Seasons
A plan to fake a bear attack on Raj while on a camping trip backfires when a real bear invades the campsite.
Nadine sets out to prove her suspicions that the exclusive club Raj is trying to join discriminates against women, submitting her application and winning acceptance as a 'man' after being rejected as herself.
Dee falls in love with wheelchair-bound comedian Reggie, and has plans to join him on tour. However, Reggie has different plans, and tells Raj that he's going to hit the road without Dee and without telling her.
Shirley moonlights as a salesperson dressed as a clown in order to pay Raj the money she owes him and ends up winning a trip to Hawaii.
Shirley teaches a young boy with 'two left feet' how to dance.
Raj, Nadine, and Dwayne must figure out what to do when Shirley is taken in by a con man who convinces her to sell him her share of the diner.
Dwayne is reluctant to carry on a relationship with an older woman when Raj convinces him to not be concerned about age. However, Raj's feelings change when he and Nadine spot Dwayne out dining with an elderly woman.
Thanks to Shirley, a councilman straightens up his act when he realizes that he'd forgotten why he was elected in the first place.
When a bump on the head causes Dwayne to lose his memory, Nadine loses her mind because Dwayne now thinks he's her husband!
When her truck driver father comes into town, Shirley begins to experience the same feelings of neglect and disappointment that have plagued their strained relationship throughout the years.
Maurice gets more than he bargained for when he takes his teacher's daughter out dancing.
Maurice and Darryl enjoy an evening in a swinging bachelor pad with two sisters from UCLA...until the girls' father shows up.
Nadine feels like a real dummy when her mother brings home her ventriloquist fiancé and she kicks them out of her house.
A little friendly competition becomes survival of the fittest when Raj and Dwayne enter a 10k run for charity.
With her biological clock ticking, Shirley is desperate to find the perfect man and tries everything to find him.
When Maurice runs for class president, he risks his friendship with Darryl by becoming a political puppet to a manipulative campaign manager.
Raj and Dwayne literally get caught with their pants down when they try to rescue Dee from a police raid on a male strip club on Dee's 21st birthday.
After being fired from his job and failing at a series of attempts to try a new line of work, Dwayne decides to become his own boss and buys a magic shop.
Maurice worries that he will be fired after he accidentally rips a hat donated by famous singer Sharona for Nadine's charity auction. He enlists Darryl to help him sneak into Sharona's room to get another hat.
Shirley's new employee Maurice turns the diner into a nighttime teen club to impress a girl.
Raj goes down for the count when Nadine discovers that he has invested in a professional boxer.
Description
Roger 'Raj' Thomas has graduated from the University of Southern California, and become a fledgling writer. He and his wife Nadine, a social worker, move in to his old home in Watts (given to him by his mother, Mabel, now remarried and living in Phoenix, Arizona). His sister Dee is away at college. Childhood friend Dwayne Nelson has become a computer programmer, while Freddie 'Rerun' Stubbs is a used-car salesman. The old soda shop hangout, Rob's Place, has gone out of business and left abandoned. Reminded of his youth, and seeing an opportunity, Raj and Shirley Wilson, who used to wait tables there, decide to buy the business together, renaming it Rob's.
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Genres
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CastErnest Lee ThomasHaywood NelsonShirley HemphillAnne-Marie JohnsonMartin LawrenceKen Sagoes
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Channel
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Premiere DateSeptember 07, 1985
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Rating6.583 (12)
