If There's Anything I Can't Stand

"If There’s Anything I Can’t Stand"
Desperate Housewives episode
Phyllis Van De Kamp chats with Bree
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 4
Directed by	Larry Shaw
Written by	Alexandra Cunningham & Lori Kirkland Baker
Production code	404
Original air date	October 21, 2007
Guest appearance(s)
Ellen Geer as Lillian Simms Kevin Rahm as Lee McDermott Tuc Watkins as Bob Hunter Shirley Knight as Phyllis Van de Kamp John Slattery as Victor Lang Allen Williams as Dr. Claude Kyl Cecelia Antoinette as Salesperson Sean Blodget as Delivery Man James Below as Waiter
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“If There’s Anything I Can’t Stand” is the 74th episode of the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives. It is the fourth episode of the show’s fourth season and first aired on October 21, 2007, and attracted 18.21 million viewers in its original airing. The episode was written by Alexandra Cunningham and Lori Kirkland Baker, and directed by Larry Shaw.

Susan Mayer welcomes the new couple, Bob and Lee, to Wisteria Lane. She makes quite a mess of greeting them and ends up getting off on the wrong foot. She tries to make up for it and get the new neighbors to like her by heating up some cookies (since she cannot bake to save her life) and takes them over to their house, where she is greeted by Lee. She and her cookies are not received well, as Lee is allergic to nuts and Susan can't answer if there are any nuts in the cookies since she didn't make them herself, and she ends up with some very rude comments and the door shut in her face. Susan’s daughter Julie later finds their dog running around in the street, and Susan decides to take the dog and keep it in her garage so she can be the “hero” and make Bob and Lee like her. When Lee notices the dog missing, Susan helps him look for it, temporarily winning his thanks and apologies for being so rude earlier on. However, when Susan’s husband Mike returns home, he opens the garage door and the dog runs out with Susan and Mike’s wet paint all over his paws, which not only ruins Bob’s very expensive Dolce suit, but leaves a trail straight back to Susan’s garage. Mike comes back after trying to do some damage control and tells Susan they have to pay $2000 to replace Bob's suit. Susan starts to figure out another way to get them to like her, but Mike snaps at her and tells her to let it go.