For a Woman's Day column, Melanie forms a group to compete in a Battle of the Bands contest, an idea embraced by Joy, who, with encouragement from Rick, pursues her childhood dream of becoming a rock star.
The scene opens with Victoria ordering tomato soup with Vodka in it. Joy says that she will have that too and Elka says that they will take a pitcher of it for the table. Melanie gets a text from her agent that says that they want to do a monthly column from her book. Melanie sees that the bar is having a Battle of the Bands contest and Melanie says that she has always wanted to be in a band. Joy says that she always wanted to be in “The Bangles”. Elka says that she wanted to be in “Hole”. She defends it by telling that she lives in the Rock and Roll capital of the world. Joy says that she was a lead singer in a band when she was a teenager. Melanie says that she can play guitar and Victoria is on Bass and Elka is on drums. ..