(titles are hard) Cougar Town - Episode 2.06 - You Don't Know How it Feels - Recap

In case you didn't know it yet, this week it's halloween, and spooky things are happening in Cougar Town. Among those, was Laurie, who decides all of a sudden not tp drink wine before dinner (she says no. to wine!!!).
We also get the rare opportunity of seeing where Jules have gotten her crazy (her mother) when her father, Chick, comes to visit.

Even though Jules hates Halloween, she is still trying to make the holiday perfect for her father's visit. Only she has a condition which develops whenever her father comes to visit: she starts talking southern. So in order to avoid it, she asks the over enthusiastic Laurie to throw something at her whenever she starts talking all redneck.

Meanwhile, Ellie and Andy are trying to get baby Stan into one of those over valued, over priced pre-pre school. Only they are number ten on the waiting list (even though Ellie had done the unthinkable and let the head master hug her, but it's okay, because she liked it). It wasn't all over though, as Andy realized that the head master is Bobby's golf buddy. Naturally, off they went to do the second unthinkable thing for Ellie, suck up to Bobby. Even though they brought him a 50 pack, Bobby just wasn't as easy as that. Bobby has just learnt that he was no longer baby Stan's in-case-of-death legal guardian because he wasn't married to Jules anymore, so in exchange to his help, all he wanted was to be a legal guardian again. Only Ellie couldn't allow someone who doesn't even notice he hasn't got both shoes on, to take care of her child. Eventually though, Ellie found out that Bobby got baby Stan a spot in the pretentious school even though Ellie was a bitch to him (well, what was he expecting from her really), and Ellie agreed to let him be a guardian again, as long as he will let baby Stan be the man he isn't.

Moving on to Laurie and Travis (who should, and probably will get together): As mentioned earlier Laurie was very strangely not drinking, and therefore she was chosen as the designated driver for Chick as he went to pick up Travis a day early from college. Making the most of the situation, Laurie hid inside his bed and scared him until he became a frightened small kitten.
Back home again, Travis admitted he was too cool for school (or at least too old for halloween), and he didn't want to take part in the activities. However, after a few more scary moments caused by both Laurie and Travis, Travis finally admitted to Laurie that he still likes halloween, and completed her custome (more on that later).

Back to Jules' daddy issues. Jules was worried that whenever Chick comes to visit her, he goes out of his way to avoid spending time alone with her. So she tried to manipulate him into it. Her first plan, was to make Chick hate Grayson, so at dinner he'll want to get rid of him and stay with her. She did this at first by mentioning that Grayson is sleeping with her, and then by naturally counting on her daddy not liking Grayson because of his vainness. It didn't work out though, as they both got along well and even wrote a song about her together.
Then, when she finally got Chick alone in the jam/Travis' room, and he didn't want to talk to her she kicked him out of her house.
Jules was desperate to get some love from her daddy, so she decided to come in a costume (even though she hated it) to Grayson's halloween party, in order to win her father back. It didn't take her long to decide what to wear, as Grayson said he was going dressed as prince, she decided to go as a princess (only he wasn't that kind of a prince, to Jules humiliation).

We should stop now at the heart and guts of the recking father/daughter storyline to acknowledge some of the finer customs that were seen at the halloween party of the year.
Kudos goes to Laurie for a superb Ellie impersonation and for the very manly clothes. Then to Ellie, for the not as great but very bizarre impersonation of Laurie.
Third place (if this was a contest, which it isn't) goes to Barb for being the world's most revealing haystack. Or being the only one at that.
Then honorable mentions, go to both Travis for being the Andy to Laurie's Ellie (see what I mean?). Then to Bobby, for being able to be blown away so easily.

As princess Jules slowly lost her mind at the party, she was being bothered by a very persistent bear, who turned out to be none else than her father (who lied at first and said he wouldn't be there). She found this out when she decided to go home. He then gave her a hug that gave new meaning to the term “bear hug”, and confessed that the reason he couldn't spend time alone with Jules, was because she reminds him so much of her mother when she was young, and he misses her. He also, very beautifully admitted that he considers Jules the biggest achievement of his life. Aw.