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By Michael Neal | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 01.09.2008
Tracy is having the cappuccino machine removed from the premises. Kenneth wants it back so desperately, he turns into Pookie from New Jack City. "C'mon! I'll make you feel good." It's to no avail, and Tracy gives Kenneth a wakeup call. Kenneth looks himself in the mirror to see just how far he's fallen. The city has changed him. He's coffee-addicted; he went to a PG-13 movie; he bought sunglasses; he tried a Jewish doughnut. Not unlike the Midnight Cowboy, he's been molested by New York and Tracy is merely his Ratzo. Its time to go home for greener pastures, dear boy Kenneth. Mamma waits.
Lemon is in her apartment pouring herself white wine, and in a series of phone calls to the co-op board members, she gets the following messages across: She's doing great. Where are you, co-op board? (While on the bathroom floor.) She knows who she is. Where are you, though, co-op board? Call me back? (While singing Alanis.) She feels sorry for you, co-op board. She hopes you feel sorry for making her go to the hospital. (While on a treadmill.) She's moved on. The white wine flows in a drunk-dialing spell rivaled only by Paul Giamatti's in Sideways. "What is it with white people and white wine and telephones?" asks my imaginary friend Blackzilla. He asked it rhetorically, so I don't answer.
"Lemon, how do you say 'buy' and 'sell' in German?" "Verkauf und Kauf," she answers. "So close. Other way around." Jack shows Lemon this morning's business section: "SALE OF NBC TO GERMAN FIRM RUMORED." Jack is sad, not because of the bad business maneuver, but because he's realized that you can't have it all. The big office and true love are diametrically opposed. "You have to choose," he says. "So which are you going to choose?" asks Lemon. CUT TO? The OTB in Pennsylvania! Jack picks love! C.C. calls him as he waits. She's still in Washington. That bitch! She missed a vote when they were away for the weekend, and now a Lott-Specter bill legalizing recreational whale torture has passed the Senate. She doesn't want to sacrifice her career. But Jack argues back. "Get in that ridiculous electric car of yours and get up here." C.C. begins a long explanation for her reasoning and as she speaks, Don Geiss calls. Jack has no choice but to flip over. Geiss has what appears to be good news. Jack flips back over at the end of C.C.'s speech that ends with, "Don't you agree?" He hems and haws and they soon both realize it isn't going to work. The breakup is amicable. "In another life," says Jack.