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Wed, Jan 10, 2001
The friends are invited to the wedding of Jill's ex Becky Hart; Mikey looks forward to lots of dating opportunities; asking Jack as his date perhaps wasn't Jill's best move, as she considers it their first meeting anniversary, which he discards because she ran out on him. The youths look great in party frock. Audrey didn't even want Barto to pick her up at the airport, nor picks up when he's on the phone, yet ends up showing up and dancing with him in tender embrace, the he kisses hotly but she hasn't decided yet what she now wants. Mikey doesn't score because of spiteful sorority girls, Elisa doctors the name plates to escape the singles table and lands next to Frank, who did the same thing and jumps to serious dating. Jack and Jill bicker whether she should 'help' his career by soliciting potentials clients; nuts in the wedding cake give her an allergic crisis.
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Wed, Jan 17, 2001
Jack tells the girls Jill announced he will propose to her and already asks Audrey as maid of honor and Elisa as bridesmaid. Jill confesses to the boys he hasn't got a clue how to make his proposal romantic enough after building up her expectations for too long, and he promised the best man's job to a high school ball team friend, Duncan Crookston. Looking for his passport in the safe, Barto drops a ring he presumes Jill's for Jack, but Jack makes him show it 'to prepare a happy reaction'; when Jill makes his speech, more romantic then any stunt, and proposes with another ring, she's totally startled and seems disappointed. Barto and Audrey frolic but aren't ready for intimacy again. When Jill finds out Duncan is in jail, Mikey presumes he'll be best man, preoccupied only with the stag night stripper; when Jill reports Jack's apparent disappointment about the ring, Barto tells she saw him; Jill realizes it's another one and tells Jack he bought that one for Elisa; in the end both girls understand. The question why he asked Duncan in high school, weird for boys, makes David admit he considered proposing to his then girlfriend Jenny; Jack calls him a 'serial engager', he retorts she even got Danny to the altar and lived together with Matt; Elisa makes her realize Jill only actually proposed to her. When Barto sighs he told Audrey he's an all-or-nothing man but she failed go for all of him, Mikey consoles Barto saying he is to be best man, with Mikey as honorary best man in charge of the bachelor night. Jack takes Jill to a pawn-shop to settle the rings issue.
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Wed, Jan 24, 2001
A phone call for 'Jaqueline' informs Jill Jack never told her parents about him, but expects them and his widowed ma for the weekend. Barto desperately tries to avoid Audrey, but can't escape the publicity for her movie Svengali, yet she still has the gall to blame him for not being more understanding; still he ends up offering to be friends again. Having heard hunk Marco thank Mickey for matching him with Gigi, Elisa insists he finds her a gay, but TV-geek Ken is hardly what she hoped for. Jack's pa Paul, a publisher, proves an insufferable ass, who even suggests Jill should fool around 'better now then later', yet she insists he must take her family as a package, till she learns the truth at the formal engagement party her parents insisted to throw for them.
Wed, Jan 31, 2001
While Jill watches amazed and amused how obsessively she packs, Jack tells him she has a near-ex Sean, who works in an L.A. studio; Mikey calls Sean her would have-could have-should have, Elisa her almost-guy. Jill has a pre-wedding-attack of feeling surrounded by attractive women other then his fiancée, such as stewardesses. In an interview, Audrey and her co-star Kyle Statton paint each-other as arrogant, yet they land in bed for real. When Barto's parents drop by to summon him for a family function, Mikey immediately tests Dr. Jonas Zane's willingness to become his co-investor now he wants to buy to At-bar, but is called a worse investment risk then flushing money down the toilet, so Barto coaches him to prepare a bank loan application. While she unpacks just as pointlessly elaborately, Jill learns Jack phoned Sean for lunch within 15 minutes after arrival, and braves the temptation rubbing suntan-lotion into attractive beach bunny backs. A 'best friend' invitation decides Barto to join Mikey on the flight to Svengali's L.A. premiere, while Elisa, who has an absurd flying-phobia, meets and falls for witty psychiatrist Peter McCray. Kyle is the only one who actually enjoys the premiere reception, after Barto saw him cuddle Audrey, yet she refuses to keep in touch. Back home, Mikey's loan application is refused, despite the banker's positive response.
Wed, Feb 7, 2001
Jill decides Jack should decide alone on their new place to live together, but getting it proves even harder then choosing. Mikey, who still wants to buy the At-bar, is interested to learn Jill's photography-client Dante is a self-made major investor in all kinds of enterprises. Audrey's agent Dan warns her she must make contacts before her movie is old news, which proves to be very soon. Med student Barto is on a mission, playing a gastric patient with a bowl obstruction, but since that's too easy to experience the patient's perception, Madison changes his 'disease' to lymphoma cancer, treatment discomforts guaranteed. Elisa brings her shrink Peter to the studio, but he always seems to be analyzing; she's only happy when he accidentally proves not to know her too well. Dante decides the bar is a good investment, but only if Jill co-manages it with too insecure 'Michael'; when Jill doesn't want that, Mikey sneers he has no more trust in his friend then Dante. Barto solves the flat problem by moving to a flat closer to his college.
Wed, Feb 14, 2001
With great effort from the boys and pointless pooha from the girls, Barto moves out of Jill's apartment and Jack in. Barto hoped to avoid needless hassle by not telling his parents he's having sex with Sarah Weyman, whom he once met trough their match-making attempts, but when both sets of parents await them in the restaurant, her ma's nagging about a hickey makes her blurt out it's from Barto, and boy does he get pressured as he feared, as if they expect a wedding date, precisely what puts him off after his Audrey-trauma; he finds she also dates studly architect Patrick, so they decide to keep going out, nothing serious. Everybody is at the @-bar for Mikey's managerial take over-party. When he boasts in the morning the new office's comfy chair fits two, him and waitress Emily Cantor, to mate and business-partner Jill, who feels financier Dante breathing down his neck, Jill insists now they're bosses that's illegal; the love-birds decide to continue their intimacy after-hours elsewhere, Jill tells her that's still against policy, Mikey resists 'you're not my boss', but now it feels awkward for her anyway. Elisa learns presenting her boy-friends to the others is not always best, especially her shrink Peter McCray to neurotic Jack, who feels analyzed and nearly committed by him. After an overdose of Jack, Audrey is really ready to live alone.
Wed, Feb 28, 2001
A karaoke salesman uses a sob-story to get one installed in the @-bar one week on free trial; Jill gets hooked and takes it home, to make up for his broken high school days band-dream. The new network official Kristen Moss announces big changes as they get bad ratings; Jack tries out as newsreader, and is angry to hear Elise does too on Peter's advice. Audrey auditions prospective roommates, wanting a girl or a gay, but goes for stand up-comedian Russell James when she hears he has a girl-friend, but only after he moves in learns the pair already was broken up, so they start on the wrong foot, and again. Sandy's serial dating is hell on Barto, who agreed to an open relationship but is truly monogamous by nature; Mikey expertly coaches him in picking up casual dates. Nasty twists all-around at the end...
Wed, Mar 7, 2001
Two customers at the @-bar who rather fancy Emily refuse to be cut off drinks, and throw a stool trough the window when Mikey and Jill show them the door. Dante is not amused and hires a grim bouncer, Heffer, without even telling the two managers; when the bouncer out-steps all bounds, bouncing him proves painful even two to one. Audrey finds out abruptly her roommate's idea of casual morning dress and sleepwear is just his own skin. Jack is determined to make up with Elisa by becoming friends with Peter, while his superior knowledge and experience on everything drive Elisa mad and away from 'them'. Barto, on a time-out with his girl-friend, hopes the flirtatious waitress Bethany is into him, Mikey doubts that.
Wed, Mar 14, 2001
Roommates Russell and Audrey are equally surprised to wake up together after a memorably hot night, but next morning she says that's not to be repeated often, then insists on a domestic chores schedule. Elisa can't justify why she broke up with Peter, Jack advices against calling to make up; when she does anyway, the sex is great, yet for her that's no basis to stay more then friends. When Mikey serves as his diagnosis test patient, Barto is delighted to find his friend is a medical rarity because of 'situs inversus', i.e. right-side internal organs at the left and vice versa, a big hit with Dr. Madison and his class, but Madison is even less amused then Barto when Mikey keeps making a fuss about his condition. Jack and Jill go reserve a Catholic church as her mother insists, but must first take a couples course. A PC crash while he prepares the bar's tax return makes him miss their first appointment with the parish priest, her insensitive sneer his bar problems are insignificant really hurts. After talking to each apart, Father Conlin tells the pair their romantic ideal is no realistic basis, so they need intense counseling.
Wed, Mar 21, 2001
Father Conlin cancels their church reservation because the happy couple missed most of his marriage counseling sessions. Jack panics, Jill calls it an opportunity to look for a creative alternative; they make lists and have a common winner: sailing on the Bahamas; then Jack remembers her ma will have a fit if it's not a Catholic church, but ma's episcopal contact already overruled the parish priest... Audrey is nearly out of her Svengali savings, so she tries Barto's suggestion to give private dance lessons to rich Jewish families' boys preparing for a bar mitzvah; her nerdy first teenager client Adam Fickman is at an age when any female body her age looks irresistible, but although smart and sensitive never had any success with girls; she finds it hard to handle his hormones, eager showing her off to his peers and freaks out after a single hand-move on her rear, but father Andy Fickman implores her to help make Adam reconsider having no bar mitzvah at all and Barto makes clear no 13 year -old can be expected to remain a rational gentleman facing such temptation barely at arms-length, so they become 'just' friends. Emily surprises Barto by asking him to go ice-skating, and being about to start med studies herself, at NYU. When she gives notice, the managers not only have to look for a replacement, Mikey believes he can go out with her again, and invokes the Code of Dating they wrote in sixth grade to defend his first claim, Barto says adult relationships are beyond the high school code, but Emily has the last word regardless of their bickering. In the end Jack and Jill realize a marriage requires both partners to compromise, not always him letting her have her way as for any aspect of the interior of what was his flat, and they finally decide where to wed.
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Wed, Mar 28, 2001
Although their wedding will be on a moored sail yacht, Jack stresses about all possible seasickness etc. precautions. First the couple prepares her first birthday together. To her surprise the cool St. Regis hotel suite reservation is not made by Jill but her ex Matt, whom she quickly tells off; meanwhile David waited in vain for her at home, the mood is ruined, so he catches up the next day at the TV studio, but is jealous when he reads Matt's poetically perfect invitation; Jill's non-refundable surprise weekend proves incompatible with her job, but in the end thoughtful packing makes all the difference. Even though he should be studying anyhow the mention of sports makes Barto support Mikey's proposal to replace the broken TV with a flat-screen monster, Elisa feels outvoted; when Mikey pushes for computer hardware too, she refuses and even insists to downgrade the TV, instead the boys pay its separately, leading to a childish don't use my stuff-period. Audrey finds her roommate Russell James consoling his crying ex Kate on the couch, with her suitcase being thrown out, but decrees no sex with him meanwhile, while actually feeling rather jealous, so she tells Kate; seeing how upset he is when Kate moves out, Audrey temporarily leaves herself rather then get serious with him, so Barto has no privacy at all with Emily.
Wed, Apr 4, 2001
Jill is delighted when Dante considers franchising, so he and Mikey might move to the first new bar in Boston; Jack however freaks out, as by every insignificant detail not exactly according to plan, and forces upon her groom a long, absurd list of compatibility questions, and allows only three passes, which as he realizes only adds problem which probably would not arise for years if ever, she 'needs a break', so she will scouts the wedding scene alone and Jill can join Mikey checking out Boston. Audrey has moved back now Russel has moved out; her agent Dan makes her date Mitch, the winner of a fan quiz, on air; when she brushes him off for a second date, he proves frighteningly tenacious... Barto is very open to Emily, even about his accidental infidelity to Audrey, so she sends him over for closure. At the last moment Jill tries to catch Jack's flight too, impossible without papers, but it's canceled, and for a devastating reason...
Wed, Apr 11, 2001
Jack has a cold on top of the hurricane-disaster and blames Jill for suggesting the Bahamas, a lie he objects to. Barto is not invited at Elisa's bachelors only- party, in his own apartment, and consoles Jill. After a visit from his mother, Jack decides he's worth planning a third time for, and even accepts his proposal to get married the very next day, without the frills, but in city hall he realizes that doesn't work: they end up calling off the ceremony indefinitely to save the steady relationship from serious shaking. Seeing how her stalker shook Audrey's self-confidence to be alone, gentleman Barto spends some nights with her, only to hear she would want to get him back, while he is still committed to Emily... [Despite the open ending, there is no subsequent series].