While Bobby is embarrassed by the silly 'musical' messages Liz records on their answering machine, his dad Mace has no problem being hired by Philip to continue being a couch potato as a 'live exhibit', providing he gets a continuous supply of his favorite beer and chips. To Audrey's delight, Simon helps her perfect a sauce recipe for a contest in which she normally looses to the same woman every year. Simon finds they have more in common, but this budding friendship seems cut off when she shies away from publicly presenting a guy friend, afraid of her bigot friends' reactions, so the perfect gentleman quietly bows out, silently hurt. When they all meet at the potato couch, the snob audience's reactions on the 'extras' in his 'live soap' he finally ends Mace's patience.
—KGF Vissers