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20. The Dress

Molly's dieting goes into overdrive when her wedding dress doesn't zip during her final fitting.

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Molly goes for a wedding dress fitting and discovers that she needs to lose six more pounds to fit into her dress. She drives Mike and everyone else crazy when she tries to lose the extra weight. When she meets an old OA friend who is now thin, she runs out of the spin class. She picks a fight in the parking lot and gets arrested. Mike tells her that she is perfect the way she is to calm her down. Note: For this episode, Melissa McCarthy was nominated for the 2012 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, but lost to Julia Louis-Dreyfus for Veep.

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