The Bill Engvall Show: 2.5 ‘Susan’s Best Friend’ Recap
Original Air Date: July 10, 2008
Yay! It looks like fans of The Bill Engvall Show can look forward to more of actress Cynthia Watros in the near future. I knew it was nothing but good when I learned she’d been cast for a guest-star appearance. Read on to learn why she’ll be sticking around (I hope and think) for at least another episode.
True to the series’ intentional family-friendly format, this one was another simply plotted episode: Bill becomes self-conscious about the state of his marriage when Susan’s free-living best friend AJ (Watros) pays the Pearsons a visit for the first time in four years. AJ arrives in her so-called vanabago — a cross between a van and Winnebago — after a split from her most recent significant other.
The bad blood between AJ and Bill goes all the way back to when Bill and Susan first hooked up. The friends used to pretend they were French to meet guys, and on Bill and Susan’s honeymoon, AJ tried to fix Susan up with a hot stud who was actually more interested in Bill. Bill is still smarting many years later over AJ’s obvious disapproval of the safe life he offers Susan.
Since AJ is the type of spontaneous, adventurous woman who likes to do unusual things, the kids love her. She even convinces Susan to go out Salsa dancing with her after 9:15pm one night, which is a time when Bill thinks only “drug dealers and jazz musicians” roam the streets. But when AJ informs Bill that his marriage is stuck in a “box,” Bill refuses to believe her.
Still, AJ’s criticism bothers him, and he finally realizes she’s partially correct when Paul (Tim Meadows) agrees the next day that Bill and Susan’s marriage sounds like a “bottomless pit of soul-sucking boredom” since Bill admits all they do for fun is watch TV, play board games, and go to an occasional movie.
To improve the situation, Bill decides to get his best friend to teach him how to Salsa, and Bill crashes Susan and A.J’s second girls’ night out at a local club. Then it’s AJ’s turn to come to a realization — that her life is pretty empty despite all of her adventures traveling the world — when she observes how much fun the Pearsons have together because they really love each other.
Later that night, Bill catches AJ crying in her vanabago, and she confesses to him that being around the couple forced her to understand that maybe she wants something different in life now, such as a person she loves to spend time with. After the two former “enemies” acknowledge they think Susan is fortunate to have the other in her life, Bill invites AJ to stick around at the Pearsons for a short while, until she’s ready to hit the road again.
AJ accepts, and Susan is thrilled; but it quickly becomes clear that AJ’s presence is going to be disruptive when she somehow knocks out the electricity in the house on movie night. I sense good and funnier times ahead for Bill Engvall fans while Watros is in the house.
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