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S4.E1 ∙ Brothers

Wed, Sep 18, 1991

John is troubled to learn his father had an affair when John was young. Kirk hears of this and tries to convince John they are brothers so he can move in since he has lost his apartment.

8.6 /10

The group decides to go to the grocery to meet someone. While there Kirk runs into his ex-wife. The gang wants to spy on them but Louise tells them to go. But she stays and learns why Kirk's wife left him. Later at the meeting, before Kirk arrives, Louise tells them that Kirk's wife left him for another woman. And when they let it slip that they know, Kirk bolts out. John goes to see him and Kirk doesn't want to go out because he thinks that his wife left him because he wasn't man enough for her. John tells him he should go talk to her. Kirk at first doesn't want to do it but he later changes his mind.

8 /10

S4.E3 ∙ Kate's Cop

Thu, Sep 26, 1991

Kate is unjustifiably cautious of her new relationship with a cop whom she met as he was investigating a robbery of the group. John takes extreme lengths to cajole an elderly neighbor woman in hopes of acquiring her superior apartment.

8.6 /10

S4.E4 ∙ Whose Soap Opera Is It Anyway?

Thu, Oct 03, 1991

Mary Beth decides to quit her job because she doesn't feel like her boss respects her. She then gets a job writing on a soap opera. She then reads the things she wrote at the group meeting and it's very provocative. Louise then says she has to go home to take care of a leaky faucet and needs to find someone to fix it and the guys suggest Ben. So Mary gives her a piece of paper from what she's been reciting to her to write her address so that they could give it to Ben. Later they ask her how she got the job. She says she gave the show some of them things she wrote and they liked and she also mentions that her father has a connection to the show which makes her wonder that her father got her the job. Later they give Ben Louise's address and looks at the back and reads the thing Mary Beth wrote and he thinks Louise wants him so he goes to her apartment with flowers and wine.

9 /10

S4.E5 ∙ Hello, Annie

Thu, Oct 24, 1991

Kirk sublets an apartment from a guy who left town in a huff. He thinks he has it made, till he discovers a woman living in the apartment. She says her name is Annie and she lives with her boyfriend. Kirk claims that her boyfriend sublet the apartment to him. That's when she realizes that her boyfriend left. She agrees to let Kirk stay provided he keeps his distance. But Kirk finds it difficult to do so. And Annie decides to join the group.

8.4 /10

S4.E6 ∙ Lust and Death

Thu, Nov 07, 1991

Annie's cousin, who just went through a bad break-up, visits her and stays with her. But she spends a lot of time with Kirk. Annie tells him to keep his distance or else. And he does, but when he and her cousin are alone she comes on to him and they are caught by Annie and her cousin's father. Later, Kirk goes to John saying that Annie's cousin's family wants him to do the right thing, which of course he doesn't want to do. John throws him out. And later John gets a video tape from Kirk saying he's left with no other choice but to end it all. So they all gather at a memorial for him, but someone is watching from the shadows.

8.1 /10

S4.E7 ∙ The Bachelor Shower

Thu, Nov 14, 1991

John's throwing Kate's fiancée a bachelor party. He tells Kirk to pay him back what he owes him so he can pay for the party. They go to the ATM and something goes wrong and the machine throws out a lot of cash, Kirk decides to get the money, while John decides not to. But at the party which is attended by cops, the news reports what happened at the ATM and surveillance video shows John and he tries to explain that he didn't take the money. The cops give him time to get the money back from Kirk and turn it over. So John "tells" Kirk to give him the money. Kate is at her own party and is dreading her life with her future husband.

8.6 /10

S4.E8 ∙ I Do, Baby: Part 1

Thu, Dec 12, 1991

Kate has idealized remembrances of her relationships with group members at a parting celebration as the group plans her wedding at John's, while Kirk is particularly obnoxious. Wendy's prenatal demands on John are increasingly intrusive.

8.2 /10

S4.E9 ∙ I Do, Baby: Part 2

Thu, Dec 12, 1991

In part 2 Kirk tries to stop Kates wedding plans for a 'good reason. Meanwhile John's ex shows up at the wedding pregnant with john's baby.

8.2 /10

S4.E10 ∙ Once I Had a Secret Love

Thu, Dec 19, 1991

Ben is not happy that Louise wants to keep their relationship a secret. Louise is not happy that the group doesn't want to share. Ben talks to John about his relationship with an older woman not mentioning it's Louise. John tells him to go ask someone else. He talks to Annie about it but she misconstrues it as him asking her out which she accepts. Later at the meeting Louise locks everyone in until they open up. But it's at the meeting that Kate reveals what happened between her and John a few years ago which leads to more revelations. And when Annie mentions that Ben asked her out, Louise is not happy and when John mentions he told Ben to do that Louise has a meltdown of her own.

8.4 /10

S4.E11 ∙ 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas

Thu, Dec 26, 1991

John hires a Santa Claus for a Christmas party at the day-care center.

7.9 /10

S4.E12 ∙ Do the Wrong Thing

Thu, Jan 02, 1992

John has big date planned for him and girlfriend which includes watching a show. But she's busy and John already got the tickets. A girl who just had her own break up joins the group. John asks her if she would like to accompany him to the show. And she says yes. But when John's girlfriend is free to join him, he lies to the other girl to get out of going with her. When she finds out John lied, she sues him for the cost she put in to get ready for their date.

8.4 /10

S4.E13 ∙ The Big Payday

Tue, Mar 31, 1992

The support group invests in a speculative estate deal offered by Kirk's self-proclaimed reformed friend.

8.3 /10

S4.E14 ∙ John's Divided Heart

Tue, Apr 14, 1992

At the meeting John is going on and on about how someone at his school is using her position to further her career and doesn't care about the students. And Mary Beth is thinking of how she can use this for her writing. And she dreams up situations with members of the group in them. And everyone there is annoyed that she's doing that.

8.3 /10

S4.E15 ∙ Who's Who

Thu, Jun 11, 1992

John must choose between friendship and health when his doctor tells him that Kirk is the cause of his stomach pain.

8.8 /10

S4.E16 ∙ Poor John: Part 1

Tue, Jul 14, 1992

Kate goes into the restaurant business only to find her business partner brings Kirt into the business. John plans a romantic skiing weekend but his credit cards are maxed out.

8.7 /10

S4.E17 ∙ Poor John: Part 2

Tue, Jul 21, 1992

A restaurant reviewer is visiting Kate's Place and she asks the gang to fill up the empty restaurant. John considers filing bankruptcy to help pay his bills but has nightmares.

8.8 /10

S4.E18 ∙ The Write Stuff

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

John and Kirt join the writing staff of Mary Beth's soap opera because Kirt's brain thinks like a soap opera.

8.8 /10

S4.E19 ∙ Heartburn and Heartache

Sat, Jun 06, 1992

Suffering from an irritated stomach and under doctor's order to avoid stress, John ends friendship with Kirk after concocts another imposing scheme but John is bored with his other friends and Kirk tries to force Kate to be his friend.

8.4 /10

S4.E20 ∙ Adult Education

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

John learns Kirk did not finish high school so agrees to help a slothful Kirk get his diploma. Annie gets a part in Mary Beth's show and is pridefully impertinent to Kate.

8.5 /10

S4.E21 ∙ Freddy's Back

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

John has an opportunity to go study in Paris for a year. All he has to do is get the headmaster at his school to approve his leave of absence. And to get it, he does all sorts of stuff for man. Right now he is taking care of his parrot. When he has Kirk and Ben over, Kirk says something derogatory about the man and the parrot repeats it. Mary Beth invites the girls to her place and when Annie arrives, she's a wreck. She reveals that her ex is back in town and she's still not over him. So they tell her to call and ask him over so she can get closure.

8.1 /10

S4.E22 ∙ The Nightmare Continues

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Louise vexed that the members of John's long enduring therapy group have failed to progress to long term relationships directs a creative visualization exercise that only deepens the group's neuroses.

8.3 /10