The BEST episodes written by Ron Bloomberg
#1 - Stand by Your Man
Empty Nest - Season 7 - Episode 20
Constant interruptions frustrate Laverne's relationship with Matt, prompting her to go out with Maxine, Charley, and his friend Bud (who she ""hits it off"" with). Harry meets a woman whose dog looks just like Dreyfuss and persuades her to breed the two.
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#3 - Jack's Tattoo
Three's Company - Season 8 - Episode 16
Jack needs surgery to remove a tattoo that his navy buddies made him get while drunk.
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227 - Season 2 - Episode 6
When Sandra sees a pillow that Mary is making for Brenda, she is impressed. She tells Mary that they could go into business and make lots of money. So Mary agrees to a 50/50 deal with Sandra. Eventually, things become too overwhelming for Mary as she is the one doing all the work and Sandra is the one eating expensive lunches and arranging buyers. Mary insists that she go on the next business lunch with Sandra, and the buer requests 10,000 pillows for his stores. Mary admits to him that they are a small company and they make a deal, with him as a third partner, to build a factory. He decides to build the factory in Taiwan, minus Sandra and Mary. In the end, Sandra ends up owing Mary money because she spent all of the profits.
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#6 - The Commercial
All in the Family - Season 8 - Episode 15
Edith is chosen to appear in a TV commercial but comes to doubt the quality of the sponsor's product.
#7 - Reel Men
Home Improvement - Season 3 - Episode 15
When Jill is having Ilene and Marie over, Tim goes fishing with Al to get out of the house.
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227 - Season 1 - Episode 19
At their vows renewal ceremony, Mary's parents are in the middle of the argument and are not talking to each other. Lester talks to his father-in-law, and Mary talks to her mother to encourage them to make up and go through with the ceremony. Meanwhile, Sandra meets a man who turns out to be married, and Rose has a peculiar conversation with another man: it turns out that both her late husband and his late wife both used to vacation in Vermont for one week out of the year, to go ""fishing"" and ""writing poetry,"" respectively. They both assume that their mates were cheating with each other, until they realize that their mates used to go to separate cities in Vermont.
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227 - Season 2 - Episode 16
The IRS audits Mary and Lester. At a diner, Mary gets into an argument with a man whose views on women are old-fashioned and clash with Mary's views. She goes as far as to insult his mother. When she and Lester are finally let in to see the auditer, it's the man Mary insulted! She knows that she and Lester are in deep trouble. Mr. Stone doubts the validity of their receipts and Lester is upset. Sandra bursts into the room because she has a date with Mr. Davis ans wants to know what's keeping him. She verfies a that a questionable dinner party was truly a party for Lester's investors and employees. Mr. Stone lets them go.
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227 - Season 2 - Episode 21
Upset when Brenda comes home from University Day wanting to attend Northwestern, Mary anticipates an empty nest by demanding that Lester give her a job at the construction site --and gets fired on her first day. Mary takes a job at a travel agency (with Sandra), where her boss finds her so invaluable that he wants her to accompany him on a trip. The boss comes on to Sandra, who then quits and tells Mary not to go on the trip. She goes anyway, and Sandra then tells Lester about their boss. He surprises Mary in Philadelphia and jumps to the worng conclusions when he finds a man's suit and bathrobe in Mary's closet. He finds out that Mary bought them for him as a surprise.
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227 - Season 3 - Episode 20
Brenda's grandfather arrives with a Wailing Eddie record in tow. While letting Brenda listen to it, she accidentally scratches it and her grandfather is devastated. She doesn't understand what's so special about the blues anyway. Mary and Lester find another rare copy, and it too is ruined accidentally by Brenda. This episode is cut with scenes of Sandra and Rose singing the blues and narrated by Brenda. Towards the end of the episode, she finally understands what the blue is all about, because she has them. Her grandfather is upset with her and everyone is coming down hard on her about the broken record. She and her grandfather reconcile and Pearl gets Wailing Eddie to come to the Jenkins' and sing.
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227 - Season 4 - Episode 1
Mary is the director for the church production of ""The Wiz"" and her cast is edgy. Meanwhile, the Jenkins' have a house guest. A college student who will be staying with them for a year. They are all surprised when 11 year old Alexandria shows up. She gets on everyone's nerves with her know-it-all attitude. She reveals to Mary that she wants everyone to like her and she thinks that no one does at that moment. Mary tells her to just be herself, even if it means acting her age.
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227 - Season 2 - Episode 12
Lester has a chance to do a big project and give a friend who's out of work a job. But things change when he learns that the company whom he'll be working for sponsors apartheid. So he has to choose which is more important.
#14 - We the People
227 - Season 1 - Episode 17
Lester's old boss comes to visit the Jenkins from Hawaii. While there, Rose hires him as the building repairman and lets him live an efficiency on the third floor. Pearl begins to notice that people go up to visit Lou and never return. She and Mary investigate and find out that Lou is homeless and his homeless friends are the ones that have come to live with Lou. It turns out his business in Hawaii went belly-up, and Lou lost everything. Mary has sympathy for them and feeds them, while trying to keep the news from Rose, because she would have to put them out based on the housing codes that they are breaking. Lester finds out about an abandoned building that his company will fix-up so the homeless people will have some place to live. This will also give Lou the chance to get back into business again.
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One Day at a Time - Season 7 - Episode 3
Ann's old nemesis Francine proposes a business partnership.
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One Day at a Time - Season 7 - Episode 14
Ann's mother strikes up an affair with Francine's father.
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One Day at a Time - Season 7 - Episode 19
Ann and Francine battle over the same man.
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#18 - The Dental Hygienist
One Day at a Time - Season 4 - Episode 19
Only hours after they meet, Ann's old pal and Schneider are ready to sail off on a romantic cruise.
#19 - Fear of Success
One Day at a Time - Season 4 - Episode 24
A lucrative offer to direct public relations for a computer firm prompts Ann to give Mr. Davenport two weeks' notice.
#20 - Grandma Leaves Grandpa
One Day at a Time - Season 4 - Episode 25
Ann deals with the breakup of her parents.
#21 - Between Mother and Daughter
One Day at a Time - Season 5 - Episode 6
A psychiatrist recommends a heart-to-heart talk to take the heat out of Ann's relationship with her mother.
#22 - A Little Larceny
One Day at a Time - Season 5 - Episode 9
Barbara's new hobby lands Schneider in jail.
#23 - Triple Play
One Day at a Time - Season 5 - Episode 14
A fast-talking insurance man makes a play for Ann, her mother and Barbara.
#24 - Connor's Crisis
One Day at a Time - Season 5 - Episode 23
Ann tries to cheer up her newly separated boss.
#25 - Pen Pals
One Day at a Time - Season 5 - Episode 25
Schneider must deal with a former cellmate from a gambling bust.
#26 - A Tiny Romance
One Day at a Time - Season 6 - Episode 14
Ann tries to get to the root of her antagonistic relationship with Nick.
#27 - Caveat Emptor
One Day at a Time - Season 6 - Episode 18
Ann and Nick realize a client is involved in a bait-and-switch scheme.
#28 - Indianapolis Story
One Day at a Time - Season 6 - Episode 21
Ann's old boyfriend David arrives at her door.
#29 - It's in the Cards
One Day at a Time - Season 7 - Episode 25
Ann's mother tries to make money as a fortune teller.
#30 - Class of '84
Gimme a Break! - Season 3 - Episode 22
Nell helps write a book report for a straight-A student who has several children to take care of, and is aways exhausted in class. At her graduation, the man she wrote the report for says he owes it all to Nell, and he cheated, and the two lose their diplomas. As this is going on, Addy has Channel 3 do an interview with Nell, and she admits she cheated and didn't graduate. However, Nell is given her diploma, since she successfully passed all of her classes, and the man gets his as well, who passes an oral exam, and gets a surprise from his wife that she is pregnant again.
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