Yep, this entire episode felt very overly scripted as a catalyst for various future plots developing. It was very boring, and seemed kind of pointless, but, again, I'm pretty sure this episode's main purpose is as a bridge to move the show along from the Avi mess onto all the other things that they want to move onto. They're obviously going be getting into Whitney wanting to have children this season (whether that's a good idea realistically or not), and it always helps to have some conflict in reality TV.