Star-Crossed – June 15, 1972

Sam is a womanizing college professor in 1972 who must deflect the advances of an amorous student. Meanwhile, he encounters Donna (Teri Hatcher), the woman who will later stand up Sam at the altar.

“Sam is the creepiest mayor of Creep Town who ever crept,” Dennis argues at the outset of this episode. He, Sam, and returning guest star, Jessica Conger, discuss misogyny, problematic romance tropes, Watergate, and a sequence Dennis calls, “Sam Mansplains Quantum Physics to the Quantum Physics Student.”