See this look on Jeff's face? Not easy to capture but this is the look of disdain Jeff directs at people who question his reliance on psychic advisors. It's subtle.
So this week wasn't as hysterical as last week. I hope the show gets funnier again, but there was too much real estate this week. Too much insight into the business, not enough cats.
Jeff enters into a competition with his business partner/ex-boyfriend Ryan to see who can sell their house first. Apparently Jeff doesn't have a home. He just lives in one of the properties he buys to flip and then sells it when he feels like it. Ryan also lives in one of the flippees and he doesn't really want to sell because he has a baby, Chloe (who Jeff keeps referring to as Zoe in a blatant effort to annoy the hell out of Ryan) and he doesn't want to move every year anymore.So Jeff sweetens the deal by making it a competition. Ryan wins, which makes Jeff less than enthused. Most of the episode is about Jeff's financial problems and the competition, but there were a couple of moments that were priceless.
It's was a very useful learning experience:
1. I learned an important lesson from Jeff. Rubbing your chopsticks together is rude. I usually rub disposable chopsticks together to get the splinters off, but Jeff is right this is considered rude because you're implying that your host uses cheap chopsticks. Interesting. But notice how he's telling Jenni that it's rude and yet he's continuing to do it. hmmmm..... (PS--doesn't Jenni look amazingly like Julia Louis Dreyfuss? She even kind of sounds like her.)
2. Stick around while the tree-guys "trim" your trees. If you don't you may return to find all of your beautiful olive trees have been massacred. But when this happens, Jeff's solution is to immediately call Ryan (wait I'm sorry, he actually has Jenni call Ryan) and tell him that he had nothing to do with the trees being killed. Why does he do this instead of waiting for Ryan to ask what happened to the trees? Because Jeff "likes the chaos." He wants "45 people in a house tearing it up." He even admits that when it comes to Ryan "there's a little part of me that thinks it's funny when he gets upset." 'Nuff said. Jeff is so obviously still in love with Ryan. What I don't understand is how Ryan stayed in a relationship with Jeff for two years without 
suffocating him in his sleep.
3. There are other psychics in the sea. Apparently the house blessing from the first episode didn't go so well because the blessed house is still not selling. Jeff opines that his former psychic, Tori, was really just hanging around him because he is successful and that he didn't trust most of her readings because it seemed like she would just "make stuff up." Hmmmm.....
So he tries out a new psychic, Fiona. She does a tarot reading and tells him what he wants to hear (that he's not stupid for believing in the California real estate market) and he decides she'll replace Tori. I wonder what influence the bowl full of Stewart the cat had on the reading?
4. There's always someone crazier. One of the reasons Jeff lost the bet to Ryan was because the man who was going to buy Jeff's house backed out because of a telephone pole in the backyard. The guy just "couldn't sleep at night knowing that pole was back there." And it wasn't just for aesthetic reasons. So Ryan wins and informs Jeff by a fax that says "you loose" and Jeff makes fun of his spelling.
5. If you want something done right, have your assistant do it. Jenni and Jeff had a little tiff at one point in the episode and Jenni stands up for herself (and she's really the only one who can get away with doing that). Jenni comments that things are at "Defcon 4" or "maybe we're at war." All us geeks know that Defcon 4 is nowhere close to war, but we get the point.
Jeff has painted the curb in front of his duplex red so that he will always have parking in front of his house (genius? yes. illegal? probably). When he arrives at the duplex he notices that someone has painted it white. Who could have done that? (maybe the city?). Jeff decides to canvass the neighborhood for more information. No, he's not going to do it personally, Jenni will. He goads her on, hiding behind the car with his iced latte, while she knocks on neighbors doors and asks people who painted the curb that had been illegally painted in the first place. And we see the puppet master in action. See you next week Jeff!
By the way--the Defcon scale pictured is the one Josh has attached to his computer at work. If you would like to make one of your own go here.
Because, they didn't want me to know about the secret plan, Scout put the colorway in her store under the name Secret (which was a great idea because I'm always drooling over her gorgeous colorways). 
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