Cougar Town “Feel a Whole Lot Better” – Season 1 Episode 22
This episode finally brings to a head the tension that has been developing all season long between Grayson and Jules. They wake up the morning after and have the whole friends with benefits conversation.
Jules is against it because she says it never works. Since they are friends first they can’t do this without feelings developing. IT just simply never works.
A mere hours later she’s having a different conversation saying how it can work. They’ve been friends for a long time so they know how each other are. They know what they’re getting into so they can avoid the mistakes that others have made before them. They can be the one couple who is different from every other group that has tried this.
It sounds almost laughable but it’s amazing what the human mind can convince itself is true when it wants to believe something.
Andy wants to have more alone time with his wife so he hires a nanny. At first Ellie is all for it and thinks it’s a great idea until she starts getting ribbing from Lauren.
Lauren rides her like crazy because she doesn’t work, has only one kid, and now has a nanny. What does she do all day?
Ellie lets her pride get to her and ends up firing the nanny.
This creates a big and unexpected problem for Andy who goes to Lauren to rectify the situation. Lauren let’s a big secret loose that all these years the teasing she has received has hurt her but that Ellie is her hero. Not technically Ellie is her hero but the life and lifestyle that Ellie leads is what Lauren wants.
She sees Jules working like a dog every day and doesn’t want that for herself. She wants the family and the leisure life that Ellie has carved out for herself. So this convinces Ellie to get the nanny back so she and he can have their alone time together.
During this time Travis and his dad Bobby are off chasing this red balloon.
There’s this crazy contest going on where whichever person gets the red balloon will get $2000.
So they’re chasing this all around and it becomes very comical when they can’t get the balloon. Bobby suggest they sleep on a park bench and wear mustaches to resume the search in the morning.
It was all a clever cover up though. He told Travis that it was all so he could get his boat back into the water. However, what it really was is a way for him to make extra money so he could get Travis a car before he goes off to college.
Bobby had been feeling a little adequate because he hadn’t done all the things financially for Travis which Jules had. In some small way he wanted to make it up to Travis.
So he gets him this nice car even though it has a few bullet holes in it.
At the end of the episode Jules confronts Grayson and says she can’t do the friends with benefits anymore. He pulls out because he surprised and it isn’t what he signed up for.
But right before the episode closes he walks over to her and kiss her kiss to confirm that he is in for the full relationship.
