Alas, as summer follows spring, so must a starkly different conversation with Michael follow in a slam-cut from this happy chat with Amy. The next time we see Kate, she and Michael are just settling in for lunch together at some kind of outdoor café, where she's explaining how relieved she is to have the tension with Amy behind her. Michael -- who seriously needs to shave that lame-ass facial hair, because it is a disfiguring tragedy -- tells Kate that he actually needs to talk to her about Amy. I know, I know -- you never saw it coming. "The whole thing with Amy's not working out," he tells Kate. Kate is stunned to hear that the two halves of a couple are giving her different versions of their relationship, despite the fact that this kind of thing actually happens to her a lot, so you'd think she wouldn't be so stunned anymore. Kate inquires about the whole parents-and-Thanksgiving thing, and Michael acknowledges that agreeing to visit the family of the girl he's planning on dumping was probably not a great idea. Kate isn't even sure she understands what his problem is -- how could he find Amy less than lovely? (Yes, I can think of lots of reasons, and so can you, but you've suspended your disbelief for six episodes; there's no reason to stop now.) Michael complains that Amy makes an overly intellectual stew out of everything, including sex. "It's like she wants to write her dissertation after every orgasm." This gets Kate's attention, for obvious reasons, the first of which is presumably that she'd certainly like to know exactly how much writing this would involve. Michael goes on to call Amy "needy and possessive," and laments the fact that she keeps him from seeing his friends -- including Kate. Kate smiles guiltily at the quasi-compliment. Mmm, quasi-compliments. He also spills the beans about the fact that Amy only reconciled with Kate because he forced her to. Like many things, this drives Kate to make a frowny face, and then -- of course -- an understanding face. Kate gets it, y'all. Kate always gets it.