EPISODE

5. Change Partners ... and Dance

A fortuneteller's prediction sends Kirsten and Charlie to ballroom-dancing lessons; Bailey gets off on the wrong foot with Sarah; Julia is stood up by Griffin; and Claudia takes a spill at a skating rink.

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Claudia breaks her arm while ice-skating, and Ross worries about her future as a violinist. Julia gets Griffin a job at Salinger's Restaurant as a busboy after seeing his poor financial status, but Griffin does not show up for work on his first day and Charlie fires him quickly on the second day when Griffin slacks off, talks back to Charlie and almost gets into a fistfight with him. Meanwhile, Bailey and Sarah's relationship starts to get serious. A fortuneteller tells Kirsten that she would not marry Charlie. She convinces him to take dancing classes for their wedding, and they fight. Elsewhere, Julia sees Justin with another girl, and he is openly mean to her after learning that she has been spending time with Griffin because of his bad guy reputation. Julia gets upset with Griffin for not being romantic and getting fired from the job where Julia vouched for him. Griffin resents Julia trying to change him and that he never asked for a job or her charity or being romantically involved with her. Julia continues to mistakenly think that Griffin's lackadaisical attitude and his inability to express any emotion stems from indifference, similar to Julia's own over her parents deaths. Note: Swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy made an uncredited appearance in this episode.

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