What's Happening Now!!

Sep 7, 1985

After getting married and having his first book published, Raj returns home to find that Rob's Place has closed, and Dwayne and Shirley are overjoyed to see him again. However, one person who doesn't share in the excitement is Rerun, who is now a used car salesman and jealous of Raj's new success.

Sep 14, 1985

When Rerun ends up with a horse, he convinces Raj to keep it at his house until they can sell it. A misprint in the newspaper regarding the sale leads Raj to mistakenly sell his house to a couple for $5,000.

Sep 21, 1985

Dwayne is on cloud nine after meeting the girl of his dreams at a dentist's office. However, when Raj finds out that she's married, he must save Dwayne from a painful heartbreak and the wrath of her husband, the dentist.

Sep 28, 1985

When Dwayne and Rerun have a falling out, Raj and Nadine agree to let Dwayne temporarily stay with them. However, as Dwayne begins to overstay his welcome, the couple hatch a plot to get Rerun and Dwayne to make amends.

Oct 5, 1985

When Nadine's hard-to-please mother Yvonne visits, Raj and Nadine go out of their way to impress her. They take her to Rob's, where she is wooed by a patron who is really a wino.

Oct 12, 1985

After overhearing Raj and Nadine say that they're excited to be spending some time alone away from her, Carolyn decides to run away. This leaves Shirley, the babysitter, in charge of trying to find her before Raj and Nadine return from their trip.

Oct 19, 1985

Raj and Nadine take in a homeless 10-year-old who just ran away from an orphanage.

Oct 26, 1985

When Raj ends up in jail in a chicken suit, he recounts the events leading up his arrest, from when he meets the health inspector and former high school bully, who threatens to shut down Rob's unless Raj follows through on a dare.

Nov 2, 1985

When teen thugs threaten the neighborhood and diner, the guys dress up as older gang members to try and scare some sense into them.

Nov 9, 1985

Raj clashes with Shirley after she insults one of the customers who happens to be a restaurant critic. She quits shortly after, leaving Raj and Nadine to try and run the restaurant.

Nov 16, 1985

When Dee comes home from college, she considers quitting school and starting a career selling cosmetics. This creates a rift with Raj, who thinks that she is still a child and cannot make her own decisions.

Nov 23, 1985

A series of misunderstandings, misadventures and mistaken identities combine to disguise Raj as a woman and sends him fleeing from two FBI agents.

Dec 7, 1985

While taping a commercial, Raj accidentally accepts a wrestling match with the ferocious Mama's Boy Jones after he insults the wrestler's mother.

Dec 14, 1985

When Raj opts a softball game over attending an art show with Nadine, who strongly objects, the couple begins to think each other selfish and split up.

Dec 21, 1985

The entire gang became characters from The Wizard of Oz when Carolyn is accidentally knocked unconscious.

Jan 18, 1986

When Rerun's new investment manager makes him a wealthy man, his old friends find they're losing him to the fast life.

Jan 25, 1986

When the gang hears that their favorite teacher, and renown practical joker, is retiring, they plan the ultimate farewell party.

Feb 1, 1986

When Dwayne takes Dee to a rock concert, a romance seems to flare up between them, much to the displeasure of protective brother Raj.

Feb 8, 1986

Raj writes a play, and to help him out in launching the project, his friends agree to take on the roles, where it appears they really begin to live out their parts with comical results.

Mar 1, 1986

Romance blossoms for Shirley when the Navy seaman she has been writing to for years comes to town.

Mar 8, 1986

An efficiency expert with the nickname 'Pink-Slip Patty' gives Nadine and her fellow social workers a case of the jitters — which eventually affects Raj the same way.

Apr 28, 1986

When the legality of their first wedding is questioned, Raj and Nadine decide to get married all over again. While they want to simply go the courthouse and redo the paperwork, the gang wants them to have a real wedding. Eventually, the planning causes tension between everyone.

Sep 27, 1986

While eavesdropping, Raj mistakenly believes he's soon to become a father, while Nadine has instead planned a different surprise for him: dinner with his long-lost father who has come to make amends with his estranged son.

Oct 4, 1986

A new management company is raising rents in her apartment building, so Shirley gathers her friends and fellow tenants together to confront the evil landlord -- who is in for the fight of his life.

Oct 11, 1986

Raj is elated when his agent informs him that he may have a movie deal for Raj's latest screenplay — until it's discovered that it is in fact Nadine's case study on homeless women that the producer wants to turn into a blockbuster.

Oct 18, 1986

Raj is quickly exposed to modern art when he discovers that a nude painting Nadine posed for years earlier is now part of a prominent art exhibit.

Oct 25, 1986

Raj's dream of going on a fishing trip with Dwayne becomes a real-life nightmare when his mother-in-law sinks her hooks into him.

Nov 8, 1986

Raj makes a spectacle of himself at Dwayne's party when he drinks too much, dances too much and wakes up with a strange woman.

Nov 15, 1986

Shirley realizes that the buddy system works both ways when she volunteers to be a big sister to a teenage girl.

Nov 22, 1986

Raj is approached by a woman from a publishing company who offers him $50,000 to publish his new book. However, everyone soon realizes that the woman is not whom she appears to be.

Dec 6, 1986

Dwayne finds that there are many perks when he begins dating the boss's daughter. However, he quickly wants out when she becomes controlling.

Dec 13, 1986

Nadine, Shirley and Dee are in a tight squeeze when their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a secluded mountain cabin while an escaped convict prowls outside.

Dec 20, 1986

In an effort to impress an old schoolmate, Shirley pretends to be Raj's wife and the mother of two children whom they have 'rented' to support the lie.

Jan 10, 1987

Dwayne's old army buddy visits and challenges Raj to a poker game, which almost costs him his car and his half interest in the diner.

Jan 17, 1987

Raj and Nadine's plan to have a yard sale has trouble getting off the ground when the gang realize that many of the items have sentimental value.

Jan 24, 1987

Dwayne is smitten with a new girl in town from El Salvador. However, their romance becomes complicated when she must choose between Dwayne and her duty to her war-torn country.

Jan 31, 1987

After getting verbally berated by Raj at the diner, Dee's visiting sorority sisters devise a scheme to get revenge on him.

Feb 7, 1987

Raj convinces himself Nadine is having an affair when he uncovers secret plans for a cruise she has been saving up for to surprise him.

Feb 14, 1987

When Dee visits from college, she is aggressively pursued by a nerdy guy who will not take no for an answer.

Feb 21, 1987

After Raj kicks a homeless man out of the diner, he has a nightmare that he's homeless during Christmas and awakens to realize that it can happen to anyone.

Feb 28, 1987

When Jolly Cholly opens down the street, Rob's starts losing customers until the gang persuade a hot rap group to record a radio ad for their sinking business.

Mar 7, 1987

After learning that the Little League team sponsored by Rob's will be facing off against their longtime rival, Raj and Dwayne begin to focus the team more on winning at all costs and less on having fun.

Mar 14, 1987

When Raj's doppelgänger cousin Willie escapes from prison, he heads straight to Raj and Nadine's to avoid detection. Plenty of confusion is abound when even Nadine cannot tell them apart.

Mar 28, 1987

Feeling sorry for an Arctic woman jilted by her beau, Raj and Nadine hire her as their housekeeper. They soon realize that she is not cut out to be a maid and try to reunite her with her beloved.

Sep 26, 1987

Shirley eats her words when she takes a job as an undercover advice columnist and inadvertently causes Dwayne and his new girlfriend to break up.

Oct 3, 1987

Raj goes down for the count when Nadine discovers that he has invested in a professional boxer.

Oct 10, 1987

Shirley's new employee Maurice turns the diner into a nighttime teen club to impress a girl.

Oct 17, 1987

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.

Oct 24, 1987

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.

Oct 31, 1987

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.

Nov 7, 1987

When Maurice runs for class president, he risks his friendship with Darryl by becoming a political puppet to a manipulative campaign manager.

Nov 14, 1987

With her biological clock ticking, Shirley is desperate to find the perfect man and tries everything to find him.

Nov 21, 1987

A little friendly competition becomes survival of the fittest when Raj and Dwayne enter a 10k run for charity.

Nov 28, 1987

Nadine feels like a real dummy when her mother brings home her ventriloquist fiancé and she kicks them out of her house.

Dec 5, 1987

Maurice and Darryl enjoy an evening in a swinging bachelor pad with two sisters from UCLA...until the girls' father shows up.

Dec 13, 1987

Maurice gets more than he bargained for when he takes his teacher's daughter out dancing.

Dec 19, 1987

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.

Jan 16, 1988

When a bump on the head causes Dwayne to lose his memory, Nadine loses her mind because Dwayne now thinks he's her husband!

Jan 23, 1988

Thanks to Shirley, a councilman straightens up his act when he realizes that he'd forgotten why he was elected in the first place.

Jan 30, 1988

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.

Feb 19, 1988

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.

Feb 27, 1988

Shirley teaches a young boy with 'two left feet' how to dance.

Mar 5, 1988

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.

Mar 12, 1988

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.

Mar 19, 1988

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.

Mar 26, 1988

A plan to fake a bear attack on Raj while on a camping trip backfires when a real bear invades the campsite.