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* DearJohnLater: How Eddie's ex-wife initiated their divorce. Rose [[LiteralMinded thinks it's terrible that she doesn't know his name after being married to him for so long]].
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Dorothy dates a short, bald man with whom she has nothing in common - except for great lovemaking. Meanwhile, Rose and Blanche volunteer as big sisters for two teenage girls.
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!!Tropes:
* BlessedWithSuck: Eddie is completely irresistible to every heterosexual woman he meets and absolutely astounding in bed--but he gripes that it's a curse because he has literally nothing else going for him (he's bland, average-looking at best, and an emotional wreck after a divorce that he still hasn't gotten over), which means that any actually decent woman inevitably breaks up with him because sex isn't enough to form a solid relationship.
* [[BunnyEarsLawyer Counsellor]]: When Dorothy confides in her about how her relationship with Eddie is entirely physical, Rose immediately picks up on her feelings of guilt.
* DatingServiceDisaster: [[MyBelovedSmother Thanks to Sophia,]] Dorothy is matched with a rather plain-looking man named Eddie, who has a strange magnetism about him that makes him irresistible to women (in fact, all four Girls end up attracted to him).
* KavorkaMan: The episode is all about this trope. Sophia uses a computer dating service to get Dorothy a date with a man named Eddie, who is unattractive, boring, a terrible conversationalist, and still obsessed with his ex-wife Roberta (on said date, he brings Dorothy to the ex-wife's restaurant, which is ''named Roberta's'', and ends up breaking down and sobbing for her to take him back). But Dorothy continues to see him...because despite appearances, he's the best lover she's ever had, to the point where they do nothing but have sex when they're together ("We don't go to dinner, we don't go to the movies--we just go to bed"). The show [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] the trope when, at the end of the episode, Eddie sighs that his sexual prowess is a curse--he's self-aware enough to realize that all he has to offer is being great in the bedroom and wise enough to know that any woman actually worth dating inevitably breaks up with him because she needs more than just great sex to have a healthy relationship.
* LousyLoversAreLosers: [[InvertedTrope Inverted;]] Dorothy is completely unimpressed with Eddie...but it turns out that he is ''amazing'' at sex, to the point where she calls him the best lover she's ever had. Unfortunately, the phenomenal physicality isn't enough to make up for his complete lack of a personality, and she ends things with him. Surprisingly, Eddie himself knows that he has nothing going for him except his skill in bed, and laments that he's been BlessedWithSuck: everything he does turns women on, but anyone who's actually worth dating inevitably breaks things up because they realize that sex alone can't build a relationship.
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!!Tropes:
* BlessedWithSuck: Eddie is completely irresistible to every heterosexual woman he meets and absolutely astounding in bed--but he gripes that it's a curse because he has literally nothing else going for him (he's bland, average-looking at best, and an emotional wreck after a divorce that he still hasn't gotten over), which means that any actually decent woman inevitably breaks up with him because sex isn't enough to form a solid relationship.
* [[BunnyEarsLawyer Counsellor]]: When Dorothy confides in her about how her relationship with Eddie is entirely physical, Rose immediately picks up on her feelings of guilt.
* DatingServiceDisaster: [[MyBelovedSmother Thanks to Sophia,]] Dorothy is matched with a rather plain-looking man named Eddie, who has a strange magnetism about him that makes him irresistible to women (in fact, all four Girls end up attracted to him).
* KavorkaMan: The episode is all about this trope. Sophia uses a computer dating service to get Dorothy a date with a man named Eddie, who is unattractive, boring, a terrible conversationalist, and still obsessed with his ex-wife Roberta (on said date, he brings Dorothy to the ex-wife's restaurant, which is ''named Roberta's'', and ends up breaking down and sobbing for her to take him back). But Dorothy continues to see him...because despite appearances, he's the best lover she's ever had, to the point where they do nothing but have sex when they're together ("We don't go to dinner, we don't go to the movies--we just go to bed"). The show [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] the trope when, at the end of the episode, Eddie sighs that his sexual prowess is a curse--he's self-aware enough to realize that all he has to offer is being great in the bedroom and wise enough to know that any woman actually worth dating inevitably breaks up with him because she needs more than just great sex to have a healthy relationship.
* LousyLoversAreLosers: [[InvertedTrope Inverted;]] Dorothy is completely unimpressed with Eddie...but it turns out that he is ''amazing'' at sex, to the point where she calls him the best lover she's ever had. Unfortunately, the phenomenal physicality isn't enough to make up for his complete lack of a personality, and she ends things with him. Surprisingly, Eddie himself knows that he has nothing going for him except his skill in bed, and laments that he's been BlessedWithSuck: everything he does turns women on, but anyone who's actually worth dating inevitably breaks things up because they realize that sex alone can't build a relationship.
