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Blow-By-Blow Synopsis for
October 16, 1995

"Let The Games Begin"

This episode starts with Amanda extending an invitation to Brooke, Billy and Allison to come to her "We Survived The Blast of '95" party the following night. As Brooke introduces her newest client, Jack Perezi, we notice that Billy's penis grows another inch as he stands up to Jack in defense of Amanda, the only REAL sex Billy has ever had. As Amanda asks to be alone with her soon-to-be-ex, Billy reassures her that he will be "right outside" if she needs him, as if that is some kind of threat to Jack. Amanda tells Jack to take his business elsewhere as she is not accepting his account. Much to her dismay, Jack tells her that Brooke has already cleared his account with the Board of Directors.

After the introductory credits and some obligatory commercials, the show comes back and we get to hear Atlanta's own BILLY PILGRIM singing "I Won't Tell". Back at D & D, Billy makes no secret about wanting to confront Jack, and Amanda tells Billy some horror stories from her marriage, recounting an incident where Jack pulled a gun on her father. Fearing that he will do the same to Billy, she urges him to go congratulate his whiny wife and leave Jack alone.

Sydney, alone at last in her apartment, opens the door and is greeted by Henry - Kimberly's evil memory. Only, as she soon discovers, it isn't the "real" Henry but, instead, it's Butter Boy Mark Paul hired by Michael to impersonate Henry. Michael suggests that Mark be "less margarine and more Freddy Krueger" as they fill Mark in on the details of the evil one.

At Hart & Mancini, Jane blames Jo for the cancellation of her wedding. Denouncing their friendship, Jane tells Jo that she is no more than "hired help", which is really not such a bad thing considering that Jo should save some money and do something about her drab appearance.

Peter coaxes Kimberly into going to Amanda's party by telling her that it's part of the healing process and, in addition, she'll get to have the sensor on her Cracker-Jack-secret-Batman-compartment-gadget-watch turned off while they are there. Sydney "accidentally" overhears the conversation and runs to tell her partner-in-slime Michael. They agree to bring "Henry" to the party.

Jo bitches about Jane to Jake. Then she whines that she never gets to see Jake anymore. Instead of punching her in the face, Jake makes a date with Jo for the following evening at Amanda's silly "Disco Inferno" party.

Matt is having dinner at his dysfunctional parents' house when his homophobic father starts harassing him that he should go back to medical school to be a DOCTOR instead of a "paper pusher". We gain nothing from this scene and wonder if Matt will go back to his old, wimply "one-scene-an-episode" self.

Hayley and Allison are having dinner on his yacht. When Allison inquires why they had to do business there instead of over the phone, Hayley replies by sticking his tongue down Allison's throat. Finally, a man who has found out how to shut her up!

Back at Hart & Mancini, Richard is coloring in his "GQ Coloring Book" and reminiscing about his days as "Austin" on "Days Of Our Lives". Jane walks in and tries to convince him that Jo twisted her words around and that she really does love him. As if that isn't cheesy enough, she then invites him to Amanda's party. When he turns her down, she grasps for yet another straw by asking "since I'm still wearing your ring, we are still engaged, right?". Instead of taking the ring back so he can go pawn it for some new eyebrows, he tells her she can do whatever she wants with the ring and that their relationship is "strictly business".

Next you see an arial shot of the MP courtyard, covered in lights and balloons and, for a minute, you have flashbacks of the first-season-sweet-as-candy MP and hope that Aaron Spelling isn't regressing the entire show. Shelley stops by the party to get the rest of her stuff from Jake but, since Jo is late for their "hot disco date", he invites Shelley to stay.

Jack also stops by, siting that Babbling Brooke mentioned the party to him. Amanda tells him to leave and, when he refuses, Billy puffs out his chest and also tells Jack to hit the road. When Jack tells Billy he is becoming a "pain in the ass", Amanda panics and tells Jack to stay. Brooke continues to stand there looking smug until Allison floats on by. When Brooke asks her "where's Daddy?" Allison doesn't skip a beat and responds "if you're that interested, call him". Once again, Billy tells Brooke to get her father out of their marriage.

Peter and Kimberly - wearing a black turtleneck - appear and, as Kimberly makes her "public apology", you really can't absorb what she's saying because you're so focused on her "floating head" appearance. Amanda accepts Kimberly's apology and, as Kimberly and Peter hug, the rest of the guests join in a group *puke*.

Matt's dad is hot. Matt's dad tells his son to be a doctor or a ditch-digger. Matt's dad has a heart-attack.

Since Jo still hasn't shown up at the party, Jake has adopted Shelley as his "date" and we next see the two of them dancing. Shelley feigns intoxication from the one sip of beer she had, and Jake gallantly offers to drive her home.

Peter approaches Jack and Amanda, making up some excuse about Kimberly's restitution papers, when really all he wants is to get the dirt on Jack. Amanda willingly agrees to sign said papers and walks away with Jack, and you can't help wondering if she and Jane really haven't switched bodies. Peter pokes Billy for info on Jack, and again Billy's penis gets a boost as he tells Peter that Jack is "bad news" and to ask Amanda about anything else he want to know.

Shelley was too drunk to drive, but blonde bimbos are never to druck to funk. She begins to undress in an attempt to seduce Jake, and even kisses him, but - possibly for the first time ever - Jake turns the girl down and leaves!

We return to the never-ending party to find Kimberly creeping slowly back into the laundry room. Henry appears out of the shadows, causing Kimberly to run back up the stairs into Peter's arms. As she frantically begs to go home, Michael and Sydney gloat over their accomplishment with a beer-bottle "ch-ching" toast.

Matt discovers that his father has been suffering from congestive heart failure for 2 years and never told him. When he turns to his mother and confronts her with this fact, you notice that she could use a little liposuction under her eyes. Matt and his mother share a "90210" moment before entering his Dad's hospital room.

Jo returns home and demands to know why Jake "stood her up". Instead of smacking her upside the head, he explains to Jo what "stood up" really means and as she realizes that she is, in fact, the one to blame, you begin thinking that maybe she should be blonde too. As Jake leans in to kiss Jo, she has the most pained expression on her face that makes you wonder if maybe she's jealous of Jake and wants to have an affair with Shelley herself.

At Peter's the next morning, Kimberly is reluctant to get up, so Peter starts opening the blinds and clapping his hands, obviously misunderstanding that "The Clapper" only works on electrical appliances and not the sun. When "Henry" appears on the back porch, Kimberly denies seeing him as she doesn't want to be re-committed.

Suddenly it's nighttime again, and Amanda is using the pool and - get this - is actually SWIMMING when Brooke, all decked out in her pink satin robe walks up and tries to make small talk with Amanda. Amanda, FINALLY behaving like her normal bitch self, rebuffs Brooke and tells her off about Jack. As Brooke descends the stairs, she spots her father Hayley at Allison's apartment. Hayley claims that "he couldn't sleep" and Allison tells him she doesn't want to rush into anything. Hayley counters by telling her that "thinking is overrated" and tells Allison "I feel for you" and you can't help wondering if the Chaka Kahn hit by the same name is going to suddenly start playing. Hayley continues his pushy approach and kisses Allison as his incestuous daughter watches through the window.

At his father's bedside, Matt vows to become a doctor as his father passes away. Easily one of the worst-acted death scenes in the history of television.

Another morning, and we discover that Hayley did indeed spend the night with Allison. As Brooke sees her Daddy leave, she confronts Allison. Since Brooke is so interested in other peoples' sex lives, Allison shares some 976 phone numbers with her. Having overheard part of Hayley's and Allison's conversation the night before, Brooke quotes one of the lines Daddy Dearest used on Allison to convince Allison that she's been "had by her dad".

Jo and Richard are reviewing pictures of Richard from the previous night's photo shoot when Jane comes gliding in with lunch for "two, not three, Jo". Jo willingly leaves, and Jane discovers that Richard has designed a new menswear line. As she compliments him on his decision, she starts to rip apart his designs, obviously thinking that she really does have some kind of fashion sense when she can't even dress herself. Richard tells her that he has formed another company for his menswear line and that she will have no part in it but, if you listen closely, he's really just telling her to go home and wash her stringy hair.

Peter approaches Amanda at the hospital and inquires about Jack. Amanda, appearing to be a bad-man magnet, brushes Peter off and goes home to wash her own stringy blonde hair.

Allison goes to Hayley's yacht and, naively expecting an honest answer, asks if she was set-up the previous evening. Hayley tells her to "focus on what's important", so Allison thinks he means their relationship when really what he means is the size of his penis. To get from third base to home, he adds that he might even be her "Mr. Right" and claims his victory by sticking his tongue down her throat for the umpteenth time this episode.

Sydney and Michael are working late and listening to a Frasier-like radio show when they recognize the caller's voice as being Kimberly's. As Kimberly tells the horrors of the past 2 years, Michael starts raging at the radio, and you begin to wonder which of these 3 really is the most mentally ill. When Sydney tells Michael to "take a pill", he responds by calling Syd his "little pipsqueak" (to quote Kimberly's radio sob-story) and you realize that Sydney and Michael have found their perfect niche on this show as comic relief.

Amanda shows up at Jack's new mansion-like home fully expecting to meet "Rita", the non-existent fiance. All too soon, the truth comes out, and as Amanda tries to make a run for the door, Jack grabs her and tells her "you're mine - for the rest of your life". As they fade to black, you are left hoping that they will hurry up with this story line as Amanda is slowly putting us all in a coma with this victim crap.

Next Week:

Hayley and Allison announce "their love" to Brooke and Billy. Subsequently, Allison moves in with Hayley. Jack tells Amanda to make love to him like they did on their wedding night, which he obviously thinks was during a wrestling match since he then hurls her across the room.


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