With Christmas approaching, the Sabers lose their last sport and Melanie appears forward to going dwelling to see her household and spending some high quality time with Derwin. Although the Sabers lose their recreation and are eradicated from the playoffs, Derwin’s performance earns him the attention of a excessive-profile supervisor. This episode served because the backdoor pilot episode for the Girlfriends-spinoff, The sport. Lobsters were thought-about a delicacy during the Middle Ages in Europe, and even served as medicine. The locker room tension spills over to Kelly and Tasha, leaving Melanie in the middle and in an ungainly position when she insists that all of them come to her house for a dinner occasion. Oddly, the highways had been all however empty (I suspect because most everybody had travelled the night time earlier than) so I made it out to the center of nowhere in slightly underneath two hours, tremendous time indeed. I caught the courtesy shuttle and made it back house in about twenty minutes, sending messages from my cellphone your complete time. When Melanie finds out the Sabers family isn’t fascinated within the holiday spirit, she decides to go residence and spend the vacations together with her household.
When Malik begins to have obvious disagreements with the Sabers’ offensive coordinator, Kenny (guest star Rocky Carroll), he enlists assistance from his mom, Tasha. However, the Sabers soon uncover they nonetheless have a chance on the playoffs, and Derwin asks Melanie to stay in city. Meanwhile, Malik starts to worry about profitable the playoff sport and enlists Derwin as his new practice accomplice. Meanwhile, Kelly and Tasha persuade Malik and Jason to talk some sense into Derwin. When Kelly makes an attempt to please Jason, take care of her daughter and impress Jason’s dad and mom who visit from out of city, she overworks herself and has a breakdown. So when i met my boyfriend, who was one of 4 Irish boys from a typical Irish household, I fell in love with him, and his lovely dad and mom. However deep their love and respect for each other, these parents and kids simply have bother getting alongside, typically all their lives. One problem that new mother and father would possibly overlook at first is the issue getting an excellent night time’s sleep.
Melanie and Derwin discover that Melanie is perhaps pregnant. On the same day, Derwin attends his first rookie seminar the place he is given a lecture about gold diggers, STDs and is hazed by the opposite players. As a favor to Derwin, Melanie attends the first Saber Sunbeam assembly of the season, solely to be taught that unlike the wives, soccer gamers “girlfriends” usually are not thought-about authentic and are treated as such by the other wives. When Melanie realizes that Derwin continues to be upset about the unhealthy publicity caused by her persevering with friendship with an previous soccer rival, she tries to find a provocative strategy to make it up to him. When Derwin’s image guide (guest star Shanti Lowry), tells Derwin her idea to pair him with soccer player Trey Wiggs (guest star Chaz Lamar Shepherd), his former faculty teammate, he objects, saying he and Trey were extra like rivals than teammates. When Kelly’s daughter (visitor star Erica Gluck) tells her she wants an extravagant birthday social gathering like the remainder of her buddies, Kelly approaches Jason for cash and he refuses. Melanie sees the loyalty that Tasha and Kelly have to offer after her good friend abandons her for Malik.
After Tasha embarrasses Malik when he throws a home occasion, Malik feels disrespected and throws Tasha out. Meanwhile, when Derwin beats Malik in an Xbox John Madden sport, Malik takes the loss badly and repeatedly comes to Derwin for a re-match to redeem himself. Enthusiastic about the opportunity of a child, Derwin plans to surprise Melanie with a half-time proposal throughout the sport, however Melanie tries to cease him when she discovers she is not pregnant. Joan Clayton (Tracee Ellis Ross) tries to persuade her cousin, Melanie Barnett (Tia Mowry), an aspiring med scholar, to pursue her profession in medical school as an alternative of placing her life on hold for her boyfriend (Aldis Hodge) and waiting for his career to kick off. Within the sequence premiere, Derwin invitations Melanie to his first away sport in Miami, but as a result of her heavy college load, she decides to cross. Meanwhile, Derwin learns that Melanie had lunch with Trey, although she insists that it is strictly platonic. Later that evening, Melanie and Derwin attend a occasion the place Melanie learns the principles of the sport. Melanie is shocked when Derwin considers a proposal that he be traded to a group in Chicago. However, when Derwin refuses to acknowledge that there’s a problem, Melanie calls her mother and starts packing her things.