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Jules becomes jealous when she learns that her cruel dermatologist is seeing Bobby, Andy gives Travis a lesson about understanding women, and Laurie lets politics get in the way of a potential hookup.

Despite fearing the meanest and most unrelenting dermatologist in town, Dr. Amy Evans, Jules and Ellie are willing to endure the harsh ridicule and wrath for an appointment with the best in the business. But when Jules learns Dr. Evans is seeing Bobby, she's determined to stand up to her and protect him. Meanwhile, Travis gets a job working for Barb that turns out to be more than he bargained for.—ABC Publicity

The girls suffer insane insecurity causing aggression. Andy coaches Travis on how to 'roll with it' and harvest praise. Grayson takes part in male bonding 'aboard' Bobby's boat. Only Jules' Jeff stands his ground and gets both respect and a breakthrough.—KGF Vissers

Can a woman call up a complete stranger and get them to agree to have sex? DUH!! Of course, the guys won the bet. Grayson, Andy, and Jeff were out with Jules, Laurie, and Ellie. (Wait, 3 men and 3 women out together talking? This sounds like the makings of a good show. I wonder if anybody else has thought of this.) But apparently, Jules really likes Jeff because she gave up playing her favorite game of Scrabble to have sex with him. Or it was the fact she thinks he's way smarter than her. But then, that's part of the "mask" women put on, as Jules explains to Travis. Women display this "image" of what they think guys want, which wears off after marriage. ("Morning sex? Yuck!")

Jules and Ellie head to the dermatologist for some Botox treatments. (Ellie apparently gets a volume discount.) Her method for dealing with the mean Dr. Evans is avoiding eye contact and mumbling. Jules plans to kill her with kindness. Five seconds with Dr. Evans (Lisa Kudrow) and Jules is also mumbling and avoiding eye contact, mainly because Jules has enough going on to buy Dr. Evans a new steam shower. Dr. Evans is most adept at dermatology...and stringing together many an insult. However, Jules needs her services (and is probably the only person to think that). She confesses to Bobby later on that she needed the "Queen Bitch," and Dr. Evans emerges from Bobby's boat to agree liking the name Queen Bitch. "Makes me sound like the leader of the gays."

"Black is white, yin is yang! DeVito's tall, Jon is Kate!" Both Travis and Laurie enter Grayson's bar in business suits, although Laurie does have her blouse wide open with no bra to speak of. (And thank you for that, Ms. Phillips.) The other man at the bar doesn't turn her on, especially when he goes by his last name of Smith. However, Grayson corrects her on that, and tells her he's loaded. Mission accomplished. Unfortunately, Smith wants to take her to a political function at his father's country club, and she's nervous.

GRAYSON: Wow, it's like "Pretty Woman."

LAURIE: Acutally, it's more like "Mystic Pizza," but either way I get to be Julia Roberts, so bite me.

However, Laurie is a little intimidated by the whole political process, despite Grayson trying to explain the differences between Republicans and Democrats. And the fact that Ellie thinks that even Bobby shouldn't date someone so far out of his league like Dr. Evans, who doesn't even like him in the sack, convinces Laurie to break her date with Smith.

Andy decides to take Travis under his wing and teach him a thing or two about women. (uh-oh) He demonstrates that Ellie is rather vulnerable right now having gotten back from the dermatologist by intentionally making Ellie overreact and yell at him. He feels that she'll make it up to him later, especially after he finds her necklace, which he just hid. Observing Jules at her office after she had told off Dr. Evans, Andy indicates to Travis that this is always the best time to ask a woman to have sex. (not in this case, obviously, but...) Another piece of advice: if a woman has "misplaced lady rage," as Laurie just had with Travis, he should find out the source of the rage and agree with her on it. This actually works. And Travis and Laurie's highly-inappropriate-but-still-cute flirtation continues.

Not wanting to see Bobby hurt, Jules confronts Dr. Evans, who actually agrees with Jules about Bobby being bad in bed. But Jules still tells her to back off. Dr. Evans is a bit impressed that Jules stood up to her, but apparently not enough to stop seeing Bobby. The fact that Dr. Evans was in her house with Bobby was proof of that. As was the request for more Chardonnay...and better Chardonnay.

Jules decides to get back at Dr. Evans by dropping in on Bobby's boat unexpectedly. However, she has to drag Jeff with her, although he's happy he can get another vase of wine from the cooler. (Seriously, a cooler like you see on the sidelines at a football game.) Jules' biggest problem is Dr. Evans talking down to everybody, but Bobby doesn't care. Nor does Jeff, who tries to assuage her fears of not being as smart as Dr. Evans.

According to Andy, whose advice really seems to work, women always drive men crazy or try to outsmart them to protect themselves and not get hurt. This is true for Laurie, who was finally convinced Smith Frank (seriously, that was his name) was strictly interested in her for her butt, boobs, and face, in that order. Dr. Evans stopped talking down to Bobby when she saw what he brought her examination table, and Jules finally got the courage to play Scrabble against Jeff, although she stuck to the three-letter words.

ANDY: They almost miss out on the stuff they fell they're not good enough for. But every once in a while, they find the courage to be themselves, and it is worth the wait.