September 30, 2025 • 22 mins
Welcome to episode 3 of Sip Happens!
The third chapter of our Cougar Town rewatch is where the show really stops winking at a “cougar” premise and starts building a community you actually want to live in. We dig into why “Don’t Do Me Like That” feels like a tonal pivot: rapid-fire cuts, tighter jokes, and character beats that move from cringe to care without losing their bite. From a late-night Laurie SOS to a landlocked boat that somehow carries the whole ensemble, the cul-de-sac finally clicks into place.
We unpack the ten-date countdown and what it says about performing intimacy versus actually wanting it, then follow Grayson into a multi-night tangle with Candee, yes, that’s Jennifer Holland, where flippant detachment meets accountability. Over at Bobby’s boat, Travis names the thing most kids avoid: his dad embarrasses him. That honesty hurts, but it seeds a tender exchange that shows how this show earns its heart. Ellie, our queen of weaponized wisdom, drags Jules to the beach and reframes “helping everyone” as avoidance, pushing her toward a small, brave act of self-care that changes everything.
Expect the wax-room chaos, Barb’s immortal one-liner, and a time-capsule check that calls out what aged awkwardly and what still sparkles. We crown our Big Carl moment, hand out the Cul-de-Sac MVP, and spotlight the locations, kitchen, bar, boat, that turn into rituals for the series. If you love ensemble comedy, character-driven humor, and rewatchable comfort, this breakdown maps where the show finds its groove and why it keeps you pouring another glass.
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Jaye (00:00):
Can you pour me a glass of wine?
Welcome to Sip Happens, theCougar Town Rewatch podcast,
where we celebrate ShirtlessBubby, Wine Before Noon, and the
beautiful mess that isGulfhaven, Florida.
I'm Jaye Antonio, your host,longtime fan, and proud
channeler of my inner Ellie.
Each week I'll recap theepisodes, dive into trivia, and
relive every big colour-worthymoment.
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Follow along on Instagram atSipHappensWithJaye, and let's
sip our way through Cougar Town,one cul-de-sac mess at a time.
Oh my gosh, it is episode 3 ofSip Happens, a Cougar Town
rewatch podcast with me, yourhost, Jaye Antonio.
Guys, I am so excited to behere talking about this
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brilliantly written episode.
I actually can't believe howgood this show is right off the
bat.
You can really easily tell thatat this point we are sort of
shifting away from theCougar-esque nature already,
just in episode three, which isso cool.
And we're definitely movingtowards that ensemble, sort of
sitcom, funny, really vibey typeof show, which is exactly what
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the show is, it's what itbecomes, and it's why it's so
brilliant.
Let's talk about the episode.
I'm gonna jump right in.
So this episode is called Don'tDo Me Like That.
It is another Tom Petty song,so brilliantly written.
I actually love it.
This episode is season one,episode three.
It originally aired on October7th, 2009.
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It was directed by Gail Mancusoand written by Bill Lawrence,
Kevin Beigel, and Ryan Co.
This episode is really welldone and it jumps a lot.
This is where we start to seethose sort of quick scenes
happening, the cuts start tohappen, that little sort of side
scenes happen that are likelittle breaks from, like, I
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don't know, the bigger, thedeeper scenes.
It's just really, reallybrilliant.
This episode has two incrediblecameos, to be honest with you.
The first is again Nick Casinoas Josh.
Again, he is from DC's Legendsof Tomorrow.
He is really a pretty big TVstar, and he's very, very
handsome.
And this episode has JenniferHolland, James Gunn's wife, or
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as she's better known, Harcourtfrom Peacemaker and the Suicide
Squad.
The f I you know it's crazy.
I never recognized her.
I've watched this episodeprobably no less than a dozen
times, and I've never oncerealized that it is her in the
episode.
I can't believe it is her.
She is so funny, and it'sdefinitely not the role that
you'd expect from her after sortof, you know, especially now
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sitting through um PeacemakerSeason 2, which is streaming on
HBO Max.
It is fantastic and it's acompletely different character.
Such a departure for her, butit is a really, really great,
um, great character, and I wishwe got to see more of her.
So I've changed things up justa little bit, and so rather than
doing like a really quick likesynopsis, or I guess a really
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quick description of theepisode, I'm actually gonna do a
longer synopsis, and we'regonna talk about it in a little
bit more detail.
So this will be the sipbreakdown.
Let's jump in.
And forgive me because I justrealized that my microphone was
not correctly turned on.
So here we go.
This hopefully sounds a littlebit better.
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But as I said, this is the sipbreakdown.
This is where we're going totalk about the episode in a lot
more detail, almost scene byscene.
And yes, it took me a littlewhile to plan this out and to
prep it.
So forgive me if there's anymistakes.
Obviously, this is the firsttime that I'm doing a lot of
these different things.
So, jumping straight on in, weopen with Travis and Jules in
the kitchen discussing thefuture for Travis, like what
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college he's gonna go to nextyear, and the fact that he's
going to be leaving her.
Jules does turn around and hasa little mom moment because
she's so overly attached toTravis.
It is so funny, it becomes sucha running joke in the show how
attached they are to each other.
But they are interrupted by amidnight drunk call from Lori,
where, as will become the norm,she's had a fight with Nezi, and
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Lori claims she slapped thebitch.
So she needs to be picked upand crashed the night at Jules'
place.
Jules, of course, is happy todo that.
Quote, helping people is likemy crack.
I crave it.
Lori immediately overstays herwelcome.
Jules said if they were inprison, she'd be Lori's bitch.
The following morning, they runinto Grayson as they're leaving
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for work, where we see a splitsecond of Jennifer Holland's
character Candy getting into acab after what we are led to
believe is a one-night stand.
Dot dot dot.
Jules, Grayson, and Lori standon their driveway talking about
Grayson's nonchalance for hisone-night lovers, where Jules
doubles down on the paperbuddynickname and essentially guilts
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him into getting to know hisone-night stands better.
That comes into play a littlebit later on.
Then we skip to Josh and Juleshaving breakfast.
Of course, Josh is played byNick Zeno, and he is the DC's
legend of tomorrow stud, andthey are still going hard on
their dates to get to datenumber 10, because as we spoke
about in the last episode, sheis making him wait until that
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magic date number 10 before theysleep together.
We have a wonderful Barbinteraction, God bless Barb.
And at this point, Jules istrying to make up for getting to
10 dates faster by decidingthat one date that had two
separate locations and awardrobe change was in fact two
dates.
So that's how they're trying toget to that magic 10 number
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even faster.
They're really just makingexcuses to sleep together at
this point.
They finally agree that thenext day will be date number 10,
aka sex time.
The following morning, theyswitching to a favorite location
that we're gonna see often andoften and often and often every
episode pretty much, which isJules' Kitchen, where Jules,
Ellie, Andy, and their baby Stanare hanging out discussing the
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cut the upcoming evening's sex.
It is 10 a.m.
Lori walks in and they startdiscussing why they need to
start getting ready now for thisevening's sex.
Remember, remember it's 10 a.m.
Lori's so confused about whythey're prepping that early in
the morning, but Jules and Elliesuggest it's because they're 40
and need to plan it out.
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So they've got waxing,haircuts, blowouts, like outfit.
It's crazy the amount of stuffthat they start to list off.
It's actually really funny.
We are finally introduced to abrand new location, and it is
one that recurs almost everyepisode.
It is Bobby's boat.
Here for the first time, wefinally get to see the character
of Bobby actually taking shapeto who he becomes a little bit
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later on.
It's one of those things wherethe character evolves ever so
slightly over time.
The boat is featured in almostevery episode, even when Bobby
isn't in that episode.
There are a few later on in theshow where Bobby is actually
written out.
It's pretty much the finalseason where he took another job
because I think they must havethought they weren't getting
picked up for that sort of finalseason, but they write him out.
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But what is really cool is heis still in the show.
It's not like those otherseries where they, when a
character gets written out,they're not in the show.
Or it's like, maybe, and justlike that, how you know Samantha
lives in London and it's allthrough text message.
No, no, no.
They face time.
So he's still like a characterin the show, but he's just not
in the episode.
So it's actually really, reallywell done.
Anyway, going off topic.
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Um, did I mention that the boatis in a random car park?
And with the exception of oneepisode, it actually never
enters the water.
But that episode is reallyfunny.
We will actually talk about it.
Cutting to Grayson's house,where we are back with Candy,
played by Jennifer Holland.
I actually can't believe it.
I didn't even recognize her.
Like I said, I didn't recognizeher at all the first like dozen
times I've watched thisepisode.
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But Grayson realizes that atwo-night stand cannot really
be, as he is struggling to getrid of her.
He actually goes outside andyells, Oh my god, on his
driveway multiple timesthroughout the day, as we are
sort of told by Ellie later on.
And just to sort of like calmthe situation because candy is
so intense.
Ellie then runs to Jules sayingshe's having a crisis.
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The crisis being her baby Stan,a literal baby, hates her.
We're then informed that Elliehas a nap every day from 10 till
11.45, where today she had adream that she looked into
Stan's stroller and he was madeof chocolate, where she then ate
her baby.
She continues that one day shejust knows he's going to do
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something to drive her crazy,like marrying a poor person.
So that should give you someinsight into Ellie as a
character.
She's so funny.
Okay, back on the boat.
Travis and Bobby are talkingabout the name Jealous Much,
which is the name of the boat.
Obviously, it's so ironic thatthe boat is in a car park.
Or wait, do Americans say carpark?
No, parking lot, parkingstructure?
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Anyway, we would just call it acar park.
It's basically an empty, like,dumping ground in this
particular series of like, Idon't know, boats and fishing
nets and all that kind of stuff.
Like a I don't know.
I don't even know how todescribe it.
You have to watch it, it'sreally funny.
Andy then joins them and wecontinue the bromance that is
Bobby and Andy, shirts off, rockmusic playing, and Travis dying
inside watching this all takeplace.
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Cutting to Jules, she's runningso late for her wax and nails,
but magically, first person onearth, she is getting a bikini
wax and her nails done in onego.
They tell her this has neverbeen done before, she has to
stay perfectly still.
And yes, she does end upgetting them both done together.
Hobbling back to her car, sheruns in to a little child
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because uh Lori actually callsher.
Um, she can't uh get the phoneout of her bag, so this this kid
has to do it for her and holdthe phone to her head.
Lori is calling her to bepicked up where she is naked in
someone's yard.
Oh my god, this show is thisshow sounds crazy like when I'm
saying it all out loud.
Oh my god, but then we cut to avery standard Cougar town
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montage of Jules fixing herbedroom up, plucking her
eyelashes, perfuming, stretchingon the floor, and cutting to
Josh arriving for their 10thdate sexual encounter.
Naturally, Jules injuresherself, but they finally get
into the bath together, wherethey both cannot fit at all.
They finally have the big SEX.
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But lo and behold, Josh did notenjoy it.
Oh my god, what are we gonnado?
So, the next morning, Lori,Ellie, and Jules are in the
kitchen.
Jules is so upset, they'rediscussing Josh's rating of the
encounter, which of course herated at the best six out of
ten.
That's not great, you guys.
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That's really not that great.
Ellie and Lori are trying tomake her feel better by telling
their stories, where eventhrough it all, Ellie is
insulting Lori, which as alwaysis my favorite part.
It's so, it's just so funny.
We're now back on the boat, oras Travis calls it, the land
boat, telling his dad Bobby thathe embarrasses him.
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It's such a hard pill for uhBobby to swallow.
And it's one of those thingswhere we start to see this like
relationship emerge over timewhere someone like upsetting or
insulting Bobby, calling himembarrassing, whatever it is,
that actually really gets to himand it becomes like a small,
like little baby story arc inwhatever episode it is.
Because it is somewhat of arecurring thing, not all the
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time, which is nice.
We then cut to Gray's bar,Grayson's bar that he owns at
10am.
There's a lot of 10am in thisepisode, but anyway, Ellie,
Lori, and Jules are drinking.
And we find out that Grayson,thanks to Jules' expert advice,
cannot get rid of Candy with tooease thanks to Jules.
Bobby calls to get help fromJules.
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Are you noticing the theme ofthis episode?
But Jules is trying to convinceherself that she is amazing and
trying not to take everythingpersonally, um, especially when
it comes to the sex and to allof that kind of stuff, but
people still are asking her forhelp.
Instead of helping Bobbythough, Lori and Ellie drag
Jules to the beach, where wefind out that Ellie takes her
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afternoon naps there, which sheuses to show Jules that she
needs to take better care ofherself before other people.
Also, side note, we now knowthat Ellie takes a nap from 10am
till 11.45, and then clearlyanother nap in the afternoon at
the beach.
That's insane, but she does useit as a point that Jules does
not know how to take care ofherself, which I think is really
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interesting.
I guess it's her snarky way oftelling Jules that she needs to
help herself and enjoy her ownlife rather than spending all
her time literally helpingeverybody else.
Whoa, then we cut to one of myfavorite scenes in this episode.
Actually, we'll talk about it alittle bit more later, but we
cut to Barb showing off her redrevagination, I called it.
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Which is so funny because shegoes to the same wax that the
jewels is going to.
So we're in back in the waxroom.
Barb says she's up the top,she's 48.
Like her face, 48.
Down below, she's 19.
It's just the most ridiculousscene.
I love it so much.
It's so gross.
Um, then we cut back to Graysonsleeping with Candy again, and
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then we cut back to the beach.
So it's one of those like quickcut scenes.
It's like, I don't know, 15seconds of Bob, 10 seconds of
Grayson, and then we're back atthe beach continuing the
conversation with Ellie, Lori,and Jules.
Meanwhile, Bobby and Travishave a good, honest conversation
where Bobby tells him that heloves him even when Travis is
being a little bitch.
Honesty, am I right?
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Oh god.
Back in Jules' bedroom, Joshand Jules are laying in bed
where Josh finally admits thatthat that round of sex was
amazing.
And Jules realizes that maybefollowing Ellie's advice, being
a little selfish every now andthen is important.
And that that's sort of theentire arc of the episode.
And then of course we have thelittle stinger at the end.
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So the end scene is Bobby umshowing up on his golf cart to
drop Travis at Jules' house, um,just to show off uh his
knowledge of that they the factthat they did have good sex when
they were married.
Now they got divorced becauseBobby actually cheated on Jules,
and so Jules left him.
Um but he he thinks, oh my god,I'm gonna try and make you feel
better by telling you these aremy four top times that we ever
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did it.
And he lists off these fourtimes.
It's actually really beautifuluntil Jules turns around and
says, Aww, all except one ofthem um was was with her.
So one of those four timeswasn't even with Jules, it was
one of the people that hecheated on her with, and then
the episode just comes to anabrupt end.
It's like that big stinger atthe end.
Oh my god.
So that is episode three ofCougar Town.
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Oh my god.
So that was the in-depth dive.
Um, let me know if you likedthat.
Is this something that youwould prefer me to keep doing?
I really like it because we'retalking about the episode, we're
talking about this, but nowwhat we're gonna do is we're
gonna move over to our timecapsule test.
So thank you so much forlistening to this synopsis.
Let me know on Instagram atSipHappenswithJaye if you liked
this, and let us continue.
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Alrighty, we're moving on tothe time capsule rewatch awards
wrap-up best scene.
I don't know what we're gonnacall this, but I'm just calling
it the time capsule test.
So let's start off with thetime capsule test.
So this is basically becausethis show came out in 2009 and
we of course are in 2025.
I wanted to know are some ofthe jokes that show, the tech or
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the fashion that shows in theshow.
Is it outdated and does it sortof date the show?
Now, this episode actually, forthe most part, does a really
great job of againself-containing itself, which is
kind of what we spoke about inthe last episode.
The only thing, now, I I willpreface this by saying I don't
have a problem with it because Iguess I don't know, I sort of
say it sometimes, which isprobably wrong.
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I mean, Hillary Duff would beso mad, but um, saying that's so
gay is something that you justdon't see anymore.
But um, oh you know, it'sbecause Hillary Duff ended
homophobia, I believe.
But I think in this episodethere is a part where at the
end, when Bobby is dropping offTravis uh to Jules's place, he
Travis walks in the house andsays, I love you, Dad, and then
kind of goes away.
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And Jules is so impressed thatBobby got an I love you out of
it all.
Except Bobby, of course, thenturns around and says, I know,
that's so gay, when Travis tellshim that he loves him.
And I think that is somethingthat just would not air anymore,
but it's actually really funnybecause we know that it's not
malicious or anything in anyway, shape, or form.
But, you know, I get the PCsort of aspect of it all, and I
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do agree that there's somethingto be said about, you know, the
fact that we that we don't saythat, and it's probably a good
thing because I think if we sayit, it allows other people to
say it, and we don't want thatto be the case.
And so, you know, I'm learningmyself as well still.
I think we're all learning andgrowing over time, but this is
one of those things where for meit definitely felt um, you
know, just a little bit out ofplace.
We just wouldn't see thathappen these days.
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So uh yeah, that's probably theonly thing that I think stands
out to me in this episode.
The rest of it I think isreally funny, and everything
else is in jest, so yeah.
So let's talk about the nextthing that I love.
So the best scene slash bestline, it goes to Barb again.
When she said, up here I'm 48,but below the belt, I'm 19.
Now, let's detail this Ferrari.
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It sent me up the freakingwall.
I think it's one of thefunniest lines in this episode.
Actually, it might be thefunniest line in this episode,
just because her facialexpressions, and you obviously,
if you're listening to this,you've watched the episode,
right?
Right?
Right?
So you would know what shelooks like, but if you haven't,
go and watch it.
It's absolutely the mostridiculous thing I've ever seen.
It's so freaking funny.
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And then of course the mostcougar tow-ny moment.
I actually think in thisparticular episode, it's the
beach scene with Jules, Ellie,and Loria.
They're like the core three ofthe episode, or of the series,
really, it's those three.
They are the main characters.
And I think in this in thisinstance, it's a really well
done um scene.
They're just having a greatchat on the beach, and it's
very, very cougar towny.
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So I think that that goesthere.
And as always, we're gonna endthis by talking about our
rewatch awards.
So the Big Carl moment of theWeek and the Cul-de-Sack MVP are
our two awards.
Two for now, maybe I'll addanother one.
But right now, Big Carl Momentof the Week goes to Ellie,
talking about Stan hating herbecause they don't like any of
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the same music, TV, or books.
Uh, let's remember Stan is aliteral baby.
So I just think that's a reallyfunny line.
And it's kind of one of thoseones that happens really
quickly, but it's a good joke.
Um, but it happens so fast andmoves to the next thing that I
almost don't think it lands.
Um, but I still think if you'relistening to it, it is
hilarious just because she'sgenuine.
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She means it.
She is she is such a character,and I love her so much.
That's why she is my favoritecharacter of any TV show, of any
anything I've ever watchedever.
Ellie is my spirit animal, andthis is why.
The uh final award, of course,goes to uh the sorry, the final
award is the Cul-de-sac MVP, andI it's gotta be Candy.
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It's gotta go to Candy.
Jennifer Holland as Candy ishilarious.
I wish we got to see more ofher.
It's just such uh, I don'tknow, such a different like role
for Jennifer Holland that I Ican't picture her playing the
role, which I think is why I'mgiving her the MVP.
I did definitely want to giveit to like the waxer because I
think she has the best facialexpression, second to Barb in
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this entire episode.
But Jennifer Holland gets itbecause she is a cameo and it is
just fantastic.
So let's move on to my finalthoughts.
My final thoughts of thisepisode.
I definitely think we areuncovering the um the elements
of what makes Cougar Town sogreat.
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And you can tell that thewriters are even just in episode
three of the entire series,already starting to get their
shit together when it comes tolike what this show actually is
supposed to be.
And I think again, it's sofunny that the show is called
Cougar Town and very quicklybecomes literally nothing to do
with uh being a cougar.
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And I think that that is forthe benefit of the show.
I'm gonna say that probably inevery single episode until we're
just in the in the deep of it.
Um, so I think it's one ofthose things where um the
writers definitely understoodthe assignment and it's just
such a brilliant episode.
As I said, I think my favoritequotes definitely that Barb
quote, up here I'm 48, but belowthe belt I'm 19.
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Now let's detail this Ferrari.
I think that is the mostridiculous thing, like that
rivals some of the shit that SueSylvester has said in her, in
her like life in Glee, which Ithink is so funny.
Side note, love glee, love SueSylvester, but that it's just
giving Sue Sylvester um, not inlike the attitude or like
obviously the character, butjust the ridiculousness of it
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all.
And I really think that that'sso funny.
So, uh my gosh, I can't believewe're at the end of this
episode.
This is su this is probably myfavorite episode so far.
Like, obviously, we're onlyseeing three, but this is
definitely up there.
I just think it's so classicCougar Town.
But um, it's really, reallygreat.
I can't wait to talk aboutepisode four next week.
But of course, if you have notseen any of uh the first three
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episodes, go and watch them now.
I think it's one of thosethings where you just need to
get into it because the quickerthat you pull the band-aid, the
quicker that we're gonna be ableto talk about it.
So next week's episode is IWon't Back Down, another Tom
Petty song.
They're all Tom Petty songs,bar two episodes, and so I
definitely want you guys to beprepared.
So next Monday, go and watchthe episode four, and we can
listen and talk about it onTuesday.
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So if you liked this, go giveme a like on Instagram at
SipHappenswithJaye I love CougarTown, and this is the style of
the podcast, this episode that Ithink we're gonna do moving
forward.
The last two were, in allhonesty, I think I rushed them a
little bit.
I wanted to get them out ratherthan sort of understand what I
wanted to talk about, which isterrible because I've been
planning this for months, but Ithink everything just came, you
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know, crashing down recently inmy personal life.
So this is giving me that breakthat I needed.
But this is how I want tostructure the episodes.
I am so, so excited to be ableto do this.
Um, go follow me now on atsiphappens with Jaye.
Jaye is spelt J-A-Y-E.
There is that E on the end,same way it's spelt here on the
podcast.
Um, and let me know what youwant me to talk about.
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Do you like it?
Do you not?
I want to know.
So thank you so much for beinghere.
Again, I'm Jaye Antonio.
I love Cougar Town, and Icannot wait to talk episode four
with you next week.
I'll speak to you all very,very soon.
Have the best week, everyone.
Bye.
I already need another one.
Thanks for listening to SipHappens, a Cougar Town Rewatch
podcast.
Follow along now on ApplePodcasts and Spotify, and don't
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forget to follow SipHappens withJaye on Instagram.
Can you pour me a glass of wine?
Welcome to Sip Happens, theCougar Town Rewatch podcast,
where we celebrate ShirtlessBubby, Wine Before Noon, and the
beautiful mess that isGulfhaven, Florida.
I'm Jaye Antonio, your host,longtime fan, and proud
channeler of my inner Ellie.
Each week I'll recap theepisodes, dive into trivia, and
relive every big colour-worthymoment.
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Follow along on Instagram atSipHappensWithJaye, and let's
sip our way through Cougar Town,one cul-de-sac mess at a time.
Oh my gosh, it is episode 3 ofSip Happens, a Cougar Town
rewatch podcast with me, yourhost, Jaye Antonio.
Guys, I am so excited to behere talking about this
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brilliantly written episode.
I actually can't believe howgood this show is right off the
bat.
You can really easily tell thatat this point we are sort of
shifting away from theCougar-esque nature already,
just in episode three, which isso cool.
And we're definitely movingtowards that ensemble, sort of
sitcom, funny, really vibey typeof show, which is exactly what
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the show is, it's what itbecomes, and it's why it's so
brilliant.
Let's talk about the episode.
I'm gonna jump right in.
So this episode is called Don'tDo Me Like That.
It is another Tom Petty song,so brilliantly written.
I actually love it.
This episode is season one,episode three.
It originally aired on October7th, 2009.
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It was directed by Gail Mancusoand written by Bill Lawrence,
Kevin Beigel, and Ryan Co.
This episode is really welldone and it jumps a lot.
This is where we start to seethose sort of quick scenes
happening, the cuts start tohappen, that little sort of side
scenes happen that are likelittle breaks from, like, I
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don't know, the bigger, thedeeper scenes.
It's just really, reallybrilliant.
This episode has two incrediblecameos, to be honest with you.
The first is again Nick Casinoas Josh.
Again, he is from DC's Legendsof Tomorrow.
He is really a pretty big TVstar, and he's very, very
handsome.
And this episode has JenniferHolland, James Gunn's wife, or
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as she's better known, Harcourtfrom Peacemaker and the Suicide
Squad.
The f I you know it's crazy.
I never recognized her.
I've watched this episodeprobably no less than a dozen
times, and I've never oncerealized that it is her in the
episode.
I can't believe it is her.
She is so funny, and it'sdefinitely not the role that
you'd expect from her after sortof, you know, especially now
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sitting through um PeacemakerSeason 2, which is streaming on
HBO Max.
It is fantastic and it's acompletely different character.
Such a departure for her, butit is a really, really great,
um, great character, and I wishwe got to see more of her.
So I've changed things up justa little bit, and so rather than
doing like a really quick likesynopsis, or I guess a really
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quick description of theepisode, I'm actually gonna do a
longer synopsis, and we'regonna talk about it in a little
bit more detail.
So this will be the sipbreakdown.
Let's jump in.
And forgive me because I justrealized that my microphone was
not correctly turned on.
So here we go.
This hopefully sounds a littlebit better.
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But as I said, this is the sipbreakdown.
This is where we're going totalk about the episode in a lot
more detail, almost scene byscene.
And yes, it took me a littlewhile to plan this out and to
prep it.
So forgive me if there's anymistakes.
Obviously, this is the firsttime that I'm doing a lot of
these different things.
So, jumping straight on in, weopen with Travis and Jules in
the kitchen discussing thefuture for Travis, like what
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college he's gonna go to nextyear, and the fact that he's
going to be leaving her.
Jules does turn around and hasa little mom moment because
she's so overly attached toTravis.
It is so funny, it becomes sucha running joke in the show how
attached they are to each other.
But they are interrupted by amidnight drunk call from Lori,
where, as will become the norm,she's had a fight with Nezi, and
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Lori claims she slapped thebitch.
So she needs to be picked upand crashed the night at Jules'
place.
Jules, of course, is happy todo that.
Quote, helping people is likemy crack.
I crave it.
Lori immediately overstays herwelcome.
Jules said if they were inprison, she'd be Lori's bitch.
The following morning, they runinto Grayson as they're leaving
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for work, where we see a splitsecond of Jennifer Holland's
character Candy getting into acab after what we are led to
believe is a one-night stand.
Dot dot dot.
Jules, Grayson, and Lori standon their driveway talking about
Grayson's nonchalance for hisone-night lovers, where Jules
doubles down on the paperbuddynickname and essentially guilts
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him into getting to know hisone-night stands better.
That comes into play a littlebit later on.
Then we skip to Josh and Juleshaving breakfast.
Of course, Josh is played byNick Zeno, and he is the DC's
legend of tomorrow stud, andthey are still going hard on
their dates to get to datenumber 10, because as we spoke
about in the last episode, sheis making him wait until that
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magic date number 10 before theysleep together.
We have a wonderful Barbinteraction, God bless Barb.
And at this point, Jules istrying to make up for getting to
10 dates faster by decidingthat one date that had two
separate locations and awardrobe change was in fact two
dates.
So that's how they're trying toget to that magic 10 number
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even faster.
They're really just makingexcuses to sleep together at
this point.
They finally agree that thenext day will be date number 10,
aka sex time.
The following morning, theyswitching to a favorite location
that we're gonna see often andoften and often and often every
episode pretty much, which isJules' Kitchen, where Jules,
Ellie, Andy, and their baby Stanare hanging out discussing the
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cut the upcoming evening's sex.
It is 10 a.m.
Lori walks in and they startdiscussing why they need to
start getting ready now for thisevening's sex.
Remember, remember it's 10 a.m.
Lori's so confused about whythey're prepping that early in
the morning, but Jules and Elliesuggest it's because they're 40
and need to plan it out.
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So they've got waxing,haircuts, blowouts, like outfit.
It's crazy the amount of stuffthat they start to list off.
It's actually really funny.
We are finally introduced to abrand new location, and it is
one that recurs almost everyepisode.
It is Bobby's boat.
Here for the first time, wefinally get to see the character
of Bobby actually taking shapeto who he becomes a little bit
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later on.
It's one of those things wherethe character evolves ever so
slightly over time.
The boat is featured in almostevery episode, even when Bobby
isn't in that episode.
There are a few later on in theshow where Bobby is actually
written out.
It's pretty much the finalseason where he took another job
because I think they must havethought they weren't getting
picked up for that sort of finalseason, but they write him out.
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But what is really cool is heis still in the show.
It's not like those otherseries where they, when a
character gets written out,they're not in the show.
Or it's like, maybe, and justlike that, how you know Samantha
lives in London and it's allthrough text message.
No, no, no.
They face time.
So he's still like a characterin the show, but he's just not
in the episode.
So it's actually really, reallywell done.
Anyway, going off topic.
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Um, did I mention that the boatis in a random car park?
And with the exception of oneepisode, it actually never
enters the water.
But that episode is reallyfunny.
We will actually talk about it.
Cutting to Grayson's house,where we are back with Candy,
played by Jennifer Holland.
I actually can't believe it.
I didn't even recognize her.
Like I said, I didn't recognizeher at all the first like dozen
times I've watched thisepisode.
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But Grayson realizes that atwo-night stand cannot really
be, as he is struggling to getrid of her.
He actually goes outside andyells, Oh my god, on his
driveway multiple timesthroughout the day, as we are
sort of told by Ellie later on.
And just to sort of like calmthe situation because candy is
so intense.
Ellie then runs to Jules sayingshe's having a crisis.
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The crisis being her baby Stan,a literal baby, hates her.
We're then informed that Elliehas a nap every day from 10 till
11.45, where today she had adream that she looked into
Stan's stroller and he was madeof chocolate, where she then ate
her baby.
She continues that one day shejust knows he's going to do
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something to drive her crazy,like marrying a poor person.
So that should give you someinsight into Ellie as a
character.
She's so funny.
Okay, back on the boat.
Travis and Bobby are talkingabout the name Jealous Much,
which is the name of the boat.
Obviously, it's so ironic thatthe boat is in a car park.
Or wait, do Americans say carpark?
No, parking lot, parkingstructure?
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Anyway, we would just call it acar park.
It's basically an empty, like,dumping ground in this
particular series of like, Idon't know, boats and fishing
nets and all that kind of stuff.
Like a I don't know.
I don't even know how todescribe it.
You have to watch it, it'sreally funny.
Andy then joins them and wecontinue the bromance that is
Bobby and Andy, shirts off, rockmusic playing, and Travis dying
inside watching this all takeplace.
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Cutting to Jules, she's runningso late for her wax and nails,
but magically, first person onearth, she is getting a bikini
wax and her nails done in onego.
They tell her this has neverbeen done before, she has to
stay perfectly still.
And yes, she does end upgetting them both done together.
Hobbling back to her car, sheruns in to a little child
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because uh Lori actually callsher.
Um, she can't uh get the phoneout of her bag, so this this kid
has to do it for her and holdthe phone to her head.
Lori is calling her to bepicked up where she is naked in
someone's yard.
Oh my god, this show is thisshow sounds crazy like when I'm
saying it all out loud.
Oh my god, but then we cut to avery standard Cougar town
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montage of Jules fixing herbedroom up, plucking her
eyelashes, perfuming, stretchingon the floor, and cutting to
Josh arriving for their 10thdate sexual encounter.
Naturally, Jules injuresherself, but they finally get
into the bath together, wherethey both cannot fit at all.
They finally have the big SEX.
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But lo and behold, Josh did notenjoy it.
Oh my god, what are we gonnado?
So, the next morning, Lori,Ellie, and Jules are in the
kitchen.
Jules is so upset, they'rediscussing Josh's rating of the
encounter, which of course herated at the best six out of
ten.
That's not great, you guys.
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That's really not that great.
Ellie and Lori are trying tomake her feel better by telling
their stories, where eventhrough it all, Ellie is
insulting Lori, which as alwaysis my favorite part.
It's so, it's just so funny.
We're now back on the boat, oras Travis calls it, the land
boat, telling his dad Bobby thathe embarrasses him.
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It's such a hard pill for uhBobby to swallow.
And it's one of those thingswhere we start to see this like
relationship emerge over timewhere someone like upsetting or
insulting Bobby, calling himembarrassing, whatever it is,
that actually really gets to himand it becomes like a small,
like little baby story arc inwhatever episode it is.
Because it is somewhat of arecurring thing, not all the
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time, which is nice.
We then cut to Gray's bar,Grayson's bar that he owns at
10am.
There's a lot of 10am in thisepisode, but anyway, Ellie,
Lori, and Jules are drinking.
And we find out that Grayson,thanks to Jules' expert advice,
cannot get rid of Candy with tooease thanks to Jules.
Bobby calls to get help fromJules.
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Are you noticing the theme ofthis episode?
But Jules is trying to convinceherself that she is amazing and
trying not to take everythingpersonally, um, especially when
it comes to the sex and to allof that kind of stuff, but
people still are asking her forhelp.
Instead of helping Bobbythough, Lori and Ellie drag
Jules to the beach, where wefind out that Ellie takes her
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afternoon naps there, which sheuses to show Jules that she
needs to take better care ofherself before other people.
Also, side note, we now knowthat Ellie takes a nap from 10am
till 11.45, and then clearlyanother nap in the afternoon at
the beach.
That's insane, but she does useit as a point that Jules does
not know how to take care ofherself, which I think is really
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interesting.
I guess it's her snarky way oftelling Jules that she needs to
help herself and enjoy her ownlife rather than spending all
her time literally helpingeverybody else.
Whoa, then we cut to one of myfavorite scenes in this episode.
Actually, we'll talk about it alittle bit more later, but we
cut to Barb showing off her redrevagination, I called it.
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Which is so funny because shegoes to the same wax that the
jewels is going to.
So we're in back in the waxroom.
Barb says she's up the top,she's 48.
Like her face, 48.
Down below, she's 19.
It's just the most ridiculousscene.
I love it so much.
It's so gross.
Um, then we cut back to Graysonsleeping with Candy again, and
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then we cut back to the beach.
So it's one of those like quickcut scenes.
It's like, I don't know, 15seconds of Bob, 10 seconds of
Grayson, and then we're back atthe beach continuing the
conversation with Ellie, Lori,and Jules.
Meanwhile, Bobby and Travishave a good, honest conversation
where Bobby tells him that heloves him even when Travis is
being a little bitch.
Honesty, am I right?
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Oh god.
Back in Jules' bedroom, Joshand Jules are laying in bed
where Josh finally admits thatthat that round of sex was
amazing.
And Jules realizes that maybefollowing Ellie's advice, being
a little selfish every now andthen is important.
And that that's sort of theentire arc of the episode.
And then of course we have thelittle stinger at the end.
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So the end scene is Bobby umshowing up on his golf cart to
drop Travis at Jules' house, um,just to show off uh his
knowledge of that they the factthat they did have good sex when
they were married.
Now they got divorced becauseBobby actually cheated on Jules,
and so Jules left him.
Um but he he thinks, oh my god,I'm gonna try and make you feel
better by telling you these aremy four top times that we ever
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did it.
And he lists off these fourtimes.
It's actually really beautifuluntil Jules turns around and
says, Aww, all except one ofthem um was was with her.
So one of those four timeswasn't even with Jules, it was
one of the people that hecheated on her with, and then
the episode just comes to anabrupt end.
It's like that big stinger atthe end.
Oh my god.
So that is episode three ofCougar Town.
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Oh my god.
So that was the in-depth dive.
Um, let me know if you likedthat.
Is this something that youwould prefer me to keep doing?
I really like it because we'retalking about the episode, we're
talking about this, but nowwhat we're gonna do is we're
gonna move over to our timecapsule test.
So thank you so much forlistening to this synopsis.
Let me know on Instagram atSipHappenswithJaye if you liked
this, and let us continue.
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Alrighty, we're moving on tothe time capsule rewatch awards
wrap-up best scene.
I don't know what we're gonnacall this, but I'm just calling
it the time capsule test.
So let's start off with thetime capsule test.
So this is basically becausethis show came out in 2009 and
we of course are in 2025.
I wanted to know are some ofthe jokes that show, the tech or
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the fashion that shows in theshow.
Is it outdated and does it sortof date the show?
Now, this episode actually, forthe most part, does a really
great job of againself-containing itself, which is
kind of what we spoke about inthe last episode.
The only thing, now, I I willpreface this by saying I don't
have a problem with it because Iguess I don't know, I sort of
say it sometimes, which isprobably wrong.
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I mean, Hillary Duff would beso mad, but um, saying that's so
gay is something that you justdon't see anymore.
But um, oh you know, it'sbecause Hillary Duff ended
homophobia, I believe.
But I think in this episodethere is a part where at the
end, when Bobby is dropping offTravis uh to Jules's place, he
Travis walks in the house andsays, I love you, Dad, and then
kind of goes away.
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And Jules is so impressed thatBobby got an I love you out of
it all.
Except Bobby, of course, thenturns around and says, I know,
that's so gay, when Travis tellshim that he loves him.
And I think that is somethingthat just would not air anymore,
but it's actually really funnybecause we know that it's not
malicious or anything in anyway, shape, or form.
But, you know, I get the PCsort of aspect of it all, and I
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do agree that there's somethingto be said about, you know, the
fact that we that we don't saythat, and it's probably a good
thing because I think if we sayit, it allows other people to
say it, and we don't want thatto be the case.
And so, you know, I'm learningmyself as well still.
I think we're all learning andgrowing over time, but this is
one of those things where for meit definitely felt um, you
know, just a little bit out ofplace.
We just wouldn't see thathappen these days.
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So uh yeah, that's probably theonly thing that I think stands
out to me in this episode.
The rest of it I think isreally funny, and everything
else is in jest, so yeah.
So let's talk about the nextthing that I love.
So the best scene slash bestline, it goes to Barb again.
When she said, up here I'm 48,but below the belt, I'm 19.
Now, let's detail this Ferrari.
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It sent me up the freakingwall.
I think it's one of thefunniest lines in this episode.
Actually, it might be thefunniest line in this episode,
just because her facialexpressions, and you obviously,
if you're listening to this,you've watched the episode,
right?
Right?
Right?
So you would know what shelooks like, but if you haven't,
go and watch it.
It's absolutely the mostridiculous thing I've ever seen.
It's so freaking funny.
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And then of course the mostcougar tow-ny moment.
I actually think in thisparticular episode, it's the
beach scene with Jules, Ellie,and Loria.
They're like the core three ofthe episode, or of the series,
really, it's those three.
They are the main characters.
And I think in this in thisinstance, it's a really well
done um scene.
They're just having a greatchat on the beach, and it's
very, very cougar towny.
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So I think that that goesthere.
And as always, we're gonna endthis by talking about our
rewatch awards.
So the Big Carl moment of theWeek and the Cul-de-Sack MVP are
our two awards.
Two for now, maybe I'll addanother one.
But right now, Big Carl Momentof the Week goes to Ellie,
talking about Stan hating herbecause they don't like any of
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the same music, TV, or books.
Uh, let's remember Stan is aliteral baby.
So I just think that's a reallyfunny line.
And it's kind of one of thoseones that happens really
quickly, but it's a good joke.
Um, but it happens so fast andmoves to the next thing that I
almost don't think it lands.
Um, but I still think if you'relistening to it, it is
hilarious just because she'sgenuine.
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She means it.
She is she is such a character,and I love her so much.
That's why she is my favoritecharacter of any TV show, of any
anything I've ever watchedever.
Ellie is my spirit animal, andthis is why.
The uh final award, of course,goes to uh the sorry, the final
award is the Cul-de-sac MVP, andI it's gotta be Candy.
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It's gotta go to Candy.
Jennifer Holland as Candy ishilarious.
I wish we got to see more ofher.
It's just such uh, I don'tknow, such a different like role
for Jennifer Holland that I Ican't picture her playing the
role, which I think is why I'mgiving her the MVP.
I did definitely want to giveit to like the waxer because I
think she has the best facialexpression, second to Barb in
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this entire episode.
But Jennifer Holland gets itbecause she is a cameo and it is
just fantastic.
So let's move on to my finalthoughts.
My final thoughts of thisepisode.
I definitely think we areuncovering the um the elements
of what makes Cougar Town sogreat.
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And you can tell that thewriters are even just in episode
three of the entire series,already starting to get their
shit together when it comes tolike what this show actually is
supposed to be.
And I think again, it's sofunny that the show is called
Cougar Town and very quicklybecomes literally nothing to do
with uh being a cougar.
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And I think that that is forthe benefit of the show.
I'm gonna say that probably inevery single episode until we're
just in the in the deep of it.
Um, so I think it's one ofthose things where um the
writers definitely understoodthe assignment and it's just
such a brilliant episode.
As I said, I think my favoritequotes definitely that Barb
quote, up here I'm 48, but belowthe belt I'm 19.
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Now let's detail this Ferrari.
I think that is the mostridiculous thing, like that
rivals some of the shit that SueSylvester has said in her, in
her like life in Glee, which Ithink is so funny.
Side note, love glee, love SueSylvester, but that it's just
giving Sue Sylvester um, not inlike the attitude or like
obviously the character, butjust the ridiculousness of it
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all.
And I really think that that'sso funny.
So, uh my gosh, I can't believewe're at the end of this
episode.
This is su this is probably myfavorite episode so far.
Like, obviously, we're onlyseeing three, but this is
definitely up there.
I just think it's so classicCougar Town.
But um, it's really, reallygreat.
I can't wait to talk aboutepisode four next week.
But of course, if you have notseen any of uh the first three
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episodes, go and watch them now.
I think it's one of thosethings where you just need to
get into it because the quickerthat you pull the band-aid, the
quicker that we're gonna be ableto talk about it.
So next week's episode is IWon't Back Down, another Tom
Petty song.
They're all Tom Petty songs,bar two episodes, and so I
definitely want you guys to beprepared.
So next Monday, go and watchthe episode four, and we can
listen and talk about it onTuesday.
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So if you liked this, go giveme a like on Instagram at
SipHappenswithJaye I love CougarTown, and this is the style of
the podcast, this episode that Ithink we're gonna do moving
forward.
The last two were, in allhonesty, I think I rushed them a
little bit.
I wanted to get them out ratherthan sort of understand what I
wanted to talk about, which isterrible because I've been
planning this for months, but Ithink everything just came, you
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know, crashing down recently inmy personal life.
So this is giving me that breakthat I needed.
But this is how I want tostructure the episodes.
I am so, so excited to be ableto do this.
Um, go follow me now on atsiphappens with Jaye.
Jaye is spelt J-A-Y-E.
There is that E on the end,same way it's spelt here on the
podcast.
Um, and let me know what youwant me to talk about.
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Do you like it?
Do you not?
I want to know.
So thank you so much for beinghere.
Again, I'm Jaye Antonio.
I love Cougar Town, and Icannot wait to talk episode four
with you next week.
I'll speak to you all very,very soon.
Have the best week, everyone.
Bye.
I already need another one.
Thanks for listening to SipHappens, a Cougar Town Rewatch
podcast.
Follow along now on ApplePodcasts and Spotify, and don't
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