''Tell Me You Love Me'': Men Behaving Buttly

After a night out with his lad friends, where he greedily eyed some cleavage at the other end of the bar, he came home hungry. When Carolyn, drunk on vodka Masons, snuffled that she just wanted to sleep and refused his date-rapist protestations, he had a meltdown, raging that he'd had sex on demand for a year, so it was time to collect. She told the jerk to go jerk off, so back to the suit store he slunk. The writing here got a little hammy, with the salesclerk offering up her best services and Palek saying he just needed something new in his life. The scene ended with her leading him like a horny lamb to the sweaters department, where presumably they would proceed to work up a sweat.

Thank God for Katie and David, who continue to make giant leaps forward in their long journey back to bed. The show opened with news that the kids were staying with Grandma, and the couple looked at each other like high schoolers who just found out their parents were going away for the weekend. Kegger! Of course in their case that meant David getting drunk on TiVo and Katie beaching herself in the tub with a book. There was a nice moment when David surprised her in the bathroom and was dumbstruck by the sight of his wife enjoying a decadent soak, her hair pulled back sexily, and her nipple bobbing in the water like a little rubber ducky. Later, she looked upon his exposed butt crack with the same mixture of embarrassed shock and prurient desire she had on her face when surfing for MILFs on the Internet. When he later undressed for the shower — so much male derriere this episode! — she allowed herself a longer look and told her husband that he looked good.

Such earned sexual energy building between these two! With the kids nicely faded into the background — I think this is the first time we've seen just Katie and David at the kitchen table — the focus is narrowing beautifully onto them not as parents but as former lovers. Katie admitted to being an Elaine Benes (fake, fake, fake, fake!), telling David that she didn't always have orgasms with him in the past. He seemed less offended than genuinely concerned she wasn't always having a good time. He returned her disclosure with a confession that perhaps he had started seeing her more as the mother to his two children than as a woman who could light his fire. ''Maybe that Foster is onto something,'' he announced. These two are going to be just fine.

The drama of May's past seemed put to bed once and for all. She met up with her former lover again — the old guys on this show are hawt — and the two sipped some red wine (flashback to last week!). It turned out their affair dates back to a couple crazy nights in their college days, but he's hungry for more. May gave him the straight arm, though, telling him that he was a blessed fantasy for her to take refuge in during the lean years of her marriage and was never going to be anything more. Then she repeated her line about how endings need to be treated with the same care and gentleness blah blah blah. I know that she's right, but who wants to picture their therapist using the same old line over and over again? She bid him adieu and returned home to her husband, who, poor thing, was charged with the banal task of making a hot curry sauce while his wife was out drinking with her old flame. They sucked face though, and all was well.

But what did you good people think? Is Palek going to bolt when he hears about the baby? Is Jamie going to get laser surgery to get rid of her dweeby tattoo? What's going to be the thing that finally gets Katie and David back in the sack? And who has the better booty: Hugo or Dave?