1 00:00:48,882 --> 00:00:51,009 Life is all about making choices. 2 00:00:51,260 --> 00:00:53,595 Some choices, like who you marry, are big. 3 00:00:53,762 --> 00:00:55,722 While others are even bigger. 4 00:00:55,889 --> 00:00:57,516 Hey, what do you think? 5 00:00:57,766 --> 00:01:01,186 The $5 ones that last three days, or the $10 ones that last five days? 6 00:01:01,478 --> 00:01:02,354 Either one. 7 00:01:03,689 --> 00:01:04,523 Three days. 8 00:01:05,857 --> 00:01:06,692 $5. 9 00:01:07,317 --> 00:01:10,028 Another choice is how to deal with an ex-boyfriend. 10 00:01:10,237 --> 00:01:13,532 Some women handle it coolly, calmly, while others... 11 00:01:13,657 --> 00:01:14,491 Fuck! 12 00:01:15,450 --> 00:01:16,285 Steve. 13 00:01:17,911 --> 00:01:19,162 Go! Go! 14 00:01:19,538 --> 00:01:22,874 -Hey! $5! You pay! Come back here! 15 00:01:31,883 --> 00:01:33,343 He just looked so hurt. 16 00:01:33,427 --> 00:01:35,762 Like a kid in one of those big-eyed velvet paintings. 17 00:01:35,846 --> 00:01:37,431 Aw! Poor Steve. 18 00:01:37,514 --> 00:01:39,266 Well, I'm sorry, I panicked. 19 00:01:39,349 --> 00:01:41,518 What was I gonna do, stand around and chit-chat about the weather? 20 00:01:41,602 --> 00:01:43,437 The man's been inside me, for God's sake. 21 00:01:43,645 --> 00:01:44,980 Could I get some more Sweet 'N Low? 22 00:01:45,063 --> 00:01:47,649 I've never been able to be friends with an ex-boyfriend. 23 00:01:47,733 --> 00:01:51,320 I meet those couples who stay friends and I think, "How? How do they do that?" 24 00:01:51,403 --> 00:01:53,488 I've never been able to be friends with any man. 25 00:01:53,572 --> 00:01:56,199 Why would I? Women are for friendships, men are for fucking. 26 00:01:56,283 --> 00:01:58,118 Honey, you have got to learn to form an opinion. 27 00:01:58,201 --> 00:02:00,120 Friendship is the bonus of a relationship. 28 00:02:00,203 --> 00:02:02,539 If they don't want the relationship, they don't get me as a friend. 29 00:02:02,623 --> 00:02:04,041 So what, if you don't make it as a couple, 30 00:02:04,124 --> 00:02:05,959 you withhold your friendship as a punishment? 31 00:02:06,084 --> 00:02:07,836 Well, you make it sound so bad. 32 00:02:07,919 --> 00:02:09,755 Black widow spiders bite the heads off of their mates 33 00:02:09,838 --> 00:02:11,006 when they are through with them. 34 00:02:11,089 --> 00:02:13,550 I think withholding friendship is letting them off easy. 35 00:02:13,634 --> 00:02:14,718 Hey, can you imagine you guys, 36 00:02:14,801 --> 00:02:16,720 instead of the whole awful breaking up scene, you're just like, 37 00:02:16,803 --> 00:02:18,347 -"Hey, you. Come here" and you just... 38 00:02:18,430 --> 00:02:19,973 ...chomp their head off. 39 00:02:20,057 --> 00:02:23,560 Believe me, I would love to be one of those people who's all, 40 00:02:23,769 --> 00:02:27,731 "We loved, thank you. You enriched my life. Now, go, prosper." 41 00:02:27,814 --> 00:02:31,401 But I'm much more, "We didn't work out, you need to not exist." 42 00:02:33,236 --> 00:02:34,071 What? 43 00:02:34,237 --> 00:02:36,573 It's just-- It's just so childish. 44 00:02:36,657 --> 00:02:38,867 Not you, the whole situation. 45 00:02:39,534 --> 00:02:40,369 I mean... 46 00:02:40,535 --> 00:02:44,081 We keep dresses we'll never wear again when we throw away our ex-boyfriends. 47 00:02:45,832 --> 00:02:48,085 I'm not saying that I'm any better. 48 00:02:48,168 --> 00:02:51,088 I mean, I'm not-- You know, I haven't been able to be friends with Big, but... 49 00:02:52,172 --> 00:02:54,549 If you loved someone and you break up... 50 00:02:55,133 --> 00:02:56,301 where does the love go? 51 00:02:57,177 --> 00:02:58,804 To their next girlfriend. 52 00:02:59,012 --> 00:03:01,848 Oh, no, no, no. No, that is a different love. 53 00:03:01,932 --> 00:03:04,559 There is no way that the love I had with Big 54 00:03:04,643 --> 00:03:06,478 is the same thing that he has with Natasha. 55 00:03:06,561 --> 00:03:10,816 Natasha? When'd you stop calling her the Idiot Stick Figure With No Soul? 56 00:03:10,899 --> 00:03:13,402 About three weeks ago when I saw them at Cafe M. 57 00:03:14,152 --> 00:03:17,239 He was holding her hand and smiling and... 58 00:03:18,990 --> 00:03:19,950 I finally got it. 59 00:03:20,826 --> 00:03:23,662 They're happy, slash, we're over. 60 00:03:24,996 --> 00:03:25,956 And it was okay. 61 00:03:30,001 --> 00:03:32,254 -Natasha, what a bullshit name. -Totally. 62 00:03:32,337 --> 00:03:34,172 -Stupid. -Yeah, it's complete bullshit. 63 00:03:35,048 --> 00:03:38,051 Later that night, I got to thinking about the ex-factor. 64 00:03:38,468 --> 00:03:41,638 In mathematics, we learned that "x" stands for the unknown. 65 00:03:42,013 --> 00:03:43,932 "A" plus "by" equals "x." 66 00:03:44,516 --> 00:03:46,184 But what's really unknown is, 67 00:03:46,268 --> 00:03:49,354 what plus what equals friendship with an ex? 68 00:03:49,688 --> 00:03:51,898 Is this an unsolvable equation? 69 00:03:52,232 --> 00:03:55,652 Or is it possible to transform a once-passionate love... 70 00:03:55,736 --> 00:03:59,281 into something that fits nice and easily onto the friendship shelf? 71 00:03:59,906 --> 00:04:01,199 I couldn't help but wonder... 72 00:04:02,242 --> 00:04:04,077 can you be friends with an ex? 73 00:04:04,870 --> 00:04:06,204 That Sunday afternoon, 74 00:04:06,288 --> 00:04:09,624 Miranda was sitting at home, enjoying a biscotti and the paper when... 75 00:04:14,921 --> 00:04:15,756 There it was... 76 00:04:16,047 --> 00:04:17,382 her ex's head. 77 00:04:19,301 --> 00:04:20,552 I hear you breathing. 78 00:04:24,598 --> 00:04:26,558 Yeah. Hi! 79 00:04:26,933 --> 00:04:30,270 That was a shitty, shitty thing you did, running away from me on the street. 80 00:04:30,812 --> 00:04:32,022 I didn't run. 81 00:04:32,564 --> 00:04:33,398 You ran. 82 00:04:33,940 --> 00:04:36,985 Well, I wasn't expecting to see you and-- I'm-- 83 00:04:37,068 --> 00:04:38,820 It really hurt my feelings. 84 00:04:40,906 --> 00:04:44,367 Well, I don't do very well with ex-boyfriends and... 85 00:04:44,826 --> 00:04:45,702 Miranda... 86 00:04:46,328 --> 00:04:47,162 This is me. 87 00:04:48,413 --> 00:04:49,247 Steve. 88 00:04:54,586 --> 00:04:55,420 Yeah. 89 00:04:56,421 --> 00:04:58,632 I held your head while you were sleeping. 90 00:05:04,638 --> 00:05:05,722 I'm sorry. 91 00:05:06,473 --> 00:05:10,143 -I'm so sorry. I just... -It's okay. It's okay. 92 00:05:10,227 --> 00:05:13,522 I hadn't seen you in so long and I missed you... 93 00:05:13,897 --> 00:05:15,649 And then I did that shitty thing. 94 00:05:16,149 --> 00:05:18,109 -It wasn't that shitty, really. -It was. 95 00:05:18,193 --> 00:05:20,612 It was a shitty thing. I'm a shitty person. 96 00:05:20,695 --> 00:05:23,073 -You are not a shitty person. -I am! I am shitty! 97 00:05:23,406 --> 00:05:25,367 You would never do anything that shitty. 98 00:05:25,450 --> 00:05:27,869 What do you call showing up at your apartment in the middle of the afternoon 99 00:05:27,953 --> 00:05:28,870 and calling you shitty? 100 00:05:30,413 --> 00:05:31,957 Yeah, that was pretty shitty. 101 00:05:33,166 --> 00:05:35,544 You've got a bat in the cave. 102 00:05:41,216 --> 00:05:42,217 I miss you. 103 00:05:44,094 --> 00:05:47,848 Whenever something funny happens, I always want to tell you about it. 104 00:05:48,348 --> 00:05:49,182 So tell me. 105 00:05:50,767 --> 00:05:52,394 Just 'cause we didn't make it as a couple 106 00:05:52,477 --> 00:05:55,397 doesn't mean we can't have a friendly meal once in a while, does it? 107 00:05:57,774 --> 00:05:58,900 I guess not. 108 00:05:59,943 --> 00:06:01,111 So, what are you doing Friday? 109 00:06:02,863 --> 00:06:04,030 I have a date. 110 00:06:05,740 --> 00:06:06,950 Looking forward to it, are you? 111 00:06:09,494 --> 00:06:12,581 As Miranda made plans to have dinner with her last love... 112 00:06:14,499 --> 00:06:18,044 Charlotte came face to face with the memory of her first. 113 00:06:19,504 --> 00:06:21,089 Her horse, Taddy. 114 00:06:22,632 --> 00:06:25,093 Charlotte's relationship with Taddy ended sadly 115 00:06:25,176 --> 00:06:27,888 when he threw her during a teen equestrian competition 116 00:06:28,305 --> 00:06:31,474 causing her to break her collarbone and lose the blue ribbon. 117 00:06:33,018 --> 00:06:35,520 Her father promptly sold Taddy to another family 118 00:06:35,604 --> 00:06:36,980 and she hadn't been on a horse since. 119 00:06:41,735 --> 00:06:45,322 Charlotte wondered if maybe it was time to get back in the saddle again. 120 00:06:46,865 --> 00:06:48,283 Meanwhile, across town, 121 00:06:48,700 --> 00:06:51,620 Samantha was about to see a stallion of her own. 122 00:07:14,351 --> 00:07:15,185 Hi. 123 00:07:15,810 --> 00:07:17,604 I gotta tell you, you look amazing. 124 00:07:17,896 --> 00:07:19,606 Excuse me, but do I know you? 125 00:07:19,773 --> 00:07:21,274 No. Not yet. 126 00:07:21,358 --> 00:07:24,486 But I was thinking maybe you'd like to have dinner with me sometime. 127 00:07:24,861 --> 00:07:26,613 And what makes you think I'd like that? 128 00:07:27,530 --> 00:07:29,115 From the way you were just checking me out. 129 00:07:31,785 --> 00:07:34,162 Well, you get ten points for directness. 130 00:07:34,412 --> 00:07:35,705 Do I also get your phone number? 131 00:07:36,623 --> 00:07:37,666 I'm not sure yet. 132 00:07:39,793 --> 00:07:40,627 I'll tell you what... 133 00:07:42,295 --> 00:07:43,755 Here's my business card. 134 00:07:44,547 --> 00:07:45,382 You call me. 135 00:07:46,341 --> 00:07:48,385 Blatantly picking a woman up on the street. 136 00:07:49,260 --> 00:07:50,971 How'd you get to be so cocky? 137 00:07:51,262 --> 00:07:52,806 I was born that way, I guess. 138 00:07:54,265 --> 00:07:57,102 At least consider meeting me for a friendly little drink. 139 00:07:58,353 --> 00:08:01,564 I'll think about it, Mr. Cocky. 140 00:08:03,525 --> 00:08:04,359 Please do. 141 00:08:14,452 --> 00:08:15,495 It was later that week, 142 00:08:15,578 --> 00:08:18,873 when I spotted a Laura Ashley dress, circa 1988 143 00:08:18,957 --> 00:08:20,500 still hanging in my closet, 144 00:08:20,917 --> 00:08:25,046 that I decided it was time to give my ex a friendly phone call. 145 00:08:31,136 --> 00:08:31,970 Hello? 146 00:08:33,138 --> 00:08:36,766 I hadn't planned on the Idiot Stick Figure With No Soul answering. 147 00:08:38,143 --> 00:08:40,729 Then, I remembered Big had caller ID. 148 00:08:41,354 --> 00:08:42,188 Shit! 149 00:08:52,449 --> 00:08:53,283 Hello? 150 00:08:53,450 --> 00:08:54,743 Well, hello yourself. 151 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:55,994 Hey. 152 00:08:56,411 --> 00:08:57,245 Hello. 153 00:08:57,620 --> 00:08:59,998 -Did you just call? -No. Well-- 154 00:09:00,165 --> 00:09:02,709 Yes, but I didn't get to talk because... 155 00:09:03,209 --> 00:09:04,753 I hit the... 156 00:09:04,836 --> 00:09:06,629 I accidentally hit the thing... 157 00:09:06,963 --> 00:09:09,382 thing, so, you know, it hung up. 158 00:09:11,134 --> 00:09:12,010 Well, so, yes. 159 00:09:12,969 --> 00:09:14,763 And I... 160 00:09:14,846 --> 00:09:18,308 I heard Natasha, so, apologize to her. 161 00:09:20,310 --> 00:09:21,478 So, how is Natasha? 162 00:09:24,981 --> 00:09:26,024 Great. 163 00:09:26,775 --> 00:09:27,650 She's great. 164 00:09:29,986 --> 00:09:30,820 How are you? 165 00:09:31,863 --> 00:09:33,615 I'm A-Okay. 166 00:09:34,866 --> 00:09:35,950 You sound a little nuts. 167 00:09:37,535 --> 00:09:39,621 Come on, can't you let one go by? 168 00:09:40,497 --> 00:09:41,706 This is weird. 169 00:09:42,165 --> 00:09:43,124 The first call. 170 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:44,334 Right. 171 00:09:44,876 --> 00:09:46,503 Maybe I'd... I'd... I'd... 172 00:09:46,586 --> 00:09:49,839 do better if I went with my little prepared speech. 173 00:09:49,964 --> 00:09:51,382 Oh, you have a speech, do you? 174 00:09:51,549 --> 00:09:52,383 Okay. 175 00:09:53,676 --> 00:09:57,097 I was wondering what you thought of... 176 00:09:57,722 --> 00:10:00,809 instead of pretending each other doesn't exist... 177 00:10:01,518 --> 00:10:03,603 we try to be friends or something? 178 00:10:07,023 --> 00:10:08,024 Well, I'd like that. 179 00:10:09,859 --> 00:10:13,571 I've been meaning to call, but I didn't know if you wanted to hear from me so-- 180 00:10:13,696 --> 00:10:15,365 Do you want to have a lunch or something? 181 00:10:15,448 --> 00:10:16,282 Let's have a lunch. 182 00:10:21,830 --> 00:10:22,664 Thank you. 183 00:10:23,289 --> 00:10:24,290 -Hi. -Hi. 184 00:10:24,374 --> 00:10:26,668 I have a one o'clock reservation. Bradshaw. 185 00:10:26,793 --> 00:10:29,170 I used to make our lunch reservations in Big's name. 186 00:10:29,462 --> 00:10:32,715 But today, I put it in mine, because that's what friends do. 187 00:10:33,258 --> 00:10:34,551 The other party is already here. 188 00:10:35,885 --> 00:10:36,719 Thank you. 189 00:10:37,178 --> 00:10:38,012 Hey. 190 00:10:41,015 --> 00:10:42,142 -Hey. -Hey. 191 00:10:46,771 --> 00:10:48,273 Are you hungry? Because I'm hungry. 192 00:10:48,731 --> 00:10:51,776 I got up at 6:00, worked out, hardly had any breakfast. 193 00:10:53,236 --> 00:10:54,612 They have a great Cobb salad here. 194 00:10:55,613 --> 00:10:56,990 So what do you say? Shall we eat? 195 00:10:57,448 --> 00:10:58,658 -Let's eat. -We'll eat. 196 00:10:58,741 --> 00:11:01,578 And that's when I realized it. Big was nervous. 197 00:11:01,786 --> 00:11:05,498 It was odd. The new "friend" part of me felt incredibly compassionate, 198 00:11:05,623 --> 00:11:09,002 while the old "girlfriend" part of me felt incredibly smug. 199 00:11:09,085 --> 00:11:11,629 -Oh! You okay? -Yeah. Fine. 200 00:11:15,341 --> 00:11:16,176 Thank you. 201 00:11:17,844 --> 00:11:18,678 Thank you. 202 00:11:21,973 --> 00:11:23,141 Well, you look good. 203 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:24,934 Thank you, so do you. 204 00:11:25,476 --> 00:11:26,311 Good afternoon. 205 00:11:26,978 --> 00:11:27,812 Thank you. 206 00:11:28,396 --> 00:11:30,148 The Cobb salad is very good here. 207 00:11:30,732 --> 00:11:31,983 Can I get you something to drink? 208 00:11:33,151 --> 00:11:33,985 Iced tea. 209 00:11:34,861 --> 00:11:35,820 A mineral water. 210 00:11:38,489 --> 00:11:40,658 -Scotch. -Cosmopolitan. 211 00:11:43,995 --> 00:11:47,832 An hour later, I had solved the unsolvable friendship equation. 212 00:11:48,333 --> 00:11:49,959 It seems the answer is this, 213 00:11:50,460 --> 00:11:54,172 Cosmopolitans plus scotch equals friendship with an ex. 214 00:11:54,297 --> 00:11:55,798 -God! 215 00:11:56,758 --> 00:11:58,593 And what about your music? 216 00:11:59,177 --> 00:12:03,014 If I had to listen to freakin' Blood, Sweat & Tears one more time... 217 00:12:03,097 --> 00:12:03,932 Hey. 218 00:12:04,015 --> 00:12:07,060 -Blood, Sweat & Tears is great stuff. -Ten minutes after we're awake? 219 00:12:10,730 --> 00:12:11,606 Okay. 220 00:12:14,234 --> 00:12:15,276 Tell me about the girl. 221 00:12:18,821 --> 00:12:20,323 -Really? -Yeah. 222 00:12:20,406 --> 00:12:21,908 Friends talk about their relationships. 223 00:12:21,991 --> 00:12:25,662 So, go ahead, friend, tell me about the girl. 224 00:12:28,581 --> 00:12:29,457 Well... 225 00:12:31,834 --> 00:12:34,003 -She's very sweet-- -Okay, enough! 226 00:12:34,545 --> 00:12:36,422 Don't tell me about the girl. No can do. 227 00:12:37,882 --> 00:12:39,217 Maybe we should make a pact. 228 00:12:39,717 --> 00:12:41,636 We don't talk about our relationships 229 00:12:41,719 --> 00:12:43,680 until they get really serious or something. 230 00:12:44,013 --> 00:12:44,847 Okay? 231 00:12:49,102 --> 00:12:49,936 Carrie... 232 00:12:52,730 --> 00:12:54,023 It is serious. 233 00:12:58,987 --> 00:12:59,821 We're engaged. 234 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:03,908 I wanted you to hear it from me. 235 00:13:04,951 --> 00:13:05,785 Oh! 236 00:13:06,911 --> 00:13:09,414 -I just got a splitting headache. -Well-- 237 00:13:10,248 --> 00:13:12,041 I didn't know how to tell you... 238 00:13:13,918 --> 00:13:15,670 -And when you called for lunch-- -Engaged? 239 00:13:17,088 --> 00:13:20,842 How can you be engaged? You have a problem with commitment, remember? 240 00:13:21,843 --> 00:13:26,389 In fact, you told me you never wanted to get married again, ever. 241 00:13:27,849 --> 00:13:28,933 Well, things change. 242 00:13:29,017 --> 00:13:30,893 Meaning what? You just didn't want to marry me. 243 00:13:30,977 --> 00:13:33,146 -Look, Natasha and I-- -Don't say her name to me! 244 00:13:33,229 --> 00:13:35,565 Don't you dare say her name to me! 245 00:13:35,815 --> 00:13:38,693 You string me along for two years 246 00:13:38,776 --> 00:13:42,864 and then you marry some 25-year-old girl after only five months? 247 00:13:42,947 --> 00:13:44,907 -I did not string you along. -Okay, yeah right. Fine. 248 00:13:44,991 --> 00:13:46,492 That's right, you didn't string me along. 249 00:13:46,617 --> 00:13:48,911 You know what? I have to go. I have a headache. 250 00:13:50,121 --> 00:13:51,497 -Are you okay? -Yeah. I'm fine. 251 00:13:51,581 --> 00:13:55,043 -Here. -Don't help me! Don't you help me! 252 00:13:56,919 --> 00:13:58,338 Carrie, hold on, wait a minute. 253 00:13:58,588 --> 00:14:00,381 What? What? What is it? 254 00:14:00,882 --> 00:14:01,799 Don't end it like this-- 255 00:14:01,883 --> 00:14:04,802 No, you're the one that ended it like this. I was trying to be friendly. 256 00:14:04,927 --> 00:14:08,139 So, you know what? This seems like a much better way to end things. 257 00:14:08,222 --> 00:14:10,516 So, go. Go. Be engaged, get married to... 258 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,270 Nijinsky or whatever her name is. Have a nice life. 259 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:15,855 Don't worry about me, I'm fine. 260 00:14:18,733 --> 00:14:20,234 These steps are very dangerous. 261 00:14:27,367 --> 00:14:28,868 The next day, I had promised to hold 262 00:14:28,951 --> 00:14:31,037 Charlotte's hand while she attempted to go riding. 263 00:14:31,537 --> 00:14:33,831 Turned out, she needed to hold mine as well. 264 00:14:34,332 --> 00:14:35,333 How are you doing? 265 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,920 Aside for the fact that my ex is engaged to a teenager 266 00:14:39,003 --> 00:14:43,800 and I've got horseshit on my $300 goddamn shoes... 267 00:14:44,509 --> 00:14:45,385 I'm doing okay. 268 00:14:45,843 --> 00:14:47,303 Well, I think you're amazing. 269 00:14:47,428 --> 00:14:49,263 I would be in a hospital or something. 270 00:14:49,472 --> 00:14:51,474 -What the fuck is his problem? 271 00:14:52,308 --> 00:14:53,601 He's just got a stubborn streak. 272 00:14:54,936 --> 00:14:57,438 I mean some horses. they never really like to be ridden. 273 00:14:57,563 --> 00:14:59,148 Taddy was like that when I first got him, 274 00:14:59,232 --> 00:15:02,026 but then once they broke him in, then he loved it. 275 00:15:02,485 --> 00:15:03,319 You know what? 276 00:15:03,611 --> 00:15:04,821 I broke in Big. 277 00:15:04,946 --> 00:15:07,365 I did, I broke him in and now the Idiot Stick Figure 278 00:15:07,448 --> 00:15:08,866 With No Soul gets to ride him. 279 00:15:09,242 --> 00:15:10,284 Carrie, I'm... 280 00:15:11,744 --> 00:15:13,037 I'm really sorry. 281 00:15:13,579 --> 00:15:15,832 I know you are, sweetie. Thanks. 282 00:15:17,667 --> 00:15:19,794 Oh! Damn! Damn! 283 00:15:20,253 --> 00:15:21,504 You see, this is what happens. 284 00:15:21,963 --> 00:15:24,799 You try to be friendly with an ex and you wind up knee-deep in shit! 285 00:15:28,469 --> 00:15:29,470 Perfect. 286 00:15:38,396 --> 00:15:39,730 -Here you go. This is Pal. 287 00:15:39,814 --> 00:15:40,648 He's a good boy. 288 00:15:40,815 --> 00:15:42,525 Oh and he's brown. 289 00:15:42,650 --> 00:15:45,778 Taddy was brown, but he had white spots on his flank. 290 00:15:47,113 --> 00:15:50,283 Just stay till I'm on the horse, then you can go, okay? 291 00:15:50,366 --> 00:15:53,369 Yeah, I'm here, it's all lovely. Go have fun. 292 00:15:55,163 --> 00:15:56,164 Hey, Pal. 293 00:15:56,247 --> 00:15:58,166 Here you go. Foot in and up you go. 294 00:15:58,249 --> 00:16:00,251 As Charlotte placed her boot in the stirrup, 295 00:16:00,501 --> 00:16:02,503 all her bad memories of Taddy, 296 00:16:02,587 --> 00:16:05,965 and broken bones and lost ribbons flooded over her. 297 00:16:07,508 --> 00:16:08,342 No! 298 00:16:09,594 --> 00:16:10,678 Can't. 299 00:16:11,220 --> 00:16:13,848 -No, I can't. Let's go. -You just paid. 300 00:16:13,931 --> 00:16:16,017 -I said, I can't! - Hey, he's all saddled up. 301 00:16:19,645 --> 00:16:22,273 After a few "get to know each other" phone calls, 302 00:16:22,398 --> 00:16:25,693 Samantha took up Mr. Cocky on his offer of a friendly drink. 303 00:16:26,277 --> 00:16:28,529 Turns out, it was a very friendly drink. 304 00:16:30,323 --> 00:16:33,868 I want you to know, that I never pick up guys on the street 305 00:16:33,951 --> 00:16:35,912 unless they're very cute. 306 00:16:36,037 --> 00:16:38,080 So, get over here, you cutie, you. 307 00:16:40,208 --> 00:16:42,210 You know, before we go any further, I got-- 308 00:16:42,460 --> 00:16:44,045 I gotta warn you about something. 309 00:16:45,296 --> 00:16:46,923 Warn me about what? 310 00:16:48,466 --> 00:16:49,800 I'm very well-endowed. 311 00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:52,929 Ting, ting, ting, jackpot. 312 00:16:53,346 --> 00:16:55,640 No, no, no, no. I'm serious. It's... 313 00:16:56,849 --> 00:16:57,683 It's huge. 314 00:16:58,518 --> 00:16:59,352 I mean... 315 00:17:00,853 --> 00:17:02,813 Most women, they just can't handle it. 316 00:17:03,606 --> 00:17:06,567 Well, I'm not most women. 317 00:17:07,235 --> 00:17:09,946 So, unzip and get over here. 318 00:17:14,367 --> 00:17:17,662 Samantha suddenly understood what made Mr. Cocky so cocky. 319 00:17:26,837 --> 00:17:30,508 I'm telling you, Carrie, it was like a wall of flesh coming at me. 320 00:17:30,591 --> 00:17:33,344 There's nothing is scarier than a really big one coming at you. 321 00:17:33,511 --> 00:17:36,639 I didn't even wanna get my mouth near it, I was afraid I'd get lockjaw. 322 00:17:37,056 --> 00:17:40,309 I mean, it was quite a shock. His hands are relatively tiny. 323 00:17:40,393 --> 00:17:43,521 -Oh, don't tell me you believe that. -Well, not anymore. 324 00:17:44,021 --> 00:17:47,441 I am really going to have to psych myself up before I try it again. 325 00:17:47,608 --> 00:17:49,443 You're going to try it again? Why? 326 00:17:49,944 --> 00:17:51,612 Because it's there. 327 00:17:51,696 --> 00:17:53,281 Sweetie it's a penis, not Mount Everest. 328 00:17:53,364 --> 00:17:55,449 Well, let me tell you. If it was Mount Everest, 329 00:17:55,533 --> 00:17:58,244 last night I could only make it to Base Camp One. 330 00:17:58,327 --> 00:17:59,161 Wowza! 331 00:17:59,537 --> 00:18:02,832 You dated Mr. Big, I'm dating Mr. Too Big. 332 00:18:03,541 --> 00:18:04,875 You know what? You're unbelievable. 333 00:18:05,042 --> 00:18:08,546 You broke up with James because he was too small, this guy is too big. 334 00:18:09,046 --> 00:18:10,590 Who are you, Goldicocks? 335 00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:11,757 Yep. 336 00:18:12,216 --> 00:18:14,885 I'm looking for one that's just right. 337 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,805 That night, after a friendly dinner, 338 00:18:18,014 --> 00:18:21,267 Steve and Miranda began to explore their newfound friendship. 339 00:18:21,350 --> 00:18:23,978 You know, if you were a real friend, you'd let me keep it. 340 00:18:24,061 --> 00:18:26,147 Sorry, that's one of the conditions of a break-up. 341 00:18:26,230 --> 00:18:27,982 You gotta give me back my fire department t-shirt. 342 00:18:28,065 --> 00:18:31,068 -It fits me perfectly. -Boo-hoo! Tell it to the judge. 343 00:18:31,193 --> 00:18:32,528 -Please? -Nope. 344 00:18:37,241 --> 00:18:38,868 So, thanks for coming out for dinner. 345 00:18:39,076 --> 00:18:41,287 Well, thanks for letting me pay, finally. 346 00:18:41,370 --> 00:18:43,706 Hey, that's what friends do, isn't it? 347 00:18:45,416 --> 00:18:46,250 Well... 348 00:18:47,001 --> 00:18:47,835 Goodnight. 349 00:18:50,796 --> 00:18:53,341 Right. That's what friends do, isn't it? 350 00:18:56,761 --> 00:18:58,721 Hey, I got another question for you. 351 00:19:01,724 --> 00:19:02,642 Do friends kiss... 352 00:19:05,811 --> 00:19:06,646 here? 353 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:10,274 No. 354 00:19:10,941 --> 00:19:11,776 Oh! 355 00:19:14,403 --> 00:19:15,780 Do friends kiss here? 356 00:19:21,327 --> 00:19:22,161 No. 357 00:19:24,246 --> 00:19:25,331 Oh! 358 00:19:27,541 --> 00:19:28,668 Do friends kiss... 359 00:19:31,003 --> 00:19:31,879 Yeah. 360 00:19:59,824 --> 00:20:01,784 So, we had good reasons for breaking up, right? 361 00:20:02,326 --> 00:20:03,160 Yeah. 362 00:20:04,036 --> 00:20:06,789 Money, schedules, goals. 363 00:20:08,082 --> 00:20:09,041 Good reasons. 364 00:20:12,795 --> 00:20:13,796 So, what now? 365 00:20:16,173 --> 00:20:17,299 Are we still just friends? 366 00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:20,970 Yeah, we're still just friends. 367 00:20:22,555 --> 00:20:23,764 Friends who have sex. 368 00:20:24,807 --> 00:20:25,641 Oh! 369 00:20:42,950 --> 00:20:44,994 And in a bed across town... 370 00:20:45,369 --> 00:20:46,412 Ready? 371 00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:48,205 Wait. 372 00:20:49,707 --> 00:20:50,916 Wait. 373 00:20:51,584 --> 00:20:53,377 After two advanced yoga classes 374 00:20:53,461 --> 00:20:56,130 and a hit of the best Hawaiian gold she could find... 375 00:20:56,505 --> 00:20:59,884 Samantha was ready to take another run at Mount Everest. 376 00:20:59,967 --> 00:21:03,471 Okay, here we go. 377 00:21:05,347 --> 00:21:07,391 Nice and easy. 378 00:21:10,144 --> 00:21:11,145 Okay. 379 00:21:16,233 --> 00:21:17,359 That's it. 380 00:21:20,112 --> 00:21:21,864 Easy-- 381 00:21:22,364 --> 00:21:23,824 Easy. 382 00:21:25,993 --> 00:21:27,036 Okay. 383 00:21:28,412 --> 00:21:29,705 Oh, good. 384 00:21:32,541 --> 00:21:33,834 Good. 385 00:21:33,918 --> 00:21:36,170 Okay, here we go. 386 00:21:38,339 --> 00:21:39,423 Here we go? 387 00:21:39,673 --> 00:21:40,508 Yeah. 388 00:21:41,091 --> 00:21:42,468 You mean, we're not there yet? 389 00:21:43,594 --> 00:21:45,805 -No. -Okay, stop. 390 00:21:46,055 --> 00:21:48,224 Whoa, boy. Woah, woah! 391 00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:54,146 Can we just be friends? 392 00:21:57,983 --> 00:22:02,154 And just like that, Samantha made her very first male friend. 393 00:22:04,949 --> 00:22:08,744 The next day in Central Park, Charlotte was making a new friend as well. 394 00:22:08,953 --> 00:22:09,787 Woah! 395 00:22:10,204 --> 00:22:11,205 Woah! 396 00:22:11,539 --> 00:22:12,456 Good, Pal. 397 00:22:12,540 --> 00:22:15,251 She had decided she and Pal were moving too fast. 398 00:22:15,543 --> 00:22:18,587 Before they could go any further, they needed to slow down 399 00:22:18,671 --> 00:22:19,922 and get to know each other better. 400 00:22:21,048 --> 00:22:23,342 You're a good boy, Pal. 401 00:22:24,009 --> 00:22:25,219 Does that feel good? 402 00:22:26,136 --> 00:22:29,598 You like that? Oh, my Taddy liked that, too, yes. 403 00:22:30,099 --> 00:22:32,268 I loved my Taddy so much. 404 00:22:32,351 --> 00:22:35,229 Oh, good boy. 405 00:22:35,312 --> 00:22:37,857 And with that gentle nudge from her new pal, 406 00:22:38,315 --> 00:22:40,985 all Charlotte's bad feelings about Taddy lifted 407 00:22:41,193 --> 00:22:44,822 and she remembered just how much she had loved his cute white spots. 408 00:22:45,990 --> 00:22:47,825 Easy. Easy. 409 00:22:48,659 --> 00:22:50,327 Okay. Go, boy, go! 410 00:23:11,891 --> 00:23:14,268 Hey, it's Carrie, I'm shoe shopping. 411 00:23:14,476 --> 00:23:15,895 It's me, are you there? 412 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:19,523 Pick up if you're there. 413 00:23:22,860 --> 00:23:23,694 You're not there. 414 00:23:25,487 --> 00:23:26,322 Okay... 415 00:23:28,949 --> 00:23:33,203 Well, I'm calling to say I feel bad about last week. 416 00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:40,294 I didn't mean for it to happen like that. 417 00:23:43,631 --> 00:23:44,715 I thought you needed to know. 418 00:23:46,342 --> 00:23:48,260 I hated the idea of someone else telling you. 419 00:23:49,470 --> 00:23:50,304 Christ. 420 00:23:51,138 --> 00:23:53,432 I feel like a real shit. I'm sorry. 421 00:23:53,766 --> 00:23:55,434 I'm really sorry... 422 00:23:56,393 --> 00:23:57,227 I would... 423 00:23:57,770 --> 00:24:00,606 you know, I would never ever hurt you deliberately-- 424 00:24:01,148 --> 00:24:02,191 I know you wouldn't. 425 00:24:03,734 --> 00:24:05,778 -You're there? -Yeah, I'm here. 426 00:24:12,451 --> 00:24:13,285 So... 427 00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:15,746 Like I was saying, I'm sorry. 428 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,414 No, I'm sorry, too. 429 00:24:18,874 --> 00:24:20,834 I shouldn't have reacted like that. I just... 430 00:24:23,420 --> 00:24:26,048 It was just such a shock. 431 00:24:28,592 --> 00:24:31,720 I guess it was a shock I needed to hear to move on or something. 432 00:24:34,682 --> 00:24:35,516 Yeah. 433 00:24:39,770 --> 00:24:42,272 I wish you all the best. I do. 434 00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:45,943 I hope you and Natasha will be very happy. 435 00:24:47,027 --> 00:24:47,903 Do you mean that? 436 00:24:48,404 --> 00:24:49,238 No. 437 00:24:50,739 --> 00:24:51,657 But I will. 438 00:24:52,950 --> 00:24:55,244 Really. Really, I hope... 439 00:24:56,870 --> 00:24:58,622 someday very soon, 440 00:24:58,956 --> 00:25:03,419 we can all meet for a drink and be great friends. 441 00:25:04,712 --> 00:25:06,255 You know, like they do in the movies. 442 00:25:08,507 --> 00:25:09,341 So... 443 00:25:11,593 --> 00:25:12,428 Bye. 444 00:25:15,597 --> 00:25:16,432 Bye. 445 00:25:29,486 --> 00:25:33,323 And I actually managed to hold onto those friendly feelings, until... 446 00:25:54,344 --> 00:25:57,765 I can't believe my ex-boyfriend is six blocks away at The Plaza 447 00:25:57,848 --> 00:25:59,767 right now having an engagement brunch. 448 00:25:59,850 --> 00:26:01,935 I can't believe he had the nerve to invite you. 449 00:26:02,019 --> 00:26:03,729 Oh, no no no. It's my own fault. 450 00:26:03,854 --> 00:26:07,483 I had to make the big "let's be friends" speech. 451 00:26:08,192 --> 00:26:11,028 But who am I kidding? Big and I were never friends, we were... 452 00:26:11,153 --> 00:26:12,237 something else. 453 00:26:13,238 --> 00:26:16,825 Something that apparently did not end with an engagement party at The Plaza. 454 00:26:17,034 --> 00:26:19,119 -Do we want another round? -What do you think? 455 00:26:19,203 --> 00:26:20,913 -Four more, please. -Coming right up. 456 00:26:20,996 --> 00:26:25,125 You know, I think I can actually feel them over there eating shrimp. 457 00:26:25,876 --> 00:26:28,170 It's just-- Why her? 458 00:26:29,463 --> 00:26:30,798 I mean really... 459 00:26:31,548 --> 00:26:32,549 Why her? 460 00:26:33,092 --> 00:26:34,968 One word. Hubbell. 461 00:26:35,552 --> 00:26:36,720 Hubbell. 462 00:26:36,929 --> 00:26:39,014 Oh, my God. Hubbell. 463 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,267 It is so Hubbell. 464 00:26:42,351 --> 00:26:43,185 Who's Hubbell? 465 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:44,520 Hubbell! 466 00:26:44,603 --> 00:26:47,314 Robert "Hubbell" Redford in "The Way We Were". 467 00:26:47,397 --> 00:26:49,066 Oh, I love that movie. 468 00:26:49,149 --> 00:26:51,819 No, I love, love, love, that movie. 469 00:26:51,902 --> 00:26:54,488 -Never saw it. - Oh, my god! 470 00:26:54,696 --> 00:26:57,491 What are you, an alien? How could you have not seen "The Way We Were"? 471 00:26:57,616 --> 00:26:58,575 Chick film. 472 00:26:59,243 --> 00:27:02,913 OK. Robert Redford is madly in love with Barbra Streisand. 473 00:27:03,163 --> 00:27:04,665 -Katie. -K-k-k-Katie. 474 00:27:04,748 --> 00:27:06,375 K-k-k-Katie, right! 475 00:27:06,542 --> 00:27:09,670 Yeah. But he can't be with her because she's too complicated and... 476 00:27:09,962 --> 00:27:12,172 she has wild, curly hair. 477 00:27:12,256 --> 00:27:14,174 -Hello? C-c-c-curly. -Yeah. 478 00:27:14,424 --> 00:27:16,468 So he leaves her and marries this... 479 00:27:16,885 --> 00:27:19,304 simple girl with straight hair. 480 00:27:19,429 --> 00:27:21,223 Ladies, I am having an epiphany. 481 00:27:21,598 --> 00:27:24,226 The world is made up of two types of women: 482 00:27:24,393 --> 00:27:26,562 The "simple" girls and the "Katie" girls. 483 00:27:27,437 --> 00:27:30,190 I'm a "Katie" girl and where are our drinks? 484 00:27:30,274 --> 00:27:34,194 I always, always, always cry at the last scene in that movie, 485 00:27:34,278 --> 00:27:37,281 when she sees him in front of the hotel with his new wife. 486 00:27:37,364 --> 00:27:38,323 The simple girl. 487 00:27:38,448 --> 00:27:41,076 -And she reaches up-- -And smoothes his hair away. 488 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,661 And she says to him, 489 00:27:42,786 --> 00:27:44,830 "Your girl is lovely, Hubbell." 490 00:27:45,455 --> 00:27:47,791 And then the music comes in. 491 00:27:47,875 --> 00:27:48,876 Memories 492 00:27:48,959 --> 00:27:50,460 Oh my, God, it's so good. 493 00:27:50,544 --> 00:27:52,880 Light the corners of my mind 494 00:27:53,172 --> 00:27:56,466 Misty water-colored memories 495 00:27:57,050 --> 00:27:59,219 Of the way we were 496 00:27:59,303 --> 00:28:00,846 Let me do my favorite part. 497 00:28:00,929 --> 00:28:03,599 -Can it be -Oh yes! 498 00:28:03,682 --> 00:28:08,187 Can it be that it was all so simple then 499 00:28:08,312 --> 00:28:12,232 Or has time re-written every line? 500 00:28:12,608 --> 00:28:16,361 If we had the chance to do it all again 501 00:28:16,737 --> 00:28:17,863 Tell me 502 00:28:18,071 --> 00:28:19,615 Would we? 503 00:28:20,282 --> 00:28:21,283 Could we? 504 00:28:22,201 --> 00:28:24,995 Memories 505 00:28:25,287 --> 00:28:26,830 I miss James. 506 00:28:28,498 --> 00:28:29,708 Excuse me? 507 00:28:30,834 --> 00:28:33,212 After I left my friends, I found myself 508 00:28:33,295 --> 00:28:35,756 pulled to the site of the Big engagement party. 509 00:28:36,006 --> 00:28:39,593 I had no intention of going in, but it was on my way home. 510 00:28:51,188 --> 00:28:52,564 One second. 511 00:28:54,524 --> 00:28:55,567 I had a choice. 512 00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:59,029 I could run or I could stand and ask him the question, 513 00:28:59,154 --> 00:29:02,866 that if I didn't ask, would haunt me the rest of my life. 514 00:29:03,367 --> 00:29:05,619 I thought by the time I got here, I'd know what to say. 515 00:29:06,662 --> 00:29:07,496 And? 516 00:29:08,956 --> 00:29:09,790 Well... 517 00:29:10,332 --> 00:29:11,166 You're late. 518 00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:12,918 The party's over. 519 00:29:13,794 --> 00:29:14,878 I'll say it is. 520 00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:18,632 Funny. 521 00:29:20,425 --> 00:29:22,594 Anyway, I was just on my way home and... 522 00:29:24,554 --> 00:29:25,389 Hey. 523 00:29:26,431 --> 00:29:27,683 I have a question for you. 524 00:29:29,226 --> 00:29:30,352 Why wasn't it me? 525 00:29:30,978 --> 00:29:32,479 -Carrie-- -No, seriously. 526 00:29:33,522 --> 00:29:35,774 I really need to hear you say it. 527 00:29:37,359 --> 00:29:38,819 Come on, be a friend. 528 00:29:42,489 --> 00:29:43,448 I don't know. 529 00:29:44,741 --> 00:29:46,118 It just got so hard... 530 00:29:47,911 --> 00:29:48,996 and she's... 531 00:29:51,331 --> 00:29:52,332 Yeah. 532 00:30:04,928 --> 00:30:06,680 "Your girl is lovely, Hubbell." 533 00:30:09,558 --> 00:30:10,517 I don't get it. 534 00:30:12,060 --> 00:30:13,270 And you never did. 535 00:30:21,445 --> 00:30:22,904 Easy, girl, easy. 536 00:30:33,332 --> 00:30:36,543 Then I had a thought, maybe I didn't break Big. 537 00:30:37,044 --> 00:30:39,588 Maybe the problem was he couldn't break me. 538 00:30:40,756 --> 00:30:43,133 Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. 539 00:30:44,384 --> 00:30:47,679 Maybe they need to run free until they find someone... 540 00:30:48,096 --> 00:30:50,390 just as wild to run with.