- Seinfeld - The Parking Garage - Saturday
at the mall with George, and Jerry and Elaine and Kramer, none of whom
bothered to note where the car was parked.
- The Simpsons - Itchy & Scratchy & Marge
- After watching an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon, Maggie bonks
Homer in the head with a hammer. When this happens, Marge vows to eliminate
violence in cartoons.
- Friends - The One With The Hypnosis Tape - Rachel
gives Chandler a hypnosis tape to help him quit smoking; however, the tape
was designed for women--and it works all too well. Phoebe's brother, Frank,
announces that he's getting married--to his home economics teacher, who
is much older; Phoebe tries to break it up and enlists help from Ross and
Joey. A customer at the diner, who turns out to be a millionaire, asks
Monica out; they go out for pizza... in Italy.
- The Simpsons - The Brother From Another Series
- Bart suspects a sinister motive when Sideshow Bob reunites
with his estranged bother Cecil, who promptly places Bob in charge of supervising
the building of Springfield's Hydroelectric Dam.
- Seinfeld - The Abstinence - George's
girlfriend has mononucleosis and he can't have sex with her for six weeks.
Elaine's met a doctor who's almost gotten his license to practice. Jerry
agrees to appear at career day at his former junior high school, first
he is bumped and then there is a fire drill. Kramer lights up a cigar in
Monk's and is asked to leave. He meets others on the street who face his
dilemma so he opens up his apartment as a smoking lounge. Jerry's agent
gets him an assembly at the school. George's lack of sex makes his mind
sharper. Elaine learns how much her doctor boyfriend doesn't know about
medicine. She uses George's technique to help him study to get his license,
but in the process she becomes an idiot. Jerry struggles to figure out
how to fill two hours in front of a junior high crowd. George uses his
new found intellect to give batting advice, speaks Portuguese and prepares
a presentation for Jerry's assembly. Kramer sees his lawyer about a case
against the tobacco company, smoking has destroyed his looks. He gets a
settlement without Jackie's input. George calculates the odds of scoring
with a Portuguese waitress. Elaine's boyfriend gets his license and leaves
her sexless.
- Taxi - Latka The Playboy - Tired
of being seen as a cute little foreigner, Latka decides to "alter
my lifestyle to fit the fast lane." Louie calls an exterminator [played
by George Wendt] to deal with his roach problem.
- The X-Files - 2Shy - Meeting insecure
women through an on-line service, a serial killer seduces his prey with
the right words. However, Mulder and Scully determine these killings are
far from ordinary by the presence of a strange substance coating the victims,
a substance which seems to digest the fatty acids in flesh.
- Cheers - The King Of Beers - When
a marketing analyst for a beer company comes into Cheers, Norm brushes
him off until he realizes who he is. Norm is chosen to taste a few beers,
and does so well he's hired on as the official beer taster. Also, the bar
is mistakenly delivered a slot machine, and Rebecca plays it until she
wins.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation - Darmok
- Picard is stranded with an alien as they try to bridge
communication gaps and find peace.
- Life Goes On - Bedfellows - A fellow
AIDS patient named Chester (Richard Frank) encourages Jesse to learn to
live rather than give up and die. He holds game shows with other patients,
makes fun of the sugar-coated remarks the doctors make every time a new
patient comes in, and sings, too. Jesse objects to Becca's inclination
not to go to Brown University, saying that he would be too much of a burden
to her. Chester dies when he races Jesse on the hospital roof.
- The Simpsons - The Front - After
watching a particularly bad Itchy and Scratchy cartoon, Lisa and Bart ghost
write their own using their grandfather's name. Meanwhile, Homer takes
night school to make up a missing science credit.
- Profit - The Pilot - We first meet
Jim Profit, a man raised by a cruel father, but now grown into an obsessed
business savage. We see Jim’s humanity and his ease with evil, and realize
we’ve never encountered one so terrifying.
- The X-Files - Pusher - A man is
apprehended yet escapes after he claims to be the hired killer of 14 people
whose deaths had previously been ruled as suicides. The man, who seems
to have the ability to control others, desires a challenge, leaving clues
for Mulder and Scully to follow as he sets up his contest of wills.
- Seinfeld - The Switch - Elaine lets
a potential employer borrow Mr. Pitt's tennis racket, but the injury suffered
may ruin her chances, especially when she must get his racket back. Jerry's
girlfriend never laughs, but he meets her roommate who does, so Jerry decides
he would like to make "the switch." George's model girlfriend
may be bolemic. He needs proof, so he meets Kramer's mother, whose a bathroom
matron. While there he finds out Kramer's first name, Cosmo. Kramer decides
it is time to be himself and begins to use his first name. George has the
perfect plan for "the switch," a menage-a-troi.
- Touched By An Angel - Family Histories - Joan
van Ark and Ed Begley, Jr. guest star as adult children of a dying father
with family secrets.
- Star Trek - The City On The Edge Of Forever - Joan
Collins guest stars. McCoy, suffering from an overdose of cordrazine, vanishes
through a time portal and somehow changes the past. Kirk and Spock follow
in an effort to rectify whatever it is that McCoy has done.
- Friends - The One With The Baby On The Bus - Ross
has an allergic reaction to Monica's kiwi lime pie, leaving Joey and Chandler
to their version of "Adventures in Babysitting." Meanwhile, Rachel
tries to break bad news to Phoebe regarding Phoebe's gig at Central Perk.
- Mad About You - How To Fall In Love - Paul's
ideas on how to meet and engage the opposite sex are tested by Janie in
a hypothetical encounter, while Ira has a very real encounter with Jamie's
friend.
- The X-Files - Home - A shallow grave
holding a deformed baby bring Mulder and Scully to a small town in Pennsylvania.
There they are met with residents who treat each other like family. But
the murder case introduces them to some of the townspeople who take that
concept a little too far.
- The Simpsons - One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue
Fish - Homer believes that he has 24 hours to live after
thinking he ate the deadly blowfish at a local sushi restaurant.
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