- When bicycle teens invade the cul-de-sac, Jules and Andy fight over who is "king" of the neighborhood. Meanwhile, Bobby has the hots for Travis's photography teacher, and Laurie begins an online relationship.
- Travis fools his French college photography teacher because his helmet makes candid shots impossible, using Bobby as 'accidental model', but didn't count on the pair of adults falling in love at first sight. Short and Wide is Andy's new nickname, until he has a go at something Jules failed to achieve: chasing a bunch of slightly bothersome neighbor knaves on bicycles. Afghanistan soldier Wade is Julie's new lover - solely by twitter.—KGF Vissers
- One look is all it takes for Bobby to fall for Travis' photography professor, but Travis refuses to introduce them; Laurie falls for a guy she's never met when she begins a romance, via twitter, with a soldier in Iraq; and Jules and Andy prepare to go to war against an unruly gang of kids on bikes who are terrorizing the cul-de-sac.—ABC Publicity
- Welcome to COUGAR TOWN (your name isn't that great either)
There's trouble ahead for the Cul-de-Sac Crew, and we're not talking about Jules (Courteney Cox) getting Andy's (Ian Gomez) or Tom's (Bob Clendenin) coupons from their newspapers because she got to hers first. The Bicycle Boys are terrorizing the block, mainly because they cut through the cul-de-sac to get to the new mall right behind it. Jules thinks she can get rid of them because she's the King of the Neighborhood. Yes, she said king, since Andy made the same claim. Although Andy did like the new mall had a store called 'Short & Wide'. Meanwhile, Travis (Dan Byrd) has an assignment in photography class to take pictures of strangers in their natural habitat. Since he was still wearing the concussion helmet and people were calling him Dork Vader, Bobby (Brian Van Holt) volunteered...and kept posing for the shot. Grayson (Josh Hopkins) volunteered modeling tips, since he was an underwear model for Montgomery Ward.
GRAYSON: There are two types of underwear models: front guys and butt guys. I was both.
TRAVIS: ...he said proudly.
Although Travis telling Bobby to picture Grayson in bikini briefs got him the pose he needed. He turns the photos in to his teacher, and Professor Angie LeClaire (Sarah Chalke) was very impressed by them. And as it turns out, Bobby did a sneak attack on Travis at school and saw Professor LeClaire...and wants to go out with her.
In the meantime, the straight male viewers of the show will picture what Laurie's 'Berts and Ernie' look like, as she took photos of them and sent them off to a soldier in Afghanistan who asked for them. She apparently had been tweeting with him for some time and had photos of her in the buff online already. She's quite an artist with her 'Ernie'. And it works. Despite Ellie (Christa Miller) telling Laurie (Busy Philipps) her 'boyfriend' might not be a boy and certainly wouldn't be a friend when he hacks her to death, Laurie is dreaming he's black. Super black. Which apparently is not racist but does make white people feel uncomfortable.
Jules' first confrontation with the Bicycle Boys did not go well, as you might expect. But on the bright side, Tom was blaming them for his stolen fountain and making his lawn gnomes 'gay'. (Just kissing, clean it up.) But of course, Jules and Grayson stole the fountain because they could hear it all the time and it made them want to go to the bathroom. Although she did solve the Bicycle Boys problem with a pumpkin-head cop using the outfit Grayson borrowed to propose to her (and they now use for role-playing...why I am even explaining this?). Oh, and Professor LeClaire has the total hots for Bobby in Travis' photos, even saying in French she'd throw him down and make love to him right in the grass if he was there. Oh, and Travis took French in high school, so it wasn't an awkward moment at all. Travis confronts him about it over a game of PENNY CAN! and Bobby agrees to cool his jets.
Andy, trying to one-up Jules, turns pumpkin-cop around so the Bicycle Boys see it and they go nuts. Jules fires back by directing the Bicycle Boys through Andy's back yard. Andy is depressed about not being able to be in charge of anything and Bobby is equally depressed about not being able to date Professor LeClaire. But Jules talks to Travis (and Travis' roommates are really tired of his family dropping in unexpected) and asks him to let Bobby date his teacher. After all, the Cobb men don't age gracefully. ("After 50, it's like a rocket ship to Dogville.") But Grayson tells Travis it's been a long time since Bobby was attracted to anybody, so maybe he should let it slide. In the meantime, Jules apologizes to Andy, who has taken to burrowing under the cushions on his couch. She needs a cul-de-sac to help her with the Bicycle Boys. Yes, this ends the way you think it does.
ANDY: (Scottish brogue) They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom!
They held the line...long enough for the Bicycle Boys to crash into the mound of sand they were hiding. And that's how they got rid of them.
Bobby and Laurie are both waxing philosophically about their unrequited loves. Ellie still can't believe Wade, Laurie's army boyfriend (who is black, BTW), is real, but Laurie provides the tweets from her phone to prove it. It turns out Wade had some bad stuff happen that day (in the middle of Afghanistan, that could be quite scary), but he was glad to tweet with Laurie. Ellie was convinced and she thought the picture of Wade was sweet. Naked, but sweet. Travis introduces Bobby to Angie, and they go out to lunch. Mainly because Travis took Bobby's free meatball sub coupon.
BTW, if you thought they'd return Tom's fountain and fill it with wine, then you watch the show way too much.
TOM: It looks like blood. People will think I'm creepy.
ELLIE: Believe me, that ship has sailed, Tom.
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