Cheryl finds that she is suddenly in that most coveted of positions – in line for treasurer of the PTA. All she has to do is get Jim to build the set for the kid’s school play. As if that isn’t asking for trouble. It’s not that Jim can’t build a set, of course, but keeping him out of trouble while he does it? That is something entirely different. Nonetheless, she wants to be treasurer so bad that she takes the risk. She may regret that decision.
When Andy and everyone else takes off for drinks one night, that leaves Cheryl and Jim alone in the auditorium, and that gives Jim an idea – it isn’t often that they have alone time, and it almost never happens that they are alone at Plymouth Rock.
Before long, Cheryl’s warning bells stop going off, and she and Jim are spending some real quality time together. But then they fall asleep, and Andy comes back with his “special friend” Bobbi, the head of the PTA, and then Jim and Cheryl are totally busted. But Cheryl makes Bobbi agree not to tell anyone – after all, Jim and Cheryl are married, so what’s the big deal?
The next day, however, Cheryl hears that she and Jim are “doing it” all over town – even in the zoo – so she thinks that her promise has been broken. When she confronts Bobbi about it, she’s told that she didn’t tell anyone, but unfortunately she won’t be able to serve as treasurer, because the administration just can’t have a scandal. That’s when Cheryl starts to think about it, and knows that Jim had to have something to do with it.
And when she confronts him about it, he admits that he told one of the guys that married life isn’t dull – it just depends on your wife. When the guy challenged that, he had to give him examples, and unfortunately, that then made the rounds. It’s too late, now, though, because both Jim and Cheryl have been excused from their duties on the play, and the half-finished set will show up in the play, and Cheryl is mad at Jim because her name will be attached to it in the program – not to mention that she won’t be treasurer.
That night, however, Jim sneaks into the auditorium and finishes the set. The result is nothing short of outstanding, and when Bobbi sees it, she invites Cheryl to be on the PTA after all – even with all of her failings. Cheryl decides that being judged for her husband and their actions together just isn’t worth it, and declines. But they do get to watch a nice show.
This is also the episode where Andy inserts some of his own political commentary into the play itself, which gets him a little sugar from the head of the PTA herself, because of his “gutsy script”. Way to go, Andy!
