It’s all an elaborate ploy to further manipulate him into thinking she’s actually interested in him imo. But also seems like a miscalculation in her scheme. I feel like people act this way in order to reference the freak out down the road as both a means to humble their partner, and to also use the episode as evidence that they care deeply for their partner, bc if they didn’t really care, there’d be no way they would react so ridiculously.
He’s in the episode “Best Friends Forever” a few times, but doesn’t really speak if I remember correctly.