2x1 - Twins

September 21, 1999

Lauren is attracted to the "good" half of a Siamese-twin star of a cop show, but will the "bad" half derail the relationship?

2x2 - Enchanted April

September 28, 1999

Told documentary style with interviews and reenactments in black and white. What went wrong with Robbie's romance from two years earlier.

2x3 - The Long Goodbye

October 5, 1999

Arthur's book is done and he's heading home to New York. Shrug investigates who stole Robbie's movie idea. Lauren gives Jesse Jackson a massage and Jesse gives Arthur some advice.

2x4 - Coast to Coast

October 12, 1999

Arthur, back in New York City, finds out from his publisher that the critics hated his book. Robbie wants to dump his new girlfriend but can't while her publicist is sick.

2x6 - Lost in America

October 26, 1999

Jennifer enlists Lauren's help to get back in the good graces of a manicurist with an unusual massage chair. Robbie and Shrug go looking for 'American girls' at a local chain motel. Arthur tries to apologize for a brutal comment to a blind date and winds up attending therapy with the lady.

2x7 - The Sweet Smell of Success

November 2, 1999

Robbie is thrilled to be dating an ex-girlfriend of Val Kilmer. Shrug is financing a "smell bar" to be opened by his friend Hilo. The Los Angelenos are fascinated by an image on a billboard that they think is God. Jennifer is pursued by a man whose car she hit, claiming that it caused him to lose an arm.

2x8 - Hollywood Shuffle

December 8, 1999

2x9 - The Life of Brian

December 15, 1999

Shrug and Lauren are both on the pill making them rather emotional. Jennifer has been outed by the phone company. Arthur confronts an old college friend who has been stealing his stories.

2x10 - Summer of '42'

December 22, 1999

Arthur dates a 21 year old who turns out to have a more complicated sexual history. Robbie fixes up Lauren with his annoying financial advisor. Shrug and Jennifer protest at an execution.

2x11 - The Apartment

December 29, 1999

Shrug gets a nanny, for himself. Robbie has a new Pay-Pet idea that involves Jennifer and Lauren. Arthur has to run back to New York.

2x12 - Heat

January 5, 2000

Arthur is desperate to be seen as Lauren's boyfriend in other people's eyes. Robbie buys a house but struggles to tell Shrug. Jennifer rents out a police lineup room to root out a date. Robbie's house burns down.

2x13 - Trading Places

May 28, 2001

Lauren's road rage becomes the subject for local news. Shrug's new trust fund girlfriend hates do-nothing rich people. He switches roles with Robbie. Arthur wants to write about plastic surgery and enlists Jennifer's expertise.

2x14 - Walking Tall

June 18, 2001

Lauren has a new black boyfriend who reads and dislike sports unlike her. Black people have never liked Shrug for some unknown reason. Robbie lowers himself to date a pedestrian in car-obsessed LA. Arthur's rental car is not cutting it.

2x15 - The Quick and the Dead

June 25, 2001

Everyone has his own reason for attending the funeral of Jennifer's agent.

2x16 - Raw Deal

July 2, 2001

Robbie starts dating his hard-nosed lawyer. Jennifer negotiates a dating contract. She also helps Shrug with his new girlfriend. Lauren is allergic to shellfish. Arthur reluctantly helps her try calamari. Soon she wants more than calamari.

2x17 - Lust for Life

October 1, 2001

Shrug wants Robbie to join him in buying a Van Gogh. Arthur dislikes Lauren's yoga teacher Wayne. Jennifer thinks his mechanic is the sleazy muckracker Evan the Dreadful. She enlists old friend Maureen McCormick's help in identifying him.

2x18 - Hoop Dreams

October 8, 2001

The group is having a meal as the conversation centers around Latrell Sprewell choking his coach.