Joan goes to the school where Aaron used to teach in order to read a letter he sent to his former students. However, when Joan arrives, the students give her a hard time so Maya decides to use her street smarts to help Joan get through to the students.

Lynn gets upset when she learns that her record label is pushing back the release of her album to promote another artist, Chrisette Michele. When Lynn confronts the record label, they tell her they are concerned about how to market her because they feel she is not "black" enough. Meanwhile, at a doctor's appointment Monica decides she does not want to know the sex of the baby.

Maya and Darnell romanticize the idea of adopting until they attend a neighborhood group for people who have adopted children and are offered baby girl to adopt. Lynn reminds them that adopting is a big decision and encourages them to think about it for awhile.

When Lynn (Persia White) meets Eldon Perry (guest star Kadeem Hardison), an attractive guy at a club where she is singing, but she becomes conflicted about dating him when she discovers he is a Baptist minister. Meanwhile, Joan (Tracee Ellis Ross) tries to convince Maya (Golden Brooks) to call a truce with Monica (Keesha Sharp) and be friends.

When Lynn meets Xander, a cute student at UCLA, he asks her to perform at a rally raising awareness to save the environment. But when Lynn's manager gets her a gig at the House of Blues for the same day, she must decide where she will perform. Meanwhile, Maya gets upset when she hears Jabari use the "b" word, and Joan enlists William's help when she hears strange noises coming from her crawlspace.

Not to be confused with Claudia Weill's 1978 seriocomedy of the same title, Mark Steven Bosko's lurid 1993 exploitation film Girlfriends tells the wicked and sordid tale of Wanda (Nina Angeloff) and Pearl (Lori Scarlett), two trailer trash lesbian hookers who opt to beat prostitution at its own game by cutting out the sex, collecting the money, and adding a little murder in-between. The picture relaxes its pace during its second half as the girls ease up on the homicide, and Bosko explores the landscape of the girls' homosexual relationship. Mark Andreyko and Shawna Baer co-star. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide.