- Ellie gets mad when Jules appoints two Maids of Honor, Grayson goes with Travis to get Jules' dad's blessing, and Bobby gives Jules a zip line to Grayson's house as an engagement present.
- Grayson hardly manages to exert a symbolical right of approval while the girls rival to plan and star at his wedding with Jules. Travis coaches dear step-dad-to-be and takes him along to his grandfather, horse-rancher Chic, who seems hostile. Bobby's original, active wedding 'gift' adds to the group's troubles.—KGF Vissers
- Jules ends up asking both Ellie and Laurie to be her "co-maids" of honor because she can't stand to hurt anyone's feelings; and Grayson tries to ask Chick for Jules' hand in marriage formally, but Chick decides to have a little fun in the process.—ABC Publicity
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Grayson's (Josh Hopkins) first lesson about Jules (Courteney Cox): she's an eavesdropping ninja. She'll sneak up behind you at the mere whisper of her name. Grayson's second lesson about Jules: he has no say whatsoever in their wedding. Even Bobby (Brian Van Holt) and Andy (Ian Gomez) knew that. Jules wants suggestions about the wedding. Bobby's request to have it on a Tuesday because it was his off day was rejected ("too white trash"), but Laurie's (Busy Philipps) request to have it in the spring after her ankle monitor bracelet was taken off was accepted. Jules asks Ellie (Christa Miller) to be her maid of honor, but Ellie would only accept it if Andy and she got a room to have sex and Jules didn't do ANYTHING just to please other people, such as ask Laurie to be her maid of honor, too. Of course, Jules feels like she has to make Laurie a maid of honor, too. She sells it to Ellie by saying Laurie could do all of the work (which Ellie wouldn't want to do). In the meantime, as Travis (Dan Byrd) heads back to college, Jules asks Grayson to talk to her father, Chick, to ask permission to marry her, as her father was big on traditions like that. As for gifts, Laurie got Jules and Grayson a large picture of them made entirely of chocolate.
LAURIE: They look so much hotter as a black couple.
BOBBY: Most people do. (Actually, I don't. I just look like a much uglier version of Smart Brother from )
Bobby's idea for a gift is to 'connect' the two houses. With a zipline. He even tries it out but can't quite get the landing. Neither can Laurie, who might want to not go commando and wear a miniskirt when she does it. Andy thinks Jules won't go for it and Bobby should just tell them he's OK with it. But telling someone you're OK with something really means you're not OK with it. Which means Jules was OK with the zipline. Bobby was crushed ("I feel like my heart just got kicked in the nuts."), but Andy helps Bobby reenact scenes from ...if had a zipline in it. But Andy had to run back and get the ice cream put away. However, he was too late, so Andy had to be 'murdered' by Ellie. (Travis even took pictures.) Ellie is suspicious of Jules' actions regarding asking Laurie to be her Co-MoH. (Co-Maid of Honor) Given Laurie already had t-shirts made, Ellie concluded Jules asked Laurie before Ellie gave her approval.
Travis and Grayson arrive at Chick's () ranch, and Grayson asks Chick's permission to marry Jules. Chick has a few 'tasks' for Grayson to do first, such as ride a horse (with Travis apparently, and don't put away those jokes just yet) and euthanize another horse who is sick. And if you correctly predicted Chick handed Grayson an unloaded shotgun to euthanize a horse that isn't really sick, winner winner chicken dinner. (I have to update my catchprhases.) Grayson, you might suspect, is having second thoughts about it, given how the horse's eyes look almost human.
GRAYSON: I am not shooting your horse. And I don't need your permission. Jules is forty...two, three?
CHICK & TRAVIS: Don't really know.
GRAYSON: Well, we should all know that!
As Jules ninjas to the roof to tell Bobby to take down the zipline, Ellie is ticked at Jules not only for having to share the altar with the beady-eyed bartender and Vanilla Gorilla (cutest pet name EVER!), but Jules was people-pleasing behind her back. But Jules answered back, telling her to suck it up and work on her wedding toast, even "Thanks, babe"-ing it like she does with Grayson when the conversation ends. Ellie decides to tell Laurie that Jules only made her Co-MoH out of pity, and Jules takes the zipline to stop her...and can't land better than anybody else. Jules needs six of those yellow pills crushed up in the wine, but she thanks Bobby for the metaphor to
At the ranch, Chick explained to Travis why he was giving Grayson crap. Since he made a mistake with Bobby the first time, Chick didn't want to make the same mistake twice. But Travis told him he was a good guy, and Chick agreed. And he remembered that shotgun wasn't unloaded.
Jules confronts Ellie, telling her that Ellie said she should do what makes her happy, but making her friends happy did that. Ellie thinks it's sad, even though Jules always buys coffee she hates for her and sweaters she can borrow.
ELLIE: I said people-pleasing annoys me, not Ellie-pleasing. I love that.
Ellie concedes and gives Jules a rare hug. But Jules is still mad enough to kill her. (photograph kill, not the real thing)
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