1996
TV-PG
30m

Summary Jack owns a magazine and is Susan's former brother-in-law. After she is left without her fiancé on her wedding day, Jack agrees to take her back to the magazine. View more details

1996
TV-PG
30m

Suddenly Susan

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Barbara Barrie Brooke Shields Nestor Carbonell Kathy Griffin

All cast & crew

5.8

Details

Genres : Comedy

Release date : Sep 18, 1996

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Laramie Street, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Production companies : Warner Bros. Television

Summary Jack owns a magazine and is Susan's former brother-in-law. After she is left without her fiancé on her wedding day, Jack agrees to take her back to the magazine. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy

Release date : Sep 18, 1996

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Laramie Street, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Production companies : Warner Bros. Television

Photos

Brooke Shields and Currie Graham in Suddenly Susan (1996)

Brooke Shields and Sherri Shepherd in Suddenly Susan (1996)

Brooke Shields and Rob Estes in Suddenly Susan (1996)

Sherri Shepherd in Suddenly Susan (1996)

Rodney Dangerfield in Suddenly Susan (1996)

Brooke Shields and Rodney Dangerfield in Suddenly Susan (1996)

Episodes

View All Seasons

Episode 1 • Sep 18, 1996

First Episode

Susan re-examines her life right before she walks down the aisle. She realizes her groom isn't what she thought he was.

Episode 2 • Sep 25, 1996

Dr. No

Susan is assigned to report on a self-help guru whose technique involves teaching people to say "no."

Episode 3 • Oct 02, 1996

The Best Laid Plans

Vicki tries to get Susan and Luis to date. Jack's prized boxing gloves disappear.

Episode 4 • Oct 09, 1996

Suddenly Susan Unplugged

When Susan's ex-fiancé turns off the utilities in the apartment, she must deal with the utility companies for the first time in her life.

Episode 5 • Oct 16, 1996

Hoop Dreams

When her basketball team finally makes the play-offs, coach Vicki begs Susan to substitute for a pneumonia-stricken player, and Susan surprises everyone by displaying true athletic talent. Luis' photographic portraits of Nana reveal much more of Nana than Susan expected.

Episode 6 • Oct 30, 1996

Lie! Lie! My Darling

Jack wants to show his gratitude for the work everyone put to the latest issue and offers to take everyone to see his favorite movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Turns out it is also Todd's favorite movie. Susan is supposed to have dinner with her parents, but lies to them that something came up and goes to the movies with the others. However, she is consumed by guilt and because of a childhood incident she is convinced that Fate (or whatever) will punish her for the lie.

Episode 7 • Nov 06, 1996

Golden Girl Friday

At Susan's urging, Jack hires a friend of Nana's, a seemingly sweet senior citizen, who ends up suing The Gate for age discrimination.

Episode 8 • Nov 13, 1996

Beauty and the Beasty Boy

Susan tries to change her image for a singer (Simon Templeman) in a rock band.

Episode 9 • Nov 20, 1996

Cold Turkey

Susan decides to host a Thanksgiving party to her workmates. Luis is videotaping the event for his relatives. Then Susan notices that the oven is broke. Against all odds, she manages to get a repairman on Thanksgiving, but this specific repairman, Artie, has a sharp tongue and a faint heart.

Episode 10 • Dec 11, 1996

Was It Something I Said?

Jack persuades Susan to be his slimy brother-in-law's "plus one" at a fund-raiser party. At the party Jack gets wasted and Susan takes him to her place to sober up. Before falling to sleep, the drunken Jack muses on what might have been, which in turn makes Susan wonder what might be.

Episode 11 • Dec 18, 1996

The Walk-Out

The gang in the office does not receive a proper Christmas bonus and decide to protest by - you guessed it - walking out. However, there is a twist - isn't there always? - they don't know.

Episode 12 • Jan 08, 1997

The Me Nobody Nose

Susan claims that looks are just as important as character in society i.e. beautiful people don't get preferential treatment. Vicki and others disagree, so Susan decides to prove her point by getting an enormous prosthetic nose and write an article about one week of life as a woman with huge nose. Sadly, she chose to start her empirical test on the day when she is introduced to the magazine's handsome accountant, Elliot. Meanwhile, Jack is helping Luis to prep for his citizenship test.

Episode 13 • Feb 26, 1997

The Ways and Means

Jack assigns Susan and Vicki to write a parody of relationship guides, called "The Ways and Means". A problem arises when readers take the parody for real and the girls, pretending to be doctors, get invited to a morning talk show. Women have found Susan and Vicki's nonsense advices actually work. When Susan and Vicki don't expose themselves, they get invited to The Rosie O'Donnell Show. Meanwhile, Todd claims that Luis's accent makes him irresistible to women and sets out to prove it by trying it on random women. And it actually works! Luis, of course, decides to try to prove that he can still pull women without his accent.

Episode 14 • Mar 05, 1997

What a Card

Jack's grandfather has just passed away, but Jack is upbeat. Susan is going to the wake with Jack, but then realizes she accidentally sent Jack's grandmother a card that says "Do Me Big Time". Vicki gets a "dirt cheap" trip to Acapulco and asks Luis to teach her some basic phrases in Spanish. When Vicki shows no respect for the beauty of the language, Luis decides to teach her a lesson by mistranslating the phrases Vicki wants to learn. Todd has saved a woman from choking to death and gets a visit from federal government agents, who tell him that she was the presidents cousin and now the president owes Todd a favor. Todd declares that he wants to see Area 51.

Episode 15 • Mar 12, 1997

Love and Divorce American Style: Part 1

For the first time in her life, Susan has sex on a first date. She quickly starts dating Adam, and the relationship starts to turn serious. Then it turns out he has kids - which terrifies Susan. Luis has taken some pictures of Vicki at the wharf, but Todd notices that he has also captured two celebrities on the picture. Vicki suggests that since Todd bought the film, they sell the pictures for tabloids and split the $30,000 reward. But Luis states that it is against his professional ethic. Vicki then starts plotting how to get her hands on the photos. Jack tries desperately to avoid having to spend an evening with Margo at a benefit event.

Episode 16 • Mar 19, 1997

Love and Divorce American Style: Part 2

Susan has spent another passionate week with Adam. Vicki, on the other hand, has lost in "strip Jeopardy", and has decided to increase her wisdom by attempting to read War and Peace. Jack has got himself an apartment and he invites Todd and Luis to visit in order to bond with them outside work. Together, they proceed to turn the apartment into a 'man's' place. Two night's later, the project is almost realized and they hold a party with lots of single women. Elsewhere, Susan and Adam should be going to an event, but Adam's babysitter has canceled at the last minute. Since Adam is the keynote speaker, he has to go. Susan volunteers to babysit, fully aware of the hostile attitude the kids have towards her. However, she is not aware of the surprise visitor who will be appearing at the doorstep. At the office, Vicki predictably falls asleep on War and Peace.

Episode 17 • Mar 26, 1997

Love and Divorce American Style: Part 3

After witnessing Susan and Adam's kiss, Jack has disappeared into the woods - literally. Susan has trouble deciding whether to agree to move in with Adam or not. When Jack finally returns, he's been in a snowboarding accident and met the new love of his life, a German amazon Kate, who bears a strange resemblance to someone Jack knows. And for some reason, Susan takes dislike to her and advices Jack to slow down. They argue and Susan slams the door on her way out. Later, when they've calmed down, Jack advices Susan to move in with Adam, but when Susan goes to surprise Adam with her decision, she's in for a surprise too. After belittling and insulting Menudo, Todd gets a threatening letter, followed by Menudos who stalk him.

Episode 18 • Apr 09, 1997

With Friends Like These

Susan's old friend Paula contacts her and wants to get reacquainted. She has divorced from Susan's ex-fiancée Kip's best friend Scott, having been inspired by Susan leaving Kip at the altar. Susan decides to support her. Vicki thinks Paula does need any support. Todd claims that one cannot abandon one's friends. Vicki guesses correctly that Todd is talking about his "dweeb" friend Jerry, who is 26 and lives at home. Susan points out that one cannot compare Paula to Jerry and that it is not like Susan is to become the center of Paula's universe. Dwight points out that he had a similar illusion of a certain person. Todd visits Jerry and tells him to look at his life: Jerry has not moved on from childhood hobbies. So Todd decides to try to get Jerry live a little in the real world. Paula comes to see Susan at work and presents her resume - one which is not that impressive. She needs Susan's help to make it more impressive. Turns out that Paula has no one else but Susan in her life. When she becomes Susan's neighbor, Susan realizes that Paula is consuming her life.

Episode 19 • Apr 16, 1997

Where the Wild Things Aren't

Jack thinks the gang *needs* a special kind of vacation, so he takes them to a surprise 48 hr vacation in a cabin and the surrounding wilderness. Jack insists that this is exactly what everyone needs, but nobody is particularly excited. The fact that he's hidden everyone's breakfast in the wilderness starts a mutiny, but Jack escapes into the woods with the car keys. Susan, Vicki, Luis and Todd fan out to find him. Everyone encounters something unexpected.

Episode 20 • Apr 23, 1997

A Boy Like That

Susan has decided that it is time to stop feeling sorry for herself because Adam left her. So she's bought a sexy new outfit. Vicki finds news that Susan's ex-fiancée Kip is now engaged to a new woman, which causes her insomnia. Weekend is about to start and Luis wants everyone to see his little brother Carlos whom he hasn't seen in over 10 years. Susan proposes that they take Carlos see the town. Jack can't make it so Susan and Vicki go out with Luis and Carlos. To Luis's surprise, Carlos has lost *a lot* of weight and become a really handsome man. Vicki immediately target's her, but Carlos has a secret that not even Luis knows.

Episode 21 • Apr 30, 1997

Family Affairs

Susan sees her father with another woman and assumes the worst. Later at her parents' wedding anniversary party, Susan finds it hard to keep the secret from her mother till her mother reveals a secret of her own. Which rocks her parents' marriage.

Episode 22 • May 07, 1997

I'll See That and Raise You Susan

Jack loses the magazine to his old roommate in a high-stakes poker game.

Comments

Welcome to juqing comments! Please keep conversations courteous and on-topic. To fosterproductive and respectful conversations, you may see comments from our Community Managers.

This week's popular movies

This week's popular TV shows

Edit Focus

Bosom Pals

Two-part animated comedy based on characters created by painter Beryl Cook.

The Best of 'Allo 'Allo!

Whilst celebrating her birthday, Edith and René reminisce about their adventures during World War II.

Clue II: Murder in Disguise

Sequel to the live action VHS version of Parker Brothers' classic board game 'Clue' (or 'Cluedo'). The characters from the game are now on the run from an Interpol inspector because of all the crimes they've committed.

Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness

How you gonna holla at some shorty with some knockoff sneaks?

The Police Work: In Search of Snow

The eve of the new year. Someone is preparing for the holiday, and someone at work. Major Novikov (the main character) finds himself in an unpleasant situation and now only his ingenuity will solve all problems. In the department, and not only, things are not going well either. Robbers - Black, Gray and Small are going to escape and ruin the holiday for the rest. Nothing remains until the eve, and everyone's dilemmas are just beginning to grow.

Miner Issues

Delusional, innocent, and a little dim, 25-year old Quentin Burrows moves from LA to the Sierra Nevada mountains, positive he is about to ignite his own California Gold Rush. He soon discovers his new hometown is the real gem, full of eccentric characters and a unique history. However, some of its bizarre locals might not be too happy with his mission, and will even go out of their way to ensure his failure.

Suddenly Susan

Details

Details

Photos

Episodes

This week's popular movies

Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy

The Police Work: In Search of Snow

A Christmas to Remember

Bosom Pals

The Odd Squad Episode 1: Making History

Miner Issues

The Best of 'Allo 'Allo!

Kale Lagan Chhe!?!

Clue II: Murder in Disguise

Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness

This week's popular TV shows

Jane

Committed

The Samsonadzes

Waynehead

Xi yang yang yu hui tai lang

The Lionhearts

Prudence & Zack

Young Love

Museo Coconut

Mr. Bean: The Animated Series

Edit Focus

Bosom Pals

The Best of 'Allo 'Allo!

Clue II: Murder in Disguise

Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness

The Police Work: In Search of Snow

Miner Issues