Sideshow

Season: 2

Episode: 15

Production Code: AM215

First Air Date: February, 22 1999

Director: Alex Graves

Writer: David E. Kelley

# of Times Richard said Bygones: 1

Guest Stars:

Jesse L. Martin as Dr. Greg Butters
Tracey Ullman as Dr. Tracey Clark

Synopsis:

An episode that had fans split down the middle, either bored to tears by the non-event of it all, or like overly vocal viewers around North America, had Rosie O'Donnell weepily glued to the edge of her seat.

Ally, in distraught mode, is so busy sharing her Billy story with Renee, that she forgets all about the dinner date she had with the doctor until Greg shows up on her doorstep. Suddenly, Billy himself, makes an appearance, though Renee quickly covers for her friend saying they're planning Ally's birthday party together.

As clearly she's in dire need of assistance for her muddled love life, Ally sprints to Dr. Tracy's office. When Ally confesses that she and Greg have yet to have sex, the room erupts with canned laughter, though, it can be turned off by remote control. Tracy urges her to consummate the affair pronto. It's the only way she'll be able to make an informed choice between her two suitors.

If it wasn't stressful enough having Billy turn up at her apartment yet again the night before, Ally runs smack dab into Georgia the minute she steps off of the elevator, it's so upsetting to her she visualizes a knife in his wife's back. Later, what starts off as a logical discussion about how they can end their mutual attraction, it somehow escalates so far that they agree to meet at Ally's apartment during lunch for a quickie.

Ally assures anyone who will listen, including Dr. Tracy, that she won't have sex with Billy, it was a bluff, apparently she plays a high stakes version of truth or dare. When she returns to the firm after her shrink session, the surroundings reverberate like a heart pounding during the Boston marathon, when yet again she stumbles upon the oblivious victim, Georgia.

As a tell-tale sign of what she should do (Freud would have a field day with this girl), at first when she rushes home, her eyes deceive her into thinking that the apartment has disappeared. No such luck. When she finds him there, alone, it's like permission or something, so she goes ahead and kisses him, but hey, she's Ally, not Monica Lewinsky, and there actions are stopped by her tears.

Back at the office both Ling and Georgia's penile psychic, and radar, respectively sense something amiss with the gang. About that time over at Dr. Tracy's, she explains to Billy that he's sort of a monogamy addict if you will, afraid to stray out of lust, that's why he's so busy trying to convince himself that he's still mad and passionate for the nubile lawyer. Love is his own little guilt eraser.

Love is not a many splendered thing, Billy becomes less than endearing, when he says that our favorite narcissist will probably have plastic surgery when she gets older and that she craves affirmation so much that he could never trust her to be faithful. This is right about when we want her to tell the hypocrite where to go, instead she falls back on her old pouting skills.

Things go from offensive to worse, when the knight in rusted armor spews something like love is wasted on Ally. Gag! Is anybody still rooting for this couple?

Anyway, maybe Billy should move to Nashville or something because he's a real great two-stepper, he announces that by the way he does still love her. Ally does the ditto thing, but then, miracle of all miracles, walks out on him. Yeah!

AM-215 ©1999 Almost Human

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