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Season 1, Episode 1: PilotOriginal Air Date—20 September 1991
This is the first episode. The Lamberts move in with the Fosters and the kids are fighting right off the bat. Frank and Carol want the kids to think they are dating but Frank accidentally announces that they got married in Jamaica. Al is having stomach pains and Frank believes she is faking it so she doesn't have to go to school. Carol takes Al to the doctor and it turns out that Al was not faking the pain and she needs to have her appendix removed. For a short time, the kids forget their rivalry and are more concerned with Al. |
Season 1, Episode 2: The DanceOriginal Air Date—27 September 1991
Al asks the pitcher to her baseball team to the school dance. He says yes but when another girl that he likes more ask him he breaks the date with Al. Al is then devastated and her and Mike ask for Karens advise and she makes it worse because no ones ever broke a date with her. Steve Urkle sees her disappointment and tries to cheer her up and it works. They end up going to the dance together while shes wearing a flowery dress. There Roger (the pitcher) notices how pretty Al is without her catchers mask on so he asked her to dance. Of course, she doesn't and tells him off for being such a jerk. |
Original Air Date—4 October 1991
Carol's penchant for micromanaging the household had worked well for the Fosters, but it isn't with the Lamberts now part of the family. Frank objects to his having to cash in special "tokens" that will allow him to watch 30 minutes of television, but that's nothing compared to how Al feels about Carol's rules. When Carol refuses to accept Al's criticism, she announces plans to move to Milwaukee to live with her grandmother. |
Original Air Date—11 October 1991
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Original Air Date—18 October 1991
J.T., who needs extra money, agrees to work for Frank. Frank is thrilled though J.T. does not feel the same way. After failing horribly there, J.T. works for Carol as a shampoo boy. The only good thing about working as a shampoo boy is that J.T. can touch girls and not get in trouble. Dana needs to build a birdhouse and Al has to write a report on Tom Sawyer. To get decent grades, they switch assignments. Eventually, Brendan points out that it is cheating. After seeing Al's birdhouse, Frank and Al end up talking about construction. |
Original Air Date—25 October 1991
Carol wants the family to bond so she thinks the Port Washington games is the best way to do it. The Lamberts, who have won three years in a row, do not want the Fosters on their team simply because they are not athletic enough. The Fosters find the games to be barbaric but they eventually agree to participate. The Lamberts are devastated when they learn Cody will not be there to help them win for a fourth straight year. Karen turns out to be the secret weapon as her beauty distracts the opponents. It comes down to the last event and Cody shows up to help the Lamberts win for the fourth straight year. |
Original Air Date—1 November 1991
It is Brendan's 6th birthday. Normally, Frank takes him out for pizza and bowling but Carol learns that Brendan would prefer a party. Carol helps Brendan plan the party with Yo-Yo the clown as the entertainment. Frank and Carol also learn that their marriage in Jamaica was null and void. They agree to make the day special by meeting at City Hall and having a romantic lunch. Frank ends up getting stuck at work so he can't spend the whole day with Carol. Carol then wants a wedding with a Reverend though the Reverend they want is leaving for vacation and won't be back for six months. They agree to squeeze the wedding in with Brendan's birthday party. The bad news keeps coming as Yo-Yo the clown calls at the last minute saying he won't be coming. Frank ends up dressing as Yo-Yo and he and Carol get married while Frank is dressed as a clown. |
Original Air Date—8 November 1991
Dana and her friend Bernice want to see their favorite folk singer at a bar called Jake's. At first, Carol lets her go but later learns from Frank that it is a very dangerous place so she forbids Dana to go. Dana feels that Frank is controlling her so she goes anyway. When Cody learns that Dana went to Jake's, he rushes there and beats up several thugs. Eventually, the numbers are too great and the other thugs are about to beat up Cody. Just then, Frank comes in to help Cody. The two of them beat up the others and Dana is saved. Though Frank breaks his hand, Dana appreciates him and Cody saving her. |
Original Air Date—15 November 1991
The families decide to go camping. The Lamberts like camping though the Fosters do not. Carol decides that the family needs to spend time together so they end up in the wilderness. Carol feels that everyone will enjoy themselves though she eventually finds out that it is miserable and everyone can't wait to get home. |
Original Air Date—22 November 1991
Cody tries to impress Dana and gets a job as a corporate executive. His job is to put prizes in the quarter machines for the young kids. He puts kids before profit and ends up getting fired. The family decides that an answering machine is needed to retrieve messages. Karen gets a call from a crush named Bobby but neglects to tell Frank that there was a message for him saying the building he is supposed to remodel is getting demolished. Frank nearly gets killed and Karen gets punished. |
Original Air Date—29 November 1991
A show called "America Up Close" is doing a "blended family" segment and the Foster/Lambert family is chosen. Carol is embarrassed because the whole world will see that the kids constantly fight. Carol's prediction was correct and she ends up making Frank sleep on the couch. Dana convinces the other kids to be nice to each other. The next day during filming, the kids are nice to each other and Carol and Frank make up. |
Original Air Date—6 December 1991
Carol's car is doing pretty much everything except running correctly so she and Frank decide they need a new car. Frank brings Carol to his pal's car lot. Frank tries to get a good deal but Carol gets the better deal. J.T. has a date so he uses Carol's car, then someone borrows the car from J.T. Penny finds a man who is a mortician. She brings him over for dinner at Frank and Carol's but he talks about his job too much. |
Original Air Date—13 December 1991
J.T. and Cody believe in aliens so Dana and Karen tease them. They try to make the guys like idiots by having a UFO fly over the house. Cody and J.T. learn of the plan and decide to play some mind games of their own. Frank's office is a mess and Carol attempts to help him organize the place. Carol puts all the information into a computer which pleases Frank. Soon after, Carol loses the information that was on the computer. They end up going through a dumpster to find the information that was in shoe boxes. After getting garbage poured on them, they find the boxes. |
Season 1, Episode 14: Home AloneOriginal Air Date—3 January 1992
Frank and Carol go away for the weekend leaving Dana in charge. Dana has only one rule--no parties. The hotel is a dump but Frank and Carol try to make it work. Everything is going smooth until Frank throws his back out. At home, Dana has two friends over for a study group. Since she has two friends over, she allows each kid to have two friends as well. Eventually, a party breaks out. J.T. gets stuck in the chimney just before Frank and Carol get home and the fire department has to come over to free J.T. |
Original Air Date—17 January 1992
Dana passes her driving test to become the first child in the family to drive. While at the Motor Vehicle place, Frank has to take his test over. He fails and cannot drive. Carol tells Frank that she knows someone who can drive him, that person being Dana. Dana feels that driving is easy but eventually learns that she is too cocky. |
Original Air Date—7 February 1992
Mark is doing homework for a classmate because he is being threatened. Carol feels that Mark should confront the bully in a peaceful way while Frank suggests that Mark defend himself. The bully happens to be a girl which gets Al's attention. Al begins to consider Mark a brother and sticks up for him. J.T. is running the 100M for the JV track team and breaks the school's record. Dana has to write a report on J.T. for the school newspaper. She writes a negative article and J.T. is forced to pay the typesetter to write a different article. |
Original Air Date—14 February 1992
J.T. helps Al come up with a name for her band and he becomes the manager. The band gets to perform at the bowling alley where Frank just did a remodeling job. The other four girls in the band get the flu and J.T. is forced to get Dana and Karen as replacements. Since no one else is available, J.T. and Cody dress up as girls. The crowd finds out J.T. and Cody are guys and Carol saves the band by performing herself. There is a mouse loose in the house and Frank is the only one who is not scared. He wants to kill it but the family believes the mouse should live. |
Original Air Date—21 February 1992
Carol decides to go back to school to finish collage. Between and the beauty shop there is not much time left for housekeeping. When Frank steps in to relieve Carol of some the work, it becomes apparent that they have booth taken on to much.
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Original Air Date—28 February 1992
Frank's contractor friend, John Patterson, invites him and his family to join an exclusive country club. While the Lamberts and Fosters engage in a series of gags, Dana fumes about having to come along in the first place; she's sure she'll be embarrassed by Frank's oafish, clumsy ways. However, she winds up sticking up for her step-father when she finds out the only reason Patterson invited him to join was to make him the butt of cruel jokes.
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Original Air Date—6 March 1992
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Original Air Date—27 February 1992
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Original Air Date—24 April 1992
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Original Air Date—18 September 1992
It is time for Dana to take the SAT. Just as she is about to sit down, Cody unexpectedly shows up. Cody claims he does something new every week. When the scores come back in the mail, Cody actually did better than Dana. Dana challenges Cody to take the SAT again. Cody agrees and Cody beat her again. After a long talk with Carol, Dana decides that she can live with her scores.
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Original Air Date—25 September 1992
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Original Air Date—2 October 1992
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Original Air Date—9 October 1992
J.T. begins his own cable-access television show, a program that is very similar to "Wayne's World." He invites a girl he has an eye on to the show, but becomes upset when the young lass falls for sidekick Cody instead.
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Original Air Date—16 October 1992
Al and Brendan get more than they bargained for when they agree to take care of a neighbor's St. Bernard ... way more, especially after the dog's masters decide to move away and leave the dog in the Lamberts' care. Everyone becomes even more miserable when Carol falls in love with the slobbering mutt.
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Season 2, Episode 6: The BossOriginal Air Date—23 October 1992
Dana is promoted to manager of a 50's style restaurant, and her condescending, overbearing demeanor quickly takes its toll on employees J.T. and Karen to the point they resign. Frank and Carol are sympathetic to Dana and help out during lunch hour ... until Dana again asserts herself. In the end, Dana learns a lesson about what it means to be "the boss."
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Original Air Date—30 October 1992
Karen realizes a dream when she takes a modeling job in Chicago, but she has to deal with her overbearing mother. Carol tags along and interferes with the photo shoot, angering Karen. However, one of the other models takes Karen aside and shares her dream ... just to be a kid. Meanwhile, Dana - and then the others, one by one - come down with the flu. They all quickly make Frank their butler, which (along with Mark sharing how often he has to vomit) drives family patriarch crazy.
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Original Air Date—6 November 1992
Frank becomes worried when he learns Dana has asked Mike Walters (aka "Mike the Mover") out on a date, particularly since he has learned Mike has a reputation of pressuring his dates into having sex. However, a plan to spy on Dana and make sure no hanky-panky takes place backfires, and Dana quickly accuses her stepfather of meddling. The next day, Mike shows his true colors during an unannounced visit, and Frank is there to back up Dana when she asks him to leave. Meanwhile, J.T. agrees to wax and wash Frank's new truck, but buys a substandard brand of wax that ruins the truck's paint job ... and Frank's trust in his eldest son.
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Original Air Date—13 November 1992
Dana and J.T. become rival candidates for class president, J.T.'s candidacy prompted after he becomes annoyed that the only candidates are "dweebs and geeks" and that there are no everyman candidates. The candidacies polarize the household, and eventually J.T. wins. However, the work quickly becomes more than J.T. has bargained for and he quickly resigns.
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Original Air Date—20 November 1992
J.T. and Cody get dates with two girls with "easy" reputations, but the dates come to a halt when Cody announces he wants to wait until he meets "the dudette of his dreams." J.T. is upset at first, but later realizes Cody is right.
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Original Air Date—4 December 1992
Carol imposes a severe crackdown in family spending after a long-overdue video is found under Brendan's bed. The other siblings immediately blame Brendan, and their behavior toward him becomes so rude and disdainful that he decides to run away. It isn't long before the youngest Lambert is found (in Cody's van), and after Frank and Carol reassure Brendan that he wasn't to blame, the other children realize they need to apologize.
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Original Air Date—11 December 1992
Frank's old high school buddy arrives for a visit, and it becomes obvious he still hasn't grown up. Meanwhile, Cody wins a live turkey in a supermarket raffle, but struggles with his conscience when he learns the bird is about to be butchered. |
Original Air Date—8 January 1993
A resident of the Lakeview Retirement Home (where Cody is a volunteer) dies. The man leaves Cody his estate, valued at $250,000. As Cody struggles with how to spend the money, his cousins pester him for a share of the inheritance (to spend lavishly, natch). Eventually, enough is enough and Cody decides to put the money to good use: Save for $500, turn the cash over to the nursing home for needed upgrades. Cody then spends the rest of the money on a new camcorder (to replace a junky one that Frank purchased and breaks down in spectacular fashion).
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Original Air Date—15 January 1993
When Frank and Carol veto Dana's plan to have a no-adults party for her 17th birthday, she decides to rent a hotel room. Things become complicated when Frank and Carol rent a room (for a romantic weekend) in the same hotel ... but the only available room is the one across the hall from Dana's room. Meanwhile, Cody is asked to mediate a dispute between Al and Karen over a ruined blouse. |
Original Air Date—22 January 1993
Frank hires good looking woman as part of his construction team, which makes Carol feel insecure. The kids (with the exception of Dana) try to make money in the stock market. |
Original Air Date—5 February 1993
When "J.T.'s World" becomes a huge local hit, a national syndicator approaches the show's star about making the show an even bigger hit. J.T. thinks he's about to become a huge star, and his ego grows wild. However, the eldest Lambert is thoroughly humbled when he learns the syndicator's plans for his show are vastly different. |
Original Air Date—12 February 1993
Dana is dumped by her boyfriend right before Valentine's Day, and takes out her frustrations on everyone, including a potential new suitor. Meanwhile, Frank gets a temporary job at Carol's hair salon, and his new hairstyles - caused by his own ineptitude, rather than creativity - quickly become popular with the local teen-agers (but not their parents). |
Original Air Date—19 February 1993
The family - don't forget Cody - vacation in Hawaii. Among other adventures, Dana meets the man of her dreams, a beach bum named Brian. The two hit it off, and the romance quickly blossoms to the point where Brian gives Dana a 6-karat solitaire diamond ring in a Tiffany setting. However, Dana is heartbroken when Carol finds out and objects to the impending marriage. |
Original Air Date—26 February 1993
Frank and (especially) Carol refuse to accept daughter Dana's engagement, they get into a huge argument. Dana considers eloping with sweetheart Brian, but when the two begin talking about their future, they realize that perhaps they were not meant for each other after all and (sadly) break it off. Meanwhile, the others become engaged in adventures involving sand castles and buried treasure. |
Original Air Date—12 March 1993
After meeting a biker chick at school, J.T. wants to ask her out ... but first consults Mark on how to treat this young woman. Meanwhile, Frank mortifies Al when he tags along with her and Carol to the store to buy the 13-year-old girl (fast entering puberty and quickly becoming very beautiful) her first bra. |
Original Air Date—2 April 1993
Mark is recruited to join the local Pony League baseball team (which Frank coaches and Al is the star catcher) after one of Al's teammates suffers a season-ending injury. Mark, who was never good at baseball, may wind up spending the season on the bench ... until he gets his opportunity to save the day in the championship game. |
Original Air Date—30 April 1993
As a practical joke, J.T. places an unflattering baby photograph of Karen in the high school yearbook. Later - after Cody and J.T. visit a psychic - J.T. becomes convinced that a brunette will stab him to death with a large knife ... and that brunette in question is Karen. Also, Frank and Carol purchase a new massaging bed, but the bed does everything but help them relax or enjoy a good night's sleep. |
Original Air Date—7 May 1993
Frank wins a contract to construct a multi-million dollar office complex, and this will necessitate the removal of a house sitting on a key part of the property. He hires munitions expert Cody to level the structure, but when Cody goes inside to inspect the structure, he finds out that a family is still living there. Meet the Emersons, a couple with two children that have been down on their luck for the last year; both parents had lost their jobs several months earlier, and are now penniless and have nowhere else to stay. Cody is sympathetic and immediately refuses to destroy the house. Frank, nervous about the repercussions, tries to get Cody to start the work ... until project backer Mr. Hartman threatens to sue Frank for breach of contract, a move that could force the Lamberts into bankruptcy. Carol learns about the Emersons' situation and rallies to their aid. In the end, Mr. Hartman agrees to a plan to have the house moved, and Mr. Emerson gets a job on Frank's payroll. Also: J.T. becomes the manager of Al's envelope-stuffing enterprise (where Mark and Brendan are also working), but is quickly overbearing; the three younger siblings revolt and J.T. is left to complete the work himself. |
Original Air Date—21 May 1993
Carol sets Karen up with a young lad named Freddy for the dance, but Karen has her eye on someone more desirable. Karen asks the other fellow, Jeffrey, out, then dumps Freddy by lying to him. At the dance, Jeffrey and Karen win the "Perfect Couple" award, but when they spot Freddy, Karen's conscience gets to her and she decides to apologize. Meanwhile, Frank becomes imprisoned in Cody's van after he installs an alarm that works all too well. |
Original Air Date—24 September 1993
To become closer to a new boyfriend, Dana auditions for - and wins - the role of Juliet in a local production of "Romeo and Juliet." However, her bid at stardom is placed in jeopardy when she learns her co-star is the very man she detests the most: Cody. |
Original Air Date—1 October 1993
While a friend of hers is away for three months, Dana can have her apartment. Carol is against, but Frank convinces her this is the best way to let her try out living alone close by before she goes to college next year. Carol gives in, but is obsessed with 'her baby' to the point Al feels neglected. Even J.T. discovers he misses one thing about Barky: a sparring partner at trading verbal abuse. At first Dana felt hounded by ma, but once she's really alone feels miserable enough to start talking to Gordon, the pot plant Cody gave her as company. She's ready to return to the comfortable nest, but now Carol has changed her tune, so she calls the men for fake repairs in the apartment... Meanwhile Frank has accepted a construction client's payment in kind: the TV of his choice, to put in the parents' bedroom, but Carol makes him promise to throw it out as soon as watching sports gets in the way of their love life given his addiction to sports airings... |
Original Air Date—8 October 1993
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Original Air Date—15 October 1993
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Original Air Date—22 October 1993
Is it easier being a teen-ager or a parent? That's the question Frank and Carol hope to resolve with J.T. and Dana when they agree to "switch places" for a weekend. The exercise comes after J.T. and Dana refuse to do their share of the housework and complain that Frank and Carol seem to do nothing themselves. |
Original Air Date—29 October 1993
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Season 3, Episode 7: Hog WildOriginal Air Date—5 November 1993
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Original Air Date—12 November 1993
Cody moves into the house while his van/house is in the shop for repairs, and drives everyone crazy. Meanwhile, Karen decides to volunteer at the local homeless shelter so she can meet a cute guy. |
Original Air Date—19 November 1993
Through the "find a friend" section in a biker magazine, Cody meets a young woman who is raising an 8-year-old boy alone. Cody and the boy hit it off, and it isn't long before the woman decides that Cody is the man she is looking for. |
Season 3, Episode 10: Sister ActOriginal Air Date—26 November 1993
Dana and Karen team up to teach the Lambert step-siblings a lesson in secretly tape-recording others' telephone conversations. |
Original Air Date—10 December 1993
Frank and Carol are arrested by a know-it-all, Barney Fife-type deputy on Christmas eve when they are accused of being burglars. |
Original Air Date—17 December 1993
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Season 3, Episode 13: Bad GirlsOriginal Air Date—7 January 1994
When she has trouble making (and keeping) friends, Al decides to start hanging out with a group of bad girls. When Dana alerts Frank about Al's new friends, he prohibits her from seeing them again, leading to a huge argument. Eventually, Al realizes her friends are no good when they let her take the fall for stealing Cody's electric guitar. |
Original Air Date—14 January 1994
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Original Air Date—28 January 1994
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Original Air Date—4 February 1994
Cody annoys the family - especially Dana - with his weird dreams. He winds up ruining her college visit, but then saves her from being sexually assaulted at a bus station. |
Original Air Date—18 February 1994
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Original Air Date—25 February 1994
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Original Air Date—11 March 1994
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Original Air Date—25 March 1994
Carol begins to feel insecure about her appearance and aging beauty as her 40th birthday approaches, so she orders some diet pills that make matters even worse. Meanwhile, Cody consults with a psychic to meet Abraham Lincoln (the topic of Al's term paper). Al decides to do the research herself as the unorthodox Cody claims he is having a normal(?) conversation with the 16th president. |
Original Air Date—29 April 1994
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Original Air Date—6 May 1994
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Season 3, Episode 23: Prom NightOriginal Air Date—20 May 1994
On prom night, JT is set up with a 13-year-old girl (as a joke). Meanwhile, Dana's date doesn't go much better when her boyfriend decided to get back with his ex-girlfriend. The two are left to comfort each other and wind up sharing a few dances, as well as gaining a new grudging respect for each other. |
Season 4, Episode 1: Karate KidOriginal Air Date—23 September 1994
Mark feels that he is not getting enough respect so he takes up karate. After the teacher kicks Mark out of the class, he turns to Cody for help. Cody, who has a black belt, helps train Mark for the big tournament. On the day of the tournament, Mark faces the best person. He falls behind in the beginning, but Cody sees his weaknesses and Mark comes back and ties the match at 2-2. Although Mark ends up losing the match, he gains everyone's respect, except the teacher that kicked him out of the class. He challenges Cody and is beaten badly. In the Lambert house, there is constant fighting, so Frank installs an intercom. Later on, he takes it down because it wakes everyone up in the middle of the night. |
Original Air Date—30 September 1994
Cody hopes to expand his "coolness" when he joins a fraternity ... but then learns one of the dudes has tried to go a little too far with Karen. |
Original Air Date—7 October 1994
Cody hopes to expand his "coolness" when he joins a fraternity ... but then learns one of the dudes has tried to go a little too far with Karen. |
Original Air Date—14 October 1994
Frank gives Carol the silent treatment when she beats him out for a coveted sports announcer position at the local radio station. |
Original Air Date—21 October 1994
Karen is determined to be crowned homecoming queen, but learns a lesson in vanity when she learns she must associate with a nerd. |
Original Air Date—28 October 1994
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Original Air Date—4 November 1994
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Original Air Date—11 November 1994
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Original Air Date—18 November 1994
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Season 4, Episode 10: Letting GoOriginal Air Date—25 November 1994
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Original Air Date—9 December 1994
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Original Air Date—16 December 1994
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Original Air Date—6 January 1995
JT's job at the car dealership pays lousy, but he can drive sports cars and uses 'his' present Porsche to make Shelley, the quit daughter of Cody's favorite diner's owner, believe he's rich; when JT runs out of money, he finds an envelope he starts spending on a necklace for her, before he learns her dad lost the business's earnings in an envelope... Meanwhile Frank finds fathering a baby with Carol means not just providing the seed as in his first marriage, for starters he must join her at gynecology check-up. The kids consider their recording too boring to watch, so Frank gets a professional birth video... |
Original Air Date—20 January 1995
Cody is directing a movie 'Free Goldy' (a goldfish) with fancy titles or parts for everyone, but only Mark realized it first needs a script. The parents object to student Dana going out with 36 year-old Paul, and meeting his family and friends makes her and her sisters wonder if they're right, next she learns he has an ex and two kids who need a step-mother. Pregnant mother Carol has excessive eating compulsions, devouring anything and all on her own, while neglecting to cook for the family... |
Original Air Date—3 February 1995
It's Frank's birthday, and he knows exactly what he wants, a trout tracker, but Carol believes in shopping for a surprise gift, and comes up with a 'treat' he considers torture, 'French bikini briefs'. When Mark's girlfriend Gabrielle, another sexually naive nerd, stays over, the siblings form two camps, not by parents but boys-girls: Dana preaches girl power, JT the man wearing the pants, only Cody tells the love birds to follow their heart and just enjoy making up. |
Original Air Date—10 February 1995
Al pressures JT to help her learn to drive. JT suggests the driving lesson take place in Frank's new truck. It comes back with a huge dent in the side, and the two scrambling to cover up what happened. |
Original Air Date—17 February 1995
Dana is proud as a peacock to be selected as tutor for a remedial class- till she learns her colleague is Cody, nobody pays any attention to Miss Foster's dry academic lecture on the Civil War but Codeman's reconstruction of Gettysburg is a regular hit with the kids. The bunch of lifetime losers must be prepared in two weeks because Cody enrolled the class for the TV Quiz It's Aademic... Meanwhile Frank got the other kids to help with housework for the unborn baby's sake, but Carol can't accept anything they do without minutely following her utterly obsessive perfectionist rules, till she sees young Brendan got so worried that the boy started doing that nonsense at night... |
Original Air Date—3 March 1995
The family suspects the reason behind J.T.'s chronic poor scholastic performance may be because he's dyslexic. |
Original Air Date—17 March 1995
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Original Air Date—31 March 1995
Dana can't believe that night-school student J.T. earned his first A-plus in class, then learns the reason had nothing to do with anything he did; the teacher wants to seduce J.T., a marginal student at best. At first, J.T. refuses to believe Dana until he realizes the truth for himself. Meanwhile, Cody's sleepwalking and childlike behavior, which includes crawling into bed with Frank and Carol, annoys the family; and Frank buys a "macho barbecue" as a kit - but has trouble assembling the complex monster-sized grill ... because he won't read the instructions. |
Original Air Date—28 April 1995
When JT makes fun of Karen who wears a fake pregnancy ('wale') suit, while Carol is really expecting, Barky dares the short-sighted kid, for an utter admission of the weaker sex, worth foot-kissing, by keeping up a fake pregnancy the whole weekend; Frank knew better, but still accepts Carol's identical dare. Their initial fun ceases when landed with public chick chores in the wale suits... Meanwhile ever kind Cody takes young Brendan to a baseball-game to see his favorite player Kenny Barton, according to Carol a bad role model, but when Cody distracts the guard Edgar, so Brandon can ask his idol an autograph in the locker-room on his only home-run-ball, but the man's implacable $50 greed, no kids discount, destroys the boy's admiration, he even dumps the ball. Fortunately Cody is till around, and already Edgar's friend, so he goes tells the ugly truth to the press, live on air; they thus meet star sports reporter Harmon Killebrew, an oldie in the Hall of Fame, who couldn't agree more and gracefully volunteers his free autograph. |
Original Air Date—5 May 1995
Frank is pleased enough with Cody's construction work, actually bright compared to Dave, to promote his cool cousin to foreman, but Cody has the natural boss-authority of a doormat, and gets ordered to fire inept well-meaning newbie Dave, who doesn't stop at sob stories... When dad Frank refuses to finance Al's $500 Disneyland trip, J.T. decides to earn the money together by babysitting, over ten kids simultaneously. The cocky first boy is a challenge, the second- bus-load a nightmares subscription with demolition option... Meanwhile Karen demonstrates that spending money -on a prom dress- can be even slower and more tiring for pregnant ma Carol... |
Original Air Date—12 May 1995
Carol has decided to get rid of most of Frank's 'junk' (a matter of taste and memories) by holding a garage sale, so he overprices, she even wants to give in to a shameless shark who never bids more then a quarter. Cody tries to win a Port Washington song competition for the chamber of commerce in his melodically most monotonous blues guitar tradition. Meanwhile Al successfully begs Dana to take not only man-eater Karen but also her along to a Kappa Alpha Sigma party. Slick frat-boy Jeremy frowns on Karen but accepts Al's blunt invitation to dance, then volunteers to show her the campus. The sisters overhear he systematically takes girls to his room aka his 'petting zoo' for an elaborate seduction routine. They need only one word to chase him: fifteen. The seductresses trio even takes shameless 'revenge' by theft and vandalism. |
Original Air Date—19 May 1995
Cody assures Carol his 36 hours of video should last her entire adventure when she starts labor. J.T. can't be bothered to drive the family till Frank jump-starts him hard-handedly, then manages to 'forget' the Foster kids, so in the hospital waiting room Cody has little luck trying to make memories -since how it all started and the rare moments Lambert-Foster sibling help occurred- lead to a true fraternization. Meanwhile Carol puts Frank in charge of guarding her foolish resolve to have 'natural' childbirth without anesthesia, pulling his hair atrociously as soon as contractions come, then scolding everyone once help arrives. Finally Lilly joins the clan, the first-ever true mixed-blood Foster- Lambert... |
Original Air Date—22 September 1995
J.T. and his pal, Rich Halke, are planning to go to the drive-in theater to make out with their girlfriends. What J.T. doesn't know is the identity of Rich's girlfriend - Al. J.T. is now determined to put a stop to the date, knowing that his little sister will be kissing someone three years older than she is. |
Original Air Date—29 September 1995
Al, Dana and Karen realize they have to work together and set aside petty differences when they are asked to baby-sit their baby sister, Lily. |
Original Air Date—13 October 1995
Dana moves out at 19 to a college dorm- well, Frank and the other kids move it up, anything to get her out! Carol is heartbroken her 'baby' is gone, so infant baby Lilly stays in the parental bedroom, nearly four months longer then agreed with Frank, who fears he's heading for a sexless year. When Carol finally gives in, she is too neurotic for sex even with the baby monitor on, and moves into Lilly's nursery. When Karen and Al visit Dana, they find the A-student transformed into a vicious party-animal beyond sisterly help. The next morning the whole dorm is a total dump, and Dana the worst looking item in it, when ma arrives... Cody is sure the new neighbor, Tom Flynn, is the jewel thief he saw on America's Most wanted, and sets a trap with J.T. and Mark, based on the package from New York Flynn asks them to sign for... |
Original Air Date—20 October 1995
J.T. and Dana help a friend man a crisis hotline as part of a class project. While the two are alone, a call comes in from a suicidal subject named Todd, whose living situation is much like the Fosters and Lamberts. Dana and J.T., who have never handled an actual crisis, realize they must put aside their grievances with each other to talk Todd out of making a mistake that would cause his family even more pain and suffering. Meanwhile, Carol frets about being unable to make baby daughter Lily fall asleep in her arms - so she becomes envious when Cody seems to have the magic touch. |
Original Air Date—27 October 1995
Now the Lamberts are auditioning for a housekeeper, J.T. chooses Carrie Clark without qualifications for first-sight-obvious reasons; they get 24 hours, and it looks like she couldn't learn in 24 years, even with excessive help from the horny teenager... To Mark's surprise, Cody gives dance-lessons to rest-home ladies. Al has a shot at becoming Wildcats head cheerleader, which pushy ma Carol still furiously regrets having missed out on in her day, so never mind algebra, practice till you drop, yet Karen Covington gets the job... |
Season 5, Episode 6: Don't AskOriginal Air Date—3 November 1995
Frank and Carol become fed up with the kids constantly asking them to do everything for them and tell them that from now on, they can do it all themselves and they dare not ask for help. That directive is put to the test when Brendan needs to have a permission slip signed to go on a soccer club trip to a Green Bay Packers game. |
Original Air Date—10 November 1995
Al gets a job at the mall at a cookie outlet called Mr. Chips. She is annoyed at having to work alongside the restaurant's eponymously named mascot, a chimpanzee ... and is further embarrassed when she is asked to take the chimp home. |
Season 5, Episode 8: RoadieOriginal Air Date—17 November 1995
Cody proudly announces he got a back-breaking 'dream job', as 'stagehound' (roadie) for Mark's idol, rock band singer Christi Rose and Petal to the Metal, and gets the geeky kid to meet her backstage. Impressed with kind, cool Cody's way to handle fans, Christi asks him as her personal body-guard. Meanwhile, the four eldest kids' constant begging and fighting for the family car convinces Carol and Frank to buy another car for them. The kids' enthusiasm over Frank's car choice, a Mustang convertible, cools when it seems to be his baby, rather too precious to be left in their hands... Fleeing a horde of pushy fans in Cody's arms and on his Harley, Christy stays the night as his guest in the Lambert house and asks him to come along on her six months tour... |
Season 5, Episode 9: The WallOriginal Air Date—24 November 1995
To Dana's surprise, both other members of her aggressive-paranoid feminist club accept Cody as first-ever male member and de facto prime interest; anyhow, everybody on campus prefers the fun-only toga party to their 'politically correct' meeting... Carol uses a 'part two' promise to make Frank join her for a free spa treatment, actually rather a mud and German massage nightmare... Mark attends the spring dance, obviously on the loser wall, but when football captain Chuck's girlfriend Tawny sees him flirt, she makes a point by dancing with Mark, whose crazy moves are a hit. Chuck is held back by the public... |
Original Air Date—1 December 1995
Dana was eager to see 'the Amazing Codini' perform, but realizes too late he takes her into the magic box, hasn't fixed the necessary link to get out again and has no back-up plan, even knocks it over- they are trapped indefinitely, to her absolute horror, while he enjoys the closeness; yet salvation is within reach all the time... Meanwhile Carol dragged Frank to a beauty convention (a fake temperature doesn't fool experienced parents), then told him to entertain himself as she couldn't interest him in the least, only to finds Frank enjoying a female participator's manual hair-care too much... Reading about a cash price for the baby chosen at a Yum-Yum baby-food commercial audition, Lilly's babysitters J.T. and Al dashed off thereto but are too excited. When their parents return, Lilly has been switched with a baby-boy... |
Original Air Date—15 December 1995
Cody has got himself electrocuted with high voltage on his van's Christmas lighting for a local contest. J.T. proves himself a gifted salesman eager to pay for a ski trip, but Cody's friend George, who never saved a cent after 42 years in an ice cream cart because he even gave cones away just to see the kids' happy faces, sabotages every attempt to sell a beautiful Christmas tree he promised to Jimmy, a boy who could never afford one and may accept no charity, so George gave the kid a 'job' after an exam ('name?'). Frank invited Mitch Crawford's Californian family, who knew the Lamberts years ago, for the family's Christmas dinner instead of the lousy local motel. Both fathers arranged for hunky son Matt Crawford to 'date' tomcat Al, Carol got them shamefully sissy ballet tickets. The unwilling teenagers meet at tender-hooks, but discover to be rather alike, give the tickets away, go to ice-hockey instead- and are caught tongue-kissing in the car by Frank, who looses it at Matt till the Crawfords move out insulted: far beneath Carols's hospitality standard, especially for Christmas... |
Original Air Date—5 January 1996
Despite Al's assurance Casey Maxwell isn't his type, J.T. can't resist dating a fox with a limo driver when she calls him cute. Alas the spoiled crime princess of a Chicago mob killer his terrifying expectations and ways to enforce them... Frank refuses to let Carol call an exterminator since a rat couldn't be a match for his manly hunter's nature- well, this one certainly is and he gets wrecked far worse by the traps then the rodent... Dana is proud to be asked as model for her college's resident artist, even more arrogant-feminist abstract painter Jayne McNeal, but nearly has a fit when she hears at the auction it's Jayne's first photographic realistic portrait, and the thought of it being bought gets mother Carol even more berserk... |
Original Air Date—12 January 1996
Cody figures his camping trip is ideal to test his latest invention: edible food, so he doesn't have to carry provisions, but grizzly bears love eating more... J.T. convinces Frank to accept Dave's Sports bar's annual dare 'I'll Do Anything For Superbowl tickets'- they must turn up cross-dressing as cheerleaders waving pompoms, to be told they can get the tickets, only - after surviving ten rounds with two wrestling harpies, ominously called Assault and Battery, while the boys are black and blue in one... Proud high-school teacher Mrs. Whitney gets to settle a grudge since his graduation against J.T. when she drops by with Carol to arrange enthusiastic model pupil Mark's transfer to an elitist academy for advanced learning in the city, but getting a 'mere' C makes him too determined to get his grade up to spend a single second on anything else 24 hours a day, not even his favorite dinner, so his average ex-classmates Roland and Ben devour his share and much, much more... |
Original Air Date—26 January 1996
Frank is caught in the middle of a dispute between Carol and his well-meaning but overbearing mother, Helen, over the rearing of baby Lily. He wants to stay out of the argument, but realizes his marriage is more important when Helen announces plans to move to Port Washington to be Lily's nanny. |
Original Air Date—2 February 1996
Cody has the hiccups badly, scaring him doesn't work; Mark hypnotizes him, again no luck. Reading a murder story 'Die, Mommy, Die' in bed makes Carol frighteningly itchy, so Frank is sent down and catches Matt kissing Al, yet Carol reads on and gets terrible nightmares (literally painfully for hubby)... Frank declines allowing Al to join a ski trip with Matt because teenagers are as horny as bunnies. When J.T. guesses what teen-boys doubtlessly do in a ski-lodge with girls and Karen reports Al's place was taken by reputedly 'easy' Stephanie 'Loveboat' Leifer, Al is as worried as J.T. is eager to drive her there. Spying in a tree, Al sees Matt faithfully resists the vamp in the hot-tub, but falls in herself, forgetting about J.T. ... |
Original Air Date—9 February 1996
Valentines day approaches, but after catching a date cheating on her, Dana hates men more then ever. Cody encourages her to take in interest in a romantic secret admirer, who clearly does a good job- it's the Codemeister incognito. When Cody hears she thinks it's gorgeous Danny, an English major, who is also a waiter in campus coffee-shop Bear's lair, he goes tell her the truth... Frank bought Carol a fake Rolex, even J.T. senses the 'white lie' he calls 'deeper, spiritual truth' will turn against him. Indeed, when she goes return it, knowing they can't afford such luxury, she gets arrested for asking cash for a fake... . |
Original Air Date—16 February 1996
Cody invents greeting cards- for weird occasions, and on 'appropriate' objects instead of cards. When Karen is furious a girl-friend stole her date, J.T. and his mate Rich Halke sneer boys wouldn't risk a friend for a mere chick, so the girls get foxy Brandi Hartman to prove rivaling boys back-stab mates too, but they catch on and decide to get even by exaggerating scarily until... Frank and Carol are repeatedly mistaken for baby-daughter Lilly's grandparents, so Carol accepts an invitation by a couple they met there to a grunge party, but the violent dance style is too much- especially for Frank's back... |
Original Air Date—23 February 1996
When Cody wears his cheese-head, he guesses the lotto numbers without fault, but never plays because he only enjoys winning, not the 'burden' of fortune; when Mark and Karen find out, he accepts to give them the numbers, but his generosity goes further then they bargained for... When Dana presents her brilliant boyfriend, psychology student Fleming Adler, and says they may get serious, Frank is ecstatic he might get rid of one of his seven in-living children, despite Karen's warning Fleming is an insufferable prick, but his theory that complete honesty is always best antagonizes both parents in a matter of minutes, and Dana isn't exempted... J.T. lets Laura believe he is baby-sister Lily's dad so the girl will date him, but Frank is home; when J.T. confesses the truth... |
Original Air Date—8 March 1996
J.T.'s school sends an academic probation note for terrible grades, Frank says buckle up or get a job. He studies for a change, then his even dumber mate Rich offers him a bought cheat-sheet for the history test; he doesn't use it and earns his B, but Dana finds it falling out of Rich's textbook after hey got mixed up, Frank decides to pull him out off school for that, being lied to too often... Cody is suckered into buying cookies on Visa from vicious Buttercup girls. Al and a friend want a shaved head and tattoos, ma Carol refuses; the other girls must promise not to tell she sneaks out, Dana 'hints' till ma gets it... |
Original Air Date—15 March 1996
Since Rich Halke passed on 20 copies of a chain-letter, he has nothing but good luck, while the Lamberts who laughed at the nonsense, even his mate J.T., pile up misery; soon Brandon sends his copies on, with the desired effect... To get completely over her break-up with Brad, Karen takes Dana and Al along to a ski-lodge, hunting for hunks. They soon realize the trio they hook up with must be crown prince Philippe of the anchovies-exporting kingdom of Calderone, reported in the press to be visiting incognito, who senses they know and decides to pass himself off as just Phil, his hired, slow-witted beefy bodyguard Ralph as the prince, his secretary of protocol Charles as just Chuck... |
Season 5, Episode 21: Major PainOriginal Air Date—26 April 1996
Given her varied interests, Dana takes a placement test at the Newton center to choose a major; J.T. and Rich join her as 'naked volleyball' is not accepted. The improbable career advices are prison guard, psychologist and M.D., so Dana returns and discovers the testing is a blatantly incompetent scam... Carole calls a marker and hires a young friend in Frank's construction firm: Jake 'Flash' Gordon, eager and kind but a bundle of adrenaline and equally dangerous inexperience, unable to get any instruction right, and yet... |
Original Air Date—3 May 1996
Frank's widowed ma Helen Lambert makes the whole family an 'early inheritance' gift': a week with her in Disney world, so the couple can forget about a mountain weekend to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Rich has followed 800 miles by bus at J.T.'s invitation. Flash drove that far just to return Frank's hammer and decides when Mark reads the record of the Magic Kingdom's attractions, shops and eating places is currently held by a Russian, coached ruthlessly by master-organizer Mark, who actually gets permission to monitor him from the park headquarters, assisted by Brandon. Even Rich isn't dumb enough to believe J.T. is wise to spend all their hard-earned savings on crazy luxury for two girls they meet, but goes along- till they're broke, then even breaks up their old friendship... The girls decide to enter a Country and Western talent-contest with cowboy-focused Dana and Al as talented Karen's backing choir... |
Original Air Date—10 May 1996
Flash continues his record attempt, even acting in the Indiana Jones show as the intrepid adventurer. The girls repeat Karen's Country and Western number for hours; when Dana and Al protest because the would-be-star won't even agree to lunch break, she decides to try it in the Neon Armadillo solo, but freezes choked by stage-fright; the other two offer to try again as a trio, which is an instant success. J.T. and Rich aren't even on speaking terms anymore, till Flash makes the big spender admit it's all his fault and realize he's throwing his best, even only good friendship away for pointless pride, Rich accepts J.T.'s offer to cash in his plane ticket, drive back and start over saving as friends. Mark discovers everything was open later when the Russian took the title, so Flash gets three extra hours. The parents realize only Lilly will remain with them long, grandma Helen gives them their actual anniversary night alone in her condo. |
Original Air Date—17 May 1996
When Flash intends to move to his aunt in Kansas City, commuting 8 hours twice a day, Carol invites him to the Lambert home. Frank has bough second-hand stuff to build a bachelor frat-style guys room in the basement, with a mechanical bull... Dana considers her feminist protest against scanty-dress waitresses in Mr. Packwood's diner Yabbos failed when they decide to hire male waiters in sexy shorts too, but the other girls 'get hungry' while J.T. and Rich decide to apply for the job to get close to the foxy colleagues; however the female customers actually prove as abusive pigs as Dana calls all men... |
Season 6, Episode 1: Crazy LoveOriginal Air Date—7 March 1997
Dana is looking forward to her first tutoring pupil, but gets- J.T.'s brainless pal Rich. To their surprise and everybody -except Karen-'s disgust they find when teenage hormones rage closely collaborating opposites really attract, enough to kiss and start dating against every principle and preference... Meanwhile Frank is desperate to get rid of Carol's crazy French hairdresser Jean-Luc Rieupeyroux, who clings to them, his only friends in America, since his nasty divorce; after sending him away from the hot-tub in the spa where they hoped to spend a weekend alone, they learn he planned a moonlight picnic with them celebrating his birthday... |
Season 6, Episode 2: Road TripOriginal Air Date—14 March 1997
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Original Air Date—21 March 1997
When Mark fails to trick Frank into signing parental permission to see Showgirls at the movies, equally horny and frustrated mates convince him to rent together a Little Mermaid video- well, the box with a naughty nurses video inside. Alas their suspicious precautions make it obvious their session in the garage can't be innocent... Meanwhile François congratulates J.T. on finding a ten year older French woman willing to go steady with him, which frightens both parents. After she pressures the kid into promising a wedding, client Michèle explains in the salon her green-card runs out by Wednesday, unless she can get an immature crazy Yankee to marry her... |
Original Air Date—28 March 1997
Carole's resolve to forbid the teenagers, most eager being Al, to attend Rockfestival '97 as unsupervised temptation is completely undermined by her visiting friend Patti Roberts, married to cop David, proclaiming the kids couldn't get half as mischievous as Carol at Woodstock, so they get to go. There Al's mate Will Peters invites them to smoke free weed in his stoned hippie uncle Marvin "Buzz"'s van... Back home, Patti feels neglected and flirts with 'exotic' gentleman Jean-Luc, who once realizing she's married tries to hide in French cooking, then tells her to convince Dave he should pay her romantic attention again... |
Original Air Date—4 April 1997
Rich is worried when Dana has a 'meaningless' date with her former high-school debate teammate Jeff Burton, who is no longer an acne geek who was mercilessly picked at but turned out the pick of the pack: gorgeous, in Harvard pre-Law school, a generous gentleman, Dana's official dream man, and she accepts his invitation to a reception where the dean absolutely wants his favorite undergrad, Jeff. It gets a self-invited surprise guest... Frank's long-awaited fishing trip looses its luster when his mate Virgil cancels and Carol accepted on his behalf for Jean-Luc, who thinks camping requires an espresso machine. Frank forbids him to tell the neighbors he's a contractor to avoid requests for free handiwork, so he passed them off for brain-surgeons. Alas, to the pregnant neighbors that means doctors at hand, and her water breaks... |
Original Air Date—11 April 1997
J.T. claims like Rich cars are men's business, till his is repaired -actually just diagnosed wrong gear- by foxy mechanic Samantha 'Sam' Milano. It's love at first sight, sealed by mutual interest sports. However Jean-Luc discovers the horny, otherwise so cocky youngster needs some coaching to engage in his first full-fledged love-affair... Meanwhile Karen's joy to be selected for a recording with her Country & Western idol Jimmy Ray Johnston ends in bitter disappointment... |
Original Air Date—18 April 1997
When Frank forbids him to have a girl in his room or stay out after midnight, rules the 20 year-old screw-up finds no longer applicable, J.T. 'threatens' to move out- pa says he'll help pack, the girls do so in a jiffy. So J.T invites himself to move in with reluctant Jean-Luc, who finds he even invites Rich, who not only wears the Frenchman's expensive clothes but gets him furious by bagging on his caviar, not to mention the scummy scamps scare off his classier date. So he makes sure the home-invaders are pretty uncomfortable, till they run for their hides, back to the easier parental regime. Only J.T. still wants to move out, but lands in a freezing rat-hole, unfit to receive Sam in. Frank reconsiders... Carol is hell-bent on spending quality time with her girls, who shun that like the plague, but expertly tricks them and makes it even worse by dragging them to a karaoke bar of all places, and actually on stage... |
Original Air Date—25 April 1997
J.T. thinks his living alone dream is complete when he gets Rich to move in and share the rent, but when they say dad can no longer tell them, tenants, what to do, he decides to play real world, and takes the part of 'landlord Mr. Lambert, Sir' so serious they would have been better off asking an extension from Scrooge himself after spending part of their rent budget on a non-refundable satellite dish. In fact, when the boys think their eviction is over after endless begging in the cold, rainy weather, the nightmare gets worse back in their flat... Meanwhile Jean-Luc spoils Lilly rotten, spending a fortune on every toy she craves, even a pony. When Carol discovers that's to compensate having to miss daughter Dani under his divorce custody settlement, she shows parental solidarity... |
Season 6, Episode 9: Locket ManOriginal Air Date—2 May 1997
Frank is in full midlife crisis, desperately trying to be young again, as if adolescent in the rock era. He could have spared everyone these desperate efforts of rejuvenation to stay attractive for Carol, as she makes clear... J.T. is young and poor, so he raids dad's fridge, and so is Rich, who can't afford the kind of present he'd like to buy for Dana's birthday. Instead he has a romantic idea, give her an LP of 'their song' and one even J.T. knows to spell romantic disaster: recycle a pendant an ex threw back at him. It gets worse when she notices, unlike Rich, it's a locket, so he didn't remove her picture. Now he's down as deep as possible in the unforgiving girls' esteem, Rich gathers the courage for a really romantic declaration of love... |
Original Air Date—9 May 1997
Tired of having to 'play sheriff' when the kids fail to do any chores or practice house hygiene, Frank dozes off with a western and imagines being a Wild West sheriff gone to the dogs so he wakes up in his own jail, while Black Bart Rieupeyroux could take over and turn the town fatally French and will marry his beloved, madam Miss Kitty, unless he can clean up his act and clean the town Happy Valley... |
Original Air Date—16 May 1997
When Dana belittles Carol's job, notably supervising a six year-old's birthday party, they bet $50 Barky can't do it without screaming for adult help, and soon finds her Nazi methods barely can control lover-boy Rich; then Frank finds... At home, Jean-Luc brags to the other kids about a celebrity client at his salon, but all his 'inadverted' hints fail to make them guess, so they come along and meet Fabio, an instant hit with the girls. |
Season 6, Episode 12: Loose LipsOriginal Air Date—23 May 1997
Mark makes the other horny hounds drool when he tells he has a date with hot Alana Mills, so J.T. and Rich leave him their garage apartment for the occasion, but when she really wants to reward his homework physically, he pulls back as it's too fast. Once the other boys find out, he's officially branded the worst geek and hides in his locker, till Frank gets him out and a less dense girl asks the last gentleman in school out... Al couldn't imagine Cameron dumped her for another girl which has inferior looks in every department- oops, except lips, so she raids her credit for a collagen injection, but overspends and overdoes. |
Original Air Date—30 May 1997
J.T. and Rich take Sam and Dana to Chicago, so Carol is worried sick they will end up in hotel-rooms per couple, not gender-grouped, Frank feels confident even J.T. knows the right thing. In fact it's the girls who say it's not to be yet, to their boys' frustration... Meanwhile Al dates Drew, who she liked over the phone, but turns out to be fat as a rhino and nearly as aggressive, yet they find each-other interesting, maybe even enough to brave shallow third parties' ridicule. |
Original Air Date—6 June 1997
When Rich and Dana attend a wedding, they meet assistant diner manager Scott and his wife who gave up her law career to raise their baby. When barky catches the bouquet, that gives each a nightmare: her about being barefoot and pregnant for life, him about being a lavishly kept but neglected husband... Meanwhile Frank and Jean-Luc try a neighbor's home-made remedy for a bad cold, based on juniper berries; neither realizes that spells pure gin... |
Original Air Date—13 June 1997
J.T. and Rich are proud and happy to be hockey captain Eric Barnes's agents, hoping his pro contract will make their 10% a fortune. Meanwhile they are his happily devoted slaves for all chores, even getting him dates, notably Karen on three days of the week, Julie Manson on three other days. Only Karen starts loving the studly sports star... Jean-Luc takes an instant dislike to Frank's Lambert Construction bowling partner Moose, so Karen dares them to a duel against the hairdressers, with weird stakes in kind. |
Original Air Date—20 June 1997
Following their date, Al's new boyfriend Kyle wants to go all the way, but she refuses. Later, Karen becomes upset when Al keeps getting date offers, but Al has actually gotten a reputation she doesn't want, thanks to Kyle claiming the two had sex on their date. Karen also has her eye on Kyle and believes Al is lying, but when Al breaks down in tears, she agrees to help expose the truth. |
Season 6, Episode 17: Macho ManOriginal Air Date—27 June 1997
Karen goes to the library and meets triplets Ted, Tim and Tom, but who should she choose, if it all? J.T. takes it well that his girlfriend Sam wins at mini-golf and some other games, but Rich says he's shaming the male gender and when she does it again at pool convinces J.T. to look for something he can beat her at. After J.T. fails embarrassingly at the Macho-meter (a grip strength test), burly Chuck pushes him away and Sam knocks the brute off her darling; that gives him nightmares about being her sissy bride... Jean-Luc promises to stay with Lily when she gets an injection, but the doctor notices a cut from a can, meaning he needs a tetanus shot himself... |
Original Air Date—4 July 1997
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Original Air Date—26 September 1997
A movie producer is shooting a movie scene in Port Washington, and is scouring the local talent pool for someone to play the part of the waitress. Dana, Karen and Al audition for the role. While Dana and Karen are good, Al blows everyone away with her natural knack for acting. Al eventually realizes she's good at something other than being an awesomely beautiful tomboy and decides she's ready for Hollywood. Frank manages to persuade Al to finish her senior year of high school first (and join the drama club in the meantime, to hone her talents). |
Original Air Date—3 October 1997
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Original Air Date—19 December 1997
Frank takes Lily to visit a department store Santa Claus, unaware that J.T. is scheduled to work that day as jolly ol' St. Nick (he and Rich had gotten jobs playing Santa to earn extra money). Lily instantly recognizes her older brother behind the beard and clothing and dejectedly concludes there is no Santa. To cheer her up, Frank and Carol recruit the rest of the family to convince the 5-year-old that there is a Santa Claus ... until a lack of coordination ruins the whole thing. |
Original Air Date—9 January 1998
Al is hired to star in what she has been told is a commercial for suntan lotion. But the commercial is for a phone sex hotline instead! After Al clears the air to her confused family about what they just saw on TV, she recruits J.T. to confront the sneaky producer about the commercial. |
Original Air Date—16 January 1998
When Dana begins talking about wanting to have sex with Rich, it leads to a huge fight with her parents. Dana decides that - since she's 22 - she doesn't have to take her parents' orders and asks Rich to elope. Surprisingly, Rich isn't ready to walk down the aisle just yet, let alone have sex, which brings Dana (grudgingly) to her senses. |
Original Air Date—23 January 1998
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Original Air Date—30 January 1998
Frank worries about meeting up with an old class rival at his upcoming 25th class reunion. Meanwhile, J.T. is annoyed that he has to baby-sit Lily. Eventually, he tells her to go outside and play, which Lily does. She doesn't come back, leading J.T. and the others to frantically search for the 5-year-old before Frank and Carol find out. |
Original Air Date—27 February 1998
J.T. and Rich need money to take the girls on a ski trip, so they decide to make some quick money as male strippers. Carol and Frank are asked to share their marriage secrets with a group at their church. |
Original Air Date—5 June 1998
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