Season 2, Episode 20: Mary finds herself in a sticky situation when her landlady, Phyllis Lindstrom, asks for help in getting an essay her daughter Bess wrote for English class published. watch
Claudia's grades arrive, and she's shocked to have received a F in her English course, Twentieth Century Fiction. Lily's A plus paper on 'Absalom, Absalom!' is posted on the Finnertys' fridge. She's pretty cocky about her high grade. Brad thinks it's a little strange that Lily and her mom were both reading this novel for English class. Jimmy starts to ask Eddie for some advice about Courtney, a girl he's seeing, but when Claudia comes in he bolts upstairs. Claudia goes to see her English professor who informs her that her paper was written ten years ago by a grad student at Berkeley. She confesses to Sean that she was so exhausted after her double shift at the restaurant that she copied Lily's paper. Now they have to deal with the fact that Lily copied her paper too. Eddie finds Jimmy in his bedroom sitting next to a large stuffed Teddy bear wearing a bra. How do you get one of these off without looking like an idiot, Jimmy asks. Eddie says that when it's meant to come off, it will. it watch
