Lauren dates a television star who is a Siamese twin; Jennifer alters her birth date in a government computer and almost loses her identity -- especially when her father (whom Jennifer is avoiding on a trip to New York) hires Shrug to expose the woman who is impersonating Jennifer.
A significantly surreal episode in which the other characters are interrogated by a documentarist about Robbie's breakup with his latest girlfriend, but in typical L.A. fashion wind up talk mainly about themselves.
Robbie's idea for a film about black men in space, "Do the Right Stuff," is stolen by a Hollywood movie producer; and Arthur has ambivalent feelings about leaving L.A. to go back home to New York.
Arthur's scathing book on life in L.A. is released and is a critical disaster everywhere except L.A., where everyone loves it.
Shrug can't remember a romantic encounter; Arthur is offered a tempting job on an L.A. paper; and Jennifer and Carrie Fisher desperately avoid calls from David Bowie.
Jennifer and Lauren fight over their manicurist's vibrating chair; Arthur falls for his date's psychiatrist; and Robbie and Shrug search for the perfect out-of-town girl.
Lauren has a spiritual awakening after God's image appears on a billboard, looking like the famous ex of Robbie's date, Val Kilmer. Meanwhile, Shrug helps his ex-con buddy Hilo open a smell bar.
Jen becomes godmother to twins apparently named after Robbie, who had a one-night fling with the mother; a sexual-harassment lawyer sexually harasses Arthur; and Shrug searches out some stress to relieve his back pain.
Jennifer's phone number catches the eye of a war-happy Serbian leader; Arthur's old college friend Brian steals anecdotes from Arthur's life to elevate his own status; Shrug and Lauren end up on the same PMS cycle.
Arthur freezes up when he enters into a May-December fling; Jen fakes her feelings for capital punishment to impress a hunk who's pro the death penalty; and Robbie sets Lauren up with a socially bankrupt stockbroker.
Jennifer agrees to televise her appendix surgery live on Robbie's new Pay-Per-Cut cable show; Shrug hires himself a nanny; and Arthur's failed college career rears its ugly head when his cousin blackmails him into giving up his New York apartment -- or the cousin will spill the beans about Arthur never having graduated from college.
Sparks fly when Jennifer dates a detective who moonlights as a volunteer fireman, and Robbie breaks the news to Shrug about buying a house. Meanwhile, Arthur frets about the ambiguity of his relationship with Lauren.
Arthur lands the starring role in a sitcom.
Robbie's new girlfriend faces discrimination because she's a "walkie".
Jennifer's press agent is killed by a massage from Lauren, and the gang attend his funeral.
Shrug has trouble timing sex with his girlfriend.
Shrug and Robbie buy a Van Gogh painting as an investment. Meanwhile, Maureen McCormick and Estelle Getty help Jennifer take on Evan the Terrible, and Lauren finds out the real truth about her friend.
The gang reflects on what they were doing when basketball star Latrel Sprewell choked his coach. Lauren's massage client was about to jump out a window, Shrug met a black man, Robbie and Jennifer were in bed together when Shrug phoned Robbie to tell him the news, and Arthur was interviewing the model Veronica Webb.