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S1 • E1
Jack is short for Jacqueline Barrett, about to marry Harvard law student Danny Hallahan, till the maid of honor confesses at the altar she slept with Danny- the night before! So Jack goes to New York, where her friend Audrey works in Broadway. 'Jill' is short for David Jillefsky, a graduated engineer and gifted artist who keeps rooming with golden spoon but brilliant med student Bartholomew 'Barto' Zane and drop-out Michael 'Mikey' Russo, rather then move in with his sexy girl-friend Elisa Cronkite. As soon as Jill meets his new neighbor Jack, the chemistry starts and he considers breaking up with Elisa. To complicate matters, the only job interview which works out for Jack -well, it actually proves to be an unpaid internship- is at the TV station WNKW where Elisa works and soon becomes her friend, while Audrey brings Jack to the bar which Mikey tends, and Jill and Barto therefore always hang out. Soon they all meet each-other all the time, and become friends. Jill reassures Barto worrying about cutting, even in a corps, only proves he is a caring human, and he aces it.
S1 • E2
Jill moves in with Elisa and has a shot at a job opening, for which suck-up fellow intern Steve is also in line. Jack's unfaithful fiancé Danny Hallahan, all the way from Boston, turns up on their doorstep and then at her work and makes an appointment, for which Audrey helps her rehearsing. Now Jill has moved out, Mikey invites himself to move in with Barto -who is too nice to admit he doesn't want such an immature roommate- and helps himself to the Zakamatak prototype Jill took home believing it was rejected, yet is requested urgently by Jill's boss Stanley Ashton for their Japanese licensing company Taki Toys's representative, Mr. Tanaka, uses it as a sex-toy and leaves it with his girl-friend Jennifer, who in turn passed on the Zakamatak to her roommate Heather, who is out of town for a week. Jill meets Danny and convinces him Jack has another. Elisa breaks up with Jill, which spares Barto throwing out Mikey. Jack should ace the proofing test, but runs away to see Danny again, even kisses him, then runs off to Elisa, where Jill was not feeling at home anyway, then accepts to travel back to Boston, till the moment is there...
S1 • E3
When Audrey replies to Jack's detailed 7 months-plan after her break-up with Danny it takes a fling to lose her 'last date virginity', Jack calls whistling construction workers' bluff to public acclaim. After two years steady with Elisa, Jill wants to dive in bachelor dating again; Mikey points out his black book is almost as lame as Barto's, so they plan a party and invite Elisa, expecting her to decline, Jack and Audrey. On Saturday the apartment fills easily, including Elisa, but conversations range from uneasy to awkward or even threats. While Mikey worries someone may touch his bottle of 50-years old tequila, Barto's med school adviser Nick Seraph, a reputed dating-shark, snaps up Jack in a minute, but even her fastest rate bores him soon, to Jill's relief. Barto is ecstatic when Audrey wants to see him alone, till she bares- an infected bellybutton, for free medical advice...
S1 • E4
In the gents, his legendary big boss Stanley Ashton tells Jill to come see him about his promising design the next day; one toy pleases enough to be suggested for development and promise him a promotion; alas Ashton dies from a heart-attack before the board meeting, Jill morns the man and the prospects. Audrey says she has broken up with director Travis Cutler, but he can get her a very desirable theater part, so to Jack's disgust she stays with him. Jack is assigned health code violations in New York restaurants, so she goes undercover as dishwasher in Chateau Noir, where she finds and chases with a hidden camera a black rat, but didn't check the actually blank results before having the piece announced, fails smuggling in a pet rat and looses the expensive camera- returning for it proves an unexpected opportunity... Barto is worried to find Mikey gets computerized career potential analysis; Jill turns his depression about the resulting advice, priesthood -not obvious for the ladies man- by saying the job is a spiritual adviser and good listener, like Mikey, who continues practicing those virtues as barman, but later learns the results were switched: his vocation would be park ranger. Discusted by his market-mind, Jill tells the new boss not to respect him, yet is asked to stay and make good toys.
S1 • E5
In the library, Jill bumps into Laurie Tindell, the dream girl he never really knew in high school, and immediately gets a date. Audrey panics when the director decides she must sing a solo, while she can't even read from a music sheet, gets faked support from Jack and blows it completely, unable to utter a syllable; by comparison with a failed exam of his, her silent admirer Barto encourages her to hang on, and it works. After an outburst from Elisa, Jack goes to Jill, but finds him in underwear with his date; only after Eliza saw him with Jack too, Laurie tells him she's married...
S1 • E6
Jill gets a visit from his kid sister Abby, who he will prep for an NYU dean's interview; her first question is whether big bro and Jack have sex. She misses the interview because getting facial piercings took too long, and runs off to a dance party with Mikey, who thinks David is the one out of line when he rages in as a bull to pull Abby out of the club, and hears the ingrate doesn't want to go to college, even blames him for 'forgetting' his junior siblings after he spend nearly all his time for years being their substitute father. Eliza was asking a superior out, but decides to go alone, even though David, having to cancel, gave her tickets for two, and lands in a one-man version of Casabanca by the unknown Hugh Westland. Jack gets a last-minute assignment to cover a wedding between very old people. After Audrey finally notices Barto pays her true attention and he sees trough her though act, they have sex- she tells Jack it was the best in her life, but doesn't consider it hooked them up; then director Travis comes to make up, Barto sees them and dumps the breakfast he was about to offer her. After Abby gets arrested for a futility, Jill seems to be trough bothering after bailing her out with Jack, then makes up with sis and Mikey.
S1 • E7
Barto wakes up at 5.36 AM, to find Jill climbing back in trough the window, proclaiming a glorious day ahead; Jack receives him wearing a beauty mask. Barto's professor tells him he'll be lucky to succeed his father as obstetrician rather then becoming a thorax-specialist as he hopes, given his falling grades, and advises him to dump whichever girl he's seeing as naked as his practice cadaver, once graduated he can get women regardless of his physique. Barto studies till he screams at his skeleton, but still feels he'll fail; Jill tells him just to talk things trough with unappreciative Audrey. Jack and Eliza are impressed by their hunky, well-reputed new colleague, action reporter Matt Prophet; Jack's offer to do research for him is instantly accepted: everything about music boot legs, but when she presents him the facts, Matt says that's just a foundation, they must go deeper, digging for the why from a personal angle too; when she brings him an actual address, he tells her they go immediately and films but is physically threatened by the sweatshop-owner and Jack surprises pleasantly by surrendering the tape, but telling Matt outside she secretly switched it with a blank spare. Director Travis Cutler barks at Audrey to over-compensate their romantic liaison. Mikey accepts Eliza's invitation, meant for Barto, to a seminar for singles; it's crap for silly chicks, Mikey's prosaic insights hit some raw nerves, but in the end Eliza stands up for his brutal honesty, both there and in life. Barto cuts class to burst in at Audrey's rehearsal, imploring her to dump the pretentious director, but she tells him off. Jill meticulously prepares his night out at a small Italian restaurant, even has is fortune told by a card-reader but is stood up, and tells Jack he gets that it was never to be; then Eliza confesses to regret she made Jack promise to ignore her feelings for him; running to her, Jill finds her kissing Matt, who just apologized for his impulsive kiss after the tape-switch...
S1 • E8
When Jill becomes the next victim of colleague Stan, who takes credit for his brilliant technical idea, Mikey suggests using the boxing ring the At-bar just installed for 'office fighting'. Jill asks 'dumped' Jack if Matt is a good kisser. Matt asks Jack out, she agrees: to Audrey's preview Friday-night. The others are there too; Barto's repeated apologies are accepted with a smile now Travis is history. Elisa is struck on the street by a glance exchanged with hunky Jonathon Appel whom she doesn't now yet. Matt and Jack kiss. In the morning, Barto finds Audrey outdoors in pajamas, waiting for the newspaper review- the musical is a hit. Stan accepts to box, but has his own gloves- Barto and Mikey help intimidated Jill train his arse off. Jack considers it Cro-Magnon but perfect for TV, and may cover it with Matt; Jill won't hear of camera's, so Stan becomes the hero. Audrey was dressed up to celebrate with Barto, but takes a rain-check when theatrical agent Roger Wyman invites her; Barto thinks the dress was to impress Roger; in the morning he invites her for the At-bar fight, which is hosted by Mikey. Elisa is exited to see Jonathan arrive there, but can't find him. Stan cancels with alleged flu, but Matt's offer to stand is is a least as acceptable to star feature challenger David 'Messenger of death' Jillefski. Matt is knocked KO: Jack must go live instead in only five minutes, and proves a hit- like Jack's fist hit good loser Matt a black eye. Barto drops by at Audrey's to tell her he's no longer scared, can't be scared off and is confident nothing scares her more then a serious love.
S1 • E9
Mikey feels ready for a pseudo-girlfriend: more then a one-night-stand, but not told she's not (yet?) a real one and often not exclusive- as Jack may be to Matt; now Jack worries Matt never introduces her as his girlfriend. Jill gets served a lawsuit for causing adulterous ex-high school-flame Laurie Tindell to break matrimony with Michel Preston, actually one date and one night; lawyer Gavola tells him judge Reeves should throw the case out easily, but she was dumped herself; plaintiff's lawyer Allison Hanau is hot in Jill's eyes, but turns his affirmation not even to have known about Tindell's marriage into 'guilt' by deliberately not asking for the sake of his fantasy, he dumps Gavola but finds another too expensive and decides to defend himself. Elisa's mystery dream-date is on a tape, renting a video. Now colleague-barman Tad has quit, Mikey is promoted manager: bye-bye day off, tons to learn; as if the 'weight of too many keys' wasn't crushing enough, he must fire waitress Belinda. Audrey worries Barto is off cramming for an exam with a certain Meg, even spies on his study group- Jack notices her reign as queen of indifference is over. Matt invites Jack for home-cooking, according to Elisa the last step before sex; he cooks and kisses well, but her irritating questions make him bring her home early, yet the next day he asks her out again soon. As Barto is occupied studying, Mikey is Jill's character witness, but messes up even the line they obviously rehearsed, and apparently caused his bank clerk Cindy's impending divorce. When Jack breaks off with Matt as she can't handle an on-off relation his style after seeing his breakfast date, he replies that was to dump the other woman and become exclusively hers and kisses her in plain office sight; this time she 'stays for breakfast'. Jill's closing statement is sorry someone gets hurt and the marriage killed, but taking a risk for a shot at lifelong happiness is the right choice. Having fired Belinda, Mikey throws back managing 'not much' in the bosses own words. Elisa and 'him' see each-other trough the bus window, but she cannot get off.
S1 • E10
S1 • E11
In bed with Matt, Jack dreams of Jill kissing her by surprise. A loose door knob gets Jack and Jill locked up in the laundry room on Saturday evening; she panics and over-organizes, he proves practical and optimistic enough to get her laughing and even a bit spontaneous, which she tries with Matt too once they are found: cab driver Yuri may choose their destination. Elisa decides to look for her mystery man by personal ad, then reads out to Jack one which fits them, for a meeting at 9; at the last minute she hails a cab to shy away, but the driver is him: Jonathon (she still doesn't know Appel), who takes her to his romantic other job, singer-guitarist in a bar; at her place they kiss; finding he sneaked out of her bed in the morning, she's insulted. Barto commutes between med-school and bed with Audrey, who overhears on his answering machine his mother inquiring whether he brings his girlfriend to a family dinner, which Audrey finds worrying but Barto explains to the boys is to spare her the Zanes' rejection Mikey still remembers, yet she makes him take her. The parental 'apartment' is a floor-wide city palace with original art and staff, the ideal decor for sneers, looking down on a plebeian dropout from a broken marriage; afterward Audrey reproaches the poor boy, who tried politely, not to speak up firmly for either of them; he buys it, she promises to win them over.
S1 • E12
When Jill helps an ice vendor with his car alarm, he's promised his greatest wish will come true; the next day his favorite toy design Zantopia is unconditionally selected for production and marketing, soon followed by a VP-promotion; when the brass decides to adapt it violently, he quits Major Toys altogether, and Allison Hanau's inability to understand this causes a break-up. Jack's accounts were already shabby, when she drops a $1,500 baccarat piece at a sale, but won't take a loan, even from Matt, rather asks Mikey for waitress shifts, yet bugs male clients and messes up more then her tips are worth; when she tells Elisa to have pawned a broach, Matt redeems it. Jonathon makes Elisa happy, yet she worries to know almost nothing about the hunk, and once in his place notices girl-skates on his hat-rack, later finds a letter to some Amy about ordinary things- it turns out to be his wife who died in an accident. After the ice vendor tells Jill he didn't get his wish because he doesn't realize it yet, he goes tell Jack they're wasting too much time.
S1 • E13
Challenged by Barto to try a steady relationship, Mikey dates clumsy ex-bar colleague Belinda to that goal, gets in her bed easily but really falls at first sight for her roommate, Lucy. Elisa and Jonathon double-date with his friends. After Jill tells Matt how Jack belongs with him, she's furious to hear about his claim on her, yet she kisses him and Jill pulls back; both boys leave her the choice. Then Matt turns down a dream-job in Washington for her; her asking Matt to move in blows Jill away, but when she tells Matt about the kiss he walks straight way; Elisa tells Jill to hang on with Jack. Just when Matt returns, willing to take her word, dream prince Jill drives on, not on a white horse but in a horse-drawn carriage, to sweep her away if she accepts...
S1 • E14
Matt doesn't even wait for Jack's answer and takes the Washington job offer, so Jill's horse-carriage carries her away for hot kisses in the cold winter night, to a roof greenhouse where they make love, and hours of kissing in his place, till Mikey walks in on them doing it on the kitchen floor, shortly followed by Barto; neither minds, nor Elisa who covered for Jack arriving four hours late, but she dares not take a second to take Jill's calls, which seems to confirm love Dr. Mikey's warning that will scare her off, so he cancels that night out. Belinda commends Mikey's domestic skills, but he enjoys another point in common with her roommate Lucy: Keanu movies. Audrey insists to spend Valentine's day at a swing joint, Barto's utter nightmare, yet he cheerfully practices with his anatomy skeleton; she won't cancel or see a doctor after hurting her ankle in dance class, till it gets bad enough to scare her. Elisa insists to Jonathan it's a fake commercial holiday, not worth any present, but the true romantic gets round that. Mikey hates Valentine's-day, not easy for a barman, and Belinda insists he drops by afterward for her surprise gift, which is surprisingly perfect...
S1 • E15
Jack drives a hard bargain on the living together-arrangements with Jill and reproaches him to have told Barto about the greenhouse, as she did to Audrey, then blurts out she knows about Barto's phobias for rubbery food and elevators, puts on PJs after naked sex and implicitly bugs unemployed Jill about useful time-use, which slowly gets to him. Shirtless boys get frisky in the morning all around. Elisa has rats fumigated, so she's invited to stay a week with Jack, without asking Jill; they find Audrey's pregnancy test kit, Barto later too and he's really upset not to have been told; when he finally asks, she says not to be ready for a family ever, unlike him. Mikey gets scarily close to love for Lucy, but hasn't told her he never moved out from his parents, so when Belinda has her flat it's 'home' again at Jill's, where he comes clean- no problem, yet he starts looking for a place- which does scare her, breaking his heart and his moving resolve. When the secret betrayals come out, the boys make up in a jiffy, the girls bitch absurdly first. The rats stay, the rent gets raised: Elisa wants another place; Mikey had found somewhere perfect, for two that is, so...
S1 • E16
The girls make drama productions out of phrases containing the L-word, when and where, the boys just worry what the girls will read into any. Audrey worries Barto didn't have sex with her all night, a first, which really worries both of them and the boys, countless catalysts are suggested, alas only their bed catches fire. Now the two share an apartment, Mikey invents the roommate 'forum!' to tell Elisa he didn't want her to break into his date and keeps hopping from one conquest to the next; she even meddles by telling Gaby he never goes steady, which in his explicit words sucks, Jill tries to reassure him, Gaby has her own Todd. At a Moroccan restaurant Jack puts 'I love you' on the couscous table; later she says she liked it better when he constantly wooed her, he retorts that's not just his job all the time, deal with it. Conclusions are drawn.
S1 • E17
[without the beginning] Barto was grumbling in line for a chick-movie Audrey made him go see, when Samuel collapses; it's already too late for his heart-massage to save the kid's life. Mikey is a bit offended when Jonathon asks if he never 'did something' with Elisa, even recently, Elisa when he says to trust her but not womanizer Mikey with her in bathrobe. Jack is encouraged by the girls to pose nude for Penthouse in order to help launch Jill's new career as photographer. Barto gets delusions practice corps Bernie talks to him, everywhere, about becoming and being a doctor; it takes Audrey and Dr. Zane Sr. to make him gather enough courage not to drop out. Jack can barely lose her robe without wine, let alone pose properly with, but Jill's teacher Reiner Schöne likes the result '90 Seconds Nude' enough to suggest Jerry Filbert's gallery to exhibit the series, a shock for Jack who wasn't even consulted, but ends up approving just when he was about to cancel the opening; to their surprise, they all sold instantly -even though sales weren't authorized- to a plastic surgeon. Jonathon's attitude brings the roommates closer together and his demand that one of them should move out makes Elisa break up.
S1 • E18
Jack and Jill exchange spare keys 'but not as boy-girl', Mikey warns Jill that's unequal symbolically, she will take control of his whole life. Audrey gets an audition for a Spike Jones movie. Barto has more pressing study occupations for about eight years. Elisa proves less tidy then unamused bachelor boy Mikey; Jack suggests a chores list; Elisa complains to Jill that Mikey eats much of her food and is a culinary ignoramus. Jack reads in Jill's diary; Barto isn't prepared to break the boys' code by keeping quiet about it. Dan promises Audrey a great career, but in L.A. Barto's professor Dr. Madison says he has a shot at a priceless research fellowship at Dukes in North Carolina if his grades keep up, according to Mikey three months separation is reason enough to break up with Audrey. Jack spoils Jill in bed and then asks him right there about his ex Becky Heart, he guesses she read his journal, he walks out, she gives him her diary before her move to New York, he's not really interested in that girlish stuff. Elisa calls a forum, Mikey was about to too, but to no avail; he suggests advertising for a housekeeper at $45 a week, candidates prove weirdos, except- his ex Belinda. Barto and Audrey expect each-other to move after the good results they expect. Jack 'proves being wild' by suggesting to have sex on a train, then returns Jill's key 'until I earn it'. Barto and his study mate Anna aced their exams, Audrey gets the movie part.
S1 • E19
Barto has aced his scholarship, so he will soon be separated three months from Hollywood-débutante Audrey, who enjoys her agent Dan rolling out the red carpet for her. As he starts by introducing B-star client Paris Everett at the At-bar, her lifelong fan Mikey grabs his chance to meet and charm her into a date, but startles the boys by announcing a novel technique for the quick womanizer: he won't make a second move till she's dying for him. Dragged along to L.A. during their last days, Barto gets annoyed till he tells Audrey how self-absorbed she behaves, and ends up being caught leaving bed with a certain Annie. At Barto's suggestion, the apartment is sublet as a whole, so Jill moves in with Jack at least for the three months it's empty; they wrestle with practical details and the very notion of a temporary move, and finally decide it's too soon to live together. Paris ultimately shows more interest in Elisa and walks off. Just when Audrey's plane leaves, Barto comes propose, but gets no reply.
David 'Jill' Jillefsky
Jacqueline 'Jack' Barrett
Audrey Griffin
Elisa Cronkite
Barto Zane
Michael 'Mikey' Russo
Eddie Naiman
Matt Prophet
Jonathon Appel
Peter McCray