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This 7th season has truly been "Seinfeld"-like for Rick, who seems to have a new "girlfriend" in every episode. Thus, we cannot develop any concern for the various dates because we know his interest will be over as soon as the final credits roll.

Here, Rick is on campus with Wally, about to go meet his girl-of-the-week, Betty, at the school library. Wally is trying to convince him that their fraternity has a "register" where the guys all list their latest girlfriends, complete with full name and phone numbers, so nobody else will go out with them. They'd need a whole new volume of this register just for Rick's girls this year. We are led to believe Wally is making it all up, but he continues with this notion throughout the episode.

Buddy Zeke comes up and asks Rick to do him a favor. It seems that his girlfriend, Connie, canceled a recent date saying she was sick but then he thought he saw her with someone else at a movie theater. He got into a fight over this-details were not explained too clearly.

Now, Zeke wants Ricky to talk to Connie to tell her how sorry Zeke is and ask for her to give him another chance. I should think she would be unimpressed that he had to send a friend to speak for him.

Because Rick was due to meet his new girl, he refuses at first. Why he couldn't have just done Zeke the favor a bit later is a mystery to me-apparently it had to be "right now." So he asks Zeke to go to the library to tell Betty that Rick couldn't make it, while Rick goes to talk to Zeke's girl.

Zeke doesn't figure-for some reason-that telling Betty Rick had to do him a special favor and that he would be along in just a few minutes is not the way to go. Instead he lies to Betty, telling her that Rick has suddenly taken ill. This is, happily, an unusual act on this series. So many TV series in later years rely on people getting in trouble by almost constantly lying to their loved ones in situations where they really had no reason to lie.

Now Rick cannot just spend 10 minutes with Connie to talk to her, he has to take her to the malt shop and buy her some ice cream and get better acquainted with her. This leads to trouble when Betty happens by and sees them together-right after she was told he was sick.

When Rick tells Zeke how he got him in trouble, Zeke goes back to Betty to apologize for lying to her, wanting her to give Rick another chance. Just like when Rick was talking to Connie, he can't just talk and leave. He winds up suggesting they listen to a record and having Betty help him learn how to dance to that sort of music. Now Rick has come by and he winds up hearing music and peeking into the window, seeing Zeke dancing with Betty.

We spend most of the episode with the young people trying to sort out all the misunderstandings-caused by rather foolish actions and a lack of willingness to talk. It is solved when Harriet is brought in to get Rick and Zeke to talk things over.

I haven't included any funny dialog like I typically do because I didn't hear anything funny. If Zeke had just believed his girlfriend at the beginning, or if she had just been willing to let him apologize, or if either of the boys had just spoken to the other guy's girl without continuing their visits into what amounts to a date, causing the hurt feelings, this episode would have been over in time for a whole concert from Ricky instead of just one song at the end.

In short, the characters acted quite illogically, there were virtually no laughs in the episode, and I feel obliged to give it a low score of 3.