- When Andy organizes a 5K run to help repair his reputation as Mayor, Jules asks her father to get the Cul-de-Sac Crew into shape for the event. Grayson's dream of appearing in a commercial is not what he expected.
- Welcome to COUGAR TOWN Side effects may include muscle exhaustion, erection problems and flu-like symptoms.
Andy (Ian Gomez) has a big problem. Even bigger than Jules (Courteney Cox) having to go to her father's house to find his glasses. Even bigger than Ellie (Christa Miller) catching the flu from being Book Mom at Stan's class, even if getting sick makes Ellie into a monster. (ANDY: Remember when she got strep throat and served me divorce papers?) Andy fell asleep during a council meeting and it made the papers. He has to move quickly to save face...or at least not have his face look as bad as Ellie's. He thinks a Gulf Haven 5K would get the citizens excited. It was doubly-good news for Jules, who was worried about Chick (Ken Jenkins). He had been just sitting around doing nothing ever since his Alzheimer's diagnosis, so she wanted to get him motivated to do something. Since he used to be a coach, she asked him to coach the Cul-de-Sac Crew to prepare them for the 5K.
Now if you were to guess Chick is just the other side of Robert Duvall's character in The Great Santini (1979), then you know exactly how sitcoms work. He even made Jules do 500 crunches and did his best imitation of Dr. Evil making Number Two cry. And let's not even talk about him using the towel to nail people in the ass. (Grayson even counted the number of marks on Jules' ass.) Ellie, being sick, was excused from training for the 5K. And when Laurie (Busy Philipps) hid in the house from being too exhausted and ticked off about all the exercise, Death...sorry, Ellie (seriously, she looked like a character in an Ingmar Bergman film)...discovered her illness allowed her to sit around all day, watch TV, and suck on winesicles (an invention of Jules'). (ELLIE: I can make you like me. I'm very contagious.) And Death/Ellie had captured her first victim.
Bobby (Brian Van Holt) told Grayson (Josh Hopkins) of an opportunity to be an actor in a commercial for Turbo-T Deodorant. Grayson, wishing he had been more successful in commercials, tried out for the part and got it. Except Bobby was a bit off on the product. There's another product men of a certain age put under their armpits these days. Yup, the commercial was really for a low testosterone medication, and Grayson was to be the strapping guy who used it and bedded a woman who looked like she would be more in Chick's age group than his.
Meanwhile, the power of Death/Ellie continued to grow, claiming Bobby, Travis (Dan Byrd), Andy, and even Tom (Bob Clendenin) as its next victims. (In fairness, Laurie breathed on Travis and Tom got to eat one of Ellie's used winesicles.) The house was getting a bit ripe (GRAYSON: This house smells like sweatsocks filled with blue cheese!), and left only Jules to train with Chick, who wouldn't even let up on his own daughter. After being awakened at 5 in the morning and one too many towel flicks to the ass, Jules loses it.
JULES: You're a bully and you're a horrible coach! I wished I had never asked you to help me in the first place!
As Laurie and Travis worked on pet names for each other (Tater Tot was the preferred pet name for Travis...Jules was happy to call him that), Grayson confronted Bobby about getting the commercial wrong. Bobby apologized, saying he didn't realize the commercial was for a different product and he was just trying to help Grayson with his dream. Grayson accepted his apology because he was just kidding himself about being a big movie star. Bobby preferred to dream without the details because it helped the dream be possible. He uses the same technique to dream to get married again. He was tired of being broke, living on a boat, but a far-fetched dream was better than no dream at all. As for Grayson, he was supposed to be the young stud the older guys dreamed to be, so Bobby told him to give that commercial all he could. Grayson was inspired and did the commercial. He got to lift weights, bicycle, play volleyball, and even bedded the older woman. (We got to see the commercial; the older lady he bedded got her hair colored so she looked younger. Although not a lot.)
Jules found Chick in the park where she used to go as a child when they fought. After talking with Grayson, who saw that Chick really was motivated like Jules wanted, Jules said she was sorry for what she said, and Chick was equally sorry. He only drove Jules like he did because he always wanted her to be a success. And getting a chance to coach again was the kick in the pants he needed. And because Chick knew "his girl didn't quit", Jules decided to run the 5K. Of course, running one of those is a lot harder than it looks, and Jules felt like someone shot her in the knee. Chick tried to keep up using one of those Rascal scooters to encourage her...until he crashed into a water stand. Then, with the sun in her eyes, Jules was seeing things. She saw scary figures wearing hoods. Actually, it was the rest of the gang, still sick and looking like Death/Ellie, but they picked her up and carried her to the finish line. She was delirious but happy. And somehow, Tom once again ended up with his hand on her ass.
TOM: I was just trying to help with the glutes!
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