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EXT – BEHIND PANCAKE HUT - MORNING 

Outside the back kitchen at Pancake Hut, there is a spot near the garbage cans where flat cigarette butts decorate the cement.  

HANK and GRANT, both on breaks, are puffing cigarettes.

JEFF (V.O.)

This Grant dude is just a part-timer who thinks he knows women because he’s bought booze for Sarah a few times.  Okay, so she’s slept with him a few times too, but she doesn’t remember it. 

HANK lights up his second Camel with his first and starts barking.

HANK

They're terrible! I don't know why Denny hires these young girls. They can't get an order right to save their ass! 

GRANT wipes his nose on his shirt.

GRANT

Because they’re cute, I guess. I don’t really mind it. 

HANK

But you’re a server; you don’t have to make their orders.

GRANT

How hard can it be?

HANK

Well, the other night some guy orders a cheeseburger and Evette keys it in as a hamburger with cheese instead of just keying in the cheeseburger.

GRANT shakes his head in disbelief.

JEFF (V.O.)

My bad!

GRANT

How inept! Women are good for one thing and one thing only…

HANK

What’s that?

JULIE (V.O.)

Cooking!

INT – DR. ROBERT MC MILLAN’S OFFICE - DAY

CUT QUICKLY to:

JULIE, still on her Psychoanalyst’s couch. 

JULIE

Yeah, he wanted me to cook for him all the time! Whatever happened to taking me out for a change? 

DR. ROBERT MC MILLAN

Well, relationships have to be a bit of give and take.  Did you have a problem cooking for him?

JULIE

No, not really. I made spaghetti and stuff. I even tried candles and sexy lingerie; but he wanted me to cook all the time!  Except Every Monday when Pizza Baron lunch pizzas were on sale. 

OTS: DR. ROBERT MC MILLAN finally starts jotting down some notes: Pizza Baron - On sale - Monday.

JULIE (CONT’D)

But he'd order it with extra sauce! It was almost unbearable!