- When Buccaneer Week descends on Gulf Haven, Andy tries to get Ellie to use her more charming alter-ego while Laurie drums up business by designing very risqué cakes in her shop.
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Ellie (Christa Miller) has many advantages to being the mayor's wife, such as drinking in public, free stamps, and jars opened simply by calling the Fire Department. However, there is a downside. It's Buccaneer Week in Gulf Haven, and the tourists coming in mean potential big business for the town. Sadly, Andy (Ian Gomez) gives Jules (Courteney Cox) and Grayson (Josh Hopkins) an easy target with the pirate's hat and parrot he has to wear, but they choke on the insults. Anyway, it was time for Ellie to break out...the Chellie. Charming Ellie hadn't been seen in ten years, ever since the bank hostage situation. But since it saved Andy's and Ellie's life once, surely Chellie could keep businessman Roger Frank (Barry Bostwick) from running Andy out of office. Sure enough, the Chellie worked on an overly-WASPish woman, whom Chellie managed to charm the hell out of. It was so good, Jules practically begged and pleaded for full-time Chellie, which offended Ellie quite a bit. Jules just wanted the occasional compliment from her friend, so when she saw Chellie not getting bent out of shape when the same WASPish woman started making some rather racist talk, Jules asked for the old Ellie back, with the occasional compliment directed at her. Given their friendship, Ellie was happy to do both. She paid Jules a few compliments and ripped that racist WASP to shreds.
Speaking of being ripped to shreds, Bobby (Brian Van Holt) decided to hit the water. But cue the Jaws (1975) music, Bobby is going to need a bigger...well, whatever you need a bigger one of when you get stung by a jellyfish. Bobby, being Bobby, went ballistic through the town, saying the jellyfish was massive and the beaches should be closed. Andy indulged him and then told Roger Frank and some out-of-town business people that Bobby tended not to be well-ground in reality. Which Bobby heard because Andy and he kept their phones on at all times. (yes, even in the bathroom) Sure enough, Andy was caught between a rock and a hard beach.
Laurie (Busy Philipps), meanwhile, was having difficulty getting tourists to make a purchase at Krazy Kakes, and threatening them may not have been the best marketing strategy. Then Tom (Bob Clendenin) came in to request a custom cake be made for a bachelor party. Apparently, dermatologists really know how to party. Tom shows her a picture. (LAURIE: OK, obviously I've done that before, but I'm not putting it on a cake!) But desperate for business, Laurie caves and makes the cake for Tom, who then comes back for a cake designed like the three-breasted alien from Total Recall (1990). (Why is she always called an alien? Technically, wasn't she a mutant and the defective Mars domes did that to her?) Before long, Laurie has a line out the door of people wanting very risqué cakes. Grayson advised her about going down that path, saying he once allowed the bar to be taken over by soccer hooligans. After one too many trash can fires and rounds of Olé, Olé, Olé, Grayson saw the light. And after a woman came in for her second cake showing her naked...and very pregnant ("The other woman doesn't have to be black.")...Laurie had had enough. Laurie was depressed, and Travis (Dan Byrd) tried to comfort her by saying she choose her vision and integrity over easy profit. That didn't really work and Laurie drowned herself in frosting until a little girl came by and saw the butterfly cake in her display. She thought it was so beautiful, her mother had to buy it right away.
The fight over closing the beaches in Gulf Haven had reached fever pitch. The fight was on between safety and tourist dollars. After everybody yelled and screamed until they were hoarse, Andy made an executive decision...and sided with Bobby. He trusted his friend when he said he was stung by a jellyfish. Bobby was touched and said he would abide by whatever Andy said about the water. So both of them stripped off their clothes (and had a manly hug in their swimwear, yes) and went out into the water to see if they were really safe. After all, friendship was stronger than safety. Uh, actually it wasn't. There were jellyfish in the water and both of them were stung badly. But it was nothing Grayson singing a few rounds of Olé, Olé, Olé wouldn't fix.
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