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Butterflies - Sep 30, 1980 Episode 3-18,   Grade B Detailed Summary by John T Burt 2001 Main Butterflies Page

    Special Events:
The following set of scenes is well done, funny and good:   Distracted, Ria asks the grocer for 6 tomatoes and 45 pounds of oranges. After correcting that she forgets to take the bag with her. When she does, she takes an extra bag the grocer is holding and he gives up. Then she forgets to drive on when a light changes to green. When she does move she can't remember which way to go. In another store she pays for a small plant but takes a large one. She finally comes to when she sees Leonard's smashed car behind a tow truck. Worried she goes home and calls his office to see if he is OK but doesn't say anything when he answers.

    Summary:
(This is the Worry episode. JTB)

Ben's alarm comes on with rock music and then the buzzer. He wishes there were less gadgets in life. It's Ria's morning off and there is no breakfast or clean clothes for the guys. The guys make her feel guilty. She says she's cooking special today and Ben gets worried (me too).

Cleaning Russell's room, Ria puts a music tape in and hears Russell talking with Jeanie about the baby. She's so stunned that she says "Good" when Ruby tells her the cat has the chicken purchased for dinner. Ruby notices Ria is depressed which matches her horoscope but Ruby's horoscope says she will have "hanky panky."

Distracted, Ria asks the grocer for 6 tomatoes and 45 pounds of oranges. After correcting that she forgets to take the bag with her. When she does, she takes an extra bag the grocer is holding and he gives up. Then she forgets to drive on when a light changes to green. When she does move she can't remember which way to go. In another store she pays for a small plant but takes a large one. She finally comes to when she sees Leonard's smashed car behind a tow truck. Worried she goes home and calls his office to see if he is OK but doesn't say anything when he answers.

Leonard calls Thomas to hire him back. Leonard crashed going the wrong way on a one way street. He takes Ria's photo out of his desk and smiles.

In a bar for lunch, Ben and his doctor friend talk about their kids, keeping up with progress in their work and how wives chatter. Ben plans to visit professionally for some sleeping tablets.

Thomas is timing Leonard jogging in the park. When Leonard goes behind a tree and doesn't come out, Thomas goes to find him sitting there puffing. Thomas tells him drinking won't get rid of the Ria problem.

In separate rooms, Adam worries about his lost job, Russell about Jeanie and Ria about everything. Ria tells herself she makes revolting cocoa (she needs my recipe- JTB). Adam joins her and then Russell and neither talks. Ria tries to get them to confide by confiding herself that sometimes she just wants to bash things up. It doesn't work.

In bed she worries and confides to the sleeping Ben even making up fictional erotic things, but he doesn't stir. She thinks he doesn't worry but actually he's taken sleeping tablets.