List of You're the Worst episodes

You're the Worst is an American single-camera comedy-drama series created by Stephen Falk, originally for FX, and currently FXX. It is centered on Jimmy, a self-involved writer, and Gretchen, a self-destructive Los Angeles PR executive. These two toxic personalities attempt a relationship. The series premiered on July 17, 2014. The second season premiered on September 9, 2015. On December 2, 2015, the show was renewed for a third season.^[1]

As of December 9, 2015, 23 episodes of You're the Worst have aired, concluding its second season.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
	1	10	July 17, 2014	September 18, 2014
	2	13	September 9, 2015	December 9, 2015

Episodes

Season 1 (2014)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Pilot"	Jordan Vogt-Roberts	Stephen Falk	July 17, 2014	XYW01001	0.765[2]
Jimmy is thrown out of Becca and Vernon's wedding reception. He meets Gretchen, who is running off with one of the bride's gifts. Discovering that they feel the same about long-term love, the two hook up that night, vowing that they will never become a conventional couple. Usually Jimmy's conquests are gone by morning, but Gretchen stays and meets Edgar, who is cooking breakfast for Jimmy. Late for work, she gets a ride from Lindsay who is astonished she slept with Jimmy. Gretchen gets annoyed with Lindsay and asks to be let out of the car. At work she finds that rapper Sam Dresden and his pals have wrecked a photographer's studio during a photo shoot. Sam blames her for being late and insists she find him some drugs to make up for it. She returns to Jimmy's house to get her purse and has an argument with Jimmy, which ends with her telling Jimmy the night was a mistake and he was lucky to get her. Later Edgar tells Jimmy that Gretchen must be special because she spent the night. Jimmy finds that Gretchen has taken his car, and calls her. Gretchen is at Ty Wyland's house to get drugs for Sam. She has found that Ty isn't as attractive as he used to be. She and Jimmy talk and realize they want to see more of each other.
2	2	"Insouciance"	Alex Hardcastle	Stephen Falk	July 24, 2014	XYW01002	0.610[3]
After a faux pas involving Gretchen's period, Jimmy tries to make it up to her by taking her out to an expensive restaurant. The date starts awkwardly, then Becca and Vernon show up, causing Gretchen to flee before they see can her with Jimmy. They abandon the restaurant and take Chinese food to a showing of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". Jimmy attempts to bring more attention to his book at a local bookstore, irritating the manager (played by Stephanie Courtney), and accidentally abandoning his adolescent neighbor Killian there in the process. Edgar has to find Killian and return him home. Gretchen steals the bookstore's cat, named "Kerouac".
3	3	"Keys Open Doors"	Alex Hardcastle	Stephen Falk	July 31, 2014	XYW01003	0.393[4]
Gretchen hints that she might need a key to Jimmy's house. Jimmy misinterprets it as her wanting to take the next step in their relationship, but she insists that's not why she brought up the idea. Gretchen has to smooth over rapper Sam Dresden's latest PR blunder. Jimmy sees a text from Gretchen's other lover Ty while returning her phone to her. He follows her to a bar expecting to see her on a date, but instead finds her at her birthday party, to which he was not invited. Becca and Vernon are there, forcing Gretchen to reveal her relationship with Jimmy, to Becca's horror. Returning to Jimmy's house, the two find Sam in an unexpected situation.
4	4	"What Normal People Do"	Alex Hardcastle	Stephen Falk	August 7, 2014	XYW01004	0.565[5]
A remark from Sam leads Gretchen to invite Jimmy to her apartment. To his horror, he finds that her apartment is a disgusting mess. Edgar struggles with people's apathy to his PTSD. An apparently sympathetic veteran turns out to be an actor looking for material. Lindsay has her jaw wired shut to lose the weight she gained after marrying Paul, but finds herself wondering whether she wants to change. Edgar and Lindsay meet when Lindsay arrives at Jimmy's, looking for Gretchen. Jimmy wants to go back to his own house but does not want to be seen as walking out; Gretchen would like him to leave but does not want him to think she is throwing him out. Then Gretchen is happy to be alone in her own space again, but eventually goes to Jimmy's house anyway. Edgar and Lindsay go to a diner where Edgar removes the wires and they share a meal. Later Edgar and Jimmy see a TV show where the actor appears as a disturbed veteran running amok. Edgar is not happy.
5	5	"Sunday Funday"	Jordan Vogt-Roberts	Stephen Falk	August 14, 2014	XYW01005	0.415[6]
Jimmy joins Gretchen, Lindsay and Edgar on "Sunday Funday," a day of recreation and drinking. Jimmy discovers that Ty has invited Gretchen to the Tribeca Film Festival; Jimmy tries to get Gretchen to stop sitting on the fence in her likes and dislikes, though he is actually trying to get her to prefer him over Ty. Gretchen complains to Lindsay that she can't look at Jimmy without seeing "years into the future", which scares her. Lindsay realizes she likes everything about her life except her husband and the prospect of children. Edgar finds that his Sunday Funday plans may have been co-opted by hipsters. He finds new confidence in the realization that somebody copied him to impress his friends.
6	6	"PTSD"	Jordan Vogt-Roberts	Franklin Hardy & Shane Kosakowski	August 21, 2014	XYW01006	0.555[7]
Vernon and Becca enter counseling to rescue their relationship. The counselor recommends that they eliminate any "toxic elements" in their lives. They take Jimmy and Gretchen to breakfast, and tell them they are being eliminated from their lives. Jimmy and Gretchen run up a large bill on Vernon's credit card. Jimmy tells Gretchen he is interviewing the latest Hollywood "It" actress for a magazine article. Gretchen dares him to get nude pictures of her. Jimmy has sex with the actress, which causes a competition to arise between him and Gretchen as to who can have the most sex. Jimmy texts all his old girlfriends and gets hateful responses. He then makes a pass at Becca. Gretchen and Lindsay interview prospects in a bar. Lindsay cheats on Paul with a young man from Ohio; Edgar struggles with whether he should tell Gretchen about Jimmy's infidelity, unaware that she goaded him into it. He consults a priest at the local Veterans Administration office, and a local radio call-in show, but gets no help from either. Both Jimmy and Gretchen tire of the contest and realize they have been avoiding the issue of "going exclusive". They decide to be exclusive. Edgar decides all's well that ends well, and keeps the "secret" to himself. Stephen Falk provides the voice of the call-in show host.
7	7	"Equally Dead Inside"	Jordan Vogt-Roberts	Alison Bennett	August 28, 2014	XYW01007	0.533[8]
At breakfast Edgar tries to celebrate Jimmy and Gretchen's "exclusive" status, but they won't cooperate. Jimmy receives a soccer jersey as a gift from his father. He throws it out and leaves in a funk. Edgar tells Gretchen that it is now her job to deal with Jimmy's issues instead of him. Jimmy finds his book has been remaindered by the bookstore and decides to heckle Sandra Bernhard (appearing as herself) when she gives a reading there. Gretchen tries and fails to listen to Jimmy's complaints about his father. She also cannot handle Lindsay's guilt about her infidelity. Jimmy goes to the bookstore event, but is so affected by the reading that he forgets about heckling. He is thrown out when he tries to get Bernhard to help him get his book back on sale. Edgar and Lindsay keep trying to set up a meal with Jimmy and Gretchen, but are stood up each time. They begin to wonder if they are merely "sidekicks". Gretchen and Dana, a friend from her job, visit Jimmy at home and decide to try a threesome. It is a spectacular failure and Dana walks out. Gretchen bemoans her inability to have women friends, but Jimmy asks her to stop. They each realize they can't handle other people's pain, being "equally dead inside". This actually brings them closer together.
8	8	"Finish Your Milk"	Matt Shakman	Eva Anderson	September 4, 2014	XYW01008	0.472[9]
When Gretchen's parents pay her a visit, she attempts to conceal them from Jimmy, first by pretending to leave town to see them, and then by persuading a random couple at an art exhibit to pose as them. She concocts an elaborate lie about them having to return home so her father can have a back operation. After she leaves Jimmy realizes, in a sequence parodying "The Usual Suspects", that she used cues visible in the gallery to invent the lie. Lindsay, guilty over having cheated on Paul, spends a day with him. Edgar attempts to get medication from the VA office to help him sleep, but finds the caseworker is trying to avoid helping him. Following Gretchen to an expensive country club, Jimmy is shocked to learn that she had a strict upbringing and her parents still think she is a goody-two-shoes. Jimmy "outs" Gretchen to her parents, causing a fight with Gretchen at Jimmy's house. Sneaking into Jimmy's room, Gretchen accidentally finds the ring Jimmy originally bought for Becca. Thinking it is for her, she announces she is done with Jimmy and runs out.
9	9	"Constant Horror and Bone-Deep Dissatisfaction"	Matt Shakman	Stephen Falk	September 11, 2014	XYW01009	0.535[10]
Beginning with Jimmy's disastrous proposal to Becca a few years earlier, we see the events leading up to the present day. Emerging from a pretentious radio show interview where he plugged his new book, Jimmy meets the homeless Edgar in an alley and offers him a "lounger on the deck" not realizing that Edgar will accept the offer. Gretchen is hanging out and doing drugs with Lindsay at a recording studio, sent as a "gofer" by the PR executive handling Sam Draper's rap trio. Sam, who is furious with the executive for not showing up, hires her to do his PR instead. She attends movie openings with the rappers and meets a well-known director, with whom she starts a relationship fueled by drugs and booze. This results in her DUI arrest the day before Becca's wedding, where she meets Jimmy. After they break up, Becca tries to proposition Jimmy to pay Vernon back for ignoring her, but Jimmy turns her down. Edgar walks out on Jimmy, saying that while he was with Gretchen he was actually a "fun person". Gretchen tries to go back to doing drugs at the studio with Lindsay, but realizes it is not what she wants anymore. She goes back to her apartment to set it, and her life, to rights. Jimmy is left alone in his house, trying to write a novel or a song, but unable to do either.
10	10	"Fists and Feet and Stuff"	Matt Shakman	Stephen Falk	September 18, 2014	XYW01010	0.552[11]
Jimmy and Lindsay have each hit rock bottom in their own particular way. Gretchen is cleaning up her life and actually jogging. Edgar is sleeping in his car but has a menial job at a local gym. Becca and Vernon invite them all to a party, intending to announce Becca's pregnancy. Jimmy, Gretchen, Edgar and Lindsay attempt to resolve their issues with each other. Edgar, trying to show that he is "moving on", introduces Jimmy to his "new English friend", who turns out to be an actor. Gretchen and Lindsay decide that "buying in" to marriage and relationships might be the "punk rock" choice for them. Gretchen finds Jimmy and says "yes" to his non-proposal. She runs off again when Jimmy tells her the ring was for Becca. Becca announces that she is pregnant, causing Lindsay to announce that she too will have a baby, but Paul then tells her he wants a divorce. Becca piles on, and Lindsay accuses her of cheating with Jimmy. The resulting argument ends with drunken Vernon attacking Jimmy, who is rescued by Edgar. Jimmy and Edgar patch things up, then Jimmy barges into Gretchen's apartment, determined to persuade her to move in with him. Gretchen responds "not yet", but then the mass of old Christmas lights decorating her couch sets the apartment on fire. She, Jimmy, Edgar and Lindsay all move into Jimmy's house. Edgar is besotted with Lindsay after watching her sing karaoke at the party. Jimmy and Gretchen think things are working out for them, but dread the future. The bookstore cat, which Gretchen has been keeping, is returned to the store.

Season 2 (2015)

Promotional material for season two, including an interview with Borges and Donohue, hinted at a possible romance between the Edgar and Lindsay characters, or at least Edgar attempting to woo the newly-single Lindsay. Meanwhile, Lindsay's ex-husband Paul will have a new love interest, as Mageina Tovah joins the cast for a story arc, essentially playing a "female Paul".^[12]

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
11	1	"The Sweater People"	Alex Hardcastle	Stephen Falk	September 9, 2015	XYW02001	0.301[13]
With Gretchen forced to live at Jimmy's house, the two try to avoid any hint of domesticity by partying heavily with increasingly bizarre results. Lindsay is alone in the former marital home after Paul moves out. Paul stops by to pick up some things and talks about going to see the woman he met online. Lindsay wants to reconcile, convinced that girls like her should leave guys like Paul, and not the other way around. She seduces Paul and the two have sex, after which Paul leaves in horror over "betraying" his new love. Exhausted, Jimmy and Gretchen agree to try a normal night for a change, but their brief conversation scares them again and they head for a bar instead. Gretchen becomes unreliable in her work, and Sam is furious over her not answering his calls. Edgar brings one of his culinary creations to Lindsay, finding her wearing her wedding dress and crying in the garage. He suggests they "clean out Paul", so they trash all of Paul's toy and hobby items; Lindsay secretly freezes the condom Paul ejaculated in earlier.
12	2	"Crevasses"	Alex Hardcastle	Stephen Falk	September 16, 2015	XYW02002	0.267[14]
Lindsay realizes she can use Edgar's attraction to her for her own selfish ends. She brings him to a sports bar in a mall so that he can be her wing man. A gay man at the bar convinces Edgar that Lindsay is using him, and tells Edgar to strike up a conversation with the bartender to make Lindsay jealous. Jimmy and Gretchen tag along on the mall trip, with Jimmy insisting that Gretchen buy her own "stuff" for the house while he looks for inspiration to write his next novel. During the process of shopping, Gretchen realizes that Jimmy is treating her more like a guest than a permanent resident of the house. Jimmy has reached the same conclusion, and apologizes by trying to build a small dresser with two drawers. Gretchen takes one of Jimmy's drawers instead, and also stakes her claim to part of the closet. Meanwhile, Edgar thinks Lindsay is finally seeing him differently when she shows up at the door, but she only asks him to take provocative photos of her that she can post online.
13	3	"Born Dead"	Alex Hardcastle	Stephen Falk	September 23, 2015	XYW02003	0.233[15]
Gretchen misses her old "posse" and decides to have a get-together with them at Jimmy's house. It becomes a full blown party, to Jimmy's dismay. Edgar approaches Paul for permission to woo Lindsay. At the party, Gretchen finds that one of her friends has brought her baby, another is pregnant and a third is in rehab. Young Killian tends bar at the party, avoiding his parents' troubles at home. Paul appears with Amy, his new girlfriend. Lindsay uses Edgar to make him jealous. Vernon arrives and tries to bond with Jimmy, who has taken refuge in the basement. Paul gets drunk and throws up, recording all the details in his personal phone log. Cory, the one remaining member of Gretchen's posse who still parties, shows up late, homeless and strung out. She offends all her former gal pals and leaves with Jimmy's stereo.
14	4	"All About That Paper"	Alex Hardcastle	Franklin Hardy & Shane Kosakowski	September 30, 2015	XYW02004	0.294[16]
Jimmy and Gretchen depart home for separate work projects, vowing not to "check in" with each other during the day, but they still do. Gretchen resolves a feud between Sam and his rap trio mates, but then gets them to fake the feud for publicity. Jimmy meets with a writer (Roger Bart) who claims to like his book. After reading an excerpt from the man's current book, which Jimmy finds to be awful, he realizes the writer only wants him to help rescue the work. Elsewhere, Lindsay is convinced she saw jealousy in Paul's face when he witnessed her kissing Edgar. While visiting with Becca and Vernon, however, Lindsay is served with divorce papers. She angrily confronts Paul, who denies being jealous and insists he is better off with Amy. Meanwhile, Edgar is inspired by an improv duo at one of his PTSD support group meetings to trust his instincts. Alone at home, Lindsay takes Paul's used condom out of the freezer. As she warms up its contents for use, however, Edgar arrives and interrupts her. At Jimmy's house, he and Gretchen reflect on their satisfying days. After Jimmy falls asleep, Gretchen quietly leaves the house and takes off in her car.
15	5	"We Can Do Better Than This"	Wendey Stanzler	Eva Anderson	October 7, 2015	XYW02005	0.198[17]
Jimmy gets a commission to write an original novel of NCIS: Los Angeles. Gretchen discovers he has a secret stash of erotic stories that he wrote at age 11. Lindsay and Gretchen realize they talk about nothing but men, and decide to do something about it. Lindsay then becomes obsessed with Internet conspiracy theories. Edgar loses interest in Lindsay as he gets close to Dorothy, the leader of his improv therapy group. The novel begins to get too complicated for Jimmy. He decides to join Edgar at the improv troupe's show and heckle, but is both impressed and intimidated by them instead. He comes home convinced he is just a hack. Gretchen starts reading Jimmy's juvenile erotica and decides she likes it, especially if Jimmy reads it to her. Jimmy decides to give the world the ultimate erotic novel. Once more Gretchen sneaks out late at night. This time Jimmy notices her departure.
16	6	"Side Bitch"	Wendey Stanzler	Alison Bennett	October 14, 2015	XYW02006	0.132[18]
Jimmy finds Gretchen's other cell phone and uses it to set up a meeting with the person he thinks she is having an affair with. Lindsay can't function at home, particularly when the power is cut for non-payment. She calls Paul, who asks what she's been doing with the checks he sends. Paul starts to offer more help, but he is stopped by Amy, and he instead tells Lindsay she must learn to deal with it. Edgar asks Jimmy for tips on asking Dorothy on a date. When he does ask her, she tells him about the hazing she has to deal with from the men in the improv troupe. Edgar tells her to take a stand. The troupe breaks up as a result. Gretchen takes Sam and his wing men to relationship therapy to fix their "fake feud" that has become real, but the therapy is no help. Jimmy takes Lindsay to lunch, hoping to find out more about Gretchen's activities. Lindsay tries to walk home alone and gets hopelessly lost. She takes refuge in Vernon's basement man-cave, raiding his stash of "medications". Jimmy takes Gretchen to the "date" he set up, at a pretentious "artisanal water" bar. Gretchen meets Ty there, finding him repulsive as usual. Jimmy discovers the "date" is with Sam, who gave Gretchen the phone in the first episode to keep her on a leash. Lindsay thinks Paul has come to comfort her in the man cave, but she is hallucinating and it is actually Vernon, who declines her advances. Following Gretchen that night, Jimmy finds her alone in her car, crying.
17	7	"There Is Not Currently a Problem"	Wendey Stanzler	Stephen Falk & Philippe Iujvidin	October 21, 2015	XYW02007	0.182[19]
Jimmy and Gretchen find Dorothy at breakfast with the weekend Bloody Mary ration already drunk and no food available. Traffic is snarled by a marathon run so they can't go to the diner or the store. Gretchen starts drinking and dancing to conceal her blues. Jimmy starts hunting a mouse that is in the house. Lindsay arrives to complain about Becca's attitude to her, and Vernon "honking her boob" in the previous episode. Vernon arrives, looking for Lindsay to get her to keep quiet about the honking. Stuck in Jimmy's house, the different characters dance and bounce off each other. Jimmy obsesses over catching the mouse while Gretchen keeps drinking. She finally loses it and puts everybody down one by one, except Vernon who is "not worth it". The mouse appears at her feet and she drops a copy of Jimmy's novel on it. Jimmy and the gang decide to euthanize the mouse on his car exhaust while Gretchen recovers with Lindsay's help. Gretchen admits to Jimmy that she has been handling depression for years, but he can't fix her. As they embrace Jimmy spots another mouse.
18	8	"Spooky Sunday Funday"	Wendey Stanzler	Stephen Falk	October 28, 2015	XYW02008	0.240[20]
Jimmy plans a Halloween Sunday Funday to get Gretchen out of her funk, but has Edgar pretend it was his idea. Edgar tells Jimmy he is still too nervous with Dorothy, and confesses he hasn't had sex in three years. They all get costumes, but Jimmy's is from a British period drama nobody else has heard of. Jimmy's plan leads them to an extreme House of Horrors where they have to sign a release to enter. Lindsay breaks down in a torture session and gets some life coaching from her "torturer". Edgar freaks out and beats up a "mad slasher", then opens up to Dorothy. They have sex in the dungeon. At the end, Jimmy reveals his plan to Gretchen, making her angry. He leaves and meets the owner of his bar, Nina, who connects with him over his obscure outfit. Gretchen decides to pretend he really did fix her, to stop him trying again. Lindsay, having been coached into calling the power company, returns home to find all the lights on, with TV and appliances running. The episode features pastiches of horror movies ranging from chainsaw massacres to "found video footage".
19	9	"LCD Soundsystem"	Stephen Falk	Stephen Falk	November 4, 2015	XYW02009	0.234[21]
Lexi and Rob are a married couple with a daughter, a house, a nanny and a dog. Their lives superficially resemble Jimmy and Gretchen. Gretchen is stalking them, having noticed them in the local coffee bar. Jimmy leaves her to her own devices for the day, so he can do his quota of writing, though he starts out drinking and playing darts with Edgar. Gretchen spies on Lexi and Rob in their home, persuades the nanny to let her hold their daughter in a local drugstore, and then "borrows" their dog for a day, taking it around the neighborhood talking about their life as if it were hers. While doing this, she appears genuinely happy. She returns the dog in person, saying she found it, and is invited in for a drink. Jimmy joins them and they all seem to get along, but then Rob confides to Gretchen that he misses the old, wild ways, and thinks about getting divorced. Gretchen's euphoric mood is destroyed, and she announces they have to leave. While Jimmy ridicules the older couple on the way home, Gretchen begins to cry.
20	10	"A Right Proper Story"	Stephen Falk	Franklin Hardy & Shane Kosakowski	November 11, 2015	XYW02010	0.185[22]
Jimmy is horrified when his father and three sisters come to visit for four days. They settle in to drink, smoke, and watch the "Eurotunes Contest" on the "telly". Gretchen sinks into depression and asks Lindsay to help rapper Sam with his latest crisis. Sam's feud with Honeynutz and Shitstain has made him doubt his brand image and he has become creatively blocked. He hears Lindsay sing to herself as she works on his wardrobe, and is inspired to record a new track with her. Two of Jimmy's sisters wreak havoc at the local supermarket while Edgar takes a shine to Lilly, the youngest and nicest. Jimmy's Dad buys a black-market gun, but no bullets. Jimmy angrily tells them all to leave, but they just laugh. Jimmy and his Dad have a drink together at the bar. Dad tells Jimmy he has read Jimmy's book and is proud of him. Jimmy reaches out to Lilly, who might have gone to college but had to get a job as a stripper instead. After they are finally gone, Jimmy leaves Gretchen to her misery and goes to the bar, where he opens up to Nina.
21	11	"A Rapidly Mutating Virus"	Matt Shakman	Eva Anderson & Alison Bennett	November 18, 2015	XYW02011	0.188[23]
Gretchen moves in with Lindsay. She is taking Adderall and later cocaine to get through the day. Lindsay brags to Becca about singing on Sam's new rap track. Vernon is involved with an Internet "financial dominatrix" who now controls his money, so he is broke and tries to keep it from Becca. He appeals to Paul for help. Sam pushes his new track on the DJ Trace radio show, but walks out when callers declare it "whack". Becca, turned on by the fact that Lindsay's song with Sam has flopped, now wants to have sex with Vernon. Jimmy invites Nina to his house to watch the Christmas special of the obscure British TV drama they both like. The moment turns romantic, but Jimmy tells Nina about Gretchen, and Nina walks out. Edgar goes to a barbecue with Dorothy and her former improv troupe and tries to be like the guys, which offends Dorothy. Sam goes back to the DJ Trace show to apologize, but Trace has also invited Shitstain and Honeynutz. Sam challenges a woman caller. As they are leaving she and two other large women drive up and beat up the three rappers. Lindsay is thrown into a pile of garbage. Gretchen ends the fight by pulling out the gun Jimmy's father bought. The incident causes Sam, Shitstain and Honeynutz to reconcile. Back at Lindsay's, Gretchen says that she feels nothing anymore. Jimmy, having been told to get lost by Gretchen, goes to Nina's bar and finally kisses her, re-enacting the final scene from the TV show.
22	12	"Other Things You Could Be Doing"	Matt Shakman	Stephen Falk	December 2, 2015	XYW02012	0.175[24]
Jimmy's bar room fling with Nina ends abruptly. She tells him she has had too many drunken quickies, but invites him to her mountain lodge for the weekend. Edgar is with Dorothy getting ready for his improv group graduation show. Re-evaluating her life after the "scare" in the previous episode, Lindsay is apologizing to everybody she has ever hurt, including Becca. Jimmy returns home to pack and finds Gretchen semi-comatose. She won't talk, but texts him instead. She left Lindsay to get away from the apologizing. Jimmy takes her phone and sends a text to everybody in her contacts list. As a result Gretchen gets a talk from several other characters, including vagrant Cory, "Rob" the neighbor, Vernon, Becca, Killian, and Sam Dresden and his wing men. Mostly they just talk about themselves. Lindsay reads from her list of apologies. Edgar's show is a triumph, but he is depressed to find that Jimmy wasn't in the audience. Lindsay follows Amy and Paul to the park, gives the signed divorce papers to Amy, and then throws up. Edgar helps Dorothy look at a new apartment, which she loves but cannot afford. Edgar suggests living together to split the cost. As Jimmy prepares to leave, Gretchen rouses herself to wish him good luck with "whoever she is" and tells him she'll be gone when he gets back. Jimmy has a change of heart while waiting for Nina to pick him up, and hides when she arrives. Nina finds him hiding and leaves in disgust. He goes back into the house and builds a blanket tent around the sleeping Gretchen, lying down next to her. Lindsay gives herself a drugstore pregnancy test in a parking lot, and is not happy with the result.
23	13	"The Heart Is a Dumb Dumb"	Matt Shakman	Stephen Falk	December 9, 2015	XYW02013	0.269[25]
Becca and Vernon throw another party, this time to announce the sex of their child. Jimmy is upset that Gretchen won't take medication, and arrives determined to get as drunk as possible. Gretchen sets out to see what is so special about Nina. Edgar arrives at the party with Dorothy, intending to tell Jimmy he is moving out. Becca "accidentally" tells Paul that Lindsay is pregnant, causing him to have a crisis and setting off an attack of IBS. Vernon breaks into the bathroom to beg Paul for more money. Jimmy gets to his "angry drunk" stage and tells Edgar that Dorothy is manipulating him. Gretchen meets Nina at the bar and they bond over Jimmy's childish behavior. Gretchen tries to kiss Nina and is told to leave the bar. Edgar retracts his offer to move in with Dorothy, and she leaves in a huff. Paul believes he is the father of Lindsay's baby, and breaks up with Amy. Amy hits him, breaking his glasses. Jimmy reaches the "I love everyone" stage of drunkenness, and launches into a long speech to everyone at the party. Paul tries to reconnect with Lindsay, but she rebuffs him. Jimmy reaches the maudlin stage. He sees Edgar and tells him to pursue Dorothy. Vernon then confesses to everybody, about his fear of being a father, his emotional issues, his job, and his money problems. Horrified, Becca drags him inside the house. Gretchen arrives and takes Jimmy home. Paul sings a karaoke version of "Don't Know Much" after the guests have left, and Lindsay joins him in a love duet. Edgar finds Dorothy at the bus stop. She tells him it was just an ordinary fight and she is not breaking up with him. Paul and Lindsay leave in Paul's new motor scooter and sidecar rig. Vernon and Becca are left in the ruins of their party. When Jimmy sobers up, Gretchen offers to get treatment, and tells him he said "something dark" when he was drunk. She then says, "I love you too".

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