If skeptics watching the SAG Awards on Sunday nights sighed at William H. Macy's triumph when he took home the trophy for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series, they should have tuned into "Shameless" last Sunday.

As it was, that episode went out with a bang and not a whimper.

While the show gets lumped into the comedy-drama category on the series and comedy at award ceremonies, "The Two Lisas" was heavy on tear-jerking drama and saw the shearing of several characters from the show's roster. For starters, Joan Cusack's character Sheila Jackson, the kindhearted agoraphobic germaphobe who took in a manipulative Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy) -- who seduced her in order to live in her home, taking advantage of her cooking, bedroom hospitality and disability money -- and the guiding light in troubled times.

As the threat of gentrification looms in the distance, her daughter and grandchild sent away to faith healers in Arizona, her first husband deceased, having overcome her disability and battle with her fear of the outside world, Sheila has a new lease on life and the wanderlust begins. Sheila wants to explore the world. She's not getting any younger. That means giving up her home, but Frank's not having any of that and he's tried everything but to come up with a way to convince Sheila to not sell the house.

Now that his new business selling homemade bacon-flavored 130-proof beer with a timbered undertone has taken off after landing a massive beer order, he needs the brewery downstairs. She's all in and invites Lisa and Lisa, the lesbian couple purchasing the property, up to have a look, later accepting the check. She even looks into purchasing an RV and has it brought over later that evening to make a decision with Frank. In a last ditch effort, Frank enlists the services of his juvenile delinquent son Carl to try and scare the ladies off, by rearranging the no-parking signs in front of their home and having their cars towed. One of the Lisas, the petite blonde one, later confronts the teenager and puts the fear of god into the boy. Ultimately, Frank's Milk of the Gods backfires and their relationship goes out in a blaze of glory: Without cash, Frank needs parts from a salvage yard and sets the owner up with Sammi in exchange for the parts, promising the owner that she'll put out. Of course, when Sammi finds out, things turn horrid and Frank shows his true colors. With Sheila caught out in the middle, the three have a falling out in the streets like wild animals and then a strange thing happens: Kaboom!

Sheila's house explodes and the scrap yard owner's blown out, charred, amputated foot falls out the sky into street. The RV arrives just in time and Sheila high-tails it out to wild blue yonder. Probably never to seen or heard from again -- if this is true, good for her. As for Frank, he has nowhere to go since his kids banished him from their place, but he's a survivor.

Since going off to college, Lip hasn't seen much of his former flame, Mandy Milkovich. With the summer alone again, we thought they'd have time to get complicated again. Sadly, she agrees to relocate with Kenyatta and Lip tries in vain to rid her of her "hood girl" low self-esteem, by telling her she's smart, sweet and that she's a good person. But in the midst of pillow talk, when Mandy blurts out those three magic words, he can't bring himself to say it. By morning he's gone and his heart is broken.

After agreeing to a date with the Aussie musician Ian, Fiona agrees to meet him at a jazz club for a gig he's playing. Unfortunately, he has a live-in girlfriend, Gigi, a spicy sexpot. Being a better person than he, Fiona covers for him by pretending to be with Ian's friend Gus (Tony winner Steve Kazee), who actually turns out to be a nice guy. He invites her out to brunch the next day, but with the place closed, he brings her over and cooks her gumbo. They get to his sweet apartment and, at her request; he serenades her with a rendition of Damon Jurado's "Beacon Hill." Sparks fly and the two shack up, but will she find a way to ruin this relationship, too?

Speaking up shacking up, Debbie throws a wild party with Frank's Milk of the Gods and invites Matty (James Allen McCune), her much older flame. Naturally, everyone gets plastered and when he wakes to find a used condom wrapper and things become pretty clear: "You statutory raped yourself," he cries. "I didn't mean to rape you. I'm sorry." He tells her wants nothing to do with her.

It looks like the comedy-drama is heating up. Ian (Cameron Monaghan) is in the cleaning mode of his mania, while Vee started a "titty-milk sweatshop" for the uppercrust once Kev's brothel above The Alibi bar gets shut down by law enforcement. It just keeps getting better on the Southside.