Another funny episode. Great dialogue all around. I'm going to miss shows like these...

So little Sarah showed up at The Place just as Ryan and Lexi went to get her in Poughkeepsie. Megan was able to figure out that Lexi impersonated her. Sensing their plan unfolding, Michael called Lexi's cell phone. Lexi gave her phone to Ryan, Micheal gave his phone to Sarah, then Sarah passed off to Megan. Ryan asked Megan to take Sarah to Jane's bitch house so that Uncle Kyle could look after her. Megan asked Ryan why Sarah couldn't stay at The Place. Ryan said he didn't want her near Michael.

Now Michael's bad, but I'm sure even he thinks that Sarah is a tad too young.

With his bandage removed, the scar that Ryan had from where Megan thwacked him with the lamp made him look like Herman Munster.

At the bitch house, Amanda got in to discover she was an aunt. She watched in wonder as Sarah said her prayer with Uncle Kyle. She must have been thinking, "Kyle would have been a good father. Too bad I fell through a window and miscarried our child. I hate when that happens."

Speaking of uncles, I'm an uncle again. My brother and his wife had their second boy last week and named him... Kyle! And guess what Kyle's big brother is named? He's Ryan! Just like the McBride brothers, only the seniority is reversed.

Eve was ecstatic when Peter presented her with tickets to Maui, surprised that Peter got them. Poor slobs like me would be overjoyed. Filthy rich slobs like her shouldn't be that thrilled. They could go anywhere they want.

It was a very clever device they employed in explaining Lexi and Michael's plot. As Michael revealed the story in the courtyard to Megan, Lexi told Ryan on the plane back to LA. After hearing how Michael pretended to be a priest and Lexi pretended to be a nun, Megan and Ryan realized how much misery they put each other through. Awww, how sweet.

Amanda watched as Eve schmoozed with Tony over lunch. He told Eve he did some checking and discovered Eve spent 15 years in jail. He still seemed interested in her. I bet he has www.jailbabes.com bookmarked.

When Amanda finally joined them, she announced that she's done a nice piece of casting for Tony's cruise line commercial. After Tony left, Amanda told Eve that she was the surprise star. At first Eve didn't want to do it. Amanda pointed out that's how Kathy Lee Gifford got her start. But Eve said she couldn't act. Well, that didn't stop Kathy Lee.

Anyway, after some begging from Amanda, Eve agreed to do it.

Megan, Sarah, Jane and Kyle were frolicking on the beach when Ryan arrived. Ryan and Megan were all smiles in their first meeting since the lamp incident. BTW, Ryan's scar was not as pronounced now, but it did seem to get longer.

He apologized for all the things he said to her and the hooker-with-the-heart-of-gold said she understood.

It was a tough choice for line of the week this week. There were so many good ones. But I think both of these lines in the following exchange qualify: Michael was summoned to Lexi's apartment where he remarked, "My God. What have you done to Amanda's apartment. It looks like a brothel in here." To which she replied, "You would know."

But it did look like a brothel. I mean, that's what I figure a brothel would look like from what I've read and seen in the movies and stuff.

Kyle showed up at AWA to find Amanda working on her computer. She's trying to figure out who to fire so that she could afford to produce Tony's commercial so she could win the account. She said she has to fire half her staff in order to do so.

Which is all bass-ackwards. When you get new business, you have to hire more people to work on the account. If she does get the business, what's she going to do? Hire them all back?

Anyway, on the screen were the names of some employees with a number next to it. I'm assuming it was their salary. Mary Hart makes $199,500. I don't think it's the same Mary Hart from Entertainment Tonight. Ryan makes $200,000. And Jane only makes $85,000. The smallest salary I saw was Joe Abrams' $75,000.

Say, Amanda, can I work for you? I spent six years working in the ad business and know that the industry is notoriously cheap. Heck, if I made half of what Joe A. pulls in, I'd still be in NY.

Anyway, Kyle noticed Jane's name on the canned list. He couldn't understand how Amanda could do something like this to a friend. Um, because she's a bitch.

He said that if she went through with it, they were through. Hope he has a good attorney for the divorce proceedings.

Amanda called her troops together to have a gang termination. She handed out a list of names. She announced that those on the list would stay on. Those not on the list were history. How cold and impersonal. But that's Amanda for you.

She claimed to be a large agency, but there couldn't have been more than 40 people at that meeting. In this universe, a large agency has that many people in the mailroom.

Upon learning that Jane was fired, Ryan offered to sacrifice his job so that Jane could keep hers. Jane nixed that idea. She said she wasn't cut out for the ad game.

So what's she going to do now? Work for Lexi, Kyle or Wilshire Memorial?

Sarah was waiting for Ryan to get off of work when Megan showed up. Ryan was trying to pick out a song for the cruise line commercial. Megan tried to help and they ended up embracing and kissing. Sarah caught them and Ryan explained that they were just dancing. Sarah said she knew what they were doing. They taught sex ed even at St. Agnes Girls' School. And Billy Joel said Catholic girls start much too late.

Amanda got back to the bitch house before Kyle. That gave her a chance to have it out with Jane. Jane accused Amanda of firing her because she's jealous of the relationship she has with Kyle. Amanda said she shouldn't just fire her, but she should also kick her ass.

But alas, there was no catfight. It was all a tease.

The Place could learn a thing or two from Ally McBeal. Two weeks ago, Ally, Georgia, Ling and Nelle were all rolling on the floor of the ladies' room while Elaine videotaped the tangled mass of limbs. That was television at its finest.

On the beach, Sarah pointed out to Ryan that he loved Megan, Megan loved him, he's happy when he's with her and sad when he's not. She said they should be together. It's a shame the adults on The Place aren't as insightful as Sarah.

Kyle learned that Amanda fired Jane. They got into a big fight and Amanda drove off. Kyle picked up a rock and chucked it at Amanda's car. It smashed her rear window. Good shot. The Lakers could have used his shooting touch. They got spanked by the Rockets last night.

Lexi gave Sarah a doll house to try to win her friendship. Sarah knew it was a ploy to get to Ryan. A 9-year old is the only person who can't be deceived on The Place.

Kyle told Peter that he offered to sell his half of the Club to Eve. Just then, Eve told Peter the commercial shoot would take place the same time as their planned trip to Maui. Peter told her to blow off the job. She said she can't. Yes she can. She's stinkin' rich.

Peter went to AWA to try to get Amanda to reschedule the shoot. He couldn't do it, but learned that she and Kyle had split up. As he was leaving, he shot her a look. He must have been thinking, "Maybe I should let Eve get with Tony. Then I could divorce her and get back with Amanda."

Michael and Lexi were down in the laundry room loading their clothes into the machines. Once their laundry baskets were empty, they inexplicably started to take the clothes off their backs and put them into the machines. Since they were naked, they started to screw. That liquid they'll be adding to the rinse cycle won't be fabric softener.

Anyway, it's about time the two horniest people in LA got together.

Kyle and Amanda agreed that it was over. Their marriage survived his supposed sterility, his substance abuse and the loss of their child. Yet a little thing like Jane getting fired ended it all.

Amanda asked him not to hate her. He said he didn't. In fact, he said he was going to give her the money from the sale of his share Club so she could finish building her bitch house. I'd have said screw her and burnt the place down again.

That's it for this week.

I have the spoiler for next week's episode, "Floral Knowledge," posted on my site. What a lame title.

Also new there is an article about Courtney Thorne-Smith's Almay cosmetics contract.

TV Guide says that two different endings were filmed for the finale. They later talked about the big funeral scene.

Soap Opera Digest says that Grant Show is dating again. He's seeing Lisa Guerrero of Sunset Beach fame. SOD also commented on how soap pregnancies are so complicated and how nighttime soaps are so unrealistic.

And finally, Entertainment Weekly speculated that Jennifer Love Hewitt's new series would replace The Place for the upcoming fall season.

Read 'em all at http://www.geocites.com/Hollywood/4616/.

'Til next week...