One of the repellent things about Showtime’s Californiacation are the blatant attempts at coolness that the show makes. Hank Moody, while a drunken writerly type, dons a ring on his index finger. Who knows if David Duchovny actually engages in that kinda of nonsense, but his character surely does. And while that’s a pretty minor point to latch on to, the jewelry fails in what its supposed to do.

Much like that ring, titling this week’s episode of Californiacation after the forth Led Zeppelin album comes off as an attempt to make the show cooler than it is. Coolness, though, doesn’t come from effort as we all should have learned from the Fonz. Instead, being cool is an effortless thing that doesn’t involve putting rings on or posturing. Yeah, Zeppelin is a music that’s in Hank Moody’s wheelhouse, but mentioning it doesn’t serve to illuminate the story here.

Unless…

Towards the beginning of this episode, “Zoso” finds Moody dozing on the couch in his office as a parade of woman begin passing through. First, his boss’ wife and sometimes flirtatious mom enters and straddles the barely lucid professor. They kiss a little, but then are interrupted by Moody’s teaching assistant – she counts as two. After chasing off the hot mom, Moody and the TA stretch out on the couch for a minute to indulge in each other.

We’re only half way there.

The third woman, has to be the buxom, one time student who Hank goes to visit with Charlie Runkle. Thing is, though, she’s a stripper. Hank attempts to talk her out of those nasty habits, gets his ass kicked and is summarily taken back to the student/stripper’s house and given an evening of good lovin’. Sadly, the next day all three woman wind up in Hank’s class. And as the episode ends, one wonders who gets to go first: what’s the order?

But if Zoso was Zeppelin’s fourth album, where’s Hank’s forth woman?

There are two possible answers to this. Of course, Hank’s sometimes wife and girlfriend, the mother of his daughter, makes a brief appearance via the old tyme video chat enabled by everyone have Mac laptops. But she quickly exits – work is to be done. And that leaves Hank all alone, sober and sad like.

Fortunately, there’s another answer as to who the forth woman could be. It isn’t an unlikely answer, but one that could fit given Hanks proclivity for naked escapades.

Charlie Runkle finds himself in the employ of a mannish overlord played by Kathleen Turner. The two have already had a go and the boss lady doesn’t show signs of slowing down. The two play footsy for a while in Hanks presence, prompting the writer to ask, what’s going on? He doesn’t get a straight answer, but he does get an offer to join the pair at some point in the future.

So, while duking an old lady type in the company of one’s friend sounds like a raw deal all around, this frank business woman could count as four. And that’s good enough for me.