Randy is down because of another rejection from The New Yorker, and because he has to work at the bar on St. Patrick's Day. Mory forgot to hire a band so Randy gets P.J. to make his musical debut. The rest of the guys come to bar for the party, and Johnny runs into Christine. He gets upset because he met her at last year's St. Patrick's Day party, and feels that he made a mistake by breaking up with her. Ethan, an aquaintance of Randy's from college, comes to the party with Tess, and Randy becomes more depressed because Ethan is a microsurgeon, lawyer, and just published his first book. After eleven beers, Iowa gets taken advantage of by a taxi driver (Zvi from ""Iowa vs. New York""). Cal sleeps with a women whom it turns out he slept with during the celebrations the night of the Rangers won the Stanley cup. Iowa returns the next morning after being taken all along the East Coast.