Joan of Arcadia "But What's Puzzling You / Is The Nature Of My Game"

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"But What's Puzzling You / Is The Nature Of My Game"

Something Wicked This Way Comes - The spirits of Judith and Rocky visit Joan, as she continues to wonder about Ryan Hunter's intentions and motives. Ryan insinuates himself into the Girardis' life by securing positions of trust and power with the police force, school board, and newspaper. Joan, worried, asks God what she's being prepared for. Helen is having prescient/clairvoyant dreams: first about Judith, then about Father Ken's church being vandalized by evil clowns, and finally about the synagogue being burned down. As her dreams of desecration come horrifyingly true, she confides in Lily, who's begun to retreat into fears that she shouldn't have left the convent and should perhaps return. Will dismisses Joan's concerns about Ryan. Joan's friends are worried that she's starting to lose it -- again.

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Luke of Narcadia

Common Thread - Helen's rapist asks her to come see him on his deathbed. Helen does, but leaves Will's gun at home. Luke learns that Friedman's discovered pot, and decides to join him, but Luke's a little too high-strung for it. Joan rejects Adam's clueless overtures toward friendship. Adam loses his job and then goes for a hike and doesn't return. Worried about the possibility of suicide, everyone goes looking for him, except it's too dark and stormy to conduct a search. Grace confronts Joan about all the secrets she keeps and the way they distance her from everyone. Adam is finally found by another hiker, who might be the Devil, if the soundtrack is to be believed, or at the very least one of his handsome henchmen. Also: lots of knitting.

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Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness

Spring Cleaning - God tells Joan to do some spring cleaning. As usual, Joan takes it fairly literally, and decides return all of Adam's mementoes and gifts. Her college counsellor has been accused of inappropriate behaviour by a mentally unbalanced student. Joan intervenes to try to help him, and sort of does. Kevin considers moving out, but it leads to a blow-up with Lily over his assumptions. Grace decides to give Luke a leather jacket to make him more like her. Luke turns into this swaggering caricature, provoking Grace to dress up in a very scary outfit to slap sense into him. God tells Joan that she hasn't really done the cleaning he was talking about: the spiritual kind.

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Law And Order: Special Virgins Unit

Trial And Error - Helen picks up her catechism classes with Lily again…only to learn Lily's dating Kevin. Will investigates a little girl's murder. Joan's excited about her first anniversary with Adam. Adam, not so much. God tells Joan to participate in Mock Trial. She ends up as prosecutor, while Grace is the defense attorney. They try the case of Jack the giant killer. Grace conscripts Adam to play Jack. As the case unfolds, Joan slowly realizes that Adam's cheated on her with Bonnie. Of course, Adam is awash in guilt and remorse, swearing it was "only" sex, but Joan declares they're done. Then she cries on Mrs. LandingGod's shoulder on the bus ride home.

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God Is My Co-Pilot

Secret Service - God frames Joan by making it seemed like she egged Price's car. She's sentenced to a weekend of community service, supervised by Lily, who's having issues with God. Interloper #327 is foisted upon Joan and Adam in the form of Bonnie, a delinquent artist. Joan and Adam argue about his need for some alone time. Adam takes an interest in Bonnie's talent, talking Helen into letting Bonnie join her class. Luke loses a science prize to Glynis and Friedman. Will tries to fix stuff and fails, like almost every fictional male on television. Kevin and Lily get into a minor car accident. Kevin and Lily bitch each other out until Lily manages to finagle another date, which goes a lot better than the last one.

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One Small Step For Kevin

Shadows And Light - …one giant leap backwards for us, as the A-plot was not only kind of a mess, but was totally not in keeping with a vital premise of the show. God basically forces Joan to get involved in a series of events that lands Stevie's mother in jail, and His reasons for doing so are sadly problematic. Kevin makes us mad by being unforgivably mean to Luke, but we still feel happy for him when he takes a few steps with the aid of electrical stimulation therapy. And everything else in the episode was perfect. Too bad about that whole main plot thing.

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Ready Or Not

Independence Day - Joan wants to go to a concert with Adam and stay overnight in his father's camper. The 'rents refuse, Joan throws a hissy, and then lies and goes anyway. Things get pretty frisky in the camper, and Adam's plenty ready to have sex, finally. Joan, not so much. Will's storyline? Pointless. Stevie keeps pursuing Friedman hard, but Friedman's totally uninterested, much to everyone's amazement. Until she kisses him. Kevin and Andy differ over Andy's future.

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The Duffening II: Electric Boogaloo

Romancing The Joan - Adam hires an assistant named Stevie, played by Haylie Duff. Joan's jealous (even though Stevie's into Friedman, not Adam). Joan succumbs to her tutor, Roger, who kisses her while studying poetry. She confesses to Adam, who's hurt. But he admits he was enjoying Joan's jealousy of Stevie. Meanwhile, Kevin and Lily hook up, but it's pretty rocky, and falls apart during their first date. Helen finally confronts Will about his relationship with Lucyfer. He tells Helen that he never did the deed, but Lucyfer's got his balls in a vise anyway. Helen shows up at work to take the Beelzebub by the horns. Lucyfer's leaving anyway, for the Justice Department, where she should fit right in.

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"Can You See Them / See Right Through Them"

The Rise & Fall Of Joan Girardi - Joan saves the life of a snotty girl (Hilary Duff). So Joan's a big local hero and then she's not. This is followed by yelling, boo-hooing, and then unlikely bonding. Luke's about to get his driver's license and Grace is busting his gas-guzzling balls over his contribution to global warming. Luke's afraid she's going to break up with him over it but learns their relationship isn't that fragile. Lucyfer? Is about seventeen kinds of evil. Kevin gets a haircut, and exploits Joan's celebrity for his own career ends. Adam's boss rips off some of Adam's ideas, thereby teaching him this valuable lesson: his work is good enough to steal.

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I See Undead People

Queen Of The Zombies - Joan and Adam struggle to

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