Cyd and Shelby use time travel to attend two different events on the same night; the plan backfires when they meet boys at both events.  Meanwhile, an errant laser beam switches Bret and Chet’s bodies.

I’m sure its a challenge for the writers of BFW to keep coming up with stories that require time travel.  They somehow manage to keep doing it.  I hope they’ll be able to keep it up.

In this episode, Shelby wants to sell her new jewelry line at the craft fair while Cyd wants to host her MMA party.  Surprise, surprise … they are the same night!  Surprise, surprise … Shelby and Cyd seem incapable of doing anything independently.  I know they are best friends (whenever) but that doesn’t mean best friends (inseparable).  The two need to exist in worlds outside each other.  They also seem to have no other friends (whenever) except for Barry and Naldo (Marcy seems to have disappeared).

Their solution to the problem.  Cyd will have her MMA party; they’ll go back in time and then Shelby can head to her jewelry show in a new time.  But some glitches pop up.  Cyd meets Blake in her timeline; Shelby meets Joaquin in her timeline.  But because two timelines cannot exist at the same time, Shelby’s timeline wipes out Cyd’s.  So they do some time traveling finagling to fix it.

In the end, Cyd ends up with Joaquin and Shelby ends up with Blake (nope, we didn’t see that coming at all).  And we are back to happy every after.

In the B story, Barry zaps Chet and Bret with the laser and they switch bodies.  We get a whole bunch more information on their personalities that we’ve ever gotten before.  One is the hip ladies man (I guess), and the other is more philosophical and cerebral.  I’m not sure which is which, and as Barry notes, “What difference does it make?”  Their story involves trying to get Bret and Chet back into their original bodies.  The solution: a whole bunch of static electricity.

This episode wasn’t so bad.  I actually find Barry and Naldo much more interesting characters than Cyd and Shelby.  But at least we know they’ll all be best friends … whenever.

Here’s my one pet peeve about the show.  Cyd and Shelby time travel all over the place, but often, Barry and Naldo’s timeline never changes.  This leads to the question: does everyone else continue on with their lives but only Cyd and Shelby’s timelines change?