- A long-standing rivalry over who's a better therapist leads to war when Kate steals Patrick, one of Charlie's group patients.
- Gay patient Patrick feel utterly ignored, even by Charlie, hence decides to quit group. Charlie's lover-therapist Kate keeps losing bets about psychiatric theory, but finds revenge stealing Patrick as patient. Eliminating the violence from his prison group's advice, Charlie decides to lure the personal shipper back at Patrick's department store job, posing as clothes client. Charlie makes fun of his ex Jennifer Goodson's Civil War period 'steamy' novel, yet learns seduction tips from it, but neither parents is amused when they find teen daughter Sam got inspired to brag about her alleged sexual experience in the study group she founded to prepare years ahead to get into an Ivy league college.—KGF Vissers
- "Anger Management" - "Charlie and Kate Battle Over a Patient" - July 12, 2012
We open in Charlie's groups. Ed is complaining about his wife getting a DVR and skipping over the commercials which he likes. Patrick is annoyed at the triviality of the problem. Nolan eggs him on to get angry about it. Lacey says he's really angry about "the brown people," like he always is. Ed says it's not that it's that he's cried twice in the last 20 years it's been over commercials. Charlie calls it a day before Patrick can share and he gets angry.
Sam arrives with Jennifer. Jennifer notes that the people in his group look just like regular people. She hits up Charlie for his half of her SAT prep books. She's only in middle school but is worried about college. Charlie tells her to get in a club for an extra-curricular activity. She's still nervous but he tells her not to be, but admits that's just a load of crap his dad laid on him.
Sam heads upstairs and Charlie finds Jennifer's erotica. She calls it a "historical novel" and describes "Gone With the Wind." He calls it a "spank book." She denies this. He reads from it and proves her point. He wants her to read something worthwhile. She says it's just harmless fun like all the women he slept with when they were married.
In therapy with Kate, Charlie grouses about Jen's romance novel. Kate thinks the book makes him nervous because it holds men to an unrealstic standard. Kate is nervous about the outfit she's wearing to a televised trial in which she's appearing as an expert witness so she begins to take off her clothes .Charlie misinterprets this as an invitation to sex. She disabuses him of this notion and says they shouldn't have sex during session. Charlie gives Kate Patrick's number since he's a personal shopper.
In her new afterschool club, Sam and her friends obsess about college. Sam and her friends talk about sex and she claims she "made love" to a stable boy at her Aunt Sabrina's farm.She's quoting directly from Jen's romance novel.
Patrick is late for Charlie's group. He texts the group to say he's quitting the group. Charlie says he's disappointed but not surprised.
Charlie meets with his pro bono prison group. None of them were able to keep their kittens alive over the weekend. One convict shares a "success story" about how he went through the steps to control his anger when he thought the Lil Debbie snacks he was going to have as anniversary treat with another convict were stolen. They were actually ...in his ass the whole time.
Charlie admits he lost something also and he's having some emotions about it. He explains about Patrick leaving and his feeling disrespected. Another convict shares his story about a woman leaving him and it turned out that she was stolen by his friend. He killed them both. Another convict counsels going to his work to track him down since "the ho left you."
Charlie goes to Parick's work. Patrick calls it wildly inappropriate. He says his new therapist that it's best for him to make a clean break. It turns out that Kate has poached him. Charlie says Patrick was just supposed to dress her. Patrick says he did, which was a miracle since she has boy hips and monkey arms. Charlie says he's making a mistake and needs to continue with him but that Kate is a great therapist.
He meets Kate for dinner and calls her out. She says it was totally Patrick's decision and that people change therapists all the time. He says her therapy-style is going to make him backslide since she's rewarding Patrick's passive-aggressive behavior. She gives Charlie permission to physicalize his anger. He tries to dump ketchup on her but it doesn't come out. He then tells her this means war.(He then apologizes to some nearby soldiers.)
Jen drops by Charlie's to tell him about the problem with Sam talking about sex with her college prep club meeting. Sam comes down and explains she made up that story to put off the girls who said she was never going to have sex because of her OCD. Jen blames Charlie for having filth around but Sam says it was Jen's books she was quoting from. Sam apologizes. Charlie says he understands since she felt peer pressure. Charlie and Jen talk about the book and she admits it is a turn on, it's about making someone feel wanted, passion. Charlie translates this to Patrick and goes to him and dramatically declares that he needs Patrick back in the group. Patrick falls for it but is mad Charlie doesn't "carry him off." Charlie points out he has a bad back.
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