“Don’t be one of those assholes who hides, Mikey,” Brian told Michael.
Unfortunately, sometimes there just isn’t a choice. Michael is in a job
were being gay is not an option if you want to get somewhere of any
significance. This resonates very clearly to me because I’m in the same
situation in one of my two jobs where I’m the head of my department.
Being out is not an option at all and if discovered, that’s the end of
the job. I don’t even really like it anymore or have an interest in it,
but it is a primary means of income and there aren’t any other options
at the moment and so you have to make a choice of whether you want to
be out and proud, or you want to eat and live another day.

This is the exact same dilemma the Michael faces in working at the Big
Q. Choosing to eat and live another day is what he’s doing because it
is what’s right for him at this point in his life, even if it means
swallowing your gay pride and working after hours to take inventory of
toilet paper. He was just adorable when he told Tracey of his secret
identity as “Laser Man.” But poor Michael, it only made her all the
more interested in him… just the same it would’ve done to me!

Doctor Dave. No offense to Chris Potter who portrays him, but this was
my least favorite character in the entire series. I can see how Michael
fell for him though – a charming, attractive doctor that suddenly
becomes interested in you – but there was just something off. There was
something that didn’t fit. I felt that way five years ago, but still
rooted for their relationship to succeed anyway. David’s world was all
new to Michael. It was a world of fine dining, wine, relationships, and
dating without sex.

On the opposite side of the scale, Justin has nothing but dick on the
brain as he aptly put it to his shrink in front of his mother. The
shrink seemed more shocked than Jennifer was. I do know that if that
would’ve been me, my mother would’ve drug me by the ear into the
bathroom and washed my mouth out with soap. (I don’t recommend the
experience or its use on children… it is horribly traumatic.) But
that’s what they did when a good catholic boy comes home from the first
day of elementary school and shares the colorful new four-letter words
he learned at recess. Thirty years later I’m still self-conscious even
about PG swearing in front of my mother who doesn’t like bad language.
But on the flipside, the lesson got across – you don’t say fuck in
front of your mother when you are six years old. Who knew?

Jennifer goes looking for Justin but ends up finding Debbie. It seems
that everyone always finds her when they are in need of advice, even in
Jennifer’s case when she had no clue that Debbie is who you go to. She
just attracts people with some sort of metaphysical power it seems. And
too right that is. She always has the best advice, though it may be
heavily peppered with some of that bad colorful language! Jen did take
Debbie’s advice and extended the olive branch to Justin, by saying,
“Don’t run from me because I’m not running from you.” However, in
Brian-esque fashion, the little snot ditches his mom at the museum to
hook up with a hottie in the men’s room.

It seems like everyone was getting some in this episode! Since Michael got nowhere with Doctor Dave, he too acted like Brain and went to the backroom at Babylon for a blow job. Juxtaposed to that is a complete role reversal for Brian who actually blew, uh hum, an account because
the guy was more willing to get laid then to care about his little girl
breaking her arm. Apparently Brian is not entirely about getting his
dick sucked after all. He had ditched a dinner with Mel and Lindz to
trade sexual favors for a million dollar account, but when push came to
shove he ditched the old guy, sent him packing on a plane and showed up
at Mel and Lindsay’s hours late. Of course Lindsay let him in and as
she was fixing him something to eat he fell asleep on the sofa holding
his son who was lying on his chest.