“The Post-It Always Sticks Twice”

Sex and the City season 6, episode 7
Original air date: August 03, 2003

Question of the Week: Do we search for "lessons" to lessen the pain?

And scene:
Carrie's none too happy about her break-up with Berger, but even beyond the fact that it's over, she's irate about the way that it's over. It's the lamest breakup technique she's ever heard of to break up with someone by Post-It note.

Charlotte tries to cheer Carrie up by asserting that everything happens for a reason. She uses herself as an example: if she hadn't married Trey, she wouldn't have gotten divorced and met Harry as her divorce lawyer. Everyone expresses their skepticism about Charlotte's pearl of wisdom.

Despite dispensing folksy wisdom about life, Charlotte's rather depressed about her upcoming wedding. She secretly wants to duplicate the big wedding glamour that she had the first time around with Trey, but she doesn't think it's appropriate for a second marriage. The other girls are relieved, though, that it means they won't have to wear ugly, frilly bridesmaid dresses, since Charlotte's going to dress everything down a few notches.

Samantha's gotten Smith/Jerry booked on TRL on MTV, and she tries to spruce him up for it. He refuses to be spruced, though, and just wears a tank top and jeans. She advises him not to say that he's got a girlfriend, both as a PR move and because she doesn't want to be saddled with that label for their relationship. Especially after Carrie's trauma, she's trying to keep things light and easy-going with Smith.

To that end, Samantha takes all the girls to Bed, a hot new nightclub with - what else - beds inside instead of tables. Miranda's fit into her skinny jeans for the first time in 20 years and very nearly hooks up with a guy after falling onto his bed. However, her plans are foiled when Carrie runs into some of Berger's friends. As much as she insists she's not going to play a nasty game of "he said, she said" over her break-up with Berger, she ends up letting it slip that Berger was really bad in bed. Then she feels terrible and tries to make up for it, but just digs herself deeper in, until she feels the need to run away and drag all the girls with her.

Carrie doesn't want this day to go down in history as just the day she was broken up with by Post-It, though, and she decides that what she really needs is for the four of them to get high together. Miranda, in her hot jeans, sidles up to some likely-looking young gents in the alley outside Bed, and they agree to meet the guys at another bar around the corner.

At the next bar, Samantha orders drinks and a channel change from the bartender, so that she can watch Smith on TRL. Charlotte's envious of the group of girls having a bachelorette party in the bar, but they enthusiasticlly encourage her to join them when they discover that she's also newly-engaged. <

When Smith says that he doesn't have a girlfriend, Samantha's stomach gives an unwelcome lurch, and she begins making out with a random guy at the bar on the spot. Unfortunately, he's some tough Long Islander chick's boyfriend, and the girls get chased into the street under threats of beating by the chick and her friends.

Out in the street, they light up and begin puffing. Unfortunately, a cop wanders by just then and picks Carrie up for possession. Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha talk him out of arresting her by explaining the day Carrie's had, complete with Post-It break-up and all. Carrie realizes that this won't have to be the day she was broken up with by Post-It in her memory, but can instead go down as the day she was almost arrested.