Season 1

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  5.8/1014 votes

  Pilot

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1995

  Jonathan endures a setup at Matt and Janeane's with a hideous girl, while missing the heavyweight fight on pay-per-view.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.2/108 votes

  Tennis

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1995

  Sam fixes Jonathan up with Christie, an expert at all sports. Jonathan's macho competitive streak risks a great relationship. Sam takes secret tennis lessons so he can beat Matt.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.7/108 votes

  Gift

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1995

  Jonathan is forced to scramble when he promises to take his girlfriend to an exclusive French restaurant in a rare 1962 car wth reclusive author J.D. Salinger.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.7/108 votes

  Babysitting

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1995

  Jonathan discovers that women are attracted to a man with a baby when he babysits Sebastian.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  Charity

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1995

  Jonathan is shocked when he learns that Matt does charity work. He wonders whether he's evil because he has no inclination to do likewise.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.4/1020 votes

  Neighbors

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1995

  Jonathan stays with his homosexual neighbors when his apartment requires extensive repairs. He and Janeane's friend Ross go to the theater together, each worried the other is gay.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.2/1023 votes

  Mugging

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1995

  Jonathan dates 'Danger Girl', a woman who's only excited in dangerous situations. The gang is mugged, causing Janeane to consider moving to Connecticut.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.7/108 votes

  Sister

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1995

  Jonathan takes up with Janeane's sister Paula who's visiting for Thanksgiving. Despite their mutual dislike of each other, they can't stay away.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.2/108 votes

  Attraction

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1995

  Jonathan meets the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, she works for his current girlfriend. A greatful client gives Garth Brooks' lucky cowboy hat to Sam, giving him confidence he never knew he had.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  4.9/109 votes

  Midnight

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1995

  Jonathan pines for Amanda on New Years Eve, after he spies her out with Broadway actor Jamie Barron.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.6/107 votes

  Communication

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/1996

  Jonathan falls for a TV commercial actress, the 'Butter Girl'. He gets an opportunity to meet her, only to find she only speaks French. Oddly enough she goes home with Jonathan, even though they don't understand a word the other says. Trudy throws Sam out when he tells a deeply embarrassing story about her.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.5/108 votes

  Nineteen

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/11/1996

  Jonathan dates a fabulous girl only to discover she's only 19-years-old. Janeane ventures to a tattoo parlor to prove she's still hip and 'with it'. Sam and Trudy house an 'artist' who steals objects and calls it art.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.3/1011 votes

  Distance

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/18/1996

  Jonathan dates Janeane's sister Martha and revels in their no-strings-attached, NY/Washington D.C. relationship. Sam and Janeane decide they're perfect together so try a little matchmaking.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.4/109 votes

  Rival

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/1996

  Jonathan competes with an old college rival to get a famous author's quote on the jacket of his new book.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.4/107 votes

  Pudding

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/1996

  Manny is fired when the tenant association votes to install a security system. Meanwhile Janeane and Matt's building fires their doorman for sloppy work. Sam borrows money from a fraternity to invest in a 'trapezoid scheme'

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.6/107 votes

  Affair

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/15/1996

  Jonathan worries that Sam is having an affair with Paula Abdul.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.6/1010 votes

  Wedding

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/22/1996

  Jonathan attends the wedding of his college girlfriend. Manny sits on a jury.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.0/107 votes

  Poetry

  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/7/1996

  Jonathan confronts a columnist after she writes a scathing review of his book. Sam and Trudy try to beat a Three Card Monte dealer, Freaky Lou. Matt tries to write a poem for Janeane for their fifth anniversary.

  Director: Craig Zisk

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.6/1010 votes

  Lovenest

  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/14/1996

  Jonathan pursues Charlie McCarthy, even following her to Seattle in the hopes of starting a relationship. Meanwhile, Sam, Trudy, Janeane, and Matt discover the sensuous powers of Jonathan's apartment.

  Director: Craig Zisk

  Writer: Brad Hall

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  5.2/107 votes

  Kids

  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1996

  Sam and Trudy watch Sebastian, Matt and Janeane's child, for a night to see if they're ready for parenthood. Sam and Trudy impulsively take Sebastian to Madison Square Garden to see a boxing match and pay the price for their recklessness when they're trapped on the subway.

  Director: Craig Zisk

  Writer: John Masius, Andrew Gottlieb

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  5.5/108 votes

  Pop

  Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1996

  Jonathan discovers that his dad's new fiancée is one of his old lovers. Meanwhile Sam discovers an old recording that he thinks is by the Beatles.

  Director: Craig Zisk

  Writer: Andrew Gottlieb

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  N/A/100 votes

  Moving

  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/1996

  Jonathan plays musical apartments when his building is temporarily closed for asbestos removal and he and Charlie can't bring themselves to move in together. Sam is down when he quits his job and finds out the $9,000 he invested with Matt has evaporated.

  Director: David Trainer

  Writer: Jay Kogen