J.J. finally leaves Mike when she runs into old flame Zeke Brenner. Tempted by a life of "diners and jukeboxes and desert sunsets and drinking champagne from a paper cup," she hits the road--only to find out that sharing a pickup with an unreconstructed cowboy is no bed of roses. Meanwhile, Mike falls into his summer fantasy, moving to Seattle to work for college roommate Bernie's new software company. When he tries to install Windows 95, however, he realizes that his new life is no fantasy, and he begins to settle in among the digerati.

Elsewhere, Boopsie is still living the life of an O.J. juror, with occasional breaks for shopping, while Newt Gingrich is on the rampage, and on a short fuse. Duke jumps on the Republican bandwagon and opens "Nothin' but Orphans," only to discover that he has a son who is very much a chip off the old block. In Washington, D.C., Mark Slackmeyer explores his shiny new sexual orientation by coming out of the closet with an imaginary friend. --Simon Leake