Season 9 - We know they were in the middle of rehearsing the show which would have taped 4th when Mac was fired/Quit so they may have done a quick rewrite to have Max on the phone with her to cover her missing scenes when the episode was eventually taped. We know "Take My EX" was the show eventually shot 4th.
Remember, they took several episodes before writing her out officially, most likely due to the booked in of completed scripts. She crashed recording what was the originally planned 4th taped episode of the season and wasn't written out till the 10th taped of the season, which aired 11th.
I forgot how they worked around her absence in the Christmas episode, "Not a Creature Was Staying" taped after she was fired. (Taped 13th,aired 9th)
But then continuity is off a little in Season 9 due to Mac and how CBS chose which episodes to run when.
CBS had to drop in a rerun of a JEFFERSONS week 2 of the season to adjust to the lost week of production Mac caused. So it had it's fall premiere, then off for a week.
But I digress - any "Phone Conversation with Julie" would have been any episode between her last on-camera and "Dear Max". Christmas seems a possibility.
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