Much against his will, Eldon becomes famous when a museum curator sees his artwork in Murphy's house. When he does a mural for the public in a snooty gallery, he has to deal with the pretentious connoisseurs who see art in the oddest of places. Eldon is quickly disgusted by this easy rise to fame, and when he gets a huge check, he faces the possibility of life without painting. Murphy has to deal with a replacement of little to no personality, and the bond between her and Eldon increases as she risks life without him as a friend. Sometimes it's difficult to separate art from life and fictional people from reality because the way Murphy goes out of her way for people she likes really captures the heart just as Eldon's murals did with his satiric view of the world. Robert Pastorelli's quiet and dignified performance takes a unique twist in this artistic but unpretentious episode that gives a biting view of a sometime phony mentality that is easy to satire.
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