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Cougar Town Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 2012 - 2012
Episode 1
Ain't Love Strange
Tue, Feb 14, 201222 mins
Travis shares a student room with 9 guys, all relying on a 'green screen' to seduce girls, but Bobby insists he must take his canine counterpart in as babe-magnet. The whole gang agrees with Grayson that Jules is terribly predictable, and indeed they all get it right systematically, while she claims to want only to be surprised. Jules's intolerance towards young skaters escalates badly, yet isn't what it seems. Andy and Ellie worry about scarily unruly toddler Stan seeming to become just as bad as Laurie.
Episode 2
A Mind with a Heart of Its Own
Tue, Feb 21, 201222 mins
Grayson hardly manages to exert a symbolical right of approval while the girls rival to plan and star at his wedding with Jules. Travis coaches dear step-dad-to-be and takes him along to his grandfather, horse-rancher Chic, who seems hostile. Bobby's original, active wedding 'gift' adds to the group's troubles.
Episode 3
Lover's Touch
Tue, Feb 28, 201222 mins
Andy warns Grayson, who already feels neglected, he's about to be 'whipped' out of audible existence when the bitches bunch officially declares 'All Wedding All the Time' (AWATT) status. Nature trumps even that when maternal instinct switches Jules's actually rather unwanted attention to Travis, who had a silly accident while dutifully playing the dog-drought 'sport' Bobby presented. Tom is not amused that nobody knew or cares even now that he's a hospital MD. Meanwhile even the innocent 'domination ball' game Bobby invented for the boys gets tainted in a mean battle of the sexes.
Episode 4
Full Moon Fever
Tue, Mar 6, 201222 mins
Travis fools his French college photography teacher because his helmet makes candid shots impossible, using Bobby as 'accidental model', but didn't count on the pair of adults falling in love at first sight. Short and Wide is Andy's new nickname, until he has a go at something Jules failed to achieve: chasing a bunch of slightly bothersome neighbor knaves on bicycles. Afghanistan soldier Wade is Julie's new lover - solely by twitter.
Episode 5
A One Story Town
Tue, Mar 13, 201222 mins
Travis seizes a rare opportunity for payback at Jules, by allowing Ted and his a capella group to stay at their home for a week. Bobby's romance with Travis's professor Claire was quickly sabotaged by a bee allergy and his clumsiness. Jules haughtily promises she can coach him to win her back with grand romance, but everything keeps going wrong, yet Claire toughens it out. The only 'remedy' for an invasion of Quebeckers during the local crab festival is instantly repulsive Tom.
Episode 6
Something Big
Tue, Mar 20, 201222 mins
Just when Grayson convinces the gang his 'slutty' days are over, an ex turns up with a baby girl, claiming it's his, as a test ultimately confirms. Jules drags him to pre-marital counseling, manipulating even the therapist, but a ends up agreeing it's best to accepts this as a way to honor his child-wish and her refusal to go trough pregnancy again. Travis's helmet-misery continues as Laurie drags him into a routine for the colored fraternity Asian dorm buddy Sig decides to pledge. Surfer Bobby handles Ellie's latest nonsense, recreative 'wave-sitting'.
Episode 7
You Can Still Change Your Mind
Tue, Apr 10, 201222 mins
When Grayson cracks open some drawers in the Cobb home, long-lost junk rekindles various aspects of the past, such as hideous pants for the boys to wear. Travis wants to take the wedding pictures, which arouses mixed feelings with ever-supportive Jules after seeing his anti-aesthetic gore-style. Bobby dumps Angie just for kissing another hunk, waving the fact he did for worse when married, but ends up giving in to lust. Ellie finds the Simon toy ideal to make Laurie admit her utter mental inferiority, yet ends up taking pity on the airhead.
Episode 8
Ways to be Wicked
Tue, Apr 17, 201222 mins
Travis is desperate for his dorm nerds trio to get some college fun. He ends up calling in Bobby with latest playmate, talking 'Mr. belly', and grandpa Chick, who demonstrate how naturals prank and coach the scared fledglings to steal a campus statue. When Grayson finally decides to take Andy's advice that 'the new guy' must earn his place by playing along with veterans, he invests $1100 in an oven to make come true Laurie's lame bakery dream, he sees it turned down for wacky psychological reasons. Jules is determined to prove wrong Ellie's claim her visiting mother Betsy is a far worse bitch, only more devious so as to win over third parties, but the contrary happens, while rascal Stan proves a ruthless mailbox vandal.
Episode 9
Money Becomes King
Tue, Apr 24, 201222 mins
Grayson decides Jules asks one concession too many when she wants him to move in with her, so she drags him through a gang council, tricked by both, to the marriage consultant, who finds them lucrative but exasperating clients. Travis encourages Laurie to go all the way and start her dream, a cake business, but rightly doubts her lazy trick to expect the deliveries to be done for free by bored bar patrons. Little Stan remains too brave and clever to be 'educationally' scared by mean mother Ellie, but she tricks Andy into playing a terrible prank on so-far always spared buddy Bobby, who thus ends up thirsty in a hot wilderness. Andy audits the real estate firm and var books and suggests sacking useless Laurie.
Episode 10
Southern Accents
Tue, May 1, 201222 mins
Jules freaks out when Travis starts dating Holly, Ellie tries to keep Andy from running for mayor, and Laurie tries to help Bobby overcome his prejudices.
Episode 11
Down South
Tue, May 8, 201222 mins
When a hurricane is announced, Jules flippantly hosts a storm party, worried only about the wine supply breakdown. Travis is tempted to pursue his crush on Laurie now her military 'lover' Wade has signed up for another year in Afghanistan. Jules wants to stop 'her boy', Bobby tells him to follow his heart. Grayson feels less cool as groom, and fails to find a truly catchy phrase when ringing the brass bell to close the bar, his work day high point. Andy and Bobby's new favorite game is butt ball.
Episode 12
Square One
Tue, May 15, 201222 mins
Everyone is nervous after the hurricane, which caused considerable damage. Andy acts as literal bodyguard for Bobby who is challenged to keep his white t-shirt clean longer than Jules. Grayson gets second thoughts about moving in with Jules because her bitching seems to get even worse. Travis reluctantly but efficiently mediates, laying bare root cause insecurities, just as with Laurie whose most sexy status is challenged by Ellie.
Episode 13
It'll All Work Out
Tue, May 15, 201222 mins
Having missed the real Thanksgiving, the girls insist on what Grayson and mates can only call Fakes-giving. As wedding preparations, Jules pretends to have written beautiful vows to prod Grayson to start on his, but he insists to hear hers at dinner, while Ellie schemes to make rascal son ring-bearer while the happy couple fears the boy due to her disastrous parenting, even before he breaks big Carl. Grayson coaches Andy for the mayoral campaign pizza tossing.
Episode 14
My Life/Your World: Part 1
Tue, May 29, 201221 mins
Jules spends her bachelorette party watching "Groundhog Day" with Ellie and Laurie, Grayson gets fed up over his lack of privacy, and Travis ruins Penny Can for Bobby and Andy.
Episode 15
My Life/Your World: Part 2
Tue, May 29, 201222 mins
Grayson convinces Jules to elope by themselves to Napa, but the crew still manages to find a way to tag along. Meanwhile, Travis is heartbroken when Laurie's boyfriend surprises her.