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.
Sun, Dec 19, 1999
Mikey feels ready for a pseudo-girlfriend: more then a one-night-stand, but not told she's not (yet?) a real one and often not exclusive- as Jack may be to Matt; now Jack worries Matt never introduces her as his girlfriend. Jill gets served a lawsuit for causing adulterous ex-high school-flame Laurie Tindell to break matrimony with Michel Preston, actually one date and one night; lawyer Gavola tells him judge Reeves should throw the case out easily, but she was dumped herself; plaintiff's lawyer Allison Hanau is hot in Jill's eyes, but turns his affirmation not even to have known about Tindell's marriage into 'guilt' by deliberately not asking for the sake of his fantasy, he dumps Gavola but finds another too expensive and decides to defend himself. Elisa's mystery dream-date is on a tape, renting a video. Now colleague-barman Tad has quit, Mikey is promoted manager: bye-bye day off, tons to learn; as if the 'weight of too many keys' wasn't crushing enough, he must fire waitress Belinda. Audrey worries Barto is off cramming for an exam with a certain Meg, even spies on his study group- Jack notices her reign as queen of indifference is over. Matt invites Jack for home-cooking, according to Elisa the last step before sex; he cooks and kisses well, but her irritating questions make him bring her home early, yet the next day he asks her out again soon. As Barto is occupied studying, Mikey is Jill's character witness, but messes up even the line they obviously rehearsed, and apparently caused his bank clerk Cindy's impending divorce. When Jack breaks off with Matt as she can't handle an on-off relation his style after seeing his breakfast date, he replies that was to dump the other woman and become exclusively hers and kisses her in plain office sight; this time she 'stays for breakfast'. Jill's closing statement is sorry someone gets hurt and the marriage killed, but taking a risk for a shot at lifelong happiness is the right choice. Having fired Belinda, Mikey throws back managing 'not much' in the bosses own words. Elisa and 'him' see each-other trough the bus window, but she cannot get off.
Sun, Sep 26, 1999
Jack is short for Jacqueline Barrett, about to marry Harvard law student Danny Hallahan, till the maid of honor confesses at the altar she slept with Danny- the night before! So Jack goes to New York, where her friend Audrey works in Broadway. 'Jill' is short for David Jillefsky, a graduated engineer and gifted artist who keeps rooming with golden spoon but brilliant med student Bartholomew 'Barto' Zane and drop-out Michael 'Mikey' Russo, rather then move in with his sexy girl-friend Elisa Cronkite. As soon as Jill meets his new neighbor Jack, the chemistry starts and he considers breaking up with Elisa. To complicate matters, the only job interview which works out for Jack -well, it actually proves to be an unpaid internship- is at the TV station WNKW where Elisa works and soon becomes her friend, while Audrey brings Jack to the bar which Mikey tends, and Jill and Barto therefore always hang out. Soon they all meet each-other all the time, and become friends. Jill reassures Barto worrying about cutting, even in a corps, only proves he is a caring human, and he aces it.
Sun, Mar 5, 2000
[without the beginning] Barto was grumbling in line for a chick-movie Audrey made him go see, when Samuel collapses; it's already too late for his heart-massage to save the kid's life. Mikey is a bit offended when Jonathon asks if he never 'did something' with Elisa, even recently, Elisa when he says to trust her but not womanizer Mikey with her in bathrobe. Jack is encouraged by the girls to pose nude for Penthouse in order to help launch Jill's new career as photographer. Barto gets delusions practice corps Bernie talks to him, everywhere, about becoming and being a doctor; it takes Audrey and Dr. Zane Sr. to make him gather enough courage not to drop out. Jack can barely lose her robe without wine, let alone pose properly with, but Jill's teacher Reiner Schöne likes the result '90 Seconds Nude' enough to suggest Jerry Filbert's gallery to exhibit the series, a shock for Jack who wasn't even consulted, but ends up approving just when he was about to cancel the opening; to their surprise, they all sold instantly -even though sales weren't authorized- to a plastic surgeon. Jonathon's attitude brings the roommates closer together and his demand that one of them should move out makes Elisa break up.
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.
Sun, Jan 16, 2000
In bed with Matt, Jack dreams of Jill kissing her by surprise. A loose door knob gets Jack and Jill locked up in the laundry room on Saturday evening; she panics and over-organizes, he proves practical and optimistic enough to get her laughing and even a bit spontaneous, which she tries with Matt too once they are found: cab driver Yuri may choose their destination. Elisa decides to look for her mystery man by personal ad, then reads out to Jack one which fits them, for a meeting at 9; at the last minute she hails a cab to shy away, but the driver is him: Jonathon (she still doesn't know Appel), who takes her to his romantic other job, singer-guitarist in a bar; at her place they kiss; finding he sneaked out of her bed in the morning, she's insulted. Barto commutes between med-school and bed with Audrey, who overhears on his answering machine his mother inquiring whether he brings his girlfriend to a family dinner, which Audrey finds worrying but Barto explains to the boys is to spare her the Zanes' rejection Mikey still remembers, yet she makes him take her. The parental 'apartment' is a floor-wide city palace with original art and staff, the ideal decor for sneers, looking down on a plebeian dropout from a broken marriage; afterward Audrey reproaches the poor boy, who tried politely, not to speak up firmly for either of them; he buys it, she promises to win them over.
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, 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.
Sun, Jan 23, 2000
When Jill helps an ice vendor with his car alarm, he's promised his greatest wish will come true; the next day his favorite toy design Zantopia is unconditionally selected for production and marketing, soon followed by a VP-promotion; when the brass decides to adapt it violently, he quits Major Toys altogether, and Allison Hanau's inability to understand this causes a break-up. Jack's accounts were already shabby, when she drops a $1,500 baccarat piece at a sale, but won't take a loan, even from Matt, rather asks Mikey for waitress shifts, yet bugs male clients and messes up more then her tips are worth; when she tells Elisa to have pawned a broach, Matt redeems it. Jonathon makes Elisa happy, yet she worries to know almost nothing about the hunk, and once in his place notices girl-skates on his hat-rack, later finds a letter to some Amy about ordinary things- it turns out to be his wife who died in an accident. After the ice vendor tells Jill he didn't get his wish because he doesn't realize it yet, he goes tell Jack they're wasting too much time.