Elaine Hendrix
Marcy’s cousin Mandy arrives, befriends Al and Jefferson, and makes Marcy jealous. Then Mandy tells Al she is gay. Amanda Bearse plays both parts, four years after coming out publicly herself, and ten days before Ellen did the same on ABC.
Bud signs up for a virtual reality study at the university and becomes dependent on it, to the point of boxing up the possessions he no longer needs. Al, meanwhile, has found a light switch that does not seem to do anything, and starts taking the house apart.