BWW Recap: Everyone Needs a Little Yelp on Tonight's SELFIE!

Tonight's episode of SELFIE, entitled "A Little Yelp From My Friends" steps out of the Eliza and Henry narrative and ventures into other relationships within the Kindercare Pharmaceuticals office. With wonderful performances by BUNHEADS and HORRIBLE BOSSES' Jennifer Hasty and BOB'S BURGERS and VEEP's Brian Huskey, the episode is full of humor, as always, but also throws in some drama.

Although Eliza claims she's been making more of an effort to focus on "non phones" (aka people), it's pretty obvious not much progress has been made. She tries faking her way through a conversation with Henry, but he sees right through her after she bursts out her thoughts on whether or not Jay-Z and Queen B have a pre-nup. He asks to hold her phone during the business meeting, but she would rather lick her phone than hand it over.

In the business meeting, after a tasteless joke at the expense of people who are blind, Mr. Sapperstein asks his employees to take stock of their interpersonal relationships within the office. Joan (Hasty) passes out an article on Channing Tatum explaining how he and his wife rate how close they feel to each other on a scale of one to ten. Based on this, each employee does this with the person sitting next to them. It finally gets to Joan, who rates her relationship with Eliza a zero because she's always too busy on her phone...just like she is in that moment, which upsets Henry.

After the meeting, Henry finds Eliza eating lunch standing over a trashcan, which she defends as being better for her digestion, but what Henry calls really anti-social behavior. Eliza then tries to persuade Henry the reason Joan doesn't like her because she ate her clearly marked gazpacho after being "super duper hungs" (hungry) after skipping breakfast before Soul Cycle. Everyone who has ever had a roommate definitely felt Joan's pain before amIrite?! We then find out that Eliza is currently eating Joan's sandwich. Henry gives Eliza her next assignment: to befriend Joan, which Eliza thinks is impossible because they are too different. Henry shows that differences doesn't mean you can't be friends with someone, making an example of he and Larry (Huskey)'s friendship. Eliza tries to make pleasent conversation with Joan, but it quickly turns south with her referencing Joan's husband as "the old ball and penis." So far, things aren't going too well for Jo-Liza.

Eliza then succumbs to doing what she does bet - "cyber sleuthing." After searching every major social networking platform from Pinterest to MySpace (are we back in 2008?), she comes up with nothing and turns to Charmonique for help. Charmonique explains that Joan isn't on social media, but she is an avid Yelper. Eliza reads the hundreds of posts Joan has left and heads to a dance class that Joan goes to every Friday.

Meanwhile, Larry confesses to Henry that his wife left him after a fight they had about her going to the chiropractor. Leaning on his friendship with Henry, who he insists on calling Juan Pablo, Larry starts making plans including strip clubs, drugs, possibly killing a drifter and TJ Maxx, all of which Henry wants no part in. Come on, who doesn't love TJ Maxx's prices?

Back at the dance class, Joan is surprised to see Eliza there. Using the information Eliza got from all the Yelp reviews, she starts winning over Joan who thinks she just has the same opinion on all the places she goes to. Eliza has a little trouble doing the choreography wonderfully set to Paula Abdul's "Straight Up." After the class, Eliza apologizes for "accidentally" eating her food and offers to buy her dinner.

Sapperstein, who is convinced of Henry and Larry's close friendship emphasizes the importance of standing by your friends in troubling times, leading to Henry inviting Larry to stay with him, much to Henry's chagrin. After Henry sets Larry up in the guest room, Larry tells him that he doesn't want to go to bed yet and wants to get a start on all their plans. Henry suggests trying to get his wife back, which Larry takes as planning a flash-mob, because "most women consider the flash-mob to be THE most romantic gesture a man can make." I gotta admit, flash-mobs are pretty badass. Larry immediately starts making plans for the flash-mob, which includes finding a breakaway suit. Henry gets a call from Eliza telling her she's outside Joan's house, to which he hilariously tells her to drive away, thinking Joan and her husband have no clue.

Eliza's plan immediately gets messed up after she warns Joan's husband not to eat something covered in oregano because he's allergic, which Joan knows she has no way of knowing unless she Yelp-stalked her. Eliza apologizes and explains that she was just trying to get to know Joan.

Henry enters the office in the morning and says hi to Charmonique who instantly asks him why he's wearing a breakaway suit. Knowing that Larry is involved somehow, she warns Henry not to partake in another one of his flashmobs, which after doing a quick search on YouTube, Henry discovers this isn't exactly Larry's first one. Supposedly he's done it multiple times before with terrible results because his wife hates them. Henry finds Eliza back in his office where explains she messed up the whole situation with Joan. After yet another tasteless joke, this time about sweatshop babies and Henry's family, Henry tells Eliza what he really thinks about Larry, who happens to walk in the room at that precise moment.

Henry apologizes and tells Larry that he needs to make a smaller gesture because it will mean more. Larry ends up buying his wife flowers, which she really appreciates. Henry brings Eliza into his office in order to show her the new trashcan he bought her because she continues to eat lunch standing up. She confesses the real reason she does it is because back in school, no one wanted to eat with her. Henry, moved by her honesty, joins her standing over the trashcan. Eliza and Henry share a beautiful moment as they look into each other's eyes, while Larry and his wife decide where to go to dinner when all of a sudden Raj rips off his suit thinking the flash-mob, which Larry swears to his wife that he cancelled, is still a go.

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