Designing Women
1986–1993
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Seasons
Season 1
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E1
Designing Women
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E2
The Beauty Contest
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E3
A Big Affair
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E4
Julia's Son
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E5
Mary Jo's First Date
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E6
Design House
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E7
Perky's Visit
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E8
I Do, I Don't
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E9
The IT Men
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E10
The Slumber Party
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E11
New Year's Daze
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E12
Old Spouses Never Die: Part 1
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E13
Old Spouses Never Die: Part 2
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E14
Monette
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E15
And Justice for Paul
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E16
Reese's Friend
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E17
Nashville Bound
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E18
Oh, Suzannah
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E19
Mary Jo's Dad Dates Charlene
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E20
Seams from a Marriage
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E21
Grand Slam, Thank You Ma'am
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E22
Bachelor Suite
Season 2
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E1
101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station
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E2
Ted Remarries
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E3
Anthony Jr.
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E4
Killing All the Right People
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E5
Half an Air Bubble Off
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E6
Dash Goff, the Writer
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E7
Heart Attacks
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E8
Cruising
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E9
I'll Be Seeing You
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E10
Stranded
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E11
Howard the Date
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E12
I'll Be Home for Christmas
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E13
Great Expectations
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E14
Second Time Around
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E15
Oh, Brother
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E16
There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner
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E17
The Return of Ray Don
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E18
High Rollers
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E19
The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club
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E20
How Great Thou Art
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E21
Ted-Bare
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E22
Reservations for Eight
Season 3
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E1
Reservations for 12, Plus Ursula
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E2
The Candidate
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E3
E.P., Phone Home
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E4
Getting Married and Eating Dirt
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E5
Big Haas and Little Falsie
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E6
Hard Hats and Lovers
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E7
Curtains
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E8
The Wilderness Experience
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E9
Tyrone
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E10
Mr. Bailey
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E11
The Naked Truth
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E12
The Junies
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E13
One Sees, the Other Doesn't
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E14
Odell
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E15
Full Moon
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E16
Ms. Meal Ticket
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E17
The Engagement
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E18
Come on and Marry Me, Bill
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E19
The Women of Atlanta
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E20
Stand and Fight
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E21
The Last Humorously-Dressed Bellboy in America
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E22
Julia Drives Over the First Amendment
Season 4
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E1
The Proxy Pig and Great Pretenders
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E2
One Night with You
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E3
There She Is
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E4
Nightmare from Hee Haw
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E5
The Girlfriend
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E6
The Rowdy Girls
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E7
Bernice's Sanity Hearing
- E8 Julia Gets Her Head Stuck in a Fence While posing for a gag photo at the governor's mansion, Julia gets her head stuck in the banister just before the annual ball.
- E9 Julia and Suzanne's Big Adventure Julia and Suzanne's plans go awry when they travel to Japan to visit their mother: after discovering that she has gone to Paris to see a sick friend, they are robbed of their luggage and money. Meanwhile, Anthony and Mary Jo are stuck with an enormous telephone bill after calling in votes to a television poll.
- E10 Manhunt Desperately single Mary Jo, worried that her busy schedule will condemn her to a life alone, accepts coaching from Suzanne as she plans a weekend manhunt.
- E11 They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They? Fat as a feminist issue surfaces when Suzanne endures cruel jokes about her weight at her high-school reunion; Anthony enlists Julia and Mary Jo to join him in a two-day fast to focus attention on world hunger.
- E12 You Got to Have Friends Mary Jo takes a second job at a fast food place when Ted's child support payment is late.
- E13 The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century (1) Suzanne and Mary Jo rush Charlene to the hospital when she goes into labor on New Year's Eve and conceives a desire to deliver the first New Year's baby. Dolly Parton plays Charlene's ""guardian movie star,"" who comes to her in a dream with news of her baby's birth, and Bernice goes for an unexpected ambulance ride.
- E14 The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century (2) Suzanne and Mary Jo rush Charlene to the hospital when she goes into labor on New Year's Eve and conceives a desire to deliver the first New Year's baby. Dolly Parton plays Charlene's ""guardian movie star,"" who comes to her in a dream with news of her baby's birth, and Bernice goes for an unexpected ambulance ride.
- E15 The Mistress The ladies are hired by wealthy stockbroker Ancel Pollard to decorate a house for a client's wife -- and a condo for his mistress. Suzanne is sure that straight laced Julia and Mary Jo will never go through with the assignment.
- E16 The Fur Flies The fur flies at a fashion show, where Suzanne's after-dinner mink causes a riot among animal-rights activists. Meanwhile, Charlene is forced to bring Olivia to Sugarbakers while she looks for a nanny.
- E17 Oh, What a Feeling Julia and Suzanne negotiate for a new delivery van and drive a hard bargain with an overbearing salesman (Ross).
- E18 Anthony and Vanessa Hired for a temporary job at Sugarbakers, Anthony's needy friend Vanessa learns the tricks of the trade from Suzanne, then goes to work reeling in Anthony.
- E19 Payne Grows Up Julia is not pleased to learn that Payne is graduating early in order to marry his pregnant girlfriend. Upset at becoming a grandmother so soon, Julia gets tipsy at the wedding, then wakes up mortified -- and scantily clad -- the next day with Payne's frat house roommate (Young).
- E20 Tornado Watch A bizarre collection of characters is trapped inside Sugarbakers by a tornado warning, including hillbilly Daddy Jones who takes a liking to Bernice.
- E21 Tough Enough A redecorating job for a sports account is right down Sugarbakers' alley when it pits the women against a macho, over-confident designer from an all-male firm. They determine to steal one of his prized clients, Cherokee Lanes Bowling Alley, but discover they must pose as regular bowlers.
- E22 It's A Wonderful Life Julia intervenes when Bill's grief over the loss of his first wife threatens his relationship with Charlene -- and she becomes convinced he is having an affair with his new cockpit partner, Gail.
- E23 Suzanne Goes Looking For a Friend A lonely Suzanne digs through her old pageant connections for a best girlfriend, not realizing that her friend's "coming out" meant that she was a lesbian and not just the oldest living debutante.
- E24 Foreign Affairs When her maid Consuela is threatened with deportation, Suzanne puts Anthony in a dress and pays him to impersonate the terrified woman. But he performs too well, awakening romantic interest in the Immigration and Naturalization Service examiner.
- E25 Have Faith When Mary Jo attends church with Julia and Suzanne, she ends up dating Gene Chapman, the minister, but feeling guilty about her sexual interest in him.
- E26 Their Finest Hour An hour-long clip show of highlights from the previous seasons, including: razor-tongued Julia standing up for Suzanne against an insolent beauty pageant contestant, Julia defending Bernice's eccentricities, Mary Jo commenting on men and bra sizes, Charlene wondering about everything from killer bees to the personal habits of other women, Suzanne displaying a series of wacky dresses, and Anthony being plagued by a variety of indignities.
- E27 Anthony's Graduation An extremely anxious Anthony makes it to his college graduation despite a series of mishaps and his nervousness about his grandmother's visit and his performance as commencement speaker.
- E28 La Place sans Souci At a plush spa, the sparse diet, vigorous exercise program and thermal mud baths bring out the worst in Suzanne -- especially when Julia and Mary Jo are encouraged to gain weight.
Season 5
- E1 A Blast From the Past Sugarbaker's is beset by tourists when the building's Civil War foundation puts it on the Tour of Historical Homes, Mary Jo opens her heart to an old friend eager to make good on a marriage pact they once entered into.
- E2 Papa Was a Rolling Stone Charlene aims to make Anthony's 30th birthday a memorable one -- by hiring a private detective to find his long-lost father.
- E3 Working Mother Resentment builds between Charlene and Mary Jo when Charlene wants to take a year off to look after her baby. The decorators cater to the whims of a rich, insufferable 10-year-old client as Mary Jo and Charlene ponder the joys and pitfalls of working mothers.
- E4 Miss Trial Julia's dinner plans with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife are put on hold when her slow-moving jury gets sequestered.
- E5 The Bachelor Auction When organizational confusion leads to Suzanne winning a date with Anthony in a bachelor charity auction, the two reluctantly try to make the best of a very awkward situation.
- E6 Charlene Buys a House As the proud new owner of a grand but ghostly mansion, Charlene hires the decorators to give the place a facelift -- not mentioning that it's haunted.
- E7 Old Rebels and Young Models Charlene's baby, Olivia, auditions for a modeling job, Mary Jo finds one of her former teachers in a nursing home.
- E8 Nowhere To Run To Mary Jo takes up jogging, and inadvertently helps turn Julia into a fitness zealot.
- E9 A Class Act Anthony buys in to become a full partner; new student Charlene fends off an amorous psychology professor.
- E10 Keep the Home Fires Burning With her husband away on a mission, Charlene guiltily draws close to a man in her support group for military spouses who wife is also away. Meanwhile, lottery fever sweeps Sugarbakers.
- E11 My Daughter, Myself Mary Jo forbids her nearly 18-year-old daughter to date a 34-year-old, then dates him herself, Julia is forced to crash the men's room at a football stadium.
- E12 And Now, Here's Bernice After Bernice gets a local public-access cable TV show, Mary Jo has her heart broken by a client and decides that Bernice's show is the ideal arena to air her views on men.
- E13 Pearls of Wisdom Mary Jo borrows and loses a string of pearls flaunted by Suzanne, subbing as a lifestyles reporter for local TV news. Meanwhile, a recurring dream about Julia upsets Anthony.
- E14 High Noon in a Laundry Room Anthony, concerned with his masculinity after working with the women so long, tries standing up to his bullying neighbor, and is further humiliated when the women come to his rescue.
- E15 How Long Has This Been Going On? Everyone at Sugarbakers is baffled to discover that sensible Julia has covertly been singing evenings at a nightclub, Anthony tries to muster the nerve to ask out a girl who works at the bookstore.
- E16 The Emperor's New Nose Bernice gets an extraordinarily bad eye tuck and rhinoplasty from a plastic surgeon whose work leaves something to be desired.
- E17 Maybe, Baby Mary Jo, wanting a baby, turns to her friend and former beau; Suzanne takes up smoking as a way to diet.
- E18 This is Art? Amateur painter Julia inadvertently becomes the darling of Atlanta's art scene when someone tries to buy her handbag while she's attending a gallery opening; Suzanne inadvertently glues her lips shut.
- E19 Blame it on New Orleans When the gang attends a convention in intoxicating New Orleans, Mary Jo unwittingly sleeps with a married man.
- E20 I'll See You in Court Mary Jo runs across the man who mugged her the year before, but faces horrendous judicial red tape to bring him to trial.
- E21 The Big Circle Julia tries coping with her boyfriend Reese's death by looking after Randa Oliver, the supremely spoiled child of a client couple on an extended vacation.
- E22 Friends and Husbands Charlene, readjusting to married life upon Bill's return from the Middle East, quits her and Mary Jo's children's-book project.
- E23 Fore! Suzanne is jealous when Anthony is invited to be the first black (i.e., token) in the previously all-white Beaumont Country Club.
- E24 The Pride of Sugarbakers Mary Jo and Julia demonstrate different coaching styles when their firm sponsors a Little League team.
Season 6
- E1 The Big Desk (1) Cousin Alison Sugarbaker buys out Suzanne's share of the business and then moves in, complete with an enormous desk and a take-charge attitude, Charlene's divorcing younger sister Carlene arrives.
- E2 The Big Desk (2) Cousin Alison Sugarbaker buys out Suzanne's share of the business and then moves in, complete with an enormous desk and a take-charge attitude, Charlene's divorcing younger sister Carlene arrives.
- E3 A Toe in the Water Julia thinks she's ready to resume dating, but Alison disagrees, questioning the manliness of Julia's new beau. Meanwhile, Allison and Anthony continue to bicker about who owns Suzanne's house, until Anthony obtains an affidavit asserting his right to occupy the house -- and allows Allison to stay on only as her personal servant.
- E4 Dwayne's World Mary Jo protectively takes divorcee Carlene under her wing -- going overboard with a lie about Carlene's latest flame -- when ex-hubby Dwayne shows up to sweep Carlene off her feet again.
- E5 Marriage Most Foul When Allison's ex-convict former flame (whom she turned in for insider trading) is released, she fears he is plotting revenge, instead, he proposes to her.
- E6 Picking a Winner Mary Jo turns to a sperm bank to get pregnant, prompting mixed reactions at work. Meanwhile, Julia threaten to rip the draperies from the windows of the home of a wealthy client whose payment is overdue.
- E7 Last Tango in Atlanta When the Sugarbakers women are persuaded by Anthony to help with an outreach program at his former prison, they find themselves in the middle of a prison break and are held hostage by Anthony's old cellmate T. Tommy Reed -- who takes a liking to Allison.
- E8 The Strange Case of Clarence and Anita Perhaps the most famous episode, and a rare instance of a situation comedy making direct political comment on a current issue. The Sugarbakers women take sides on the controversial confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill's accusation of sexual harassment: Mary Jo and Julia side with Hill and Allison with Thomas. Conflict spills over into Allison's birthday party, where Mary Jo and Julia turn up in costume just in time to hear a television interview about the hearings with Allison.
- E9 Just Say Doe When Mary Jo's womanizing brother visits, falls for Allison, and takes her and Quinton on a deer-hunting trip, the women secretly tag along.
- E10 Julia and Rusty, Sittin' in a Tree Julia's second date with electrician Rusty becomes a group outing with Carlene and Allison dating junior-college guys, and Anthony tagging along to the drive-in with Bernice to keep an eye on things.
- E11 Julia and Mary Jo Get Stuck Under a Bed Mary Jo and Julia are trapped under anchorman Chuck Tremain's bed when a Christmas design contest inspires them to examine a competitor's handiwork for evidence of plagiarism.
- E12 Real, Scary Men When their van breaks down the women become unwelcome guests at a men's club retreat Wildman Sanctuary, where Anthony is trying to land a new account.
- E13 Tales Out of School Anthony sees opportunity when his normally unfriendly law professor is attracted to Carlene and invites the two of them to his annual Christmas party.
- E14 Driving My Mama Back Home Julia accompanies Mary Jo and her mother Darla on an overnight bus trip back to South Carolina; meanwhile, the other employees get locked into the storage room while doing inventory.
- E15 Payne Comes Home Julia delights in the opportunity to dote on son Payne when he returns for a visit -- which Julia learns will be permanent.
- E16 Carlene's Apartment Carlene moves into her own apartment on the wrong side of town, where space is at a minimum and burglars roam free, so the Sugarbakers staff visit to try to persuade her to find a better home.
- E17 Mamed A tough-talking, hard-drinking, temperamental Broadway has-been promises to make Julia rue the day that she stole the role of Mame from her in Anthony's community-theater production. But on opening night she is too drunk to perform and Anthony is pressed into taking on the role.
- E18 A Scene From a Mall Julia stages a sit-in at the mall to protest racial mistreatment of Anthony by brutish cops who accosted him for window shopping near a jewelry store -- and television coverage links Anthony romantically with Allison.
- E19 All About Odes to Atlanta Songwriter Carlene gains notoriety -- and her first groupie -- by entering her ditty in the semi-finals Atlanta's theme-song contest, where she performs with Mary Jo and Julia, all decked out in ""big hair"" and costumes.
- E20 I Enjoy Being a Girl On an overnight Girl Scout outing, Carlene's leadership abilities take a beating, while Allison's methods seem to charm the spoiled troopers, and Mary Jo and Julia advocate roughing it.
- E21 L.A. Story Allison thinks she's invited to stay at Charles Nelson Reilly's home, so the decorators do Hollywood and get flimflammed on an expenses-paid trip accompanying investor Allison to the set of her movie.
- E22 A Little Night Music Julia strolls down memory lane while awaiting the results of hysterectomy tests at a hospital whose workers are on strike, and a surgeon turns out to be her prescription for romance.
- E23 Shades of Vanessa The Sugarbakers women use Anthony as ""date bait"" to reel in a big account involving a hotelier's flamboyant debutante daughter, who's angling for a whopper of a deal, then Anthony announces he is marrying Vanessa, who intends to become a partner in Sugarbakers.
Season 7
- E1 Of Human Bondage After cousin Allison leaves Sugarbakers, Julia needs cash but is refused a bank loan. To cheer themselves up, the women play poker with a wealthy client -- who wins the business from them. Sugarbaker's could use an infusion of cash, and at a rowdy party given by potential new client B.J., the gals kick up their heels in wild abandon.
- E2 Sex and the Single Woman Carlene allows herself to be seduced by her ex-husband, then admits she was just using him for sex.
- E3 Mary Jo vs. the Terminator After Julia completely rewrites a letter Mary Jo asked her to proofread, Mary Jo comes unraveled on a fashion-show runway, where she just plain has her fill of know-it-all Julia. Meanwhile, back at the office, B.J. has her hands full with angry vegetarians.
- E4 On the Road Again In an attempt at spontaneity, a carefree Mary Jo takes off for Nashville on ""a hen party on wheels"" with Julia and Bernice, but become terrified when a trucker Bernice flirted with at a diner pursues them. Meanwhile, back at the office, Carlene and Anthony put their noses to the grindstone studying for midterms.
- E5 Screaming Passages Julia fears the emotional roller coaster of menopause -- just as her affair with Phillip heats up, and is upset when she discovers a Sugerbakers ""Change of Life"" surprise party.
- E6 Viva Las Vegas (1) After Vanessa calls off their wedding, Anthony joins the gang on a getaway to Las Vegas, where he nurses his broken heart -- in the company of a show stopping showgirl he impulsively weds.
- E7 Fools Rush In (2) BJ offers to help a desperate Anthony, who invents various schemes to extricate himself from his hasty marriage to a Las Vegas showgirl.
- E8 Love Letters A steamy love letter from another woman found in James' safe-deposit box shatters B.J.'s image of her late husband as a faithful companion worthy of her trust. Meanwhile, reveling in the destruction of her old car, a symbol of her days as a suburban housewife, Mary Jo goes wild in a new red convertible.
- E9 The Vision Thing Etienne drives Anthony crazy trying to be the perfect wife, and the Sugarbakers crew throw a Las Vegas style wedding shower for them.
- E10 Trial and Error B.J. goes overboard showering everyone with gifts, and law student Anthony gets carried away trying to help Mary Jo win a small-claims case involving her defective freezer.
- E11 Too Dumb to Date Mary Jo dates a handsome idiot, a to-die-for toyboy male model who seems to have few toys in the attic and little in common with her.
- E12 The Odyssey B.J.'s contribution to the Democratic Party gets the Sugarbaker crew invited to the Inaugural Ball, but the trip proves to be a party for no one, even Julia, who struggles to maintain a cheery disposition in the face of disaster as bad weather forces a change in plans.
- E13 Oh Dog, Poor Dog After eye surgery, Bernice overhears the gals talk of putting Mary Jo's dog out of its misery and figures they're planning her own mercy killing, so she barricades herself inside the storeroom. Meanwhile, Julia gets caught listing to a London phone line which plays tapes of Princess Diana's private conversations with her boyfriend.
- E14 Wedding Redux Anthony and Etienne renew their vows for Etienne's visiting parents and Anthony's grandmother at a ceremony at B.J.'s, where anything that could go wrong does.
- E15 Nude Julia, New York Morning Julia's old mentor for her bohemian art school days in New York unveils his nude portrait of Julia.
- E16 Sex, Lies and Bad Hair Days B.J.'s dating adventures take a turn for the worse on her birthday, when a bad-hair day and two miserable blind dates have her vowing to give up men, so Julia tries to cheer her up by getting her a date with a really nice fellow.
- E17 Shovel Off to Buffalo Worshiping hordes gather outside Sugarbaker's after the face of Elvis mysteriously appears on a snow shovel belonging to Mary Jo, who attracts the attention of a ""paraspectacular"" expert (Gilpin) -- especially when she apparently restores her neighbor's damaged hearing.
- E18 It's Not So Easy Being Green Anthony is jealous of Etienne's successful writer friend, who shares a vivid past with her, but tries to be gracious by throwing a signing party for him.
- E19 The Woman Who Came to Sugarbakers A visit from Julia's meddlesome former schoolmistress is extended -- on ghostly instructions from her deceased husband, it turns out -- until the desperate Sugarbakers women hold a seance to try to force her to leave.
- E20 The Lying Game There's no skirting the fact that Carlene is confused by new beau Eric (Kean), whose unusual habit (cross-dressing) she begins to understand only by tapping into her own masculine side.
- E21 Gone With a Whim (1) With Sugarbaker's in such bad financial shape, the ladies are grateful when B. J. gets them a job redecorating a house that resembles the great home from Gone With The Wind --- until they find out that the new lady of the house plans to rip out the grand staircase and replace it with an elevator. To make matters worse, B. J. finds out that their client is trying to take over Poteet Industries and plans to give Sugarbaker's to his young bride Kiki --- renaming it ""Kikibaker's"".
- E22 Gone With a Whim (2) With Julia continuing to fight to save the antebellum Kearney mansion, B.J. struggles to save Sugarbaker's and Poteet Industries from a take over from the Kearneys. However, despite their efforts, Kiki Kearney announces her new plans for ""Kikibaker's,"" Lester Kearney announces that the purchase of Poteet Industries is complete, and the modernizing of the mansion gets under way. Though Anthony and the women are fired for insubordination, when Craig, a friend of Mary Jo's, stumbles on some embarrassing news about the Kearney's illegal financial activities, Poteet Industries and Sugarbaker's are saved from the take over.
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