- Laurie's free-spending mom shows up just as she prepares to buy a house and needs a co-signer, Bobby is teased after he is robbed by a woman, while Travis helps take care of Barbara after a procedure from her dermatologist.
- Bobby finally takes Grayson's demand to pay his huge tab seriously. Alas, the cash is taken from him and the adult friends can't resist teasing him for being 'beaten by a girl', yet he shows no embarrassment. Travis takes a job as errant boy, but gets spooked by his first client, Barbara, who stages her facial peeling like a horror scene. Jules nor Ellie can believe or accept how usually arrogant Laurie allows her useless mother, Sheila Keller, to walk all over her out of pure selfishness.—KGF Vissers
- Laurie makes a big decision in her life, and no she hasn't decided to start wearing panties to work. She wants to buy the condo Jules was showing to a 28-year-old who was about to buy it. Fortunately, the condo suddenly had new carpeting since the old carpeting was full of blood. (Jules was so proud of Laurie!) Unfortunately, Laurie purchases too many tuna melts and breath mints ("it's a vicious cycle") to need someone to co-sign a loan. Perhaps she can get the money from Bobby, who just won $200 in his basketball pool...only to be robbed of it. By an unarmed woman. Grayson can't believe that a woman took his $200...that is the money Bobby owes him at the bar. Perhaps it was Barb, who hired Travis to run errands for her while she went into hiding after a horrible chemical peel. Or maybe it was the same woman going through Jules' stuff in her office. But before she can reenact the use of the pen from "Grosse Pointe Blank," Laurie comes in and says hello to her mother.
Doing a full 180, Jules gushes over Laurie, which her mom automatically assumes means the two are lesbians. They deny it, although both of them call Portia and don't want to be Ellen. She also blabs that Laurie needs a co-signer for her new condo. Jules quickly excuses herself. Later, Laurie explains that her mother can't co-sign, since her job is professional ambulance chaser. The reverse seems to be happening: her mother wants her money. Jules puts the proverbial foot down, saying every family has that one crazy person in it...just as Bobby walks in. (to be fair, he actually waited for that line) Laurie asks Jules not to say anything to her mother, but Jules can't abide by Sheila (Laurie's mother) going out to a spa and getting some permanent eyeliner (which she enjoys having touched) on Laurie's dime. Sheila is naturally offended by Jules' words, thinking that Laurie now owes her for all the perms, candy cigarettes, and real cigarettes Laurie got as a kid. Laurie walks in to see Jules berating Shelia and is upset. Worst of all, we now now Jules' middle name is Kiki.
The next day, Laurie comes to the real estate office to apologize to Jules and wonder why Jules doesn't hate her. As it turns out, her mother is really mean, told her she couldn't do anything, and can punch people to make them puke, as Bobby found out the hard way. Jules wondered why Laurie couldn't stand up to her mother, but seeing her mother try to throw a rock through the office window because Jules was hugging Laurie may have done the trick. Laurie sends her mother packing, and her mother still doesn't get it. Jules co-signs Laurie's mortgage.
Bobby, who has taken crap from everybody regarding being beat up by a woman, is finally knocked off his pedestal of embarrassment. Apparently, Bobby CAN be embarrassed, despite his protestations to the contrary. On the good side, Ellie admits to being friends with Bobby when she has his back during the fight with Sheila.
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