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Butterflies - Dec 3, 1979 Episode 2-12,   Grade A- Detailed Summary by John T Burt 2001 Main Butterflies Page

    Food Disasters:
Ria's yogurt is only "worried milk."

    Mini Cooper use:
Leonard sees the car and stops thinking Ria is inside when it is actually her friend Susanna. Later the Mini is used as a means to get Susanna and Leonard together for a date.

    Funny Scenes:
The sex book scene had major laughs.

    Special Events:
Overall, a delicate episode with important things said in a subtle way with the sex book scene for comic relief and laughs.

    Summary:
Adam and Russell are playing scrabble with dirty words in the kitchen while Ria's yogurt is only "worried milk." Ria says the game is disgusting but adds a word making Adam smile. In the post, Adam gets job rejections, Russell gets a note from a girl and Ria a friend from their vacation named Susanna.

Ben's patient relates how his wife's books affect their life and sex - books are powerful things.

Susanna arrives, thin, red lips, big curly blond hair and a little overbearing. She drives the Mini and Leonard stops to say hi thinking it is Ria. Susanna tells Ria the crime is falling in love, the plan happiness, the flaw in the plan marriage and the punishment a life sentence of confusion. Ria is the most confused because she is actually happy.

Susanna charms the guys at lunch and they leave Ria to clean up. She remembers how they all lied that the food seemed great and daydreams of dancing in a field and dumping the table on them. Susanna primps and then borrows the Mini to go on the prowl.

Leonard calls to invite Ria on a 4 hour afternoon business trip. She can't go and suggests Susanna. He calls again just to disturb her and then goes to find Susanna in the Mini. Susanna gets home at 3 AM.

The next morning Ben brings his tray in the living room to eat breakfast with Ria who is stuffing a pillow. He finds a sex book in the sofa and wonders why the boys buy them. Ria says when you want to learn to cook you buy a cook book! Then she stops Ben from removing it because she's not done reading it. Ruby comes in and takes it to read. Ben is shocked all around and remembers his patient's book description.

Waiting for the train to go home, Susanna relates going with Leonard. She lets slip that Leonard has not forgotten his first meeting with Ria and wistfully says Ria has a tough mountain to climb ahead of her.

Ben has tickets to an erotic film for them. The changes in Ria's life are changing him too.