Raj hires a babysitter for Dee so he can join his friends at a party.
To earn money to buy Mama a birthday present, Roger resorts to playing dice and is accused of shoplifting along with Dwayne and Rerun.
Mama's shifty ex-husband comes back into the picture and plays with her feelings to score some cash.
Rerun is invited to join a dance troupe, but not for his dancing skills.
Rerun joins the high school football team and lets sudden success go to his head.
Dee is selected for a series of TV ads for a burger chain.
When Roger talks to a new girl on Dwayne's behalf, he finds himself falling for her and at odds with his friend.
Roger and Rerun pay two men to date Shirley.
With Mama having to work on Christmas, Roger and Dee have Christmas dinner at Bill's apartment.
Confusion arises when Roger's plans to buy a puppy from a girl in school lead Mama and Bill to think he got the girl pregnant.
When Mama is fired after being accused of stealing a diamond ring, Roger seeks to set the record straight.
Roger earns a chance to write for a black TV show, but its producers don't want to face the realities of ghetto life.
With Roger in the hospital, Dee befriends his grouchy old roommate.
When Roger is suspended from school, he turns to his father instead of facing Mama's wrath.
When Shirley's bad attitude gets her fired, the guys plan to find her a new job.
Needing extra money, Mama agrees to take Bill in as a boarder.
Dwayne must summon the courage to stand up to the tough and mean ex-boyfriend of his latest love interest.
When the guys try to scalp concert tickets, they wind up at the police station.
A lovesick Roger spends his time at the local clinic trying to win over an older nurse.
Dee's prison pen pal arrives, but she has escaped from jail.
Shirley tries to support her pregnant younger sister.
Rerun plans to marry a new girl from school so that she may stay in the country.
When Dee talks to the school counselor on behalf of a reluctant friend, the counselor believes that Dee is the one with the problem.
Roger is involved in a car accident that totals his new bike and leads to a lawsuit.
When his articles are rejected from the school newspaper, an outraged Roger starts an underground paper that lands him in hot water.
Shirley is hired into a secretarial job for which she is unqualified, but discovers the company only wanted her as a minority token.
Dwayne's father, a candidate for city council, fires his campaign manager, which upsets Dwayne because the man is a longtime family friend.
Roger writes and directs a play that is to be performed with a TV executive in attendance, but casting Rerun as the lead threatens to doom Roger's big opportunity.
Dwayne's wacky system for football betting causes Rerun's brother-in-law to lose a $500 vacation fund on a long shot.
Dee objects to her father's plans to remarry.
Mama takes a night-school course, where she meets a man who toys with her affections in order to get her to write a paper for him.
Roger organizes a strike with his coworkers at Pronson's Market, but with Mama losing her job the family has no income.
After the guys give Miss Collins a trick present for 25 years of teaching, a change of heart forces them to sneak into the school to switch the gift.
To watch a football game, the guys "borrow" the church raffle's grand prize, a new color TV set.
Raj manages a sibling song and dance act who makes it onto The Gong Show, but Rerun gets booked for the same episode.
Dee's first date is a chance for Raj to get closer to her date's older sister.
Rerun is offered free tickets to an upcoming Doobie Brothers concert at the high school if he agrees to secretly record the concert.
While Rerun is secretly taping the Doobie Brothers' concert, the recorder falls from his coat in full view of the band.
Rerun joins a strange cult and it's up to Roger, Dwayne and Mama to expose the cult as a fraud.
Raj gets involved with a model who thinks he's 21 and a movie actor.
After Rerun is hit by a car, the gang tracks down the driver, who is the son of a foreign diplomat.
With Mama out of town, Raj gets Shirley to babysit Dee but finds himself in trouble for feeding answers to Rerun during a final exam.
Roger and Rerun take an apartment together, but meddling Mama won't leave them alone.
To raise money to enter a dance contest, Rerun sells more shares in himself than he can pay back.
The guys unknowingly fix Shirley up with a married man.
Roger takes on a lucrative gig tutoring a basketball star.
Roger and Rerun find themselves in a sticky situation when a detective finds stolen goods in their apartment.
Shirley goes into business selling her homemade cookies.
Roger falls for the building's landlady, an attractive older woman.
Rerun goes on a reckless spending spree with his new credit cards.
Roger plans to move in with his new girlfriend and up in society.
Roger is asked to pose in the nude for an art class.
Roger and Rerun show some Christmas mercy for a burglar caught stealing from their apartment.
Roger and Rerun trade exaggerated stories about their dates and then switch girls as part of a bet.
Dee is passed over for the cheerleading squad as a result of the school district's busing policy.
Dee stands accused of shoplifting a hideous necklace that Little Earl stole for her.
Dwayne has a crazy dream about the future.
Shirley quits in frustration over Rob's new waitress and then thinks she catches her stealing.
Rerun is hospitalized after eating at Rob's Place.
Roger and Rerun lead a protest over the building's condition that gets them evicted.
Roger discovers his mother's house may contain stolen bank money and leads a furious search to find it.
The gang fantasizes about being TV characters from famous ABC shows, such as Three's Company and Happy Days.
Dwayne takes Big Earl's place as coach of Little Earl's basketball team.
Dwayne runs for class president against a more qualified opponent.
When the gang organizes a benefit show, Rerun tries to get Sammy Davis, Jr. to appear.
