Episode
Cybill: Lowenstein's Lament
Overview
Cybill auditions to play herself in the film based on Ira's book, but she regards the written character as a ""needy doormat"" - which may be why her performance is flat; and she loses the role to Paula Abdul.
Details
- Series
- Cybill
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1996-02-11
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Lowenstein's Lament is Episode 15 in Season 2 of Cybill. It aired on 1996-02-11. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 14: Where's Zoey?
Cybill refuses to let Zoey stay home alone while she travels to Vancouver to film an sf series, so Maryann offers to let the ""demon seed"" stay with her. But Maryann gets into a pickle when she goes out for olives and Zoey disappears.
Episode 16: A Who's Who for What's His Name
Cybill decides to fire her agent Arthur, who drops dead behind Cybill and Maryann while they are toasting "new beginnings." Cybill offers her sympathies to Evelyn, Arthur's widow, ends up arranging the entire funeral, and learns that Arthur was not the big-time Hollywood agent he claimed to be: most of the people in Arthur's Rolodex have never heard of him. A desperate Cybill arranges for celebrity look-alikes to attend Arthur's funeral. Meanwhile, Maryann confesses to Cybil that she has fantasized about Ira.
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Episode 13: Educating Zoey
Cybill and Ira learn a lesson in parenting when one of Zoey's counselors informs them that college is not part of Zoey's plans for the future.
Episode 17: Wedding Bell Blues
Cybill's longtime rival Andrea beats her out for another job, then announces she is marrying Maryann's ex Dr. Dick, so the two plot revenge schemes to ruin the wedding reception. Nothing goes as planned, but a food fight puts an end to the reception anyway.
Episode 12: The Big Apple Can Bite Me
A rotten experience in the Big Apple in 1969 took a chunk out of Cybill's self-esteem, so, for her birthday, Maryann, Rachel and Zoey take her to New York and teach her how to bite back.
Episode 18: Romancing the Crone
Cybill accidentally causes a famous actress to break her arm, so she invites her to recuperate at her ho me, where the woman breaks Cybill's endurance with boundless demands. Meanwhile, Zoey discovers that her brother-in-law Kevin is having an on-line dalliance with another woman.
Episode 11: Mourning Has Broken
Cybill renews a romance with David Whittier Sr., which ended the first time because he was still mourning his wife's death. But Maryann's convinced he did more than mourn - she thinks he caused it. So she and Cybill break into hi s house in search of evidence.
Episode 19: An Officer and a Thespian
To land a movie role as a cop, Cybill prepares by riding with a cop on duty; but when his wife goes into labour, Cybill is left with the car, the siren and a call from Maryann in trouble. Meanwhile, Rachel's husband throws a party to suck up to his academic superior in hopes of landing tenure; and Zoey and Sean notice the academic's wife stealing the silver.
Episode 10: The Odd Couples
Not since Felix and Oscar have there been such odd pairings: Ira shadows Maryann hoping her lunacy will dispel his trouble with writers' block; and Cybill hangs out with Sean.
Episode 20: Virgin, Mother, Cheater
Kevin's preoccupation with getting tenure looks like an affair to Rachel, who decides that two can play that game; Zoey and Sean lie about their celibacy to stop their friends' questions.
Episode 9: Local Hero
After she is replaced in a movie starring Kenny Rogers, Cybill thinks her career's a flop - until she takes a gamble on accepting an invitation to visit an immigrant family who collectively idolize her. Meanwhile, Rachel tries to counsel Ira out of his neurotic fear of the telephone.
Episode 21: When You're Hot, You're Hot
Cybill's hot flashes and herbal treatments don't make her feel any younger, nor does Ira's visiting mother Ruth, who has traded in pantsuits for trendy clothes and an herbal pleasure of her own (or, as she calls it, ""a little sweet wheat""). But Ruth is a hit with Zoey, since she arrives in a pink Cadillac that's a present for her granddaughter, much to Cybill and Ira's dismay.