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Swingtown Episode: "Friends With Benefits"

Season 1, Episode 6
Episode Synopsis: Tom gets jealous when Trina meets up with her high-school sweetheart; Susan attends a ladies' luncheon to help promote Bruce's career, but it's Janet who makes the biggest impression at the gathering; Roger is fired from his job; Laurie and Doug get physical in their relationship now that he is no longer her teacher. Original Air Date: Jul 10, 2008

"Friends with Benefits"

Come on Mom Laurie says as Susan frets over wallpaper samples Get in touch with your authentic self Lauries vocabulary is like an annoying Me Generation glossary but it nicely underscores the theme of this weeks episode of Swingtown as our beloved swingers express varying degrees of authenticity in very different waysTrina and Tom The Deckers both seem miserable about Toms transfer to the Tokyo route But for now Trina is dealing even accompanying him to the airport before a long haul While they hang in the lounge playing their airport game essentially a game of whod you do they bump into Trinas high-school sweetheart Luke Ryan McPartlin who was cast with scary period accuracy Dude looks like he just walked off the set of an Old Spice commercial rightAs Trina and Luke walk down Memory Lane something strange happens The swaggering Tom gets jealous Despite his reservations they ultimately end up in the sack with Old Spice anyway but its clear read more

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Premiered: June 05, 2008, on CBS
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Premise: A couple faces shifting sexual and social attitudes when they move to an upscale Chicago suburb in the 1970s, where open marriages are openly accepted.

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