The WORST episodes of Designing Women

#1 - The Big Desk (2)

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1991

#2 - The Woman Who Came to Sugarbakers

Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/30/1993

A visit from Julia's meddlesome former schoolmistress is extended -- on ghostly instructions from her deceased husband, it turns out -- until the desperate Sugarbakers women hold a seance to try to force her to leave.

#3 - It's Not So Easy Being Green

Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/2/1993

Anthony is jealous of Etienne's successful writer friend, who shares a vivid past with her, but tries to be gracious by throwing a signing party for him.

#4 - Wedding Redux

Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/1993

Anthony and Etienne renew their vows for Etienne's visiting parents and Anthony's grandmother at a ceremony at B.J.'s, where anything that could go wrong does.

#5 - The Odyssey

Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/1993

B.J.'s contribution to the Democratic Party gets the Sugarbaker crew invited to the Inaugural Ball, but the trip proves to be a party for no one, even Julia, who struggles to maintain a cheery disposition in the face of disaster as bad weather forces a change in plans.

#6 - Too Dumb to Date

Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/1993

Mary Jo dates a handsome idiot, a to-die-for toyboy male model who seems to have few toys in the attic and little in common with her.

#7 - Trial and Error

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/1992

B.J. goes overboard showering everyone with gifts, and law student Anthony gets carried away trying to help Mary Jo win a small-claims case involving her defective freezer.

#8 - Love Letters

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1992

A steamy love letter from another woman found in James' safe-deposit box shatters B.J.'s image of her late husband as a faithful companion worthy of her trust. Meanwhile, reveling in the destruction of her old car, a symbol of her days as a suburban housewife, Mary Jo goes wild in a new red convertible.

#9 - I Enjoy Being a Girl

Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/9/1992

On an overnight Girl Scout outing, Carlene's leadership abilities take a beating, while Allison's methods seem to charm the spoiled troopers, and Mary Jo and Julia advocate roughing it.

#10 - A Scene From a Mall

Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1992

Julia stages a sit-in at the mall to protest racial mistreatment of Anthony by brutish cops who accosted him for window shopping near a jewelry store -- and television coverage links Anthony romantically with Allison.

#11 - Payne Comes Home

Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1992

Julia delights in the opportunity to dote on son Payne when he returns for a visit -- which Julia learns will be permanent.

#12 - Real, Scary Men

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/1991

When their van breaks down the women become unwelcome guests at a men's club retreat Wildman Sanctuary, where Anthony is trying to land a new account.

#13 - The Big Desk (1)

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1991

Cousin Alison Sugarbaker buys out Suzanne's share of the business and then moves in, complete with an enormous desk and a take-charge attitude, Charlene's divorcing younger sister Carlene arrives.

#14 - Dwayne's World

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1991

Mary Jo protectively takes divorcee Carlene under her wing -- going overboard with a lie about Carlene's latest flame -- when ex-hubby Dwayne shows up to sweep Carlene off her feet again.

#15 - Tales Out of School

Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1991

Anthony sees opportunity when his normally unfriendly law professor is attracted to Carlene and invites the two of them to his annual Christmas party.

#16 - Shades of Vanessa

Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/4/1992

The Sugarbakers women use Anthony as "date bait" to reel in a big account involving a hotelier's flamboyant debutante daughter, who's angling for a whopper of a deal, then Anthony announces he is marrying Vanessa, who intends to become a partner in Sugarbakers.

#17 - Fools Rush In (2)

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1992

BJ offers to help a desperate Anthony, who invents various schemes to extricate himself from his hasty marriage to a Las Vegas showgirl.

#18 - The Lying Game

Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/7/1993

There's no skirting the fact that Carlene is confused by new beau Eric (Kean), whose unusual habit (cross-dressing) she begins to understand only by tapping into her own masculine side.

#19 - Mary Jo vs. the Terminator

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1992

After Julia completely rewrites a letter Mary Jo asked her to proofread, Mary Jo comes unraveled on a fashion-show runway, where she just plain has her fill of know-it-all Julia. Meanwhile, back at the office, B.J. has her hands full with angry vegetarians.

#20 - Sex, Lies and Bad Hair Days

Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/5/1993

B.J.'s dating adventures take a turn for the worse on her birthday, when a bad-hair day and two miserable blind dates have her vowing to give up men, so Julia tries to cheer her up by getting her a date with a really nice fellow.

#21 - Oh Dog, Poor Dog

Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/22/1993

After eye surgery, Bernice overhears the gals talk of putting Mary Jo's dog out of its misery and figures they're planning her own mercy killing, so she barricades herself inside the storeroom. Meanwhile, Julia gets caught listing to a London phone line which plays tapes of Princess Diana's private conversations with her boyfriend.

#22 - The Vision Thing

Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/1992

Etienne drives Anthony crazy trying to be the perfect wife, and the Sugarbakers crew throw a Las Vegas style wedding shower for them.

#23 - Screaming Passages

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1992

Julia fears the emotional roller coaster of menopause -- just as her affair with Phillip heats up, and is upset when she discovers a Sugerbakers "Change of Life" surprise party.

#24 - Rusty and Julia, Sittin' in a Tree

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1991

Julia's second date with electrician Rusty becomes a group outing with Carlene and Allison dating junior-college guys, and Anthony tagging along to the drive-in with Bernice to keep an eye on things.

#25 - Picking a Winner

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1991

Mary Jo turns to a sperm bank to get pregnant, prompting mixed reactions at work. Meanwhile, Julia threaten to rip the draperies from the windows of the home of a wealthy client whose payment is overdue.