Brenda's Season 4 Trivia Quiz

Answer: True

They were discussing their love life, and what was normal and was abnormal. He said he liked a dominant/submissive dynamic and she said she wanted regular old normal love making. She explained that drinking, smoking pot, and weird sex were just ways to avoid making a connection during love making and she did not want to smoke anymore pot.

Answer: Mushrooms

She says that they are too much like parts of people and Joe says they just taste dirty to him. Justin Theroux ("Duplex", "Mulholland Drive", and "American Psycho") plays Brenda's new love interest in season 4.

Answer: True

She tells Joe that her mother is going to freak out when Brenda tells her. Joanna Cassidy plays Brenda's unstable mother, Margaret. Joanna can also be seen in "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" and "The Tommyknockers".

Answer: No

It was actually Nate that came over unannounced. Maya was gone with Lisa's sister to Lego Land and Nate was felling restless. Brenda invites him to stay and meet Joe, which he does, but first she had to go untie him.

Answer: All of these

Peter Macdissi plays Margaret's lover Olivier Castro-Staal. Olivier was Claire and Russell's teacher at LAC Arts in season 3, and also a lover to both Russell and Margaret's son Billy Chenowith. Russell's liaison with Olivier is what ended his relationship with Claire, right before she discovered she was pregnant.
Brenda and Joe had dinner with her mother and Olivier when she reveals this. In typical Margaret fashion she laughs at her and makes rude remarks. Then she admits that Brenda is so messed up she'd make a great therapist, just like herself.

Answer: Richard Bramm

Margaret cannot believe that Brenda buys into all that cognitive stuff. She believes you have to dig through your past, but Brenda explains that just knowing where your behavior comes from alone, does not help you change it completely. Clyde and Calvin are former NBA basketball players and Riley Finn was a character on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in seasons 4, 5 and 6.

Answer: True

While viewing their future home, the decide to make love. Brenda asks Joe if he has a condom, and since they decided they were ready to become parents, he says, "Do we need one?" In the next episode Brenda tells Joe she did not get pregnant.

Answer: a depressing cripple

Joe: "That's him. Your previous indiscretion, him."
Brenda: "Yes."
Joe: "That depressing cripple. That means your both cripples, obviously. I am so stupid, I was actually considering having children with you."

Answer: False

She does get high with the two men, but leaves the house before she can do anything more. She immediately goes to a sex addict group meeting, where a woman there wants her to leave just because she smells like marijuana.

Answer: False

It is actually her sister that finds them inside a little cafe. She tries to keep her voice even and friendly, but the displeasure is apparent. She knew who Brenda was and how threatened Lisa always felt by her.

Answer: straw

While in the cafe, Brenda walks away from the table to get a straw for Maya's drink. That is when Barb walks in and sees Nate and Maya. She discovers Brenda shortly afterward.

Answer: Barb and Hoyt

Barb and Hoyt are coming to California to discuss the irregularities of Lisa's ashes. Barb is Lisa's sister and already annoyed about Brenda and Nate being a couple so soon after Lisa's death. Once she gets there, she makes it perfectly clear to Nate and Brenda that Lisa hated Brenda. Later she decides to take Maya from Nate.

Answer: False

Nope, that would be Brenda that asks Nate about having another baby. He isn't totally opposed to the idea of having one in the future, but puts the brakes on the idea later when Barb decides to sue Nate for custody of Maya.

Answer: She has medical problems

They are having lunch and Margaret excuses herself to the bathroom. A few minutes later Brenda is asked to aid her mom in the bathroom. When she gets inside, her mother is bleeding extensively. A short time later she has to have a hysterectomy.

Answer: False

They reconnect in the hospital, after their mother's hysterectomy, and have an extremely good conversation over lunch. Margaret had excused them from her room so she could "be alone" with Olivier.