Holy cats, I would totally not blame Trina if she decided never to talk to Susan or Bruce again. In two separate scenes, both of them used her as their crying towel, and then basically said, "Well, it's so easy for you -- you like being a childless whore!" Except Trina's not technically a childless whore -- she's pregnant, and hasn't told Tom yet. She does tell Janet, who is thrilled for her and, thank goodness, the one person who says, "Is it Tom's, isn't it?" Haaaaa. And also, the answer is yes. As Trina says, it looks like they closed their marriage at the right time.
Also in this episode, everything is going well for Janet -- she's kicking ass at work (i.e. telling everyone what to do and loving every minute of it), so Henry recruits her to take over for a drying-out advice columnist. Janet writes up her responses, but balks until later that evening, when she handles a drunken Ricky (more on that below) and Trina's "I'm pregnant" news. Then, she figures she might as well throw her beret in the ring for the job.
And Janet may well need a better-paying job, because her husband's A) considering a job in Cincinati and B) considering an affair with Susan. And by "considering," I mean "spending a lot of time hanging around Susan and beseeching her to have an affair with him." However, Susan takes the high road because she realizes that "bros before hos" works when you, um, reverse the sexes. Alas, Bruce is not taking any high road: when he's faced with the prospect of work-girlfriend Melinda leaving for another firm and Melinda's answer to Bruce is, "Talk me out of this tonight, or lose me forever," Bruce is like, "Let me lie to my wife about why I had to head back into the office." And Susan knows he's lying.
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