MPDP appears, wearing a blue jumpsuit over her clothes, and informs us she's at Space Center Houston. She's standing in front of a kind of diorama of the moon landing. So you know we're going to get a lot of space metaphors. We cut to the homeowners: two male-female couples, the first in a while. All the recaps we've done so far have included female-only teams. The first couple (or, "first space cadets" -- yeesh) is Boyd and Mindy; they want his home office/children's playroom redecorated. How on earth the guy gets anything done if his office is also his children's playroom is a mystery to me. Perhaps he's got those Leo McGarry nerves of steel. ["Also, there were about a million toys in that room, like wouldn't you clean up before the cameras arrived?" - Kim] The other couple is Kim and Eric, who would like their bedroom redone. Then we cut to the design team, who for some presently inexplicable reason are posed on a bright emerald green cube in front of a bright emerald green chroma-key backdrop. Doug's on the cube on his stomach, making like he's flying, with no small amount of evident boredom. Laurie, pregnant as all get-out, is on her side, also making like she's flying, typically more good-naturedly. ("Naturedly?" Can I write that? Hmm. Just did. Deal.) And Amy Wynn's perched on the cube, and she makes a funny face before hopping off the cube. Cut to a photo of three astronauts with Doug's, Laurie's, and Amy Wynn's faces pasted in. Then we get a shot of the three of them inside some kind of spacecraft, which has been generated using the poses from the chroma-key thing. Cripes, that's a lot of explanation for a few seconds of videotape.

MPDP babbles some puns about astronauts knowing their limitations and designers keeping the costs down and the projects on schedule. We cut to Boyd and Mindy's house, as she says that they want a more functional office as well as a more kid-friendly area for their son Josh. The room isn't terrible, but it's sort of a hodgepodge of office items and children's toys. Boyd's desk is in the back corner. I can't tell if he meets clients in this room; probably not, as it looks like it's set up so that Boyd can keep an eye on Josh and work at the same time. The walls are beige, the carpet's beige, and there are white or beige Venetian blinds. Boyd says he wants more work space so he can really get some work done. There's a fairly ugly couch: it's one of those puffy, shapeless, blobby things, with some incredibly odd wooden pieces at either end, not at the arms, but above that, vertically, alongside where your shoulders and neck would be. I have no idea what that's about. It's a kind of dusty teal. There are two fairly nice black side chairs that may be leather, but possibly some synthetic material. If they're synthetic they look really good. There's a large, plain white armoire, with a giant office-supply clock above it, as well as a playpen and one of those large plastic mini-playground toys for toddlers. There's also something that looks kind of like a giant inflatable fish bowl, and it has the appearance of something you'd put a child in to play...never seen that before.