Cougar Town

The gang creates a new game called Movie Mash-up, where they mix up movies titles and the winner takes wine, and Jules is feeling bad because she’s not very good at the game. In the meantime, Jules has been seeing a great shrink named Glenn (Jennifer Aniston), who often regales Jules with stories about her own son, Gabriel, which creates a certain bond between the two of them. When Glenn tells Jules that it’s not a bad thing to give Grayson some free time without her, Jules decides to run into Glenn outside her office. However, when Glenn sees Jules coming, she tries to speed away, but she plows into a parked car. Ellie begins to suspect that Glenn might not be as good as Jules think when she notes that Glenn hadn’t left a note on the person’s car. Jules refuses to believe this until she realizes that Gabriel is Glenn’s dog, not her son, which is enough to end their good relationship. Bobby has been having a hard time dealing with Jules and Grayson’s dating, and he takes out his anger by drawing on Jules’ advertising face. Meanwhile, Laurie and Travis make a bet on who can stay awake longer. She cheats, and later tells Travis that she’ll miss him.

Jules isn’t ready to let Travis go to college, so she plans an entire week for them to spend every minute together. However, she is upset when he says that she’s smothering him. She’s even more upset when he decides to go to college earlier than planned. Jules later learns that she’s not the only one that will be missing Travis, as the entire gang will be missing him as well. 20 minutes before he drives away to college, he gives Jules the nice goodbye that she craves, complete with a meaningful glance. Laurie shows Bobby how to use the computer, which he later says he’s doing so he can email Travis when he’s away. Andy concocts a plan to make Ellie talk more about her son, Stan, but once she begins to talk, she can’t stop.

Jules pays a lot of attention to Grayson; Travis asks Bobby for advice about how to behave at college; Ellie’s new nanny suddenly becomes too friendly with her, and Laurie might have something to do with this.

When Grayson tells Jules about him and Laurie sleeping together once in the past, Jules decides to take her anger out on Laurie. Laurie tells Smith she loves him, but his reaction isn’t what she expects.

With his pride hurt, Bobby decides to stop receiving alimony from Jules. However, when she learns of the things he’s been giving up, she decides to hire him to work with her. Laurie and Smith break up. Ellie believes that she’s the smartest person in the gang.

Jules’ father, Chick (guest star Ken Jenkins), is in town for a Halloween visit. After Grayson learns that Chick loves Halloween, he invites Jules’ father to a costume bash at his pub. When he leaves, Jules says that her father is great in a crowd, but she feels that he gets emotionally distant whenever it’s just the two of them alone. While there are only the two of them in Travis’ old room, Jules tries to get Chick to spend a little quality time with her, but she clashes with him. Feeling guilty for being rude with her father, she decides to dress herself as a princess because she knows that her father loves costumes, and believes that this will make them bond. Believing that he won’t show up at Grayson’s pub, she becomes depressed, as does the man dressed as a bear behind her. When she leaves the pub, the man behind the bear costume reveals himself to be her father, Chick, who hugs her. He tells her that she reminds him of her mother, and both miss her. Ellie and Andy are trying to put Stan on the top of a list for a good preschool, and luckily for them, the headmaster of the preschool is someone who Bobby plays golf with. Bobby says that he would be beyond happy in helping them, but Ellie had revoked his title as Stan’s emergency legal guardian after Jules and him got divorced. When she later learns that Bobby had called the headmaster the moment Ellie asked for the favor, she decides to reconsider her previous decision, now realizing that Bobby will do whatever it takes to help Stan. Meanwhile, Laurie tries to show Travis how good Halloween can be. At the costume bash in Grayson’s pub, Grayson goes dressed as Prince (to Jules’ princess); Ellie and Laurie go dressed as each other; Andy goes as Burt Reynolds; Bobby goes as Windy Guy; and Travis later shows up dressed as Andy.

Laurie teams up with Grayson to sabotage Ellie’s entry in Jules’ birthday gift contest. Andy suggests they go dancing on Jules’ birthday, but when his idea is rejected, Jules instantly feels guilty and decides to bond with him. Travis shows Bobby how to use a Neti Pot, with all its consequences.

Travis brings grad student Kirsten (Collette Wolfe) to meet Jules. Jules is unhappy when Ellie points out that any of Travis’s girlfriends could end up being his future wife, like it happened with Jules and Bobby. Laurie becomes Jules’ "Cobb-Stopper" to prevent Jules from taunting Kirsten, and also gives Kirsten some advice about how can she deal with Jules. Things take a turn for the worse after Kirsten says that she and Travis will spend Thanksgiving at her parents, and Jules freaks out. When Kirsten stands up against Jules, she accidentally breaks "Big Joe", Jules’ favorite wine glass. Kirsten is mad that Travis isn’t backing her. So Jules give him some advice about how to deal with his relationship, making amends with Kirsten as well. Grayson hates that his house is the new place for the gang to reunite. He goes after Ellie for advice, and decides to throw a stinking ’possum in his house, which makes the gang leave. Meanwhile, Travis is nervous about his second time with Kirsten because the first time he was too high due to medicine he had taken, and he takes advice from his father, Bobby, to help him out.

Jules decides to host a romantic dinner at Thanksgiving to make Grayson say "I Love You" to her; Ellie and Laurie spoil Andy’s optimism; the gang reveals that it’s hard to understand what Bobby says most of the time, bringing him down.

Jules tries to help Bobby regain his confidence; Ellie finds a hilarious secret of Grayson’s; Kirsten is jealous of Travis and Laurie’s relationship.

Jules begins to question her relationship with Grayson; Kirsten throws Bobby off his golf game; Ellie is upset that Andy used their personal joke on Laurie.

When Laurie becomes Jules’ house guest, she tells Jules that she doesn’t have to change the way she is for the people around her; Bobby is jealous when Travis turns to Grayson for advice about romancing a woman.

Jules comes up with a creative type of hide-and-seek game to play when the TV is broken; Bobby has a new friend.

On Valentine’s Day, Jules wishes that Grayson would share his feelings with her; Andy "dates" Bobby; and Travis ask Laurie’s help to buy a nice gift for Kirsten.

When Jules starts meddling in Travis’ life, Ellie tells her to back off; Bobby and Laurie want to expose the world to their Penny Can game; Grayson learns about friendship from Andy.

Jules tries to show Ellie having a baby was harder in her twenties; Andy becomes Laurie’s wingman; Bobbie tries to wake up earlier.

Jules faces her fear of public humilation when she decides to do some charity work; Laurie surprises everyone with her wits in a game of trivia.

Grayson tries to take an interest in Travis, and the gang establishes a "council" to determine each other’s punishment in an attempt to stop taking each other for granted.

Travis has a broken heart, and Jules and Bobby don’t know what to do to help him. Andy’s flirtatious sister-in-law (Nia Vardalos) visits.

When Jules learns that Travis has dropped out of college, she gives him two choices: either get back to college and she will pay his college expenses, or get out of her house. Bobby’s Penny Can game gets picked up by a company, and he is offered a business deal.

The gang travels to Hawaii to bring Travis back home, but also uses it as a way to enjoy a vacation; Grayson wants to have kids, but Jules has a different opinion in that matter; Jules finally welcomes Tom to the gang.

The gang travels to Hawaii to bring Travis back home, but also uses it as a way to enjoy a vacation; Grayson wants to have kids, but Jules has a different opinion in that matter; Jules finally welcomes Tom to the gang.