The BEST episodes directed by Scott Baio
#1 - Westside
The Jamie Foxx Show - Season 1 - Episode 17
Jamie's left in charge for the weekend with one rule -- no wild parties -- a promise that's hard to keep when the Westside Connection checks in with a wad of cash and a huge entourage. Jamie must compete with a smitten Ice Cube for Fancy's affection. Then, with the hotel a complete mess due to the party, Jamie learns that Helen and Junior are returning home early.
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The Jamie Foxx Show - Season 1 - Episode 18
Jamie has a beef with his conscience when he's offered a job as spokesperson for a hamburger joint right after agreeing to become a vegetarian, in order to impress Fancy.
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The Wayans Bros. - Season 2 - Episode 19
When Dee falls for a con man, a smooth-talking jewelry salesman who rips off lonely single women, Shawn and Marlon must find a way to open her eyes before the wedding.
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Charles in Charge - Season 3 - Episode 16
Charles and Buddy decide to pledge a fraternity, and must put up with a series of humiliating tests and activities during "Hell Week." Just before the final initiation ceremony, one of the frat brothers informs Charles that they will be accepting him but rejecting Buddy, despite Buddy's status as a legacy. Charles must now decide if he wants to join the group or stay loyal to his best friend.
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Charles in Charge - Season 3 - Episode 23
After Charles is devastated at being dumped by his girlfriend, Buddy fixes him up with Beth (Brenda Swanson), a female bodybuilder at his health club. All is bliss until Beth's former boyfriend, Mike (Richard Brose), shows up and tells Charles he'd better leave Beth alone or else. When news of the threat gets around, Buddy and the Powells advise Mike not to hurt Charles. Not wanting to back down from a bully, and yet aware that he and Beth are attracted to each other only because they are both on the rebound, Charles confronts Beth and Mike, explaining his view of the situation and encourages them to get back together. All is resolved. Charles will now get a chance to date that cute girl he met in aerobics class .
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The Wayans Bros. - Season 3 - Episode 3
Shawn falls in with a yuppie crowd, spurning his old pals from the 'hood and masquerading as a business executive, until Marlon sets out to downsize his ego.
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Charles in Charge - Season 3 - Episode 21
Charles is outraged when he learns his mother is hosting a sorority slave auction. Outraged, that is, until he finds out that attractive new transfer student Jeanie (Lorie Griffin) intends to bid for him. At the auction, however, Jeanie is outbid by a gorgeous coed secretly acting as a buying agent for none other than Sarah , Jamie , and Adam . The trio quickly takes advantage of Charles' slave status, claiming he hasn't been doing enough for them. When Lillian remarks that a child who's waited on hand and foot grows into an irresponsible adult, the kids realize they've been too hard on him. Buddy then excitedly announces he's persuaded his owner, Jeanie, to trade, so would Charles please plead with his gorgeous owner to let them trade places?
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Charles in Charge - Season 4 - Episode 22
Charles and Buddy go out with identical twins, but they think they are dating the same girl.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 19
Charles works at a hotel in Hawaii with Buddy's cousin. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
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Charles in Charge - Season 4 - Episode 13
Charles uses one of Sarah's poems to impress a woman, who publishes it in a magazine under Charles' name.
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Charles in Charge - Season 3 - Episode 9
When Buddy receives word that his shy sister Bunny (Mindy Cohn) is arriving for a visit, he pleads with Charles to help entertain her. On arrival, however, she confesses to Buddy that she's in trouble and then disappears for several hours, reappearing as an outgoing "˜party girl." Charles finds Bunny drinking, thus revealing his suspicions to a skeptical Buddy that his sister is an alcoholic. It's only when Bunny "totals" Buddy's car, and nearly seriously injures the children that she finally admits her illness and agrees to seek help.
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Charles in Charge - Season 3 - Episode 3
When Charles is named Student of the Year, local newspaper reporter Pat Walker (Barbara Rhoades) arrives at the house to interview him. When various family members overhear part of their conversation, they mistakenly conclude that Charles wants to leave the family and live in the college dorm where he would have more fun. Walter, in his typically tactless fashion, tells Charles if he wants to move out, he won't be missed. Charles takes the hint and moves in with Buddy. The fun of constant parties, however, soon wears of f and when Charles learns the kids really didn't want him to leave, he decides to move back with the Powells.
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Charles in Charge - Season 4 - Episode 6
A woman at camp pursues Charles.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 26
Sarah puts on a show to raise money, and Charles directs while preparing for an interview to get into Princeton.
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Malcolm & Eddie - Season 3 - Episode 3
Business partners Malcolm and Eddie open a jazz club with Malcolm's money. And after Malcolm throws it up in Eddie's face and wants to make all the decisions, Eddie looks for ways to raise his share of the money.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 15
Charles invents a device that will help people prepare for earthquakes.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 8
A tabloid shows pictures of Charles with a rock star (Samantha Fox), and everyone thinks they're in a relationship.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 25
Sarah visits her relatives in Albuquerque and a foreign exchange student that is living with them. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
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Charles in Charge - Season 4 - Episode 24
Charles has a dream about life without him.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 5
Charles' girlfriend Jennifer (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) tells a lie about Buddy in order to get rid of him.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 21
Charles and Buddy protest animal testing at their college.
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Charles in Charge - Season 4 - Episode 9
Charles can't use his credit card because of the Powell children.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 3
Walter makes plans with three women on the same night.
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The Wayans Bros. - Season 3 - Episode 6
To win Mama a chair, the brothers concoct a family sob story and win $5,000 in a magazine's Wish of the Year contest, then have to stage an elaborate performance when a reporter checks up on them.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 12
Buddy wins a contest to be a disc jockey for a day at the diner.
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Charles in Charge - Season 2 - Episode 13
Charles has to visit in town when his folks arrive for the weekend, so Buddy is placed in charge of the Powell kids. Charles convinces Ellen Powell that it's okay but Grandpa Powell has some serious misgivings, and maybe rightly so. You see Buddy has some ulterior motives in trying to fill Charles' shoes. He's out to impress a current girlfriend, Debbie (Susan Ursitti), with his childbearing abilities. It results in cataclysmic confrontations between Buddy and the three Powell youngsters, in fact it gets so bad that Adam runs away. But in the end, things go well, Charles returns and the three Powell children, especially Adam, find out Buddy is a pretty terrific guy after all on "Charles In Charge."
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 23
Charles visits his aunt Sally at her car wash. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
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The Jamie Foxx Show - Season 1 - Episode 7
As an anniversary surprise for Helen, Junior secretly sends her wedding ring to a jeweler for reconditioning. At Junior's request, Jamie picks up the ring, but while showing the ring to Fancy and Braxton, Jamie hears Helen approaching and, panicking, slips it onto Fancy's finger--where it gets stuck. Jamie must think fast to save Junior's surprise.
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Charles in Charge - Season 4 - Episode 26
Buddy's father visits and reveals he is getting a divorce.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 17
An accidental bump on the head turns Charles into Chaz again.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 7
Buddy offers to help out Adam with babysitting, but he ends up forgetting the little girl at the diner.
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Charles in Charge - Season 2 - Episode 20
Charles' first love returns
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Charles in Charge - Season 3 - Episode 18
When the Powells learn their house is to be sold and Ellen loses her job, Charles takes to bed with a sneezing fit and falls asleep. In his dream the family members transform into different characters; Walter becomes Long John Silver; Lillian, Auntie Maine; Ellen, Mae West; Jamie, Cinderella; Sarah, Scarlett O'Hara; Adam, a punk rocker; and Buddy an effete 18th Century landowner. Charles appears in his own dream as the Godfather and stumbles onto an idea to help the family out of their dilemma. When Charles later awakes, a chance remark by Buddy makes him wonder if it really was dream after all.
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Charles in Charge - Season 4 - Episode 1
While Commander Powell is home, Sarah is arrested for protesting the nuclear weapons on her father's ship.
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Charles in Charge - Season 4 - Episode 16
Jamie joins a cult, and Charles must prove that the leader is a fake.
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Charles in Charge - Season 4 - Episode 14
When Charles bumps his head, he begins acting strangely and calls himself Chaz.
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The Jamie Foxx Show - Season 1 - Episode 9
Junior reunites with his former army buddies, including ""Charming"" Charles, now a successful entertainment attorney. Impressed with Jamie, Charles promises to help his career by introducing him to powerful people. Thrilled, Jamie convinces Charles to stay in the hotel for a few days -- then witnesses Charles making romantic advances to Helen. Proclaiming her love for her husband, Helen rebuffs Charles, but Charles persists, trying to get her to betray Junior. Jamie finally ruins his career opportunities to expose Charles' behavior. Tag: Jamie and the gang sing in the lounge.
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The Wayans Bros. - Season 3 - Episode 2
Dumbfounded that his girlfriend would dump him for Marlon, Shawn convinces himself she's just trying to make him jealous. So he sets up a double date to show her that two can play that game.
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Unhappily Ever After - Season 5 - Episode 6
After Tiffany remembers Ryan locking her in a closet ten years before, Tiffany makes phone calls to Ryan telling him to beware of the closet monster. Ryan finds Jack, Barbara, and Ross dead and suspects Tiffany.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 6
Charles is the judge of a beauty pageant where Jamie, Sarah, and both of Charles' girlfriends are contestants.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 13
Buddy gets tested for ESP and starts to predict the future.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 18
Lillian sees an old boyfriend.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 2
Buddy decides to become a priest after a near-death experience.
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Charles in Charge - Season 3 - Episode 24
Charles seems to be the only one excited about his new post as teacher's aide. Jamie resents his sitting in on her class, and the teacher, Marvin Merken (Jerry Van Dyke) , a burnt out man living on the hope that retirement comes before insanity, can't understand why anyone would want to teach. When a nervous Charles must cover for Merken, Jamie can't resist heckling him and he assigns her detention. The next day he tries to repair the damage and encourages discussion among the students. Merken enters, during the debate, horrified to find Charles encouraging the students to talk. Jamie, having cooled off overnight, sticks up for Charles' methods and the rest of the class agrees, resulting in Charles getting a good recommendation and Merken softening his attitude.
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Charles in Charge - Season 4 - Episode 3
Lillian hires an Elvis impersonator for the diner.
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Charles in Charge - Season 4 - Episode 21
Charles writes an essay about childhood.
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The Jamie Foxx Show - Season 1 - Episode 8
Jamie hosts a Halloween masquerade party at the hotel, complete with prize money for the best costume. When Fancy refuses to be his date, Jamie invites another woman, Chante, to make Fancy jealous. However, Fancy and Chante wear identical costumes. By mistake, Jamie passionately kisses Fancy--who hides the fact that she actually enjoys it. Jamie and Fancy privately fantasize about each other.
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Charles in Charge - Season 5 - Episode 10
Jamie gets upset when she thinks Charles is trying to make her boyfriend stop seeing her.
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Harry and the Hendersons - Season 2 - Episode 6
Harry goes out on Halloween.
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