"Butterfly"

Tommy asks Chief Reilly for extra vacation time.

Cast: Denis Leary, James McCaffrey, Andrea Roth, Michael Lombardi , Jack McGee, Steven Pasquale, Daniel Sunjata, John Scurti.
Director(s): John Fortenberry, Jace Alexander, Adam Bernstein.
Producer(s): Peter Tolan, Jim Serpico, Kerry Orent.

Original Airdate: September 1, 2004.

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No more Anck-Su-Namun

Another funny episode, w/ a little drama thrown in here and there.

I can't believe they busted out the Shocker in this episode. Too funny.

I love how the crew is sitting around drinking while the probie is building the deck all by himself. Speaking of the probie, he got worked over this ep, in more ways than one. Geneva = very nice.

And I have to admit, Tommy's wife isn't too shabby, but I prefer his cousin's widow.

The lieutenant provided some good laughs when he was telling Sean how to pose for the pics after the fire.

The scene outside the firehouse was killing me

"Please a woman? Not possible"

That poor shrink.

Sean is clueless and way too uptight... the posing for the picture was hilarious, and his screwing up the 'butterfly' on that booty call really makes him look inept.

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Best lines of the night:

"She slipped me a Viagra, and I feel like I just lost my wood ten minutes ago." - Probie

"I thought you showed today looking a little to happy to be building a deck." - Kenny

Yeah - the best parts of this episode were when the guys were just sitting around shooting the shit.

So will more ghost come back now that Tommy is in a "worse" place with his ex, or are we just down to his cousin, or will the meds take him away?

Pretty decent episode. The gut-punch kinda took me by surprise, but at least he's hopefully done with that psycho now...

Well Tommy lit a candle and the girl went away, and in this episode lit two candles and the two firefighters went away, so now Tommy will have to decide whether to light a candle for his cousin. Him taking the pills was out of character as was the not drinking though.

Great episode. I wish they would've called it the shocker, though.

I think Tommy is going to start popping pills rather than drinking.

This show tends to be funnier than most comedies.

Good episode, but the whole bit with the psycho, saved guy is just getting too weird for my tastes. Hopefully that is done, but I doubt it.

Just caught up with this episode.

Am I the only one that hates the Franco character? It's so lame and predictable. No guy who's actually a player talks about being a player all the time.

Wasn't crazy about this episode, a couple of the plot devices were a little too cliche (Tommy jumping to the conclusion he'd be reconciling, when it was obvious he wouldn't be). Also didn't care for them sitting around the backyard right in front of the shrink, that was pretty unrealistic. Wouldn't they at least pretend to work when he was watching, and if not, wouldn't the shrink have said something?