The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd — Season 1, Episode 3: Here's why you should stay out of coffee shops if you don't drink coffee

Episode synopsis

Intro: Florence narrates as Molly waits for a job interview at an advertising agency. Molly meets her garbage man, Nick Donnatello, played by the show's creator, Jay Tarses; Nick asks her on a date and she declines. Davey tells her that Fred visited in the morning and that her mother is upstairs waiting for her. Molly's mother is cleaning her cabinets and tells Molly that she's staying over and going to a doctor for tests the next day but she won't talk about what kind of tests. No one but Molly knows that she's going for tests. Fred calls and asks Molly to meet him. Molly meets him at the planetarium, where he's composing music for a planetarium show. He asks for her help. He's convinced that an album and fame and fortune will follow. She refuses to help. Fred invites her for coffee at Spiro's and she goes along. It is apparently ""their"" old place; people greet them as if they're still a couple. The guys from the ""old gang"" (The Fred Dodd Quintet?) show up. Molly greets them as she le

About The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely changing career, difficulties of apartment living, love life and its consequences, and more.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Here's why cosmetics should come in unbreakable bottles
• E2Here's why there are instances when vegetables aren't necessarily good for you
• E4Here's why you should never wear high heels to the bank
• E5Here's why it's not good to stare at people in restaurants
• E6Here's why it's tough to sell watermelons after midnight
• E7Here's why a torch is too heavy to carry in a purse
• E8Here's why they call the little one a jingle and the big one the blues
• E9Here's another bedtime story
• E10Here's why it's good to have a cake burning in the refrigerator
• E11Here's why Henry David Thoreau chose the pond
• E12Here's why you've gotta bake a batch of cookies every once in a while
• E13Here's why good guys sometimes wear black