Samantha Who? 1.10 "The Girlfriend"

Samantha Who? 1.10 "The Girlfriend"
Air Date: April 7, 2008
Recap & Discussion

Samantha Who? Episode Highlights:

• Sam tests her motor memory and finds she never knew how to skip rope
• Sam is then confronted by emotional memory – knowing she likes Todd, for example
• Regina is excited about a new makeup kit and, when Todd calls, blackmails Sam into a makeover night in order to give her the phone
• Todd invites Sam to come for chili, and Sam gets giddy when Regina points out that he’s making her dinner, not the girlfriend
• Sadly, that was not Todd’s motive. Todd wants Chloe to move in with him (in Sam’s apartment)
• Andrea tries to coach Sam into getting rid of Chloe, and reminds her of her old tactics
• Sam finds out the hard way that subletting is forbidden in her apartment, so she moves in with Todd and Chloe
• Chloe and Todd laugh over an inside joke about Marvin Gardens, then Chloe plays with Mr. Fuzzy, the koala bear that "Buggy", Todd, won for her
• Todd and Chloe go to bed, first giving Sam a sneak preview of coming attractions
• Dena comes looking for Sam, but finds Regina instead quite unhappy that Sam didn’t show up for her makeover night – Regina keeps Dena around instead
• Andrea gives Sam a get-rid-of-the-girlfriend kit, including an ovulation kit, to hide around the apartment
• Dena and Regina go over-the-top on their makeup and Regina feels pretty, then recalls not winning a beauty pageant. Dena encourages Regina to recite her acceptance speech.
• Dena recounts her dream of being an artist, and how bad she probably was not to get into the art school everyone is accepted to
• Regina says the girl who won the pageant lives 2 blocks away, so Dena suggests TPing her house

• Chloe comes to Sam in the middle of night threatening to destroy her if she comes near Todd
• Sam is afraid Chloe is trying to poison her now, or something, since she throws out the juice Chloe gives to her
• Chloe told Todd the Sam came to her to threaten her, not the other way around. Makes Sam look bad.
• Regina wakes up to find the beauty queen’s rabbit statue in her livingroom covered in toilet paper. Dena is there, crashed. And there is a drawing of a turtle on the wall, care of Dena.
• Todd won’t believe Sam when she tries to tell him the truth about Chloe and that Chloe is like the old bad-Sam
• Chloe comes out of her room crying about her destroyed Fuzzy, and accusing Sam of doing it
• Sam wages war on Chloe – starting with staging a scene implying that Sam and Todd were getting it on
• Sadly, the plan backfires when Todd comes home fully clothed – meaning he’s not in the shower
• Sam notices the purple ink on Chloe’s hands, and is able to accuse Chloe of destroying her own Fuzzy
• Chloe turns it around by saying she can’t compete with Sam’s beauty or brains – Todd says there’s no competition and kisses Chloe
• Sam tries to run out of her apartment, but then locks herself out before realizing she’s in her lingerie
• The doorman, Frank, agrees to cover for Sam with the building manager, since he thinks Chloe is evil. Well, he doesn’t think Sam is a prize either, but can only handle one rag at a time
• Sam comes back to her mom and cries about Todd choosing Chloe

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