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New York writer Arthur Garment moves to L.A. to write a book about his hatred of the city and its vapid and superficial culture, but the longer he remains there, the fonder he becomes of it.

Arthur returns to L.A. but no one seems to notice. Robbie wants to advertise Pay-Per-Jew before the Anna Kournikova highlights. Shrug thinks his new girlfriend may be a succubus.

Materialistic model Danna is dating Ernie the waiter. Arthur hastily scribbles 100 pages for publisher Mr Lynch. Shrug arranges for Elliott Gould to narrate his straight-to-tape autobiography.

Arthur, back in New York City, finds out from his publisher that the critics hated his book. Robbie wants to dump his new girlfriend but can't while her publicist is sick.

Told documentary style with interviews and reenactments in black and white. What went wrong with Robbie's romance from two years earlier.

Arthur is desperate to be seen as Lauren's boyfriend in other people's eyes. Robbie buys a house but struggles to tell Shrug. Jennifer rents out a police lineup room to root out a date. Robbie's house burns down.

Shrug sees a famous doctor for a back injury, who convinces him the pain is due to lack of stress. Jennifer is asked to be one of the godmothers to a friend's twins, who may have been named for Robbie. Arthur starts his new job for the L.A. Times and has to be screened for a sexual harassment insurance policy.

The group is having a meal as the conversation centers around Latrell Sprewell choking his coach.

Jennifer enlists Lauren's help to get back in the good graces of a manicurist with an unusual massage chair. Robbie and Shrug go looking for 'American girls' at a local chain motel. Arthur tries to apologize for a brutal comment to a blind date and winds up attending therapy with the lady.

Shrug wants Robbie to join him in buying a Van Gogh. Arthur dislikes Lauren's yoga teacher Wayne. Jennifer thinks his mechanic is the sleazy muckracker Evan the Dreadful. She enlists old friend Maureen McCormick's help in identifying him.

Shrug is stricken to suddenly remember how he tormented a girl in high school, so goes to a "memory therapist" to remove that memory.

Arthur, a New York writer, comes to Los Angeles to research a book on hating L.A. He stays with his college roommate Robbie, now fabulously rich and staying in the guest house of the even richer Shrug, who lives off his trust fund and feels guilty about it.

Robbie starts dating his hard-nosed lawyer. Jennifer negotiates a dating contract. She also helps Shrug with his new girlfriend. Lauren is allergic to shellfish. Arthur reluctantly helps her try calamari. Soon she wants more than calamari.

Arthur dates a 21-year-old whose sexual history turns out to be more complicated;Robbie fixes up Lauren with his annoying financial advisor; Shrug and Jennifer protest at an execution.

Shrug gets a nanny, for himself. Robbie has a new Pay-Pet idea that involves Jennifer and Lauren. Arthur has to run back to New York.

Robbie's gift to Arthur of a Lauren massage horrifies him; he wants to be a boyfriend, not a client. Jennifer's new date impresses her by performing CPR on an accident victim. Shrug opens a detective agency to find out solutions to life's little mysteries.

Arthur laments being a "Good Guy", and regrets never having had meaningless sex. Robbie can't tell if a man is good looking. Shrug visits his friend Hilo in jail. And Jennifer and Lauren go to a bar to confront a critic.

Arthur is floored when all his friends feel compelled to watch a televised high-speed car chase. The surrealism mounts when the friends realize the person being chased is an acquaintance of Shrug's.

Shrug and Lauren are both on the pill making them rather emotional. Jennifer has been outed by the phone company. Arthur confronts an old college friend who has been stealing his stories.

Arthur's book is done and he's heading home to New York. Shrug investigates who stole Robbie's movie idea. Lauren gives Jesse Jackson a massage and Jesse gives Arthur some advice.

Everyone has his own reason for attending the funeral of Jennifer's agent.

Robbie is thrilled to be dating an ex-girlfriend of Val Kilmer. Shrug is financing a "smell bar" to be opened by his friend Hilo. The Los Angelenos are fascinated by an image on a billboard that they think is God. Jennifer is pursued by a man whose car she hit, claiming that it caused him to lose an arm.

Lauren's road rage becomes the subject for local news. Shrug's new trust fund girlfriend hates do-nothing rich people. He switches roles with Robbie. Arthur wants to write about plastic surgery and enlists Jennifer's expertise.

Lauren is attracted to the "good" half of a Siamese-twin star of a cop show, but will the "bad" half derail the relationship?

Arthur's desire for a medium-rare hamburger leads his rich California friends to an expedition to "the Valley" to persuade a lower-class woman to drop a lawsuit.