- Jules always seems to be with her friends, her ex or her son. One night when everyone is busy, she reluctantly takes a date with an older man just to get out of the house, so Grayson makes her a wager that she can't spend a whole day by herself.—ABC Publicity
- Travis enjoys helping his father, Bobby, preparing a Saturday barbecue. Grayson has another foxy young date and sees Jules dating much older Larry. He dares her for $20 she can't spend a single day alone. It's far shorter until he catches her at the second sin, hosting the 'quiet barbecue'. Andy helps Jules chasing a stray alligator, but she still sides with his wife. Jules is desperate to prove Grayson craves company too.—KGF Vissers
- Jules was in the middle of a very hot dream when the neighbor's dog interrupts her. Apparently, she had a sex dream about Grayson...and decides to tell him about it. (I thought she was supposed to be smart. NEVER tell a guy you had a sex dream about him unless you ACTUALLY want to have sex with him!) She tries to play it off by saying she's had sex dreams about a lot of people. But she needs Grayson to talk to Mr. Rose, who owns the yappy dog. Jules and he don't really talk because of competing yard sales the previous year. Grayson not-so-politely declines.
At work, Larry, a mortgage broker, is charming Jules. He thinks they can go out for coffee, but Jules politely declines, saying she's playing chess tonight with the homeless. (Laurie actually says that.) She really doesn't want to go on a date with someone "who I wish was my father." Granted, she thinks he was quite a stud in his day, but Larry's days apparently end by 7:40 PM. Jules wakes him up at that time to take him up on the offer for coffee. She doesn't really have a choice. It's date night with Ellie and Andy, and she's even forgiven him for leaving his hair all over the sink. Laurie has a date with a guy who needs to get his CD collection back from his ex, and Travis is with Bobby tonight. They have fireworks and a pumpkin.
The coffee date is over, and Jules has gone years since being in a car that had no lap belt. Unfortunately, Grayson and his much younger date saw the whole thing. He is more than happy to tell Jules she can't stand to be alone. She tries to deny it, naturally. But Grayson and his imitation of Adam Sandler on the guitar bets her she can't spend an entire day alone. The bet is on...and over as Bobby and Travis show up. She kicks them out, and Grayson gives her a mulligan.
She starts off OK. She separates all the coins in a large coin jar, throws out some of her bad choices in perfume, and even gets into her old prom dress. (And across America, 40-somethings are giving Courteney the finger right now.) She checks the time, and all of that took 22 minutes. She has a swim, and is forced to call Andy to get rid of the crocodile that came into her yard. Laurie finally figures out where she spent the previous night, and Jules has to drive her home. However, she covers for herself with Grayson by making Laurie sit way down in the car.
JULES: It is so much more fun to be alone when you're with someone.
Laurie decides to stay, and Jules decides to recall Bobby and Travis. Bobby already started the grill, but somehow roman candles really don't marinate meat well. Although beer and pepper does, as he demonstrates. This gives Travis a chance to make conversation with Laurie. SPF 90 sunblock is such a turn-on, isn't it? Everybody has to use their inside voices outside, so no Laurie talk about her dates, no music for Travis, and no marriage counseling for Andy, who got kicked out by Ellie for leaving his hair in the sink. But everything is fine...until a rogue M-80 firecracker makes it into the grill. The bet is lost.
Now that the bet is over, Jules wants Grayson to stay for the barbecue and meet the neighbors. He declines and guitars his way out. Jules tries to get Bobby to bring him back, but Bobby's hearing still hasn't fully recovered. Laurie decides to bend Travis' ear about her date, Dale. He has a steady job forging Dan Marino's autograph for a living. She is left with Andy, and Jules has to take his side of an argument to get him to retrieve Grayson. But Grayson has a good argument on his side: he's watching "Rudy." (I gotta give him that one. The scene when Ned Beatty sees Notre Dame Stadium for the first time...very emotional.) Jules comes over and counters the best guy movie of all time (No, Brian's Song is) with The Shawshank Redemption. And Andy and Bobby will get the "Full Shawshank Experience." They get to climb through a tunnel into the pool like Andy Dufresne, complete with Jules' imitation of Morgan Freeman narrating and using the spray nozzle on the hose to make it rain.
Bobby is touched by Andy's Andy imitation. He talks to Ellie about throwing Andy a bone, just like Jules does for him. She doesn't think it will mean anything if she does, but Bobby convinces her it will. Jules convinces Grayson to come over since he already knows Travis, Andy, and Bobby very well. He might as well take the full plunge. Travis finally convinces Laurie to get rid of her boyfriend.
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