One of my personal favorites of DH. This is a unique little episode that shows Susan coping with a sudden loss of her newfound romance with Mike. She mourns him and feels miserable, so Edie offers to take her to a bar, get her drunk and hook her up with a random guy in a dark alley ;) but they decided to snoop around the Young house instead and Paul almost catches them. The scene where Edie pretends she just came by to return the key at midnight (and drunk) was one of her best moments in the show lol. The look on her face was priceless when she realized that even though she helped Susan getting out of there, but she is trapped and making out with Mr. Paul "Weirdo" Young. To this day I think Nicollette Sheridan was robbed of Golden Globe in Jan 2005 and I even dare to say she should have submitted this episode for the Emmys that year, I bet she would have gotten at least a nomination.
Bree is concerned because Maisy Gibbons (Rex was paying her for some sex stuff) is arrested and she wants to help herself so she releases a "Little Black Book" that contains some specific details and most importantly the names of her clients. Bree tries to bribe her with some homemade muffins and then offers her 14,000 dollars, but Maisy refuses. by the end of the episode everyone knows that Rex was one of her clients. So Bree does a great act of kindness when she notices Gaby must be having some kind of money issues and lends the money to her instead. Lynette had this very little, but entertaining storyline with one of the other school moms :)
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Maisy Gibbons' (guest star Sharon Lawrence) series of unfortunate events shock the residents of Wisteria Lane when she is finally caught and arrested for prostitution. This leaves unexpected consequences for Bree and Rex when Maisy's little black book becomes public of all her clients -including Rex for all the neighbors to see. Gabrielle and Carlos also face a crisis of their own when the sewer system goes out at their house and they don't have the money to fix it. Also, Lynette braves a scandal herself when it's rumored that the twins started the school's head lice epidemic. Meanwhile, as Susan sinks into depression over her breakup with Mike, she finds a surprising ally - Edie.moreless
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GUEST STAR
Mary-Pat GreenNurse Abigail
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GUEST STAR
Sharon LawrenceMaisy Gibbons
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GUEST STAR
Lisa DarrTammy Brennan
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Teri Hatcher
Susan Mayer
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Felicity Huffman
Lynette Scavo
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Marcia Cross
Bree Van De Kamp
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Eva Longoria
Gabrielle Solis
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Nicollette Sheridan
Edie Britt
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Brenda Strong
Mary Alice Young
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It was actor Mark Moses that suggested Paul and Edie should be romantically involved.
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In the scene where Susan and Edie go to the bar, Edie tells Susan that she talked with Paul the other day and he was trying to make Mike look guilty, and later while at the Youngs, Edie says that she wasn't kidding this afternoon, and that she was going to keep his house key. Both of which happened earlier in the episode, but it is unclear whether it was earlier that day or a day or two ago. Paul was also going on business that day in the initial conversation, so there is some confusion here.
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In the scene where Gabrielle and Carlos fight, there are a lot of editing goofs. First when Gabrielle wraps the towel around her body. In one shot she gets halfway through, actually tucking the towel in, and in the next shot, she still have the towel open and in the process of wrapping. Second is when she picks up the laundry basket. In one shot she picks it up from behind her and has it up to her waist. In the next shot, she picks it up again, this time from in front of her, and brings it up.
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Mary Alice: Yes, everyone loves a scandal no matter how big or small. After all, what could be more entertaining than watching the downfall of the high and mighty? What could be more amusing than the pubic exposure of hypocritical sinners? Yes, everyone loves a scandal. And if for some reason, you're not enjoying the latest one, well, the next one is always around the corner.
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Maisy: I've been abandoned. I guess that what happens when you become the town whore. Bree: Oh sweetie, they didn't abandon you because you're a whore. They abandoned you because you weren't that nice to begin with.
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Lynette: I don't get it. I don't get who would pay Maisy for sex. Gabrielle: Obviously someone who is not getting it at home. (Bree is silent)
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Rex: Everybody's staring. Bree, it's humiliating. Bree: Well, you should have thought of that before you left a personal check on Maisy Gibbons' nightstand.
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Mary Alice: Throughout even the most respectable of neighborhoods, you can hear the sound of scandal. Some scandals announce themselves with a shout. Some with a whisper. And some with bang. And once in a great while, there comes a scandal so deliciously sordid, its roar drowns out all other noise. Yes, the scandalous arrest of Maisy Gibbons would soon prove to be the shot heard 'round the world.
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Gabrielle (to Carlos): Why do I have to wait? It's my port-a-potty!
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Edie: (to Susan) So, what are we looking for, exactly? An embroidered pillow that says "I killed Martha Huber"?
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Edie: I was just about to give a Maisy Gibbons update. Lynette: Guys, we should be ashamed of ourselves for reveling in that woman's misery. That being said, Edie, please continue.
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Edie: My necklace! Oh, you know, I lent this to Martha three months ago, and she said that it went down the drain. Oh, I miss how we used to steal things from one another.
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Gabrielle: As I see it good friends avoid each other after being humiliated, but great friends pretend nothing happened in the first place.
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Susan: Every time we went out for pizza you could have said, "Oh, and by the way, I once killed a man." Or when you said, "Hey, let's go jogging," you could have said, 'Wow, by the way, I once killed a man.' Every time we went to the movies and the hero shot the bad guy you could have turned to me and said, 'Oh, by the way, I did that once.' You didn't!
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(when Lynette is getting all the lice out of their hair) Porter: Can we see what lice looks like? Lynette: Sure. (shows it to them) Lynette: See it looks like a sesame seed.
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Bree: (to Gabrielle) Good friends offer to help in a crisis; great friends don't take no for an answer.
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Susan: Do you believe in evil Edie? Edie: Of course I do, I work in real estate.
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Bree: Rex, if you walk out of this restaurant, I will scream. Rex: Bree... Bree: I will scream... about your cruelty. Then I will scream about your infidelity. And just to make sure it really hurts, I will scream about your distasteful sexual habits. You want to know what true humiliation is, you just take one step.
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The "little black book" of Maisy Gibbons becomes the focus of Bree's attention as she desperately tries to have her husband's name deleted from it. Coincidentally, that is also the title of the 2004 Brittany Murphy comedy in which Sharon Lawrence who plays Maisy starred.
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Nicollette Sheridan (Edie Britt) finally returns after a three-episode absence and has possibly the most amount of screen time in any episode she was featured in in season one.
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Although credited, Jesse Metcalfe (John Rowland) and Cody Kasch (Zach Young) are absent from this episode.
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Episode Title: The title of this episode comes from a song in the Stephen Sondheim musical Company.
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