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Samantha Who? 1.12 “The Butterflies”

by Arieanna on April 23rd, 2008

Samantha Who? 1.12 "The Butterflies"
Air Date: April 21, 2008
Recap & Discussion

Samantha Who? Episode Highlights:

• Sam is venting to Dena about Todd kissing her then getting angry
• Dena tells a story of kissing a guy once and his gum getting stuck in her braces - he was a "bad therapist"
• Samantha’s boss, the Chapman one, has the hots for Dena and tells Sam to set them up - he was impressed by her attitude for love (in listening to Dena advise Sam about Todd’s heart being like a dog)
• Andrea wants Sam to pimp Dena to their boss so they can get leather desk chairs that mould to your butt
• Sam and Andrea go to the site of the groundbreaking for the new mall, and the protestors on site bring back Sam’s memory that she’s planning to build on the site of an endangered butterfly (she didn’t care before)
• Sam wants to convince Chapman to back out of the deal, but $200 million have been invested
• How Sam plans to get to Chapman - Dena!
• Dena is going on about how she gets attached too quickly and gets hurt in relationships when Chase Chapman arrives to the bar

• Dena had a really good time with Chase, and plans to see him again
• Andrea doesn’t see how saving a species is better than "butt" chairs as an excuse to use Dena
• Andrea starts to complain about her back to Dena, dropping hints about the chairs at work
• Sam goes outside to see Todd to dig about any big news, but he only talks about being a freelance photographer for the paper
• Sam is trying to suck up do things with Dena, which includes going to make a topiary of  Chapman’s head at Clip, Clip, Hooray (somewhere she wouldn’t go with her mother)
• Andrea makes a poodle, Sam makes a butterfly, and Dena makes Chapman’s head
• Andrea tries to sell her chair, and Sam tries to sell her butterflies, in conversation with Dena. Sam’s butterfly story wins Dena’s attention, and her offer to bring up to Chase.
• Andrea got her new chair but doesn’t like it
• Dena walks out of Chapman’s office with her lipstick all smudged
• Dena talked with Chapman about the mall project, but his arguments of injecting cash into an impoverished area won her over
• Andrea has also wrangled an espresso machine out of Chapman, via Dena
• Sam wants to go back to a previous version of the mall plans that doesn’t require killing the butterflies
• Chapman reads Sam a poem he wrote about Dena, then goes into personal details about their relationship. Sam hits a breaking point of discomfort and yells "Stop" but then tries to recover by telling him maybe he is moving too fast, that Dena feels crowded. Sam offers to help for a favor.
• Sam then tells Dena that Chase feels crowded and she should back off
• Chase, drinking from a mug with Dena’s photo on it, is now upset that Dena is avoiding him. Sam says that Dena’s ex is in town, so Chase begs for help. Sam offers it, at a price of delaying the mall project.
• Chase and Dena are on their date, both trying to be indifferent, but Chase wants to know what’s up and all of Sam’s lies come up.
• Dena confronts Sam and now Sam has lost a friend - meanwhile, Andrea gets to go to karaoke with Sam and Chase
• Sam puts on butterfly wings to join the protest and says something beautiful about corrupting her friendships on the news (which Dena sees while trying to distract her dogs from watching her and Chase have sex)
• Regina brings Sam some blankets and food, telling her that she’s proud of the stand she’s taking
• Samantha is not able to save the butterflies, and she quits her job
• Sam decides to take control of what she can, and goes to see Todd - he apologizes for blowing her off in his panic, he didn’t even have a job with the paper. Todd wants to give things a chance with Chloe.
• Sam then kisses Todd and pushes him down, telling him to lose sleep over that. She then proudly walks off.
• Sam discovers that the butterflies have found a new home over a flower stand

So, what did you think of this episode? Of the stands that Sam chose to make? Was it a good move to quit her job? What should Sam do now? And what happened to Funk in all of this? Do you think we are to assume Sam blew him off once and for all after Todd kissed her? 

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