- After her recent divorce, Jules decides to put herself "out there" again, much to the embarrassment of her teenage son.
- Jules is a woman in her forties who's five months out of her marriage and being pressured by her best friends into getting "back out there" although finding the dating scene not her style. With a teenage son, who would be happier if she were to hide out in the house, she gets the business from him when she feels like she's allowed to have a life.—Moviedude1
- Five months after his parents divorce, sweet teenager Travis is embarrassed by both of them in Cougar Town, Florida. His lazy father, Bobby, is a bad provider but a stud while his mother, Julie (Jules), sort of rivals with her friends and craves advice in order to data again. Jules is furious at her neighbor, Grayson Ellis, whose love life peaks subsequent to his recent divorce.—KGF Vissers
- Jules Cobb (Courteney Cox) stares at herself in the mirror in only a towel, suddenly taking notice of a few little sags here and there on her body. This may mark the first time in history women want to kill Courteney since nobody really believes she has these problems, but no matter, Jules is not happy with how she looks.
At a football game at her son's high school (in a part of Florida where it is apparently so cold, the referees wear long-sleeved shirts), Jules relaxes in the stands with her friend and co-worker, Laurie. (Busy Philipps) They are playing the traditional game of "Son...or Boyfriend?" with a few 40-something moms sitting with much younger guys. Jules is ahead 8-0 over Laurie, thanks to hiring her son, Travis (Dan Byrd) as a scoreboard. Noticing that Travis' math teacher just got breast enhancement surgery, Laurie wonders why older women would do that. It would seem that men of Jules' age are either broken, gay, or chasing younger girls. Jules in convinced she won't end up like Travis' math teacher, and Laurie agrees, mainly because Jules' frame couldn't handle the Pamela Anderson look. Although she could handle being with the young guy by the fence with his shirt off. She'd like to lick his body, if his mother sitting in front of Jules gives her the OK.
Laurie tries to convince Jules (once again) to go out and party, but Jules has two glasses of wine and a Scrabble board waiting at home for herself and her best married friend, Ellie (Christa Miller). However, Ellie promised her husband Andy (Ian Gomez---since Drew Carey already has a job it would seem) that they would have sex at least once a month and he is making her honor the agreement. Ellie does appreciate that Jules thinks she looks like a whore.
In the morning, Jules is forced to watch her 40-something neighbor, Grayson (Josh Hopkins), say goodbye to another 20-something conquest. This time, she has had enough and confronts him about the fact he's sleeping with sorority girls only a week after his wife leaves him and society admires him. He thinks it's because she couldn't "bag a young stud if she tried." Therefore she tries...by flashing a kid on a bicycle. (bra and panties only, chill out). Crashing headfirst into a car would lead one to believe the kid on the bicycle didn't think it was worth it, although she did.
After dropping Travis off at school, complete with the embarrassing knowledge that Jules flashed one of his classmates, he trudges off for a day of humiliation while she has some of her own. As a real estate agent, she has the obligatory lawn signs all over town. However, most signs don't have such a gratuitous shot of cleavage, nor do you get 13 year olds trying to steal every one of them. Jules is horrified that Laurie would do that, but Laurie is hell-bent on getting Jules out in the dating pool, no matter how shallow the water is. After seeing another older man with a "twinkie" (to use an old term from Friends), Laurie insists she and Jules are going out on the prowl.
JULES: You're young! Me? I have to act my age. I go out on the "prowl," the next thing I know I'm at a Jonas Brothers concert wearing a miniskirt sporting some sort of giant collagen hot dog lips.
LAURIE: Are you making fun of my mom?
JULES: Maybe.
Laurie does wear her down, and they are heading out tonight. She just has to take care of a few things first, such as picking out a dress, doing her hair and lipstick, and paying alimony to her ex, Bobby (Brian Van Holt). He has Travis tonight, and he wants to be able to feed him dinner...or potato chips and a guzzler-sized drink from the liquor store, but whatever. Her ex is no help, nor is the guilt trip Ellie is laying on her for hanging out with the younger, single Laurie instead of the older, married, bitter Ellie. At a loud nightclub, Jules doesn't know how to act like a 20-something, since she spent that decade working her tail off and raising her son while her n'er-do-well ex tried to make it on the tour. (they never really specified which tour). But it would seem that spilling your drink over the first guy you see does the trick when it comes to meeting someone. She seems to be doing well with Matt (David Clayton Rogers), although the second martini is making her a little too honest for her own good. The guy who walks in the bar that notes that Jules went to high school with his mom was WAY too honest. She leaves, humiliated.
Jules is ready to share a bottle (or three) of wine with Ellie when Matt shows up at her door, courtesy of a drunk Laurie dropping him off. She is not in much of a mood for him, given how the night went. Although she is more than happy to make some crackers with peanut butter on them, like she does for Travis' friends. However, he'll settle for nibbling at her neck. Suddenly she is REALLY in a mood for him. Several hours of sex later, they are relaxing by her pool, and she wants to do something to him she always told her ex she hated. (FYI ladies, just be honest with guys on whether or not you like to do that. We'll pout at first, but we get over it eventually if you don't.) Of course, she probably shouldn't be doing that right when Travis and Bobby walk in. Bobby is mad, Travis is traumatized, and the bananas have disappeared from the house.
In the morning, she tries to apologize to Travis and explain she fears shriveling up and dying if she doesn't get out and do things, and she'll continue the conversation when she can make it far less awkward. Speaking of awkward, Ellie is stalking Jules at her office, upset that Jules doesn't share details as much as she used to. As Jules tries to prevent a fight between Ellie and Laurie, Travis starts one of his own, thanks to a douchebag senior who teases him with his mom's sultry real estate sign. As if being picked up by the reason for the fight wasn't bad enough, his dad got a job taking care of the grounds at his high school, which he does while continuing to rock the Matthew McConaughey look (i.e. thick Texas accent and no shirt). Although you do have to appreciate the choice of Foghat while on the riding lawn mower.
The remaining few strands of Jules' rope are then taken by the 13-year-old who has been stealing her signs. She and Laurie give chase, only to find this kid has the signs all over his room. She may be upset that Robbie and his friends take her signs, but it upsets her more that Travis is being affected negatively by it. He agrees to stop doing it. Travis is still having a hard time with his dad being at his school on a daily basis and his mom trying to get back out into the social world, but he does appreciate what Jules did to end his humiliation over the signs, and she'll try to make his life easier. She lets him stay an extra hour tonight past curfew...mainly because Matt is coming over.
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