Special Guest Stars

Joe Jonas As Will Recurring	Dave Foley As Dr. Moore

Guest Stars

Carole Gutierrez As Dr. Hernandez	Michael Richard Robinson (2) As Waiter

Main Cast

Betty White As Elka Ostrovsky	Valerie Bertinelli As Melanie Moretti
Jane Leeves As Joy Scroggs	Wendie Malick As Victoria Chase

Recap

The scene opens with Melanie, Victoria, and Elka in the normal restaurant and Melanie is reading the history of Cleveland. Victoria gets a text and tells Melanie to shut-up, to which Elka thanks. The Nominations are in and Victoria finds out that she is nominated to win best actress. However, she tells that she can’t win because Christa McAlister from “The Strong and the Gorgeous” died on camera and it is an award magnet. Melanie’s son texts her and Melanie tells that he is coming for a visit because he is driving back from college. Victoria tells that kids are weird and no matter what you do for them, they always threaten they are going to write a “Mommy Dearest” script. Joy gets back from Los Angeles and they ask how it working with Brad Pitt. She tells that celebrities are all the same and like everyone else. She tells that she thinks that she is having a midlife crisis. Elka laughs and says “Midlife?” Melanie tells that Victoria is nominated for another Emmy and she says congrats. Elka tells that she is going against a dead girl and Joy asks if she got Susan Gucci killed. Victoria tells that it was only trash talk. ..

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• Creator	Suzanne Martin (1)
• Executive Producer	Sean Hayes (1)  |  Suzanne Martin (1)  |  Todd Milliner  |  Larry W. Jones
• Co-Executive Producer	Anne Flett-Giordano
• Producer	Liz Feldman  |  Bob Heath (1)
• Consulting Producer	Vanessa McCarthy
• Associate Producer	Matthew Conner (1)  |  Chris Arrington
• Production Designer	Michael Hynes (1)
• Editor	Ronald A. Volk
• Casting	Brett Greenstein  |  Collin Daniel
• Unit Production Manager	Bob Heath (1)
• First Assistant Director	Bruce Franklin
• Second Assistant Director	Robyn Linn Willey
• Music	Ron Wasserman  |  Emerson Swinford
• Costume Designer	Lori Eskowitz
• Set Decorator	Melinda Ritz
• Property Master	Melody Miller
• Script Supervisor	Kari Hendler
• Production Coordinator	Jim Brooks (1)
• Script Coordinator	Lisa Slopey
• Re-Recording Mixer	Jack Donato
• Director of Photography	Gary Howard Baum
• Associate Director	Peter Filsinger
• Costume Supervisor	Therese McDonough  |  Brian Cotton
• Department Head Hair	Cydney Cornell
• Department Head Make-up	Lori Benson
• Production Staff	Jessica Wood