- Tom's choice for a group vacation does not meet with everyone's approval. Bobby and Grayson mistakenly sign up for a break-dancing contest, and Jules receives some news from her doctor when she goes in for a check-up.
- Goodbye...for now? From... COUGAR TOWN
Lesson learned for the Cul-de-Sac Crew: don't let the winner of "Cul-de-Sac Crew Trivia" pick where everyone went for vacation. Tom (Bob Clendenin) has a distinctive...let's call it creepy obsessive...advantage over everyone else, and he decided they would have fun right there in town. Which they didn't. Just as well, given Jules (Courteney Cox) had to go get a medical exam. She was going nuts the prior night that everybody might have been figments of Tom's imagination, and Ellie (Christa Miller) mashing happy pills in her wine probably didn't help her cause for the doctor today. She needed to get her hands on some clean urine, and Laurie (Busy Philipps) volunteered hers. Jules loved the idea and broke out Big Chuck to celebrate.
JULES: (dropping almost a full bottle into Big Chuck) They say a glass of wine a day is healthy. (Enjoying a bottle of Three-Buck Chuck from Trader Joe's right now. What's the opposite of irony?)
Grayson (Josh Hopkins) and Bobby (Brian Van Holt) needed a competitive outlet while his hockey league was off-season, and Chick beating them in darts wasn't helping a bit. But Bobby was hanging out at a new gym...mostly to shower and borrow toilet paper...and he offered to sign them up for a two-on-two basketball league. Only...he didn't. He signed them up for a breakdancing competition. (BOBBY: I really shouldn't be filling out forms when I'm washing three puppies in the sink.) They were ready to walk away when a younger guy said to "take it easy, old man." Needless to say, the 44-year-old Grayson was quite offended by that. But the younger man and his friends weren't done with the insults. Grayson challenged the group to a breakdancing contest. Grayson claimed he knew a few moves from back in the day, and he could teach Bobby. (Yes, that's as pathetic as it sounds.)
Jules passes the physical. In fact, she's in perfect health. And the doctor congratulated her. He had to check it twice, but Jules was pregnant! Oops. Laurie was pregnant and she didn't know about it. Jules had absolutely no idea how to break it to Laurie and Travis (Dan Byrd), but she had to come up with a way to tell them. They weren't even sure if this was a good thing or a bad thing. But they kept their mouths shut with the two, who had come by to borrow a purse. (LAURIE: All of my purses are day-glo or held up in a police evidence locker.) Jules figures since they were pretend-marrying already, they could just throw a party and tell them the good news.
Why were Travis and Laurie pretending to be married? They were busy with Andy (Ian Gomez). Andy was in trouble at work and needed to bring in a big-money client. Naturally, he thought he could pass off Laurie and Travis as a couple whom had just backed into money because Travis made a very popular smartphone app. They were game to helping Andy, despite his Argo (2012)-esque grilling of their characters: Brittany Huffington and Tavis Crobb. And it worked just fine...until Travis added more to his character and decided Tavis' next challenge in life would be to move to New York and become a photographer. Brittany...sorry, Laurie...wanted to live in the country and have five kids, which Travis thought was crazy. Before long, Laurie storms out of the office, and Andy has to rush back to stop the party because Travis was only about 2 minutes behind him. They manage to hide the food and the alcohol (Ellie took care of that, natch), but Tom could sure use a few lessons on how to hide balloons. Travis tells them he thinks Laurie and he have broken up, and he goes up to his room to be depressed.
Jules figures the only way she gets out of this is to get in her car and drive west. Which Ellie was TOTALLY on-board for! (ELLIE: I packed my Thelma & Louise (1991) six years ago! Just say the word!) But Jules figures she has to fix this, and Ellie's promise to kiss every time they cross a state line wouldn't dissuade her. Getting them together wasn't as hard as was expected, since Travis had a long talk with Chick (Ken Jenkins) and Jules was able to convince Laurie to meet with Travis. Before Jules could say anything, Travis apologized.
TRAVIS: I was talking to Chick about how I wanted to move to New York to follow my dream, and he told me to imagine my life exactly how I wanted it, and then to picture it without you. Then I realized being a photographer wasn't my dream. You are. And it doesn't really matter how many great things happen to me if you're not at the center of it. It's not going to mean anything. I love you, Laurie.
LAURIE: (touched) I love you, too, Travis.
JULES: I don't mean to ruin the moment, but is the first time you've said 'I love you' to each other?
TRAVIS: (tearing up) Yes it is, and yes you did!
Jules let them have their moment because she had to go set up the perfect mood for her to tell them the news. This would require telling Bobby and Grayson to 86 their breakdancing competition. Apparently, talking to Chick helps when you're feeling old and/or stupid. And since he recommended doing stupid and crazy things to keep young, Bobby and Grayson took on that group in a breakdancing competition. (GRAYSON: Hope you enjoyed your meal, 'cause you just got SERVED!) Of course, they got their asses kicked, but they can spin on the ground on their backs reasonably well and do a passable robot. That was nothing to the girl who could spin on her head, but they had better places to be.
Jules took Travis and Laurie to a nearby restaurant, where everyone was waiting.
JULES: As you know, I recently went to the doctor with a container of Laurie's pee...
GRAYSON: You don't need to keep mentioning that...
JULES: It's part of the story! The important part is...Laurie, you're pregnant. I know it's a shock, but we'll always be there to love you and support you with anything you need.
LAURIE: I feel like I just got hit in the face with a two-by-four. And yes, I know what that feels like.
TRAVIS: (to Laurie) I love you, and right now I honestly don't think there's anything we can't handle together.
Everybody celebrates...except Andy, who still needed a rich client to land. And Tom reminded him he was a brain surgeon, so problem solved. (TOM: My largest personal expense is doll toys.) Jules went over to hug her father and confessed she was terrified.
CHICK: It's understandable. So I will just tell you the same thing I told you when you found out you were pregnant 22 years ago: it's going to be OK. Your family loves you, and we'll always be right by your side. And, believe it or not, there may come a day where you look back and realize this was the best thing that ever happened.
JULES: You're the smartest dad.
CHICK: I know.
By the way, if you forgot anything that happened this season, just talk to Tom. He's reenacted every last detail with the dolls in his garage. Which for some reason still ends with Grayson leaving.
TOM: (as Grayson) Now I'll have to get more whitening strips and hair gel.
See you in season 6! (hopefully)
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