- Marketing Ray as a high-end "happiness consultant," Tanya tracks down former law-firm colleague Lenore, who agrees to take Ray for a test ride in exchange for the names and numbers of wealthy women. Jessica's obsessive behavior grates on her kids, who push Ray to fix his fire-damaged house. A contractor promises Ray a "wolf pack" discount for repairs, but money mismanagement has Ray strapped for cash. That could change after Ray's session with Lenore - or so he and Tanya hope.—HBO Publicity
- "Hung" - "Great Sausage or Can I Call You Dick?" - July 12, 2009
Ray has been at the new business for a little while now and he's got something to show for it: a hickey. He's at a meeting in the teacher's lounge - where the art teacher is getting a send off- trying to figure out a way to cover it up. His assistant coach wonders if they'll be getting the axe next in the budget cuts but Ray pshaws this pointing out that basketball is much more important than art. Just then a woman comes on the P.A. and asks Ray to report to the principal's office.
In typical TV fashion, instead of waiting to hear what she wants he starts babbling about the losing streak and how it's not his fault, he's working hard, he's planting seeds for the future, they've had bad luck. The principal says it isn't about that, it's about something he's done that disappoints her since the kids see him as a role model. He's paranoid that she knows about the male prostitute thing.
We cut to him and Tanya in a corporate chain restaurant- which she doesn't like- strategizing. She's come up with a title - "Happiness Consultant" - a logo - a smiley face with a bow - and a plan that includes a suit, a website, and an old friend. She's going to get in touch with an obnoxious woman named Lenore that she used to work with at the law firm, who is now an obnoxious personal shopper to rich ladies, and get her to recommend Ray to her clients.
Lenore agrees to this but wants to sample the goods first. So before she does Tanya wants Ray to up his game- work on his approach, give compliments, spend more time on foreplay, and hang out for a little while afterwards. Ray wonders if it's just her that wants those things since he has decades of making women happy and he says Tanya wasn't his only screamer, plus he hates wearing a suit. But he does.
He shows up at Lenore's and she is uninterested in all of Tanya's romantic advice she just wants to get high and order Ray around - lick my stomach, grind to the right, stand up, sit down. Ray voices over that he's glad he was an athlete as we see a montage of them banging...athletically. Lenore certainly seems satisfied as they lay exhausted in bed. Ray swears to himself he's only going to stay ten minutes but he falls asleep and wakes up late. He tears around Lenore's house but can't find his wallet. He tries to wake her but she says to ask the maid. In a tizzy that she has his identity - he called himself Richard - and will put it on the Internet - he calls Tanya.
She's having problems of her own at the law firm. She brushes off his missing wallet and asks how it went. He explains she was bossy and irritating but that it was vaguely pleasant. She interprets this to mean it went well. As she surveys the folks at the firm running around frantically - a bank they repped has gone belly up - she tells Ray they need to make a million dollars because she needs to quit her job. He agrees since the twins have made it plain they hate living with their mother and want to move back in with him. But it's going to cost him at least 25 grand to rehab his burnt out house, on which he's behind in the mortgage. So he wants to make money too.
Meanwhile, Jessica is making the twins unhappy, bribing the choir director to get the girl a solo, taking them out for uncomfortable ice cream treats and babbling on an on about how she loves Damon's goth stuff. She wonders why they don't like her, is it Ron? Are they mad she cheated? They say they aren't mad but they're clearly unhappy. Later, as she's getting Botox-ed by hubby Ron she laments that she wants to give more to the children but they won't let her.
We cut back to the present and Ray in the principal's office. It turns out that she's mad that he used the word "shit" in his speech last week to the team, when he was giving them the dung beetle pep talk. Two parents have complained. Ray, relieved, says he promises not to curse anymore. As he walks out the principal notices his neck and asks if he has a hickey. Of course not, he says, he's divorced.
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