The L Word

'The L Word' follows the lives and loves of a group of lesbian friends living in Los Angeles. The main character, Jenny, is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago, who moves to Los Angeles to live with her boyfriend Tim and begin a professional writing career. Jenny's life is turned upside down when she attends a party hosted by Tim's next-door neighbors, Bette and Tina, a lesbian couple who are about to take the step into parenthood after being together for seven years. A brief encounter at the party with Marina, the owner of the local coffeehouse, suddenly has Jenny thrust into a whole new world that makes her question her own sexual orientation. Other friends of Bette and Tina include Dana, a professional tennis player who is shy but eager to meet the right woman; Alice, a magazine writer who has a brief relationship with a self-identified "lesbian" man; and Shane, a hairstylist who can't stick to just one woman, and Kit, Bette's half sister who struggles with alcoholism.

Cast

• Jennifer Beals
• Laurel Holloman
• Mia Kirshner
• Leisha Hailey
• Erin Daniels
• Katherine Moennig
• Rachel Shelley
• Pam Grier
• Daniela Sea
• Marlee Matlin
• Rose Rollins
• Dallas Roberts
• Karina Lombard
• Eric Mabius
• Sarah Shahi
• Janina Gavankar
• Eric Lively

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Pilot
  Dr. Wilson: All right, I'm going to take a look at this and while I'm gone, well, you remember how I...
• Episode 2: Let's Do It
  Dana: [after seeing an exchange between Jenny and Marina] I thought Jenny was straight.::Alice: Dana...
• Episode 3: Longing
  [after Alice tells Gabby off exactly as Bette and Tina told her to]::Gabby Deveaux: Emotional crippl...
• Episode 4: Lies, Lies, Lies
  [Jenny is writing. Scenes from the party are intercut with a hallucination of her English professor ...
• Episode 5: Lawfully
  Alice: [to Shane after finding out that her mom, Lenore, kissed Shane] Hey, sorry you got Lenored!...
• Episode 6: Losing It
  [repeatedly during a poker game at Bette and Tina's]::Shane McCutcheon: Liquor in the front. Poker i...
• Episode 7: L'Ennui
  Shane: Guys, my cousins did this for my uncle Bill and he hasn't had a drop to drink since they put ...
• Episode 8: Listen Up
  Bette: [voiceover at her and Tina's support group] What's happening to me?... Am I just panicking?.....
• Episode 9: Luck, Next Time
  [Kit and female dancers are filming a music video in hoochie outfits]::Bette: Shit. I feel like I di...
• Episode 10: Liberally
  Dana: You know, Al, just 'cause you're riding the big fat weenie doesn't mean there's something wron...
• Episode 11: Looking Back
  Bette prepares for the gallery's 'Provocations' show and hires Candace, an attractive female contrac...
• Episode 12: Locked Up
  The role of Ivan Aycock was originally intended for 'k.d. lang' (qv). But this was decided against b...
• Episode 13: Limb from Limb
  Alice: [Seeing Dana and Tonya dressed alike] "What is with the twin thing? Are they merging already?...
• Season 2
• Episode 1: Life, Loss, Leaving
  Alice: This coffee tastes like poopie-shit! Where's Marina?...
• Episode 2: Lap Dance
  Tonya: [Dana and Tonya have gone to see Dana's parents to get their blessing for the wedding] Sharon...
• Episode 3: Loneliest Number
  Jenny Schecter: How are you?::Bette Porter: How were you when your life fell apart?::Jenny Schecter:...
• Episode 4: Lynch Pin
  Bette travels to New York on business to ask for continued funding for the California Art Center fro...
• Episode 5: Labyrinth
  [Tina hasn't told Bette about the baby]::Alice: I mean, she's GOTTA know. Is she fucking blind?...
• Episode 6: Lagrimas de Oro
  [Bette and Tina are talking on the phone]::Bette Porter: And you know who's responsible for this? Yo...
• Episode 7: Luminous
  Shane tries to dull her pain by a day at a health spa with Veronica in the hopes that she can forget...
• Episode 8: Loyal
  When Alice tries to catch up on her latest journalism assignment, she accidentally runs into her ex,...
• Episode 9: Late, Later, Latent
  [on admitting that he is gay]::Burr Connor: I am a card carrying member of the Cock-Sucker's Club....
• Episode 10: Land Ahoy
  Alice: [whispering in Dana's ear] I want you to fuck me really hard with a strap-on....
• Episode 11: Loud & Proud
  [after Tina tells her she wants to start seeing Bette again]::Helena Peabody: [condescendingly] Oh, ...
• Episode 12: L'Chaim
  Shane: That's the cycle of life. We start out eating baby food and wearing a diaper and we go out th...
• Episode 13: Lacuna
  Shane: [laughs] I like a girl with ambition.::Carmen de la Pica Morales: [also laughs] Fuck you!::Sh...
• Season 3
• Episode 1: Labia Majora
  Jenny: Are you thinking about having sex with me right now?::Moira: It's crossed my mind......
• Episode 2: Lost Weekend
  Alice Pieszecki: [to a little kid at Angelica's birthday party] Hi there, who are you?::Roland: I'm ...
• Episode 3: Lobsters
  Carmen de la Pica Morales: [snickering, to Shane] Big butch: go unload the truck.::Moira: [tosses ba...
• Episode 4: Light My Fire
  Bette Porter: I'm trying to meet with Barbara Grisham tomorrow before the hearings.::Tina Kennard: S...
• Episode 5: Lifeline
  Alice Pieszecki: What do you teach?::Uta Refson: I'm a vamperologist. I teach a course on the queer ...
• Episode 6: Lifesize
  Carmen de la Pica Morales: ...Are you jealous? [talking about Carmen flirting with guys in her DJ-bo...
• Episode 7: Lonestar
  Tina takes a business trip to Vancouver, Canada to a movie shoot location and has a chance to explor...
• Episode 8: Latecomer
  Alice: Where's Carmen?::Shane: Ugh, I'm in the shithouse.::Alice: Why?::Shane: Carmen had a dream th...
• Episode 9: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
  [after Tina slept with a man]::Bette: You no longer have the privileges of being my life partner!::T...
• Episode 10: Losing the Light
  [after finding out about Max's past as Moira]::Tim Haspel: [to his wife] Next thing you know, she'll...
• Episode 11: Last Dance
  [at Dana's funeral]::Priest: How unfortunate it is that she died before finding herself a husband an...
• Episode 12: Left Hand of the Goddess
  Six weeks after Dana's death with everyone still grieving over the loss of their friend, Helena take...
• Season 4
• Episode 1: Legend in the Making
  Bette Porter: [at Joyce Wichnia's office] Tina's not qualified to parent a biracial child.::Tina Ken...
• Episode 2: Livin' La Vida Loca
  [first lines]::Imposter Papi #1: [to Alice] Alice. Alice, over here. Alice? Alice right? From the ra...
• Episode 3: Lassoed
  [first lines]::Jenny Schecter: Stacey! Stacey!...
• Episode 4: Layup
  Bette Porter: [Papi is trash-talking Bette while they are playing basketball against each other] Who...
• Episode 5: Lez Girls
  Alice: Right, right. Oh, wait, he's talking to me! So weird. Huh?... What?... OK, I'll tell her. He ...
• Episode 6: Luck Be a Lady
  Control freak Bette enjoys her new romance with Jodi while at the same time, she clashes with Tina o...
• Episode 7: Lesson Number One
  [Talking over whether Helena should have sex to erase her gambling debt, and whether she'd feel like...
• Episode 8: Lexington and Concord
  A heated argument over politics as well as the issue of race turns into passion for both Alice and T...
• Episode 9: Lacy Lilting Lyrics
  Jodi: [to Bette] Yes, I fucked her. But it didn't work. Every time I looked at her, my head filled w...
• Episode 10: Little Boy Blue
  [in Sign Language; subtitled]::Jodi: Hello, Amy.::Amy: "Hello, Amy?"::Jodi: Let me call you at home....
• Episode 11: Literary License to Kill
  In aftermath of the disastrous get-together dinner, Bette finds out that Jodi has been offered a job...
• Episode 12: Long Time Coming
  [Jenny barges in on a meeting she was deliberately left out of]::Tina Kennard: Oh Jenny, we thought ...
• Season 5
• Episode 1: LGB Tease
  Shane aborts her plans to move in with Paige to help raise her son when she falls back into old habi...
• Episode 2: Look Out, Here They Come!
  Tina's obvious, lingering affection for Bette affects her dating prospects. Jenny lands Shane a last...
• Episode 3: Lady of the Lake
  Tina Kennard: Speaking of freakish, look at Jenny's new assistant.::Alice Pieszecki: Well, you kind ...
• Episode 4: Let's Get This Party Started
  Bette's jealousy over Tina's new girlfriend is the probable cause of a surprising moment. Meanwhile,...
• Episode 5: Lookin' at You, Kid
  Alice Pieszecki: Why is my life supposed to stop because you want to live in a fucking closet? I did...
• Episode 6: Lights! Camera! Action!
  Jenny Schecter: So this is what I want you to do. Ok, so you're going to look at her and you're goin...
• Episode 7: Lesbians Gone Wild
  Bette Porter: So which side of the bed is Nina's?::Tina Kennard: I don't know. Um. [gets up and stan...
• Episode 8: Lay Down the Law
  Jodi Lerner: Maybe she's a spaghetti girl. Straight until wet....
• Episode 9: Liquid Heat
  This episode has the largest amount of sex scenes in the same time: Bette-Tina, Tasha-Alice, Shane-M...
• Episode 10: Lifecycle
  Molly Kroll: No, it was great for me! [referring to the terrible sex Shane said she had] You don't j...
• Episode 11: Lunar Cycle
  After the revelation at the Pink Ride, Jodi vows to fight for Bette. But a talk between Bette and Jo...
• Episode 12: Loyal and True
  [last lines]::Jenny Schecter: [to Shane] You know what? It's the ultimate betrayal. You've broken my...
• Season 6
• Episode 1: Long Night's Journey Into Day
  Bette Porter: Poor Shane.::Tina Kennard: Fuck that! I wouldn't blame Jenny if she never spoke to Sha...
• Episode 2: Least Likely
  [Helena attacks Dylan in the parking lot outside the nightclub]::Helena Peabody: I don't give a fuck...
• Episode 3: LMFAO
  Before Shane leaves the house for work, Jenny asks her if she's going to do 'Patrick Dempsey (I)' (q...
• Episode 4: Leaving Los Angeles
  Dylan approaches Tina to ask for her help to get back together with Helena. But the rest of the girl...
• Episode 5: Litmus Test
  When Tasha, Alice and Jamie are sitting and looking at Alice's photo album, the baby photos are real...
• Episode 6: Lactose Intolerant
  Alice: [as Bette is describing a stroller that seemingly does everything] Does it do the dishes?::Be...
• Episode 7: Last Couple Standing
  The girls partake in the annual 24-hour Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center's dance marathon at Hit! wi...
• Episode 8: Last Word
  In the series finale, a celebration of friendship ends in disaster. Alice tells Tasha that if she wa...