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"  Episode: 20  Last night&amp;#039;s big lesson: It&amp;#039;s impossible to swear off men. And, guys, if you&amp;#039;re going to pretend to be Jewish, keep your penises to yourselves.  Mindy starts off the episode by reminiscing about all the men she&amp;#039;s dated this year, and it&amp;#039;s a diverse bunch \u2014 &amp;quot;from the tall-and-white to the short-and-white.&amp;quot; She&amp;#039;s ready to leave all that behind and swear off dating for good, and to prove it, she packs up all the traces that ex-boyfriends have left behind in her apartment. But we&amp;#039;ve all been there, and we all know it&amp;#039;s not that simple. The second you swear off guys, they start swarming out of the woodwork. Case in point: guest star and notable silver fox Tim Daly, who plays a policeman and overprotective father who both intrigues and terrifies Mindy. (More on him in a sec.) But things with Mindy and Danny appear to be, if not all the way back on, decidedly not off. They banter and tease each other in the break room \u2014 Danny demands to know how many &amp;quot;hours of energy she&amp;#039;s had to drink,&amp;quot; Mindy mocks Danny&amp;#039;s inability to unhook a bra in under twenty minutes \u2014 and while it all ends with nothing more than a, &amp;quot;Nice talking to you,&amp;quot; it&amp;#039;s enough to make Danny break things off with Sally by the end of the episode. It still isn&amp;#039;t over, guys. Before Danny and Sally split, though, there&amp;#039;s the incident: To impress Sally, Danny breaks up a scuffle between some punks and a rabbi on the subway. (Sally misinterprets the situation as &amp;quot;they&amp;#039;re picking on that poor wizard,&amp;quot; which is probably my favorite misunderstanding of all time.)  The rabbi (played by Peter MacNicol) assumes that Danny is the &amp;quot;Shulman&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;Shulman and associates,&amp;quot; and offers to send his female congregants to Danny for treatment \u2026 as long as Danny comes to Shabbat dinner first. He does, with Dr. Prentice. But this poses a huge problem, as Danny is not a Shulman and neither of them is a Jew. It is the very most sitcom-y of sitcom premises, but it&amp;#039;s worth it just to see Danny butcher the Shabbat prayer, and to see a brilliant, bearded MacNicol stare at him confusedly. Danny holds up his end of the con admirably, but Peter fails to lock the door of the bathroom and is barged in on by the rabbi&amp;#039;s son, who sprints back to the dinner table, alarmed, and announces, &amp;quot;Something&amp;#039;s wrong with Doctor Prentice&amp;#039;s \u2026 thing! It has a hood on it!&amp;quot; Oops. Back to swearing off men: When Mindy makes her &amp;quot;no more guys&amp;quot; pronouncement, she hasn&amp;#039;t yet met Detective Charlie Lang, the father of a college-age girl named Jenny to whom Mindy prescribes birth control pills. He doesn&amp;#039;t want his daughter on the pill \u2014 he&amp;#039;s conservative enough that when he found out Jenny was living in a co-ed dorm, he bought her a gun. Things between the two of them start off badly when he storms into her office, irate about the prescription. In true, perfect Mindy fashion, she replies, &amp;quot;Where do you get off on coming into my office and yelling about your outdated views on birth control? Who do you think you are, Rick Santorum? Obviously not, because you&amp;#039;re not hot.&amp;quot; Did we decide Rick Santorum is hot? Did I miss a meeting? Because he&amp;#039;s no Joe Biden. Charlie isn&amp;#039;t the worst, though: He remembers the name of his daughter&amp;#039;s security blanket, and makes sure that she has it to sleep with \u2014 even if she&amp;#039;s flounced out of the house to crash at her gynecologist&amp;#039;s place for a while. He admits he overreacted and gives credit where it&amp;#039;s due. And he&amp;#039;s pretty good at almost-but-not-quite flirty banter. He swaggers into Mindy&amp;#039;s office and asks, &amp;quot;Bet you think you&amp;#039;re pretty clever, don&amp;#039;t you?&amp;quot; She smugly replies, &amp;quot;I do. Ask me to times any two numbers, and I will give you the answer. Single digits only. No nines!&amp;quot; At the end of the episode, Charlie comes back to issue a superfluous ticket to Mindy \u2014 after all, he has to meet his quotas if he wants to become a lieutenant \u2014 and to do a bit more flirting. Mindy calls him Officer You Wish and informs him that she&amp;#039;s sworn off guys. With admirable swagger, Charlie replies, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not a guy. I&amp;#039;m a man.&amp;quot;  I&amp;#039;m still pulling for a Danny and Mindy reunion, but Detective You Wish has me intrigued. Mindy was right in her opening voice-over \u2014 we have seen her with an eclectic group of guys this season \u2014 but we haven&amp;#039;t seen anyone quite like Charlie yet. RELATED: The Mindy Project Recap: &amp;quot;I Think It&amp;#039;s Good That We Stop This Now&amp;quot; The Mindy Project Recap: Rebounding With Schmidt  Photo Credit: FOX "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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