines Day, Jules makes it clear that all she wants is for him to open up and let out his feelings. Grayson tries to do this, but cannot follow through and walks out. Ellie tells Andy that she doesn’t want to celebrate the holiday, so Andy buys a new suit for Bobby and takes him out on a date. Ellie finally gets jealous and tells him that she still wants him to be there, and although it sounds crazy, she wants him to interpret her actual wishes when she doesn’t even know what they are. Travis’s photo is ridiculous, especially since all Kirsten really wanted was him in a sexy suit, but she is very flattered at all of the trouble she went to for the photo. Andy makes it up to Ellie by setting up lawn chairs in the cul-de-sca and enjoying a burning of the neighbors’ Christmas decorations. Grayson joins Jules out there as well, and brings a copy of Field of Dreams, a film that always makes him cry. Her only wish is for him to act a bit differently around her than anyone else, and he confesses that he actually does, although it is nearly imperceptible. Bobby takes Laurie to dinner and then pretends to dump her at the end of it, so the waiter (Austen Parros) will take pity and give her a free meal. Shaugn Buchholz is the guy proposing to his girlfriend  when Grayson throws a penny in his champagne. 8/13/20
• 039. Walls – 4/18/2011
  • Bobby is trying to locate a time capsule that was buried for Travis when he was a baby in order to retrieve his lucky visor that he hopes will help him make money for a golf tournament. Travis takes a sudden interest in finding it as well, and Jules thinks that he wants to retrieve her grandmother’s engagement ring in order to propose to Kirsten and prevent her from leaving town for a job. Everyone tries to convince her to back off from interfering with Travis and let him make his own decisions. She rises to the challenge by not giving him advice… but finds the capsule first and hides it. Meanwhile Laurie gives Bobby the idea to use the money he has and invest it in creating penny cans to sell. Grayson not only laughs at this idea, but the notion that Jules can stop giving Travis advice, and the fact that Andy thinks that women are hitting on him because he is married. He even goes to far as to ask one woman (Vanita Harbour) if she was hitting on Andy, and in the process they anger her gargantuan boyfriend Randall (Martez Covington), who turns Grayson’s car upside-down while he and Andy are hiding in it. In the process, Andy tells Grayson that he needs to support his friends more, so he hosts a Penny Can night at the bar, providing free drinks, which helps Bobby raise the money he needed. Ellie convinces Jules that she now hates her mother because of all of her interference, so Jules turns over the time capsule to Travis. He leaves with it, barely commenting on what he plans to do with it or the ring. A new rule of Penny Can is established, whereby an in-and-out of the penny results in the thrower getting a magic marker mustache apply. Ellis is afraid of a truck ghost, revealed to be Jules, who keeps sneaking and moving her car. Jules over-uses the phrase “agree to disagree,” while most of the group mis-uses the phrase “kicks ass.” Sam Laybourne is Penny Can thrower Steve. Tava Smiley is the first woman Andy thinks is hitting on him. 11/28/20
• 040. Baby’s a Rock ‘n’ Roller – 4/20/2011
  • The cul-de-sac crew discuss the nicknames they answer to, and how everyone behaves in the morning. Andy is a morning person, Jules wakes up asking random questions, Laurie wakes up in fighting mode, Travis gets intimate with inanimate objects during the night, and Bobby can’t wake up early. This is to his disadvantage when he can’t get on the golf course for free after 6am. Grayson intends to join him one morning, but Bobby gets up late, arrives late, and then in his sleepiness drives the golf cart into a water trap. Meanwhile Jules makes fun of Ellie for never seeming to be with Stan and leaving him with the nanny Rosa. She denies this and claims she spends nearly nine hours a day with him, but he is exhausting. Jules volunteers to babysit Stan in order to prove that a woman in her forties can handle it. She winds up calling Grayson to help, and the two manage to let Stan lock himself in the pantry. Ellie comes to the aid and shows them how to bribe the baby with Goldfish crackers. This works for everything except getting him to sleep, causing them to be up until 5am. Jules remarks that it was good for her to see how glad she was to not have to take care of babies, which is in contrast to Grayson telling Andy he can’t wait to have a baby. Laurie misses Smith and realizes she needs a one-night stand with a random guy. Andy begs Ellie to let him be Laurie’s wingman and she eventually agrees. They go to Wayne’s wine bar, which oddly doubles as a nightclub in the next room. Laurie finds that she doesn’t enjoy the clubs any longer, which is solidified when a guy she meets named Doub (Ryan Biegel) takes his shirt off on the dance floor. She and Andy go to a coffee shop, where she does meet a guy named Austen (Denny Kirkwood) who she has a one-night stand with, proudly doing a walk of shame the next morning. Bobby devises several things to wake him up early, but it is Travis, who so appreciates his father helping fix his car, who shows up at 5:00 am to help him wake up. However they both fall asleep in the golf cart and drive into a sand trap. Travis is caught on camera by Kevin loving his laundry basket in the night, and sends the video around. Bill Lee Brown is the golf club starter. Giovanni Aurilia is the ‘Russian Guy’ seen briefly on the dance floor. 11/28/20 
• 041. You’re Gonna Get It! – 4/27/2011
  • As Bobby heads off with Andy for a pro golf tournament, Jules contemplates ways to be more charitable. The gang finds Bobby’s lucky visor at Gray’s place, so they use Grayson’s new trivia gang to decide who has to deliver it. Travis has a poor showing and not only has to drive Bobby the visor, but gets ridiculed by Ellie and Grayson. Laurie then challenges them both to trivia, and beats them both individually and when they team up, much to their consternation. When Travis arrives, he finds Bobby stuck inside his golf bag, so he decides to stay and take over supervision from Andy. This works out when Andy gets water in his ear in the pool and winds up roaming around on the golf course trying to get it out. Jules makes a faux pas when she helps dedicate a library at school, and visit the class as her charitable act. While leading them in the Pledge of Allegiance, she substitutes the name Richard Stands for “for which it stands.” She cannot handle embarrassment, even when a stranger appears to be laughing at her on the street. It turns out he is Barbara’s life coach Kenny, the father of one of the kids in the class, who has also told Barbara. Jules prays to God that the spotlight be taken off her and put on someone else. Bobby then hits an opponent’s ball on the green, causing Bobby to have a downward spiral and lose the tournament, and to also be the subject of ridicule all over the news. Jules and Travis both feel the need to apologize to him, Jules for praying for someone else’s failure, and Travis for not looking out for him. When they see that a vendor (Chet Grissom) is selling t-shirts on the street with Bobby’s new nickname “Wrong Ball”, Jules buys them all up and they go and buy them off of anyone wearing them. It turns out that Bobby was the one who made them, and has embraced his somewhat lucrative new pop culture iconic status. Jules follows his advice to embrace your mistakes and laugh along, and returns to face the class again. This time she says the Pledge… and substitutes the word ‘invisible’ for ‘indivisible’. They all realize that the handle humiliation in different ways, and Travis admits he gets even when he is embarrassed… like he did while supplying Laurie with the trivia answers via text messages. Wendy McLendon-Covey is the school’s Vice Principal. Steve Valentine and Ivan Allen are sports announcers. Heather Sims and Frank Martorana are passers-by who recognize Bobby. 3/19/21
• 042. Lonesome Sundown – 5/4/2011
  • Kirsten is getting ready to move to Chicago, and Travis hasn’t yet built up the courage to ask her to marry him. Jules wants Grayson to show that he cares for Travis and try to talk him out of it. When he tries to talk to him, he finds that Travis is in fact getting ready to propose. He also gets the feeling from Kirsten that she is going to say no, so he tries to prevent Travis from proposing by holding his ring that he had promised to size for him. Travis has Kevin tackle him and take the ring, so Grayson warns him that she will likely say no, but admits that he too would ask anyway so he could live with himself. Meanwhile, Jules and Bobby bet that Jules can’t survive for the weekend if she and Bobby switch homes. Jules tries to get along on $20 for an entire weekend, but blows all of the money on wine and then starts to fall apart. Laurie proposes that the group for a council to dole out punishments to each other whenever someone is out of line. Jules is forced to feed Laurie her wine, Ellie has to sit on the roof, Andy has to sit in a hot car, and Bobby isn’t told his punishment, so the suspense is the punishment in itself. Everyone finally confers and decides Laurie has violated their friendships and safe space by coming up with the council, so she is given a wine shot glass that can’t be refilled until they all need refills. Grayson keeps Jules company on the boat and they wander down to the beach, where they witness Travis propose to Kirsten… and her turning him down. They both comfort Travis, and Grayson even tell him that he loves him… which they both find awkward. Jules passes the time threshold to have won the bet. The group finds out that Grayson used to make his own jewelry and sell it, and later spot him selling some to Lou Diamond Phillips (himself). Joe Toro is the lifeguard who tries to stop Bobby from bathing in the ocean. 3/21/21
• 043. Damaged by Love – 5/11/2011
  • Travis is depressed about his breakup with Kirsten and just once to mope around the house. Jules’ father Chick comes for a visit and suggests that he and Bobby take Travis to a strip club, but Jules hates the idea. She also hates the fact that Grayson wants to play roller hockey when he can barely roller blade. Despite scoring a goal when the puck ricochets off his head, he is injure when he removes his kneepads to keep the other players from teasing him, and winds up with bloody kneecaps. Jules tries to mother him and tell him he can’t play again, and wants to give him a ride home form his bar, but he decides to prove himself by blading home. He blades along with a kid (Nicholas D’Ablaing) on a Big Wheel, telling the boy how his girlfriend doesn’t understand his needs, until they reach a hill that the kid won’t go down. Meanwhile, Ellie doesn’t want Andy’s brother Nestor (Marcus DeAnda) spending the night at their house, because they won’t even speak since Andy refuses to learn Spanish, and more importantly, Nestor’s wife Angela (Nia Vardalos) always flirts with Andy. She asks Jules to be her punching bag so she can let out her anger, but Jules has found out that the men took Travis to the strip club after all. Ellie tries to use Laurie to insult, but she gets offended and leaves after being insulted. Ellie tracks her down at Gray’s and begs her to come back, but she refuses. At the strip club, all of the strippers have left to pick up their kids, so the bartender Destiny (Christa Flanagan) is forced to get nuded up. Travis finds the whole affair depressing, from sharing lunch with his grandfather at the club to discussing his depression with Destiny. Travis ends up leaving everyone at the club and telling Destiny that his parents will take her home. Bobby takes her home in his golf cart, with Destiny sitting on Chick’s lap, and Jules and Bobby arguing over who’s fault Travis’s condition is. Chick intervenes and tells them that they’re just upset because neither can solve Travis’s problem, the same issue he had when Jules used to cry over her flat chest. They end up sticking together and simply telling Travis that they are there for him if he needs them. On the way home, they run into Grayson, who has crashed again. Jules finally understands that this is something he needs to do, so they pull him home with the golf cart, causing him to crash one final time when he gets home. Laurie eventually shows up for Ellie to insult, but Ellie is so touched that she can’t bring herself to insult her. Instead, she tells Nestor in Spanish that Angela has been trying to seduce Andy all day. He winds up attacking Andy instead of Angela, who later suggest that Andy learn some Spanish. She teaches him how to ask her to make love to her, just so she can hear him say it. 7/16/21
• 044. Free Fallin’ – 5/18/2011
  • Travis is finally coming out of his funk after two weeks, and Jules and Bobby are congratulating themselves on handling his situation. Travis also claims he’s only missed two weeks of Spring Break, but then finds out from Kevin that Spring Break has been long over. Jules promises everyone that she will display tough love to make sure he gets on with his life. Meanwhile, Grayson spots three strange, blonde, home-schooled kids (Nickolas Kyriakos, Dusty Burwell, Dominque Dorian) have been drawing rainbows with chalk in his driveway. He washes it off but gets a warning from Tom that the kids are very sinister and made his life miserable after he washed off one of their drawings. While coaching Roger Frank at golf and talking about the fact that he’s making money selling Penny Can, Frank offers to buy the product from him to distribute. Unfortunately, they change up the game with flashing lights and a moving can, and make Lou Diamond Philips the spokesman. Bobby doesn’t want to sell considering the changes, but he gets out-voted by Laurie and Andy. Travis figures out a way his mother’s tough love, by telling how fondly remembers when she would let him skip school to go to the beach, and talks her into doing it once again. However, when he fails to fall asleep in her bed and leaves, Jules re-commits to tough love and insists he either returns to school or leaves the house and gets his own job. Grayson, Ellie, and Tom team up to make mean faces at the kids, and finally scare them off. Their mother Betsy (Katie O’Rourke) later approaches them with her son Royce, and questions why the kids were scared by them, but they are able to fool the mother by acting nice to the kids. Andy and Laurie make the $40,000 deal on Penny Can so that Bobby will be able to afford his own apartment, and also make a couple of changes to the game: make the can able to climb walls, make it say more cool things, and giving Bobby credit inside the can. Bobby is ultimately grateful and gets his own apartment. Travis finally leaves home, and Jules congratulates herself… until she finds out that Bobby has given Travis his boat to live on. 7/16/21
• 045 & 046. Something Good Coming – 5/25/2011
  • The Cul-de-Sac Crew toy with the idea of vacationing together and land on going to wine county. Jules and Laurie visit Jake on the boat and try to get him to find some motivation after dropping out of college. Laurie tells him he needs to find a passion and go with it, using packing up and going to Hawaii as an example. A stranger (Danny Pudi) overhears the conversation, and runs off ostensibly to seek his own dreams. Meanwhile, Grayson babysits Stan while his parents go shopping, and makes it a point to let Jules know how much he loves kids. Travis winds up moving to Hawaii, so Jules decides that’s where they’ll take their vacation together. Tom overhears this discussion and begins thinking about making the trip himself. Ellie starts to get tired of how much Andy and Bobby have become attached, especially when they arrange to stay in the same room in Hawaii. After they arrive in Hawaii, Jules and Bobby track down Travis living in a shack and playing Paint Can with a coconut and a rock with his neighbors and roommate Ted “The Buck” Buckland (Sam Lloyd), who can turn any song sad on his guitar. Travis shows his mother where he works on the beach waxing surfboards. Ellie meets the black-eyed hotel concierge named Blake (Andrew DiPalma) and starts dating him for the vacation. As Grayson keeps dropping hints about having a baby, Jules keeps pestering him about moving in together, so they agree to talk about it that night. Ellie suspects that Bobby used her toothbrush, but Bobby and Andy both refute this. Jules insists that Travis come home, but he refuses. Grayson and Jules agree to put the conversation about kids on hold until they return home. Laurie comes up with a plan to convince Travis to come back home. Bob shows up at the resort, buy keeps backing out of letting the other know he is there. Various members of the crew see him around the resort, but keep convincing themselves that it wasn’t him. Laurie has Travis take him on a tour of the island, and they have a great, and somewhat-romantic day. Jules tries to keep Grayson’s mind off children, and tries to seduce him… but they can’t find any condoms, even going so far as to approach fellow vacationers Derek (L.G. Michael Brown) and Lisa (Susan Wyshynski) for one.  They wind up finding one in the suitcase of one of the teenagers in a high school marching band. Bobby has a great day hanging out with Ellie and Andy, but when they decide to go to dinner alone, Bobby starts to feel lonely. Laurie alludes to the fact that if Travis were to move back, they might have a chance together. but then tells him that she was just manipulating him so that he knew that things could change on a dime, and she knows he really wants to back in college, so running away from a the loss of his girlfriend is fruitless. He finally decides to come home. Grayson and Jules run into a little boy (Spencer Churchill), Grayson can no longer hold off the conversation. Jules admits she is hiding from her problems and wants to put it off until they get home. Travis forgives Laurie and thanks her for looking out for him. Bobby admits to Ellie and Andy that he is feeling lonely, so they ask if they can hang out with him. After talking with Buck about the woman he lost, Jules decides that she will go on any adventure with Grayson. As the group gets ready to have their last drinks together before leaving, Bob finally makes his presence known, and they invite him to join them for a drink. Wiki Villa is the ‘aloha’ Hawaiian guy. NOTE: Danny Pudi’s uncredited cameo relates to the Community episode Critical Film Studies, in which his character Abed mentions being an extra in sitcom Cougar Town. NOTE: This is a one-hour episode that aired as two episodes in syndication. 1/13/22

SEASON 3

• 047. Ain’t Love Strange – 2/14/2012
  • While members of the group try to figure out which configuration of the group should be ‘the’ group, Jules invents a necklace to attach their wine glasses to. When everyone agrees that they like using their hands, they decide to use the one around their neck as a reserve. Later Jules and Grayson have lunch, and she tells him how much she likes surprise in their relationship, but when some skater kids are being too noisy, he points out that her response to them will be very predictable. Sure enough she tells them that they need to move to somewhere else, to which she gets an eyeroll. Meanwhile, Laurie is forced to wear an ankle bracelet after she gets into a fight with a married bartender’s wife. Stan (Sawyer Ever) becomes an evil child who is destructive, punches the maid Rosa, and scares his parents. Laurie finds this amusing, but is seemingly the only one who can control him. When she makes him a fake ankle bracelet like hers, Ellie starts to fear that Stan will become more like her than anyone in his life. Laurie, however, points out that she had numerous stepfathers, while Stan has terrific parents. In order to no be too nice to Ellie, she also points out that some children are just evil no matter what. When Jules car gets toilet-papered like a shark, she becomes convinced it was done by the skaters, so she goes to check them out at the bar and see if they seem guilty. While there, Bob asks her how she’s like to be proposed to and she says she’s want her loved ones there in a romantic setting, and that she’s like to do all of the talking. Bob then asks her if she and he could spend more time alone together. Bobby comes to see Travis at the college house he’s sharing with nine other guys, and to convince him to take the dog Travis because he is a chick magnet. Travis and the guys have a green screen they can use to make fake movies, and he says that this is enough to get the girls to come over. Bobby becomes obsessed with using it. Jules starts to become offended when Grayson and the others keep saying she is predictable. To prove she’s not, she wakes up Bob in the middle of the night and the two of them are joined by Laurie and go to toilet paper the skaters’ house. When the police show up, Laurie escapes, Bob makes a diversion by getting tasered, and Jules tries to escape… only to find that the policeman is Grayson, and is there, at an abandoned house with romantic toilet paper streamers with all of their loved ones around, so Grayson can propose to Jules. She accepts, although she wants to wait and say yes in the most romantic way possible. Jules later makes Grayson recreate the proposal using the green screen and a background in the mountains. Shawn Parikh is Travis’s roommate Sig. 5/22/22
• 048. A Mind With a Heart of Its Own – 2/21/2012
  • Grayson learns from Travis that Jules is an eavesdropping Ninja. Laurie decides to use the phrase “Prince Charles” every time she wants to throw up. When Andy leaves the ice cream out, he gets fake murdered by Ellie, a baseball bat, and fake blood, a new activity they do whenever Andy does something murder-worthy. Traditionally, Travis then takes pictures of it. As Travis is heading to visit his grandfather before heading back to campus, Jules suggests that Grayson go along so he can ask her father for permission to marry Jules. He is hesitant, but agrees to do it anyway. Laurie, who recently got slapped with an ankle monitor by getting into a fight with a jealous wife, gets Jules and Grayson a chocolate portrait of them for their engagement gift. Bobby wants to get them something unique, so he builds a a zipline between their houses. Andy doesn’t think they’ll like it, and he turns out to be right. Jules asks Ellie to be her Maid of Honor, and Ellie is thrilled that it will disappoint Laurie, but she cautions Julie not to feel like she has to people-please. Laurie understands that Jules has asked Ellie, but also asks if she might consider having two Maids of Honor. Jules then ask Ellie if she would mind if they were co-maids, so that Laurie could do all of the work. Jules denies that she had actually agreed to it already. Meanwhile, Jules’ father Chick acts as if Grayson must do him the favor of shooting his sick horse in order to get his blessing. However, he is just faking it to have fun with him. Travis thinks it is funny, but also tells his grandfather that Grayson is actually a really good guy. Bobby starts to feel sad that everyone thinks the Zipline is a bad idea, and finally he gets confirmation that Jules doesn’t want the Zipline. Laurie has had shirts “Co-MoH” shirts for her and Ellie, so Ellie figures out that she couldn’t have had them made in the twenty minutes since Jules supposedly asked her to be the Co-Maid of Honor. Jules admits to the lie and tries to make it better with a hug, but Ellie is furious and tries to tell Laurie that Jules only picked her out of pity. Jules uses the Zipline to try to get to Laurie first but ends up falling on her car. Bobby carries an injured Jules into the house and says he’ll take down the Zipline. Jules tells him how sweet the gesture was, and Andy has to drop the ice he got for Jules in order to give Bobby a hug. Jules tells Ellie how angry she is at her, and tells her that she admits to being a people pleaser, although Ellie doesn’t seem to mind when it is her who Jules is pleasing. Ellie finally apologizes and tries to fix everything with a ‘magic hug’. Julies insists that she get to ‘kill’ Ellie by the dumpster with a chainsaw, of which Travis takes pictures. Anthony Aria is Ricky. 5/23/22
• 049. Lover’s Touch – 2/28/2012
  • With Jules so involved with wedding plans, she isn’t given Grayson the attention he is craving. Bobby introduces the game Dominance Ball, whereby the guys peg each other with a rubber bouncy ball when the victim isn’t looking. Laurie vows to become violent if anyone hits her with the ball, but Bobby says women can’t handle the game so hey don’t have to worry. Laurie also makes fun of Andy’s toes, feeling sorry for Ellie that she has to live with them. For this reason, and the fact that the guys tried to edge them out from playing Dominance Ball, the ladies join in the game. Andy reveals to Grayson that when Ellie ignores him, he gets his affection elsewhere… in the dog park with the dogs. Travis heads back to campus on a skateboard being pulled by a dog, one of Bobby’s inventions, but when he spots a butterfly, he crashes and fractures his skull. While they are at the hospital, Tom shows up, and everyone learns that he’s the head neurosurgeon. They also learn his last name Gazalien for the first time and that he has two grown children. Jules tries to tell Travis that girls go for guys with injuries, like she did when she first saw Grayson’s motorcycle scar before he admitted he got it from a curling iron. Travis is sent home by Tom and told to wear a helmet for a couple of months. The girls get vicious at Dominance Ball, with Ellie freezing the ball she throws. She knocks Andy off a chair, and creates welts on Bobby. Everyone put on a helmet so Travis won’t feel so bad about wearing his. Jules tries to keep her composure about what happened to Travis, while Ellie waits patiently for her meltdown. He refuses to wear it, but when he is nearly hit by one of Bobby’s rubber balls before Jules intervenes and stops the ball. She then has a bit of a meltdown and makes him promise to wear the helmet, but Laurie questions what kids do once they are out of sight. Grayson misses human contact so much that he keeps touching Bobby, Andy, and his other male customers. This sends them all to the dog park, but it doesn’t seem to help. Jules return to working on the invitations, but has no idea who the guy is who was added: T. Gazalien. Grayson starts to seek affection from Jules, but Andy pops in and tells him to wait for her. Eventually it pays off she goes to him to hug and kiss. Damon Kohli is the doctor. Lindsay Ravage is the nurse. 9/16/22
• 050. Full Moon Fever – 3/6/2012
  • While getting their newspaper in the morning, Jules complains to Tom that his yard fountain makes her have to pee in the middle of the night. They also encounter the Bicycle Boys who ride through the cul-de-sac and through their yards to get to the new mall beyond their neighborhood. Andy declares himself king of the neighborhood and says he will handle the boys. However, Jules claims she is the actual king of the neighborhood. Meanwhile, Travis has been assigned to take a stranger working in his natural environment for his Photography class, but because he is still wearing the helmet and folks keep laughing at him, he starts taking photos of his father on his boat instead. Laurie starts texting nude pictures to Ellie, who warns her that that is not a good idea. In order to prove otherwise, she sends a partial nude photo to a guy named Wade, a soldier in Afghanistan, who has asked her for a skin photo. They hit it off, and she starts to refer to Wade as her boyfriend. Travis’s teacher Angie LeClaire (Sarah Chalke) is mesmerized by the topless photos of Bobby, while Bobby sees her and falls in love at first sight. Travis insists that Bobby not try and date her because she’ll know he was cheating on his assignment. Grayson and Andy steal Tom’s fountain, and they turn it into a wine fountain inside Jules’ house. Jules tries to assert herself as the king by putting a pumpkin head on a body and dressing it like a police officer to scare off the bicycle boys. When it works, Andy becomes depressed that he isn’t seen as the king of the neighborhood, so he exposes her ruse by turning on the pumpkin’s light and turning its face toward the street. He then sprays Jules with a hose. While playing Penny Can with Sig and Grayson at the dorm room, Travis asks Bobby not to date his teacher, and Bobby agrees since Travis comes first. Jules gets revenge on Andy by hitting him with a bucket of water and putting up a shortcut sign through his yard for the Bicycle Boys. She also puts Stan in the backyard and gives him a hose to douse him further with water. This simply drives Andy into a depression because he’s not in control of anything, matched only by Bobby’s depression. Grayson talks to Jules, who asks Travis to let his father date his teacher since he’s been alone for so long. Ellie and Grayson read through some of Laurie’s conversations with Wade, and they are actually quite touching, and Ellie admits they are good together. Jules apologizes to Andy and asks him to help her with the Bicycle Boys by becoming the Cul-de-Sace Braveheart. He paints his face thusly and he and the rest of the cul-de-sac crew stare down all of the bike riders. They pedal toward them all, and they stand aside, causing their bikes to ride right into a sand trap. The police declare that Andy is not at fault when one of the bikers dislocates his finger since the boys rode their bikes on private property. When Bobby shows up to take Travis to lunch, Travis introduces him to Angie, and they seem to find love at first sight. The guys return Tom’s fountain, but Tom is a bit miffed because it is now a wine fountain, which he says looks like blood and make him look creepy. Sean Persaud is the crying photography student. 9/16/22
• 051. A One Story Town – 3/13/2012
  • Ted from Hawaii and his a cappella quartet band members Crispin (George Miserlis), Randall (Paul F. Perry), and Roy (Philip McNivin) are passing through on the way to a Disney World audition, and Travis and Ellie think it would be funny to volunteer Jules’ house up as a place for them to stay for a few days on their way. Meanwhile, Bobby is disappointed that his times with Angie because he has trouble finding the right things to stay. When Jules hears this, she thinks Bobby will have a better chance if he can just kiss her, since she claims that he is the best kisser she’s ever had. Grayson takes issue with being ranked the seventh best kisser, while Ellie refuses to do anything to help Bobby out. Jules and Laurie meet up with Bobby at Crabfest in Gulftown to lay out her plan for him: he picks her up, drives her as she drinks champagne, stops by his boat to play Penny Can with Travis and Andy, a movie, drinks with Jules and Grayson, and then sunset at the beach. After they kiss, Bobby should say, “That was fun. Want to do it again?” just like he said to Jules after their first kiss. The actual date gets off to some rocky starts when he can’t think of a good compliment for her dress, he spills champagne on her as they drive, and when they arrive at his boat, Travis and Andy are having a spray paint fight that Bobby has to break up. He then calls her a ‘dummy’ when she said she’s never seen Roadhouse. It is too early for the movie, so Jules tries to have Laurie get earlier tickets, but she has gotten hot sauce and vodka in her eyes at Crabfest. When they all meet up for dinner, Bobby orders her soup bread bowl. Although Jules warns him about it, he eats too much of the bowl, causing the hot soup to spill on and scald Angie. Grayson is also creeping her out by hinting he wants to show her how good he can kiss. They wind up on the beach as planned but end up trying to push a manatee back in the ocean, but it dies in the process, severely depressing her so she goes home. Jules vows to salvage the evening, so she manages to talk Ellie into going and retrieving Angiel. Since she can barely walk, Ellie carries her to the plaza at Crabfest. Jules gets Ted’s quartet to run Tom Cruise-style to the plaza, where they serenade her with Kiss the Girl. His kiss charms her, so when he asks the question to see if she wants to do it again, she says yes. In an homage to Scrubs, back at the house Ted realizes that nearly everyone around him reminds him of people from his old job: Angie, Ellie, Tom, and an appearance by Chick. He runs into the glass door and then sees the pizza man (Zach Braff) and the pool man, The Todd (Robert Mascio). Brian Bradley is the park ranger. Paul Rogan is the Quebec tourist. 1/9/23
• 052. Something Big – 3/20/2012
  • Jules tells Grayson that the one thing that sucks about marrying him is that they will never be far from some hoochie who he slept with, and to prove the point, she calls out his name in public, and sure enough, a young woman named Holly (Briga Heelan) appears and recalls their time together. She says she’d like to get together and catch up with him. Meanwhile, Ellie needs time away from the cul-de-sac crew and goes surfing, even if it means that she just sits on the surfboard. Jules and Grayson go to see a marriage counselor named Lynn Mettler (Nicole Sullivan), just because Jules thinks she’s good at it. Although Jules and Lynn have already bonded, Lynn agrees with Grayson that she doesn’t get points for agreeing to have a kid when she makes him feel guilty about it. Laurie goes to visit Travis because she misses flirting with him. However, to her surprise, he declines her offer to take him out to lunch, which she now calls ‘louie’. She is so bored that she agrees to help teach Sig to step dance. Travis agrees to help him with the training but refuses to perform live with him. Laurie thinks she can convince him, but is surprised when he won’t do it, even for her. Grayson steals Lynn’s notebook and sees that she rates them as compatible with a bright future. Just then, Holly shows up with a baby named Tampa who she claims belongs to Grayson. Bobby shows up to surf and tries to teach Ellie, but she is a very difficult student. Even though she is mean to him, Bobby won’t give up on her. Jules suggests that Grayson takes a paternity test, and Tom helps them get one done quickly. The results indicate that Tampa is indeed Grayson’s daughter, causing Jules to freak out and smash wine glasses. Jules returns to Lynn, bringing Andy along as practice. Andy however calls Jules a selfish jerk since she knows he has always wanted a baby. Travis admits to Laurie that he had really gotten stuck on her but knowing that nothing would really ever happen made him start to feel stupid. Laurie tells him that it sucks for her because it made her feel special. When Ellie goes out on the board again, Bobby, Jules, and Andy all show up, and although Ellie wants to be alone, she agrees to chat with Jules. Ellie tells Jules that her problem is an easy one: Grayson wanted a kid, and now Jules doesn’t have to carry a baby. Bobby grabs Ellie and carries her back to the ocean and finally is successful in teaching her to surf. Laurie shows up to see Sig’s step dance performance with his fraternity, and Travis surprises Laurie by showing up to dance with them… just to see her smile. Later that night, Jules gets Tampa from Holly and brings her to see Grayson, and then they take her to introduce her the rest of the crew. Ivy Carnegie is the beach girl asking about Jules’ sunglasses. 1/9/23
• 053. You Can Still Change Your Mind – 4/10/2012
  • Grayson baby-proofs the house since the baby will be staying there a lot. He also announces that he is going to call her Jill instead of Tampa, since he came up with the middle name Jill. Jules is looking for a wedding photographer, so Travis volunteers for the job and shows everyone his photographs. Unfortunately, they are all disturbing shots of dead animals, but Jules sticks to her policy of helping her child no matter what. Bobby and Angie start hanging out with Andy and Ellie, and the guys are thrilled when the girls get along so well. Unfortunately, it all comes crashing down when Andy and Grayson see Angie kissing another man. Back at Jules, they get one of her kitchen drawers open that Grayson intends to baby-proof. Inside they find many relics from the 90’s including an old Simon game. Ellie tries to tempt Laurie with playing it so she can prove how dumb she is. Jules can’t get any of the baby proof drawers and cabinets open, so she starts throwing her garbage in the sink. Jules start finding photos of Grayson with his exes and starts throwing them in her sink. Andy is furious with Angie, and Bobby breaks it off with her, even though she insists that Bobby never said that he wanted to be exclusive. Laurie can’t get very far with the Simon game and starts to feal really dumb. She confides in Ellie that she just thought Ellie was toying with her, but never really realized she really believed she was that dumb. Ellie starts to feel bad and shows Ellie how bad she is with math, adding that Jules can’t open the cabinets, Grayson can’t remember an order, and Bobby can’t speak English. Jules tries to get Bobby and Angie back together and asks her to meet Bobby and her at the beach. Bobby wants no part of her, but Jules wants to find out if Travis really has talent. She tells Jules that he does have a lot of talent but won’t be happy as a starving photographer. Jules then talks Travis out of being the photographer for her. Angie meets Andy in his boat naked and seduces him. Jules calls Angie over and asked her why she encouraged him to become a photographer when the prospects seem so bleak. Angie says that Travis chose his own path, and then shows her a terrific photo that he took of Jules and Grayson napping. Angie returns to Bobby and tries to seduce him again, but Bobby says he wants a serious relationship whereas she might want to pick up and go to Kenya to photograph elephants at any time. She tells Travis that he has the gig back at the wedding but tells him that the thought of him struggling with life scares her.  In order to alleviate stress, they play a virtual reality game where they punch sharks. Jared Wilson is the customer whose order Grayson forgets. 6/25/23
• 054. Ways to Be Wicked – 4/17/2012
  • Ellie’s mother Bestsy (Susan Blakely) comes for a visit. Everyone seems to like her except for Ellie who thinks she is a conniving, evil woman who doesn’t think Ellie is doing a good job raising Stan. Grayson is the only one unable to keep his mouth shut about saying what a great woman she is. Ellie is furious when Grayson admits he feels this way, even though Jules secretly believes the same thing. Jules tells Grayson that he needs to take her side no matter what and then tells him that he’s still the ‘new guy’. Grayson feels bad about being referred to that way, so Andy tells him that he needs to dig deep to take interest in everyone’s lives. This starts with Laurie when she mentions to him that she’s always wanted to have a cake business called Krazy Kakes. As soon as he starts to act interested, Laurie bakes him a giant ladybug cake to commemorate that he’s just become a father. He doesn’t really want the cake, but when a customer (Brett Barrett) at Gray’s Place offers him $10 for one slice, he sees both a business opportunity and a chance to make Laurie happy. He alters his menu and buys an over for Laurie to cook her cakes and sell them at the bar. However, she declines the offer. It turns out that Ellie wasn’t exaggerating, and her mother really is a horrible person, who is quick to insult Ellie when Jules isn’t around. Ellie has Jules hide under her counter to prove that she is this way, leading Jules to soon learn the awful truth. Jules offers to see if she can get Betsy to say one nice thing about Ellie. No matter how much prodding Jules gives her, she can’t do it… but Jules lies and says she did. Meanwhile, Travis wants to turn their house into a party house for campus parties, by stealing the canvas mascot, a giant statue of a cougar. He enlists his parents and grandfather Chick to help him and Kevin and Sig in stealing the statue. Grandpa brings his horse trailer, which still has a horse on it. The campus police officer (George Anthony Bell) catches them in the act but accepts a $20 bribe to keep quiet. When Grayson steals one of Laurie’s cakes to sell, Laurie admits to him that her plan is to one day have her own Krazy Kakes business, but she feels like she’s not ready and if she tries and fails, there never will be a ‘one day’. Grayson talks her into taking a chance, and she becomes ready to sell some cakes. Betsy packs up to leave and tells Ellie she doesn’t need to come say goodbye. Jules admits that she lied and that she really didn’t say anything nice about Ellie. As Ellie’s moral compass, Jules gives Ellie permission to never see her mother again, and Ellie is good with it. Jules won’t let anyone have wine until they say something nice to Ellie. Laurie heads to a bar, and the men can’t come up with anything unique. 6/26/23
• 055. Money Becomes King – 4/24/2012
  • Grayson tries to get everyone to slow down in making fun of Holly, claiming she’s not as ridiculous as she seems, but Holly keeps saying things that make her sound completely air headed. Jules keeps taking her friends with her to see her therapist Lynn whenever they have disagreements. When Greyson suggests that he and Jules will combine their finances when they get married, he is the next one to wind up with her on Lynn’s couch. Lynn agrees that they should share everything once married, including their money. Meanwhile, Andy plays a joke on Ellie and has Stan jump out at her from under the sink. Ellie gets annoyed that Andy never messes with Bobby because he thinks that Bobby can’t take it. Ellie vows revenge on Stan. Laurie is keeping busy with her Krazy Kakes business but has to rush between that and her job with Jules. With Jules struggling with finances at her business, Ellie suggests that she take the money from Grayson since he wants to combine money. Andy shows Bobby his self-generating water bottle, which allegedly makes water from moisture in the air. When Jules keeps telling Grayson “in your face!”, Jules accuses her of stealing her thunder and takes her to see Lynn. Andy goes over Grayson and Jules’ finances and suggests that her location and having an assistant are costing her too much money. Ellie promises to give Andy a dead arm. Andy also mentions that they need to sell one of their houses and live together, but neither wants to get rid of the house. Laurie suggests that she will be able to find some cake helpers that need something to do without getting paid. She starts with Tom and has him drop off a cake on his way to work at the hospital. Andy secretly refills the water bottle when Bobby leaves it on his boat. Ellie punches Andy in the arm, and then they talk Grayson and Jules to get past their stalemate and visit each other’s houses again. Bobby goes for a hike in the Devil’s Hole Trailhead, thinking he can survive with his new water bottle, even refusing a bottle of water from a fellow hiker (Elaine Loh). Andy starts to worry about Bobby being alone in the desert, and Ellie acts incredulous that he would do that to his friend. When Tom gets called away from the hospital, he has to abandon delivering the cake, and then realizes that all of her volunteers have walked out on her. Travis suggests that she needs to commit fully to selling cakes and quit her job with his mother. Lynn gets called over to Jules house to talk about their house issue, which annoys Lynn. Jules reminds her how she keeps her in business, so Lynn reminds her that they should put the decision off to the last possible moment, since things could fall apart. Jules decides she needs to fire Laurie, while Laurie has decided to quit, so they tell each other at the same time. Andy and Ellie rush to the park to check on Bobby, only to find him being put into an ambulance. Bobby is grateful that Andy finally thought Bobby could take being messed with. Jules and Ellie decide to share the office space and devote half of it to Krazy Kakes. Katie O’Rourke is Laurie’s volunteer assistant Betsy. Clint Jordan is the park ranger. Al Carabello is the paramedic. Alex Ball is the patient Jules throws out. Heather Sims in the Krazy Kakes customer. 10/21/23
• 056. Southern Accents – 5/1/2012
  • Grayson continues to defend Holly, while Jules is annoyed that every time she comes over, Holly gets her to drink tequila and chat with her. Meanwhile, Jules and Grayson want to hold their wedding on the beach, but this requires getting a permit at City Hall. Jules heads there and meets the Mayor Roger Frank. The clerk (Brooke Baumer) tells Jules that they don’t permit weddings on the beach, so she takes it to the Mayor himself. Even though he had a wedding on the beach when he married Barb Coman, he declines her request. Jules is so annoyed that she decides that Andy should run for Mayor against him. When Bobby makes a racially insensitive comment to an Asian customer Mr. Koh (Marcus Choi), he starts to worry that he is saying racist things all of the time and is reluctant to return to Krazy Kakes because of the incident. Travis runs into Holly at Coffee Bucks while she is getting dumped by an internet date, and they decide to have ice cream together. Ellie is furious that Jules has talked Andy into wanting to run for Mayor as she has no interest in talking to the people with Andy. Jules and Ellie walk in on Holly and Travis making out at Jules house. Jules is furious, while Ellie revels in the tension of the situation. Andy finally builds up the nerve to ask Ellie if he can run for Mayor, and she agrees to think about it. Ellie gets Bobby back to the cake store and brings in Mr. Koh and tells him that Bobby bought him a cake. However, he still feels like a racist when he asks a tall black man (Marcus Mitchell) if he can dunk. Ellie tells Andy that she’s not comfortable with him being Mayor. Travis admits to Jules and Grayson that he is falling in love with Holly, and that he would make a good father for Jill… then admits that he’s lying because they are all so hard on her. He then admits that he saw a hot, vulnerable girl and took advantage of her. Laurie arranges a panel of minority friends, including Andy, Sig, and Laurie’s Twitter boyfriend Wade (Edwin Hodge). Grayson and Travis continue their campaign to give Holly a chance. Jules brings Ellie into the conversation and says that, like Ellie’s position on Andy running for Mayor, sometimes it is okay to put yourself first. When Ellie hears this, suddenly she disagrees and decides to tell Andy that she is okay with him running for Mayor. Travis takes his mother to see Ellie in the park with Jill, looking like a young mother in way over her head trying to keep it all together… just like Jules when she was a young mother. During the panel, Andy tells Bobby that the fact that he’s agonizing over acting like a racist means that he’s a better man than most. Laurie realizes that all it takes to fix minority problems is a pretty white woman. Andy thinks that Ellie really does care about what make him happy, but then she reads off a long list of the demands she has for changes to the city, none of which include the wedding on the beach. Holly comes to see Jules, who tells her that if she is going to be part of the family, then she needs to learn to love wine. 10/21/23
• 057. Down South – 5/8/2012
  • Meteorologist Bob Harrigan (himself) announces the arrival of Hurricane Mary for the following day, so Jules prepares a hurricane party. Tom boards up the outside of Jules’ house, but when he asks to come in, she tells him that she can’t hear him… even though he can hear inside just fine. He winds up staying outside for the duration of the storm, commenting on the situations going on inside from time to time. Grayson tries to think of a bar closing phrase other than “You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here,” after Ellie makes fun of it. When Laurie is depressed because Wade has re-enlisted in the military, Holly suggests to Jules that Travis and Laurie would make a good couple, so Jules immediately starts to worry. As they all discuss it, Jules and Ellie come down against it, Bobby and Andy think it would be a good thing. Grayson refuses to break the tie and wants to remain neutral. In the meantime, Jules wants Bobby to talk Travis out of it, as she feels it will really affect her since Laurie is her best friend. However, when Bobby sees how much he likes her, he tells Travis to be the shoulder for her to cry on. While everyone is playing The Perfect Storm on Bobby’s boat, Travis calls Jules and tells him to thank his father for the advice, causing Jules to become mad at Bobby. Travis tells Jules that he is going to ride out the storm at Laurie’s place, but Jules tells them they should come back to the house. With Jules and Bobby not able to agree on whether to allow the relationship, they agree to play a game to decide who wins. They play Penny Can to determine what game they will play, and they settle on Celebrity. The game becomes even more important when the power goes out and they run out of wine. Laurie and Travis brave the storm to go to Jules’ house, but Travis takes her up to Jules’ room to comfort her. They start playing Celebrity, but the guys are way better than the girls. Jules sends them to get wine at the Gray’s bar, where they find that the power is on. They decide to stick around, and then even more so when three hot girls find their way to the bar and ask if they can stay through the storm. While they are gone, Ellie and Jules form a plan to cheat in Celebrity by Ellie saying that Jules got it right no matter what she said. Jules and Ellie head to the bar, so the guys have to send the girls home. Grayson tries out a new closing catchphrase that is the worse one yet. Travis and Ellie find themselves alone, and Laurie remarks how romantic the setting is as she lays in his arms. It falls apart when Wade calls her through video messaging and asks Travis to be his ‘body’ so he can dance with her and hug her. When he asks her to grab Laurie’s butt, Travis cannot continue. Laurie asks Travis whether she should continue with Wade or move on, and he gives her the advice to let it play out with him. When Jules gets home and finds a depressed Travis, she tells him that Laurie finally has found someone who cares about her feelings more than their own. Bobby tells Jules that he wanted to do what she wanted with the Laurie situation, but when he saw how much Travis lit up at the mention of Laurie’s name, he wanted him to have whatever he wanted. The storm ends, and Tom is still outside, where he tries to explain why Florida has so many storms. The group does the new thing that they’ve been doing: pretending to be asleep when someone tries to tell them something educational. Ellie finally convinces Grayson to simply tells the crowd to go home at closing time because he wants to snuggle in his blanket, and that they will thank him from preventing them from making a mistake to the person they are talking to. Maliabeth Johnson is the hot chick who talks. 2/25/24
• 058. Square One – 5/15/2012
  • When the hurricane damages Grayson’s house, he is forced to move in with Jules, while Bobby, whose boat was damaged, moves into Grayson’s house. When Grayson finds Jules’ pee in the toilet, she tells him that she is doing it for the environment, but trouble starts when he finds plastic materials in her trash can. He then takes issue with the fact that she lied to him after living with her for just one day. Meanwhile, Jules becomes annoyed when people use noises instead of words. Likewise, Grayson hates when Jules changes the meaning of phrases like making ‘cakewalk’ mean a difficult thing, but when she gets Ellie to approve the change, she begins using it. Meanwhile, when Laurie says she had video sex with Wade, she and Ellie get into an argument over who is a sexier lover. Travis helps them resolve the issue by finding a guy named Vincent Hawthorne, someone they had both dated at one point. Jules and Grayson return to their marriage counselor Lynn Mettler and continue to frustrate her when they won’t listen to what she is telling them about bringing old relationship baggage to a new relationship. Jules tells Bobby that he can’t drink wine on the couch because of his poor record of spilling things. They have a contest whereby they both wear white shirts and see who will be the first to get a stain on it. Andy follows Bobby around all day, making sure that he doesn’t have any accidents. When Jules almost flings a meatball into him, Bobby jumps in front of him and takes the meatball for him. Laurie and Ellie call Vincent Hawthorne and jog his memory about the sex each of them had with him. He claims that Ellie was the sexier of the two, causing her to gloat over Laurie. However, when Ellie overhears Andy telling Grayson that he wishes Ellie were still fun and spontaneous in bed like she used to be with Vincent, she starts to feel depressed… and forces Travis to listen to her talk about it. Jules decides to be completely honest with Grayson, but when he starts getting turned off when she starts talking about the bald spot on her head and the hair growing on her knuckles, he tries to nix the honesty. She then takes issue with him coming home for dinner over a half-hour late. Travis winds up giving both Ellie and Laurie advice about how men just need to feel special by having their woman do one special thing for them. Ellie goes and takes Andy away from Bobby so that she can get fully naked for the first time ever during sex, leaving Bobby vulnerable to getting his shirt stained. Bobby tells Jules to not bring the baggage from their relationship to her relationship with Grayson, so she apologizes to Grayson about how she has been acting. When she calls him to come sit with her and drink wine on the couch, he trips and spills wine on her shirt, leaving Bobby the victor of the white shirt contest. Jules and Grayson tell Lynn that they’ve resolved their issue by agreeing not to bring baggage to their relationship, the same advice she had already given them, causing her to lose her temper and break a water pitcher. 2/25/24

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