While eavesdropping, Raj mistakenly believes he is soon to became a father, while Nadine has instead planned a different surprise for him -- dinner with his long-lost father (Thalmus Rasulala, ""What's Happening!!"") who has care to make amends with his estranged son.

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.

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 really Nadine's case study on homeless women that the producer really wants to turn into a blockbuster feature film.

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.

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.

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.

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

Raj is misled by a psychiatric patient posing as a book publisher.

Dwayne finds out that business and pleasure don't mix when he dates the daughter of his boss.

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.

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.

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

Raj and Nadine plan a yard sale to clear their garage of cartons, but after Dee and Raj browse through several of the old boxes and relive moments from their earlier lives together, they have second thoughts and become sentimental about their old ""junk.""

Dwayne falls in love with a nurse from El Salvador who, upon returning to her country, is killed when fighting erupts in her village.

Dee brings two of her sorority pledge sisters home for the weekend from college and one of their pranks costs Raj $500 first prize money in a poetry competition.

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.

A lovesick pest follows Dee home from college and drives the Thomases crazy with his obnoxious attempts to win her affection.

Raj has a nightmare that he's homeless during Christmas and awakens to realize that it can happen to anyone.

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

Raj and Shirley sponsor a little league baseball team, and no sooner does Raj became the coach than he learns that the opening game is against the team of his dreaded high school nemesis.

When Raj's criminal cousin, Willie (Ernest Thomas, in a dual role), a dead-ringer for Raj, escapes from prison, the Thomas household becomes a comedy of errors when Nadine, Shirley and Dwayne are victims of the mistaken identity.

Nadine brings home Nanooka (Teresa Ganzel), a lovesick woman from the Arctic Circle, to work as a maid until Raj can rejoin her with her boyfriend for a bizarre ceremonial wedding in the Thomas living room.

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.

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

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

Shirley uses her friendship with an old school friend to obtain an auction item for charity from a visiting singing star.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shirley's truck driving father comes to town but is too busy to attend the banquet when Shirley is named ""Business Woman of the Year.""

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

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

Raj tells Dwayne that age is irrelevant until he sees him at a restaurant with his girlfriend's grandmother and jumps to the wrong conclusion.

The diner is threatened when Shirley decides to deed over her half to a con man.

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

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.

Dee falls in love with a stand-up comic in a wheelchair and plans to quit school and go on the road with him.

Nadine sets out to prove her suspicions that the exclusive club Raj is attempting to join discriminates against women, submitting her application and winning acceptance as a ""man"" after being rejected as herself.

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