Nancy is ready to start her first day of work but not everyone is convinced that she's dressed appropriately. When Jill starts taking all the soft cheeses and tuna out of the fridge, Nancy realises what's going on. Shane and Silas tell her and Andy congratulations but Nancy has no idea what to say.
At work, Nancy is shown an orientation video by Deb (Jackie Geary), who is clearly pissed that Nancy gets to sell Maritor on her first day and gives her the most difficult assignment. Silas is settling in better, meeting the enthusiastic Craig (Brady Novak) and the slightly crazy Zachary (Ben Tolpin). Andy, looking for a job, goes to Rabbi David (David Julian Hirsh), talking about his "informal counselling experience" and offers to become an assistant or even cook. David asks if he and Jill will be getting married and Andy says that they will. Satisfied, he tells Andy he has a job for him: he wants him to teach some annoying kids. The kids mock him and ask silly questions but Andy ignores them and pretends to hear something outside. He bars the doors and windows and brandishes a flag pole to defend the class.
Nancy, on her way to the appointment at the doctor's office, gets a coffee and muffins, which she gives to the receptionists. They gratefully accept the muffins but as soon as she asks to speak to the doctor, they close the window and tell her that they don't take visits from pharmaceutical representatives. Even the doctor, James Cornish (Tim Guinee) ignores her so she forces the window open and takes the muffins back. She does leave them with some complementary pens though. Back at the classroom, the kids want to know who they're hiding from. Andy tells them it's not "who" but "what". In the mean time, he has them open their Torahs and tells them the story of Elisha, who was mocked for his baldness by a couple of boys. Elisha promptly cursed the boys and his god sent two bears to kill the boys and forty other children. Andy's message: he was taking precautions in case the Torah was literal and bears were coming to kill the kids for being dicks. But it's not literal, he tells them. It's just a starting point for not being a dick.
Shane and Angela (Daniele Watts) are at their graduation. Her mother (Simbi Khali) is there but none of Shane's family are. She doesn't take to Shane or Mitch (Michael Harney) but boasts that Angela has been assigned to her father's old precinct. Shane hasn't met the age requirement yet so he's hoping to get some security work at a mall first. Angela invites Shane and Mitch to dinner but her mother says no. Doug, meanwhile, is spending charity money at a NASA auction. He passes up Neil Armstrong's comb (complete with hair) to buy a spacesuit worn by Jim Wetherbee. He tries it on after the auction is over but his joy is cut short when his card is declined and the suit is taken back.
Nancy, spurned at the office, decides to take a different tack and go and wait for the doctor by his car. Doug, furious, heads to the Department for Social Services to demand an explanation, claiming that people will be forced to sleep on the streets because of their "bureaucratic holocaust". The woman (Larissa Laskin) asks him the address of his business, which he stumbles over and tells him that there is no evidence of any charity work going on, so his finances were frozen, pending an investigation. He tries to bribe her with his watch but she is not impressed, telling him to set up a legitimate facility or he will be prosecuted for fraud.
Doctor Cornish finally turns up and Nancy offers him lunch in exchange for making her sales pitch. They eat in his car and claims that she was shot by duck hunters. She tries to get him to take some Maritor but she can't answer his questions and he tells her that she can't talk about any effects the drug might have other than what it has been approved for. He tells her that she should find another job before she loses her soul but she just seduces him into taking some samples and has sex with him in the car.
Silas, Zachary and Craig are out for lunch at a busy restaurant and they leave Silas to queue for a table while they go to the bar. While he's waiting, a hot girl (Catherine Lidstone) claims to recognise him and they chat about schools. Turns out she's Zachary's girlfriend. Shane, meanwhile, is taken by Mike to the city impound where he's told that he's reached the "inner circle". It turns out that Nancy was very successful on her assignment, much to Deb's chagrin. Back at the house that evening, everyone notices Shane in his graduation uniform. He wasn't kidding when he said he hadn't told them.
Unfreeze is better than the last episode. Why? Probably because there's more Doug. When there's less Doug, the show suffers. Oh, and the annoying R.J. didn't show up either. Hopefully he's gone for good now. Andy had a good episode, his scaring the children into listening to him was very well done. Shane and Silas had pretty quiet episodes as Nancy dominated. Mary-Louise Parker was excellent and her outburst in the doctor's office was a highlight. In all, a good episode.
7 out of 10.
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