MPDP strolls toward the camera on a barren suburban playground in the Subdivision of the Damned. Specifically, she is on the basketball court. I have to admit that when I saw that the show was in Indiana, I was rather concerned about what M-Pun-D-Pun would do for jokes, so I'm relieved to see that she has found a solution. She explains that they're in Indianapolis, where "basketball is a way of life." Not that this will, at any time, have anything whatsoever to do with the episode, but that's all right. She's fortunately wearing a relatively inoffensive purple and pink t-shirt today, but something bad has happened to her jeans, resulting in a fair amount of damage. She may have been attacked by a mountain lion. I wonder if the Trading Spaces liability insurance covers that. Of course, if it's not set up to pay compensation for the decorating in this episode, I doubt it will pay for anything as relatively harmless as a mountain lion attack. At any rate, MPDP makes a dismal "nothing but net" joke (God, is there any other kind?) and attempts a blind over-the-shoulder shot with the basketball that some helpful offscreen chum has thrown to her. The shot misses the basket, the backboard, and quite possibly the city of Indianapolis. Even she is impressed by what a truly appalling shot it is.

In a large, empty arena, Doug, Gen, and Amy Wynn dribble basketballs in Pacers uniforms. As with the soccer balls in Philadelphia, Amy Wynn is the only one who looks remotely at ease. Gen tries a header with a basketball, which looks (and sounds) like it probably hurt. I'm assuming you can make your own "hmm, sounds hollow" jokes. Doug comes over and kisses her on the forehead, starting hearts fluttering in certain circles of which I am not a part. Elsewhere, the four homeowners are allegedly fishing in one of those dirty little ponds that subdivisions put in for drainage that do not contain live fish unless those fish were dumped there five minutes ago. It took me two times through this sequence to figure out that the joke here is that the wives have the husbands on the ends of their lines and are reeling them in. Wow, that Andy Capp sure is funny. Not satisfied with her dead-on-arrival basketball jokes, MPDP unleashes some low-end fishing jokes at the expense of the homeowners before taking us inside to see where we're starting with the rooms.

Brad and Donna have redone their living room three times, and are about to become the poster children for a national PSA campaign called In The Name Of God, Quit While You're Ahead. They're cursed with one of those silly high ceilings with the funny angles that are good for nothing except growing cobwebs, but other than that, this really looks a lot like an "after" room on a decorating show, not a "before." They have comfy-looking green furniture and a pretty white fireplace which, while boring, is hardly objectionable. Perhaps it's because it's the weekend before Thanksgiving, but this golden-tan color on their walls is making me think, "roast turkey." Donna and Brad complain in their interview that the room isn't well-coordinated, but I don't agree. I think it looks quite pulled-together and lovely. Brad says that they keep changing it, so they need someone just to come in and tell them what to do. The only things they can think of to say about the changes they're looking for are that they don't like bright colors, and that she would like more seating. It looks like they currently have one chair and one couch, so I can understand that, I guess. And going on television was presumably easier than, you know, buying another chair. They also say that they hate Country. I always think it's sort of funny when people say that, because I think a lot of them don't even really know exactly what they mean, beyond not wanting painted geese or furniture made of wooden crates. But at any rate, I think Brad and Donna are about to learn that you're much better off redoing your living room one time too few than one time too many.