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S4.E1 ∙ The Engagement: Part 2

Wed, Aug 28, 1996

Max runs for office and is under fire when her opposition slings mud. Overton gets back his belongings after the mugging. Khadijah is being sued for libel after Russell prints a story accusing a singing group of ripping off Barry Manilow.

8.1 /10

S4.E2 ∙ Ride the Maverick

Wed, Aug 28, 1996

Regine becomes Max's campaign manager. Kyle has an awful picture for his driver's license. Kyle accidentally reveals Overton and Synclaire's engagement to their families.

7.9 /10

S4.E3 ∙ Not Quite Mr. Right

Wed, Sep 04, 1996

Kyle and Max fight over a parking space. Russell comes to Regine's aid when her boyfriend cares more about his art event than he does defending her honor.

8.1 /10

S4.E4 ∙ Not So Silent Partners

Wed, Sep 11, 1996

Regine thinks her soap opera may be getting cancelled. A big company, Majestic, wants to buy part of Flavor. When the representative comes in, he starts making promises and makes Khadijah the fall guy when it doesn't pan out.

7.7 /10

S4.E5 ∙ Moi the Jury

Wed, Sep 18, 1996

Regine has jury duty and is the holdout juror convinced that sweet 73-year-old Sarah McQueen is guilty of arson. Synclaire starts a hotline, AHA, to support unemployed actors and she is worried when she doesn't hear from one of her regular callers.

8.7 /10

S4.E6 ∙ Multiple Choice

Wed, Sep 25, 1996

Overton and Synclaire argue before taking a mandatory compatibility test for the minister that's going to marry them. They fail the test and the minister says they cannot retake it. Max tries to prove she can get any man by trying to get a waiter's number, but he feels she is too aggressive.

8 /10

S4.E7 ∙ I've Got You Under My Skin

Wed, Oct 30, 1996

On her way out of the hospital following a hemorrhoid surgery, Khadijah meets a handsome doctor who asks her out. Later, she finds out he was the anesthesiologist for her surgery and she cannot be physically affectionate towards him. Regine moonlights as a wedding coordinator, but her new clients seem to be from another world.

7.5 /10

S4.E8 ∙ School's Out Forever

Wed, Nov 06, 1996

Max insults the trashman's union and they retaliate by dumping their trash in front of her building. Kyle and Overton go to their high school reunion where Kyle faces his tormentor, Lester Tate.

7.8 /10

S4.E9 ∙ Do You Take This Man's Wallet?

Wed, Nov 13, 1996

Regine learns her soap opera, Palo Alto, has been cancelled. An ex-beau comes back, now wealthy, and asks her to be his wedding coordinator. Regine tries to warn him about his bride-to-be, but he thinks she is just jealous. Overton and his friend, Ray, invent a wallet alarm system after Ray is the victim of a pickpocket.

8.7 /10

S4.E10 ∙ Virgin Territory

Wed, Nov 20, 1996

Max is shocked to learn her boyfriend wants her to deflower him. She is reluctant because she does not want to deal with the responsibility. Khadijah is going on a ski trip with Charles and Regine suggests she wear and return some ski clothes from a store.

8.3 /10

S4.E11 ∙ Riot on the Set

Wed, Dec 04, 1996

Synclaire lucks into starring in a play when the star suddenly drops out. However, the director thinks she stinks as an actress. Kyle is being blackmailed by an IRS auditor and must teach him how to pick up women.

7.8 /10

S4.E12 ∙ Doctor in the House

Wed, Dec 18, 1996

Snobby guests at an awards banquet for Charles insult Khadijah. Regine tries to make friends with the women at the banquet, hoping it will lead to her dating a rich man. Max spends all of her Christmas shopping money on a gift for herself and gives everyone else a thoughtless gift.

7.6 /10

S4.E13 ∙ Mother Inferior

Wed, Jan 08, 1997

After Overton's van breaks down, he buys a Lincoln from a police auction. Synclaire makes him get rid of it when Max tells them it once belonged to the mob. Regine invites her mother to dinner on a lonely Saturday. Her mother meets a rich man and dates him, but Regine feels he will dump her soon.

8.1 /10

S4.E14 ∙ The Clown That Roared

Wed, Jan 22, 1997

Kyle lands Synclaire a role as a clown sidekick on a popular kid's show. The star of the show is a 12-year-old tyrant who is rude so Synclaire tries to teach him respect. Overton still has not overcome his clown phobia. Khadijah accuses Regine of stealing her grandma's cookie recipe to win a baking contest.

8 /10

S4.E15 ∙ Back in the Day

Wed, Jan 29, 1997

Khadijah prepares to win an award for her magazine, Flavor, and the gang flashes back to how things were when Flavor was just a dream.

8.6 /10

S4.E16 ∙ Oh, Solo Mio

Wed, Feb 19, 1997

Regine (Kim Fields Freeman) goes up against another singer (guest star CeCe Winans) to be the star of the church choir.

8.6 /10

S4.E17 ∙ Playing House

Wed, Mar 05, 1997

Max and Kyle lie to their friends about out of town trips in order to sneak off to a hotel together. Regine is suspicious of them and is determined to find out if they are together. While Kyle is away, Synclaire and Overton cohabitate in their apartment to see what it would be like to be married.

8.8 /10

S4.E18 ∙ Swing Out Sisters

Wed, Mar 19, 1997

The girls realize that their busy schedules are causing them to miss out on important events in each other's lives so they plan a girls' night out. Kyle invites his boss to a fight party and Overton gets upset when Kyle's boss doesn't pay like everyone else.

8.5 /10

S4.E19 ∙ Moonlight Savings Time

Wed, Apr 02, 1997

Overton moonlights as a handyman in Max's building and gets her evicted when he accidentally reveals her illegal satellite hookup to her landlord. Khadijah, Synclaire, and Regine hire a housekeeper because they are too busy to keep it clean.

7.6 /10

S4.E20 ∙ Living Single Undercover

Wed, Apr 09, 1997

Max asks Khadijah to help her uncover an embezzlement scheme in City Hall. Khadijah's new reporter at Flavor has unconventional ways of getting information for his stories. Synclaire tries to help Overton cope with the Cleveland Browns move to Baltimore.

7.6 /10

S4.E21 ∙ One Degree of Separation

Wed, Apr 16, 1997

Synclaire's and Overton's parents meet for the first time; (guest stars Gladys Knight; Antonio Vargas; Denise Nicholas; Ron O'Neal)

8.6 /10

S4.E22 ∙ Too Good to Screw

Wed, Apr 23, 1997

Kyle believes his brother, Damon, is throwing away his life by not having a steady job and sets his brother up for an interview with his firm. Damon thinks Kyle works too much and is not really enjoying life. When Regine refuses to plan Synclaire's bachelorette party, Max and Khadijah get Regine's high school rival, Ava, to organize it.

8 /10