Jenny suddenly returns to Ross' pad after a last minute decision not to move back to Ohio, but Ross has had a chance to think over the long-term commitment. Sarah tries to get her paranoid boyfriend Jake to pay attention to her by hitting on his sleazy buddy, Steve. Emma encourages her college boyfriend Brian to let go of his inhibitions by communicating through a sock puppet he names "Mr. Fuzzy."

They Call It Puppet Love #2

Steven S. DeKnight

Neil Landau

The Ex-Files

They Call It Puppet Love

Rory hooks up with Jana, his best friend's girl, when he drives her home in his van. Sexually active college girl Kiki buys her repressed roommate Gina a vibrator to help her open up. Katie brings home a bartender to spice up her dull sex life with boyfriend Dave.

Batteries Not Included

Rory worries that Jana wants to go back to her ex and his best friend, Doc. Kiki fears that she might be as emotionally repressed as her roommate Gina is sexually repressed. After Dave finds out Katie has cheated on him, the couple sets new ground rules for their relationship.

Look What the Kate Dragged In

Doc's lies threaten to tear apart Rory and Jana's new relationship. Gina and Kiki finally break down their emotional and sexual barriers, but will it be in time to save their roommate situation? Trying to even the score with his girlfriend, Dave brings home a beautiful dancer who also has her eyes on Katie.

Er, Um, Love

Annette and Todd scheme to get revenge on their respective, cheating significant others by planning to sleep together. Gina meets Mark, the brainy guy of her dreams, but he's got a thing for Kiki. The sexual games between Katie and Dave finally reach their bitter end.

Love It or Leave It

Annette and Todd set about getting back at their cheating partners, but first they have to come up with the ground rules for revenge sex. Kyle and his buddies conspire to lose their virginity at his sister Katie's pad while she's away for the weekend. Kiki tries to steal Mark away from Gina since she can't stand seeing a guy lavish attention on someone other than her.

Strip Poker

Ross comes home early from his vacation to find Annette and Todd practicing their revenge sex on his bed. Doc decides that a friendly game of strip poker with surefire girls is the easiest route to losing their collective virginity. Evan discovers to his horror that his new roommate Cliff "plays for the other team."

The Odd Couple

Todd and Annette get caught with their pants down and reevaluate their motives. Doc and the guys plan their night of strip poker seduction, but the plan blows up in Kyle's face when his potential new girlfriend Tina decides to drop by. Evan calls in reinforcements to run Cliff out of the coveted dorm room.

Love It or Leave It Again

Blind Cassanova Ross brings Jenny home for a one-night stand, but she has to stay a little longer than either of them had in mind. Kyle gets groveling lessons from his older sister Katie and begs for Tina's forgiveness. Cliff holds his own with Evan, and with Evan's new boyfriend Theo...

Unstripped

Kyle finally gets Tina right where he wants her, but does he know what to do with her? Ross offers Jenny the couch, while he entertains his latest conquest, Lexi, in the next room. Cliff escalates tensions by bringing home Eva's worst nightmare...Joey and Lou!

Seeing Eye Dog

Jenny challenges Ross to start acting like the boyfriend she secretly wants him to be. Cliff helps Evan nab the guy he wants. Sarah, tired of competing with his computer, gives her boyfriend Jake what every guy hates most...an ultimatum.

Not Enough RAM

Ross rises up to Jenny's challenge to act like her boyfriend--and then she decides to move back to Ohio just as he thinks he might get to like the situation. Jake suspects that the radiation from his computer had begun to sap his sexual prowess. College sex-advice maven Emma can get everyone to open up except her monosyllabic boyfriend Brian.

An enigmatic message on Sally's answering machine makes her think her beau Stan wants to break up, so she vows to find out what's wrong with her by interviewing all of her ex-boyfriends. Jake realized his fear of commitment to Sarah comes from his family's past, but Sarah suddenly develops her own commitment fears. Emma's transference therapy with Brian backfires when he can't be intimate with her without "Mr. Fuzzy."

A "Fearsome Foursome" of high school girls with wicked gossip and backstabbing on their minds makes a bet that whomever brings down one of their rivals will get to have the hot new single guy. Sally arranges to speak to all of her exes to discover why her current guy, Stan, might be thinking of breaking up with her, and the first on the list is the sexual stamina king, Jake. Emma and Brian discover that their last bout of sex-with-sock-puppets accidentally went out over the internet via her Web site.

If Words Could Kill

To win a competition to bring down popular rival Jeanine, Liz steals her diary, which contains some pretty nasty revelations that threaten the Fearsome Foursome. Sally interviews Bill, a boy who suddenly dumped her for a trip to Fiji, and finds out that he still loves her. When Brian can’t have sex with Emma without his sock puppet, she decides to hide "Mr. Fuzzy."

If Words Could Kill #2

The Fearsome Foursome find more nasty revelations about themselves in the diary stolen from their archenemy--but who is the snitch who sold their secrets? Still trying to discover why her boyfriend Stan may want to break up with her, Sally springs an interrogation on the delivery guy and almost drives him to a breakdown. Emma finally adapts to Brian’s use of a sock puppet for sexual communication with her, but she won’t tolerate him using it with anyone else, especially the free-thinking Kiki.

The Ex-Files #2

Stacey and Debbie trap their intended date for the dance, Jonas, in a revealing game of Truth or Dare, and Liz tries to rope her sister's boyfriend Kyle into the game. Stan unexpectedly comes back from San Francisco a day early, and finds his girlfriend Sally interviewing her boyfriend from elementary school, Chuckie. Dean has a co-ed bathroom romance going with Claire, but he's frightened of their growing intimacy because he's still a virgin.

Twice a Virgin

Doc and Rory prowl the seedy underworld of suburbia in Rory's van, but tension still simmers between them because Rory stole Doc's ex-girlfriend, Jana. Dean tries to romance Claire but blows it, so Emma advises that he soothe his fears of virginity by sleeping with the dorm's easy girl, Kiki. When Tina gets her older sister Liz grounded, Liz gets back at her by hinting that she's done something ballsy to Tina's boyfriend.

Three In The Van

Tina gets her older sister Liz grounded, Liz gets back at her by hinting that she went down on Tina's boyfriend Kyle, and Tina tries to increase the heat with Kyle to keep him focused on her.

I Know What You Did Last Hummer

Rory takes Jana to an isolated park in his van, and discovers the complex engineering involved in removing a girl's bra. Claire learns that Dean wasn't a virgin the night she slept with him--Kiki had hopped in the sack him only a half hour before--and she's furious. Tina asks her boyfriend's best buddy Jared to teach her the art of the hummer so she can win back her boyfriend.

Three In The Van #2

After losing his virginity to the wrong girl, Dean is given another chance with Claire on one condition: to agree to a period of celibacy as part of a re-virgination process. Kyle wants to know where Tina picked up her new oral pleasure skills, and is shocked when she tells him it was his best friend Jared that taught her. Andy stumbles across his lover Joel's porn stash...straight porn...and worries that Joel may secretly be bi-sexual.

The Porn That Went Bump In The Night

Liz has to take out the unpopular sophomore "Z" as punishment handed to her by her cruel group of friends, but finds out she might actually like him. Andy and his friends hold a "gay intervention" to find out why Joel has been collecting straight porn. Dee, a young NBA rookie, returns home to find an apartment full of people he doesn't know and a girl in his bed, all compliments of his best friend Cootie.

Z Date

Stacey wants Liz's older brother Jack, but when Jack returns from Japan, he's brought a piece of the Orient with him: a fiancée named Yumi. Andy has trouble dealing with his lover Joel who is still fantasizing about his porn star ex-boyfriend Tommy. Dee makes the intimate acquaintance of one of Cootie's girls, Jackie, who warns him that Cootie may be trying to take advantage of his success.

Asian Sensation

Liz is forced to choose between Z, the guy she likes, and her high school clique, the Fearsome Foursome. When Andy's brother Brick, a hardcore Navy man, and his friend Ned, drop by for a sudden visit, Joel discovers his lover never came out to his family. Dee starts to believe that Cootie might be trying to take advantage of his success....and credit for it as well.

He Ain't Gay, He's My Brother

Yumi helps Liz break away from Stacey and the Fearsome Foursome by admitting that she likes Z. Andy and Joel pretend they're straight when his macho brother Brick pays them a visit with his navy pal Ned; little does Andy know that his brother and Ned have a secret of their own. Cootie, upset that Dee stole his girl Jackie, hints that Jackie may be another groupie after Dee's NBA checks.

Plus One

Ned and Joel scheme to make their respective lovers, brothers Brick and Andy, come out of the closet to each other. Dee bails Cootie out of jail and finally decides that Cootie has to move out of the house and find his own life. Dean flirts with as many girls as possible at his sister Samantha's wedding, including Samantha's lover, Joan, hoping to make Claire jealous.

Bi-Gones

Joan hates that her lover Samantha entered into a green card marriage with her gay friend Jonathan--especially because they seem to be taking the fraud marriage seriously. Jonathan's lover, Kirk, is equally unhappy when it is revealed that Jonathan and Samantha have slept together. Lea wonders where all her open-mindedness has gone when her niece Rhiannon comes to stay in her new apartment with a wannabe rapper named Ricky in tow. Jana's little sister Amy hops in Rory's van and ambushes him with a kiss.

Four In The Van

To help convince an immigration agent that Sam and Jonathan's marriage is real, their lovers Joan and Kirk have to pretend to be a couple. Amidst concerns that she may be pregnant, Lea tries to lay down some "house rules" with her niece Rhiannon. Rory takes Jana out on a big date for her birthday, hoping to make their relationship "official."

The Wrapper And The Rapper

Preparing for an immigration check, Samantha spends the night with her "husband" Jonathan, further jeopardizing her relationship with Joan. Lea wants Rhiannon to act responsibly, a reflection over her own concern about possibly being pregnant. A cop interrupts one of Rory and Jana's more intimate moments in the van.

Bi-Gones #2

The immigration agent arrives to check on Samantha and Jonathan's green card marriage just as Samantha's lover Joan threatens to leave her. Leah and Michael debate whether she should take a "morning after pill." Jana and Rory go shopping for birth control devices--you know, just in case they ever, you know...

The Wrapper And The Rapper #2

A peek behind closed doors at the intricacies of modern relationships. Each episode features three different fictional stories and follows various characters to see what happened during their most intimate moments. No subject is too taboo. All the stories have one very important thing in common, though: someone inevitably gets undressed.

They Call It Puppet Love #2

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