The WORST episodes of Designing Women

#1 - 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.

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#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 - 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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - 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.

#12 - 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.

#13 - Gone With the Whim (1)

Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/24/1993

With Sugarbaker's in such bad financial shape, the ladies are grateful when B. J. gets them a job redecorating a house that resembles the great home from Gone With The Wind --- until they find out that the new lady of the house plans to rip out the grand staircase and replace it with an elevator. To make matters worse, B. J. finds out that their client is trying to take over Poteet Industries and plans to give Sugarbaker's to his young bride Kiki --- renaming it "Kikibaker's".

#14 - Mamed

Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/3/1992

A tough-talking, hard-drinking, temperamental Broadway has-been promises to make Julia rue the day that she stole the role of Mame from her in Anthony's community-theater production. But on opening night she is too drunk to perform and Anthony is pressed into taking on the role.

#15 - The Big Desk (2)

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

#16 - Sex and the Single Woman

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1992

Carlene allows herself to be seduced by her ex-husband, then admits she was just using him for sex.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - The Return of Ray Don

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1988

A penniless Suzanne faces stiff fines for back taxes, so after trying to charm Ray Don at the IRS, she sells off her possession and considers marriage to wealthy octogenarian Wilmont Oliver.

#20 - 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.

#21 - Of Human Bondage

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1992

After cousin Allison leaves Sugarbakers, Julia needs cash but is refused a bank loan. To cheer themselves up, the women play poker with a wealthy client -- who wins the business from them. Sugarbaker's could use an infusion of cash, and at a rowdy party given by potential new client B.J., the gals kick up their heels in wild abandon.

#22 - 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.

#23 - On the Road Again

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1992

In an attempt at spontaneity, a carefree Mary Jo takes off for Nashville on "a hen party on wheels" with Julia and Bernice, but become terrified when a trucker Bernice flirted with at a diner pursues them. Meanwhile, back at the office, Carlene and Anthony put their noses to the grindstone studying for midterms.

#24 - 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.

#25 - 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.