- After standing him up, Jemma tells Ray that maybe they should take a break, and Ray seeks out Tanya for advice on women. Meanwhile, Tanya finds her new boyfriend Pierce to be a man of mystery. Attending a family barbeque at Jessica and Ronnieʼs, Ray finds himself in a (predictably) uncomfortable place. After seeing her classified ad, Lenore gives Tanya some unwanted feedback on her marketing strategy, which leads Tanya to take a more personal approach.—HBO Publicity
- "Hung" - "Thith Ith a Prothetic or You Cum Just Right" - August 23, 2009
We pick up where we left off, with Ray waiting at the ferry landing for Jemma. He calls and assures her the boats come every twenty minutes. As he finally gives up to leave Jemma calls. We see that she's nowhere near the ferry landing, but in the tub. She tells Ray that it's just not working and that it's not him, it's her and that they need a break and she'll call him later.
After getting jilted by Jemma, Ray shows up at Jessica's house to take her up on her offer of a family dinner. He claims he got the weekend wrong.
He is reminded how his former mother-in-law likes to grossly gnaw on chicken bones and that Damon has gotten a tongue piercing. (It's a form of expression defends Jessica, she looked it up on the Internet). Mom-in-law complains that the Ronnie isn't being honest in his marriage. Ronnie says he's noticed his papers seems to always be out of place these days. After dinner, Ray brings a dish into the kitchen where Ronnie is doing dishes. Ronnie immediately says he's doing them because he wants to, not because Jessica told him to. Ray wonders aloud how Ronnie got Jessica away from him, was it Ronnie's money? (He's asking because he's hurting over Jemma and trying to figure out women). Ronnie gets pissed and says it wasn't about money. Ray says he wonders what it was since obviously it doesn't make sense that a hot chick like Jessica would choose Ronnie over Ray. Ronnie tells Ray to get out of his house. Jessica comes in and wonders what's up. Ray says he was just leaving.
Ray has called Tanya to the basketball court and offers to play one on one. She wonders if he doesn't have someone else to play with. He says he doesn't hang with other guys much since he spent half his life doing the family thing. He points out that she's not exactly lousy with friends either. He says he called her to ask her advice about women. He explains the Jemma situation and she's pissed.
She shows Ray an ad that she's putting in the paper with a phone number and talks about how hard she's worked as his pimp and that he needs to tell her that he's really committing to this business, because she's clawing her way through her writer's block and has a good relationship and if he isn't ready to work his ass off she's going back to making Lyric Bread.
Apparently he is, because the ad is placed.
After putting the ad in the paper Tanya waits for a call. She vacuums. A call finally comes in and she tries to finesse an in-person meeting to discuss the delicate nature of Happiness Consulting. It turns out its Lenore, who thinks Tanya's marketing scheme is stupid. She thinks she should be recruiting around the office of the firm where she temps, namely Horny Patty, a co-worker who is lonely. Tanya yells at Lenore for being a bitch but then takes her advice. Horny Patty takes the bait and makes a date with Ray.
Jessica comes to yell at Ray for what he said to Ronnie and says he's trying to sabotage her marriage. She says it wasn't about money. She left a boy to be with a man.
Horny Patty meets up with Ray. She gives him a few details of her pathetic life going to Sea World alone, etc., and then orders him to get it on with her. He does. She likes it.
He realizes the sex part is easy, it's the heart part that's hard. He realizes he needs to be completely honest. So Ray writes Jemma a letter and goes to her office to give it to her. She gets angry with him. He wants to give her the letter and that it says what's in his heart. She says "f--- your heart." He's hurt and says he doesn't understand. She keeps repeating the phrase and says she paid in full. He gets upset and says she said she wanted to think about it and he can't tell her that they didn't have something, that he saw something in her eyes. She asks him what he sees now in her eyes. He's bereft and rips his letter to shreds and says she'll never know what's in his heart.
Tanya is trying to entice Pierce to bed but he seems distracted by the fact that she only has vegetables in her fridge. She says she's trying to become a vegetarian. He says if fish was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for him. She puts her shirt back on and wonders why he isn't spending the night. He says he promised his dad he'd help him patch his driveway early in the morning. Tanya complains that she barely knows him. He promises the next day she can ask him anything she wants.
Ray goes to a bar to get drunk. He runs into an old nemesis: a high school pitcher from an opposing team. It was the pitcher's last game of his senior year, bottom of the ninth, two outs and Ray, a freshman, hit a home run off him. They go out into the pouring rain and, with a bag of balls, a bat, and a nearby field, work out the old grudge. Every pitch he throws, he swears at Ray, and Ray makes contact with the ball.
He staggers home soaked and soused to find Tanya in his tent. Tanya reveals that Jemma wanted to pay to hurt Ray, to dump him the way that she had been dumped in the past by guys she cared about who gave her no reason for the break-up. She paid $2,000. She says it wasn't about Ray and that she actually said Ray made her happy. Ray grabs some beers and gives one to Tanya. He tells her to put the money on the table. Tanya says she never liked Jemma and that he deserves better.
He falls back into the bed but since he's soaked Tanya tries to get him out of his wet clothes first. As she pulls off his shirt he kisses her. She stops him, and wonders why only drunk guys want to sleep with her. She asks him why he never called after they had sex that first time, other than she climaxed too much. He says she didn't, that she did it just right.
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