- Sean and Morning celebrate his birthday with a night of sex but next day Sean is annoyed to find Matt trying to buy his friendship back with the gift of a sports car,especially as Beverly has accepted a similar gift from the star. Unfortunately the second episode of 'Pucks' bombs and Merc is forced to reemploy ideas man Andy Button,who has threatened to sue him for dismissal because Andy is gay. Sean learns that Matt has had sex with Merc's wife Jamie but Matt counters with the knowledge of Sean and Morning's fling so Sean reluctantly accepts the car and Matt's friendship again - though grudgingly.—don @ minifie-1
- Matt tries to make up with the British ex-couple by offering each a sports-car, which Beverly accepts, without promising a proper make-up. Sean refuses, but starts reconsidering after hearing Bev caved in and realizing that his affair with studio executive Morning isn't really better then boss Merc's blind wife's groping of flattered Matt. panicking over poor rating for Pucks' second episode, Merc grudgingly realizes the studio must beg insightful Andy Button, who felt pestered away for being openly gay, to return.—KGF Vissers
- Sean wakes up in the middle of the night to see Morning getting dressed to leave. She urges him to go back to sleep. He feels compelled to offer her juice or cheese. He asks if they should talk about what happened. "OK. (Pause.) I had fun," she says. "Me too. (Pause.) That's it?" "Yep," she says.
Sean goes in to work the next morning, extremely chipper. He tries to resists sharing with the cast, but instead goes into a long hypothetical with the boys about having an "experience" that you'd always fantasized about and which means nothing, but was great. "You got laid. Cool," says Stoke.
Matt calls Sean from outside his apartment, standing next to a new car with a big red bow on it. He tells Sean to look out his window, Sean's view is of a fat man ironing.
Matt can't believe he doesn't have a view. He tells Sean to come outside. Sean doesn't want it. "Is it because it's white?" Matt asks.
Matt shows him how it converts to a convertible in under 24.8 seconds. He tells Sean it's a chick magnet. He tells Sean about the sound system and 7 speed transmission. Sean is tempted, but tells Matt he destroyed his marriage and betrayed their friendship and he doesn't get to come back from that.
Cut to Matt leaning against the new car in Sean's space at work. He tries again to get him to take it. Beverly pulls up in the same car in red. Sean can't believe she took it. "The man destroyed our lives!" Sean says. "But at least we're getting cars out of it, a little revenge," Beverly says.
Beverly tries to argue that Sean's only hurting himself by not taking it.
Inside, Sean and Beverly look at the new ratings. They're not good. Carol calls, telling them not to worry. Merc listens in. She tells them it's normal for them to go down. Merc looks sick.
When they're off the phone, Merc and Carol discuss what to do about the show. The talking dog show is killing them. Merc was the one who passed on it.
Their former head of something Andy Button is suing the network for wrongful termination -- he's the one who liked the talking dog show. Carol offers to try to make it go away.
On set, Sean scoffs at Beverly's convertible tan. "I choose to wear my ashen pallor as a badge of honor," Sean says.
Carol calls Beverly to tell her that Myra will be filling in at the table read for her. She's having lunch with Andy Button, who opens with the fact he's not dropping the suit.
He says he has four instances of Merc calling him a "c--- sucker", but Carol argues that Merc calls everyone that. She wonders if Andy would come back to work if he dropped the suit.
After the table read, Myra has a few quick notes that she winces her way through.
Jamie Lapidus comes by to see Matt. She wants Matt to present Merc with an award at an opera benefit.
Finally he asks about what happened. She knows about Merc and Carol. He offers to help with anything else she needs.
Cut to Matt and Jamie having sex (next to a table of "Friends" bobbleheads).
Sean and Beverly plod their way through Myra's joke-killing notes. She's unclear on beats, think they're bats.
She stumbles into one good note, suggesting they need to have a scene establishing Matt is a good coach. Beverly realizes she's right because they hate people who aren't good at their jobs.
Carol tries to convince Merc to hire Andy back. Merc doesn't care about being sued, but Carol points out Merc doesn't want corporate finding out he fired the one guy who liked the talking dog show that's killing them.
At a pitch meeting, Merc shoots down any idea about anyone moving back home to live with their parents. Myra has something about an alien. But it's called "Beam Me Home." Merc wants one fresh idea.
Andy has one: "What other animals can talk?"
On set, Sean sees Matt kiss Jamie good-bye and put her in a car. Sean is concerned about Matt sleeping with their boss' wife. Matt mentions that someone saw Sean kissing Morning and a boss sleeping with a star is never a good idea.
But he celebrates that Sean scored and tosses him some keys. "I'd say that deserves a car," Matt says.
Matt argues it's the only time someone will ever give him a car, so he should take it. Sean says Matt doesn't get to "win" this time.
Matt tells him it's not about winning. He doesn't like a lot of people and so when he meets someone he wants to hang out with, it pisses him off when he screws it up himself. He's trying to do what he can to make it better and the car is the best he's got.
What does Sean want? A Bentley? "It's not like I killed your wife," Matt says. Sean says he'll never get passed what happened. Matt says he's learned his lesson.
"So the fact that you're screwing somebody else's wife...." "But I'm not screwing yours -- that was the lesson," Matt says.
Matt asks permission to hug Sean while he just stands there. He does, and Sean finds the keys in his jacket pocket.
Beverly leaves work and sees Sean in his Matt car.
At home, Merc watches the talking dog show -- no better than "Pucks."
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