- Bonnie pushes Christy to mend her relationship with Violet, and Adam prepares for the grand opening of his bar.
- Adam is preparing for the opening of his bar by having Tammy install quality toilets and fretting about how many beers he'll need to sell to make the place profitable. Bonnie complains about Adam's business sense to Christy and her classmate Stacy, and mentions oral sex in the process before heading to the bathroom. Christy apologizes to Stacy over Bonnie's embarrassing ways, and Stacy reassures her that there is a podcast about a much more awful paternal figure; it's called The Mother of All Problems. Christy listens to the podcast and is horrified to find out that her estranged daughter Violet is the host and she's telling stories about Christy that are equal parts humiliating, lacerating, and completely accurate. Christy vents about TMOAP to the group of friends, and notes she hasn't spoken to Violet in over a year because her daughter asked her for space--and also changed her phone number without telling her mom. The podcast remains a greatest hits version of Christy as a drunken drug-addicted wreck, but Bonnie is delighted to find out that Violet refers to her grandmother as the "Life Preserver" who saved the day when Christy was a trainwreck. Bonnie tells Christy she has Violet's phone number and insists Christy call it using Bonnie's phone so Violet will answer; when it goes to voicemail, Christy leaves a ridiculously disjointed message that Violet ends up playing for her podcast audience. Christy vents more about this, and while Jill says Christy needs to mend fences with Violet ASAP, Marjorie sadly relates that her grown son won't speak to her either and she's leaving him alone to figure out what he wants to do. Bonnie then shocks Christy by telling her she knows where Violet lives and that she'll take her there for an unannounced visit. Violet is not happy to see her mom (though she's happy to see Bonnie) and Violet's pretty nice-looking apartment also screws Christy over: she assumes it's so nice because Violet's longtime boyfriend Luke is doing great--which was exactly what Violet said her goal was a few years earlier in getting back together with a video game-designing Luke--and Violet snaps that she broke up with Luke and is quite nonplussed her mom assumed that Violet couldn't be successful on her own merits. Christy wants to talk to Violet, and Violet basically forces Christy to participate in an unrehearsed recording for TMOAP. Christy tells the future audience that Violet is telling the truth about who she was, but she isn't that person anymore: she's no longer a drunk or a drug addict and she is living a respectable life. When the recording is over, Violet tells Christy she appreciates that Christy has turned her life around, but then states that nothing can erase the horror of being the daughter of someone who did the things she did. No kid should have had to go through what Violet did, and now that Violet is in a good place in her life, she does not want to have any relationship with Christy going forward. Christy is stunned but accepts Violet's decision, and Bonnie (who had been enjoying Violet making it clear she was all good with her grandmother) consoles her broken-hearted daughter when they leave Violet's place. At the opening of Adam's bar, Bonnie offers to break into Violet's place to erase the podcast, but Christy tells her no, that doing TMOAP is helping Violet and probably a lot of other people. Christy is a little uplifted by Bonnie noting that she and Christy were in as bad a place as Christy and Violet are now, and that their reconciliation will happen for Christy too if she gives it some time.
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