What's Happening Now!
(1985)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 3
Adventures of Kangaroo Kincaide
Episode 22 - 5-16-1988
A plan to fake a bear attack on Raj while on a camping trip backfires when a real life bear invades the campsite.
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Episode 21 - 5-09-1988
Nadine sets out to prove her suspicions that the exclusive club Raj is attempting to join discriminates against women, submitting her application and winning acceptance as a ""man"" after being rejected as herself.
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Man in Motion
Episode 20 - 5-02-1988
Dee falls in love with a stand-up comic in a wheelchair and plans to quit school and go on the road with him.
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Shirley's Debt
Episode 19 - 4-25-1988
Shirley moonlights as a salesperson dressed as a clown in order to pay Raj the money she owes him and ends up winning a trip to Hawaii.
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The Fabulous Fortunes
Episode 18 - 2-22-1988
Shirley teaches a young boy with ""two left feet"" how to dance.
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Happy Face
Episode 17 - 2-15-1988
The diner is threatened when Shirley decides to deed over her half to a con man.
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The Older Woman
Episode 16 - 2-08-1988
Raj tells Dwayne that age is irrelevant until he sees him at a restaurant with his girlfriend's grandmother and jumps to the wrong conclusion.
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Run, Shirley, Run
Episode 15 - 2-01-1988
Thanks to Shirley, a councilman straightens up his act when he realizes that he had forgotten why he was elected to office in the first place.
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I Gotta Be Raj
Episode 14 - 1-25-1988
When a bump on the head causes Dwayne to lose his memory, Nadine loses her mind because Dwayne now thinks he's her husband!
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Daddy's Back
Episode 13 - 12-14-1987
Shirley's truck driving father comes to town but is too busy to attend the banquet when Shirley is named ""Business Woman of the Year.""
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Teacher's Threat
Episode 12 - 12-07-1987
Maurice gets more than he bargained for when he takes his teacher's daughter out dancing.
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The Pad
Episode 11 - 11-30-1987
Maurice and Daryl enjoy an evening in a swinging bachelor pad with two sisters from UCLA...until the girls' father shows up.
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Nadine's Wood-Be Father
Episode 10 - 11-23-1987
Nadine feels like a real dummy when her mother brings home her ventriloquist fiancée and she kicks them out of her house.
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Runnin' Scared
Episode 9 - 11-16-1987
A little friendly competition becomes survival of the fittest when Raj and Dwayne enter a 10K run for charity.
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Family Life
Episode 8 - 11-09-1987
With her biological clock ticking, Shirley is desperate to find the perfect man and tries everything to find him.
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The Candidate
Episode 7 - 11-02-1987
When Maurice runs for class president, he risks his friendship with Daryl by becoming a political puppet to a manipulative campaign manager.
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Girls' Night Out
Episode 6 - 10-26-1987
Raj and Dwayne literally get caught with their pants down when they try to rescue Dee from a police raid on a male strip club on Dee's 21st birthday.
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Dwayne's Big Step
Episode 5 - 10-19-1987
After being fired from his job and failing at a series of attempts to try a new line of work, Dwayne decides to become his own boss and buys a magic shop.
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The Hat Comes Back
Episode 4 - 10-12-1987
Shirley uses her friendship with an old school friend to obtain an auction item for charity from a visiting singing star.
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The New Employee
Episode 3 - 10-05-1987
Shirley's new employee Maurice turns the diner into a nighttime teen club to impress a girl.
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The Boxer
Episode 2 - 9-28-1987
Raj goes down for the count when Nadine discovers that he has invested in a professional boxer.
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Ask Al
Episode 1 - 9-21-1987
Shirley eats her words when she takes a job as an undercover advice columnist and inadvertently causes Dwayne and his new girlfriend to break up.
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Season 2
Dee's Suitor
Episode 22 - 3-02-1987
Nadine brings home Nanooka (Teresa Ganzel), a lovesick woman from the Arctic Circle, to work as a maid until Raj can rejoin her with her boyfriend for a bizarre ceremonial wedding in the Thomas living room.
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The Housekeeper
Episode 21 - 2-23-1987
When Raj's criminal cousin, Willie (Ernest Thomas, in a dual role), a dead-ringer for Raj, escapes from prison, the Thomas household becomes a comedy of errors when Nadine, Shirley and Dwayne are victims of the mistaken identity.
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The Yard Sale
Episode 20 - 2-16-1987
Raj and Shirley sponsor a little league baseball team, and no sooner does Raj became the coach than he learns that the opening game is against the team of his dreaded high school nemesis.
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Opening Day
Episode 19 - 2-09-1987
When ""Jolly Cholly"" opens a restaurant down the street, Rob's Place starts losing customers until Raj and the gang persuade a hot rap group to record a radio commercial for their sinking business.
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Raj on the Double
Episode 18 - 2-02-1987
Raj has a nightmare that he's homeless during Christmas and awakens to realize that it can happen to anyone.
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Taking the Rap
Episode 17 - 1-26-1987
A lovesick pest follows Dee home from college and drives the Thomases crazy with his obnoxious attempts to win her affection.
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Old Army Daze
Episode 16 - 1-19-1987
Raj convinces himself Nadine is having an affair when he uncovers secret plans for a cruise she has been saving up for to surprise him.
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Mad Money
Episode 15 - 1-12-1987
Dee brings two of her sorority pledge sisters home for the weekend from college and one of their pranks costs Raj $500 first prize money in a poetry competition.
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Sorority Sisters
Episode 14 - 1-05-1987
Dwayne falls in love with a nurse from El Salvador who, upon returning to her country, is killed when fighting erupts in her village.
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I'll Be Homeless for Christmas
Episode 13 - 12-15-1986
Raj and Nadine plan a yard sale to clear their garage of cartons, but after Dee and Raj browse through several of the old boxes and relive moments from their earlier lives together, they have second thoughts and become sentimental about their old ""junk.""
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Instant Family
Episode 12 - 12-08-1986
Dwayne's old army buddy comes to visit and challenges Raj to a poker game, which almost costs him his car and his half interest in the diner.
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Cabin Fever
Episode 11 - 12-01-1986
In an effort to impress an old schoolmate, Shirley pretends to be Raj 's wife and the mother of two children whom they have ""rented"" to support the lie.
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Dwayne's Amiga
Episode 10 - 11-24-1986
Nadine, Shirley and Dee are in a tight squeeze when their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a secluded mountain cabin while an escaped convict prowls outside.
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Party Animal
Episode 9 - 11-17-1986
Dwayne finds out that business and pleasure don't mix when he dates the daughter of his boss.
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Raj's Big Break
Episode 8 - 11-10-1986
Raj is misled by a psychiatric patient posing as a book publisher.
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Shirley's Little Sister
Episode 7 - 11-03-1986
Shirley realizes that the buddy system works both ways when she volunteers to be a big sister to a teenage girl.
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Thy Boss's Daughter
Episode 6 - 10-27-1986
Raj makes a spectacle of himself at Dwayne's party when he drinks too much, dances too much and wakes up with a strange woman.
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The Movie Deal
Episode 5 - 10-20-1986
Raj's dream of going on a fishing trip with Dwayne becomes a real life nightmare when his mother-in-law sinks her hooks into him.
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Raj's Nightmare
Episode 4 - 10-13-1986
Raj is quickly exposed to modern art when he discovers that a nude painting Nadine posed for years earlier is now part of a prominent art exhibit.
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Shirley's Landlord
Episode 3 - 10-06-1986
Raj is elated when his agent informs him that he may have a movie deal for Raj's latest screenplay -- until it's discovered that it is really Nadine's case study on homeless women that the producer really wants to turn into a blockbuster feature film.
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Picture Perfect
Episode 2 - 9-29-1986
A new management company is raising rents in her apartment building, so Shirley gathers her friends and fellow tenants together to confront the evil landlord -- who is in for the fight of his life.
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Nadine's Surprise
Episode 1 - 9-22-1986
While eavesdropping, Raj mistakenly believes he is soon to became a father, while Nadine has instead planned a different surprise for him -- dinner with his long-lost father (Thalmus Rasulala, ""What's Happening!!"") who has care to make amends with his estranged son.
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Season 1
The Wedding
Episode 22 - 2-10-1986
When the legality of their first wedding is questioned, Raj and Nadine decide to get married all over again.
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Shirley's Pen Pal
Episode 21 - 2-03-1986
An efficiency expert with the nickname ""Pink-Slip Patty"" gives Nadine and her fellow social workers a case of the jitters -- which eventually affects Raj the same way.
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Mr. First Nighter
Episode 20 - 1-27-1986
Romance blossoms for Shirley when the Navy seaman she has been writing to for years comes to town.
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Nadine's Boss
Episode 19 - 1-20-1986
Raj writes a theater play, and to help him out in launching the project, his friends agree to take on the production's roles, where it appears they really begin to live out their parts with comical results.
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Dee and Dwayne
Episode 18 - 1-13-1986
When Dwayne takes Dee to a rock concert, a romance seems to flare up between them, much to the displeasure of protective brother Raj.
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Goodbye, Mr. Ripps
Episode 17 - 1-06-1986
When the gang hears that their favorite teacher, and renown practical joker, is retiring, they plan the ultimate farewell party.
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The Improbable Dream
Episode 16 - 12-16-1985
When Rerun's new investment manager makes him a wealthy man, his old friends find they are losing him to the fast life.
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Married or Not
Episode 15 - 12-09-1985
The entire gang became characters from The Wizard of Oz when Carolyn is accidentally knocked unconscious.
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Rags to Riches
Episode 14 - 12-02-1985
When Raj opts for a softball game over attending an art show with Nadine, who strongly objects, the couple begins to think each other selfish and split up.
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The Challenge
Episode 13 - 11-25-1985
While taping a commercial, Raj accidentally accepts a wrestling match with the ferocious Mama's Boy Jones after he insulted the wrestler's mother.
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That Old Gang of Mine
Episode 12 - 11-18-1985
A series of misunderstandings, misadventures and mistaken identities combine to disguise Raj as a woman and sends him fleeing from two FBI agents.
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Raj on the Run
Episode 11 - 11-11-1985
When Dee comes home from college for vacation and then decides to drop out of school in favor of a sales career, older brother Raj starts treating her like a child.
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One Enchanted Evening
Episode 4 - 9-23-1985
The Thomases take in feuding roommates.
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A Horse is Not a Home
Episode 2 - 9-09-1985
An ad offers a house instead of a horse.
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Dee and Dwayne
Episode 18 - 1-13-1986
When Dwayne takes Dee to a rock concert, a romance seems to flare up between them, much to the displeasure of protective brother Raj.
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I'll Be Homeless for Christmas
Episode 13 - 12-15-1986
Raj and Nadine plan a yard sale to clear their garage of cartons, but after Dee and Raj browse through several of the old boxes and relive moments from their earlier lives together, they have second thoughts and become sentimental about their old ""junk.""
7.7/10Haven't Seen
Mad Money
Episode 15 - 1-12-1987
Dee brings two of her sorority pledge sisters home for the weekend from college and one of their pranks costs Raj $500 first prize money in a poetry competition.
7.7/10Haven't Seen
Man in Motion
Episode 20 - 5-02-1988
Dee falls in love with a stand-up comic in a wheelchair and plans to quit school and go on the road with him.
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