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The Worst Episodes of 227

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A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her neighbors.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    227 Season 4 Episode 7 - A Yen for Lester
    5.3/10(29 votes)

    #1 - A Yen for Lester

    S4:E7

    Lester and Raymond decide to buy a Jaoanese Restaurant together. Pearl and Rose each put in $500 and receive a stock of the restaurant. When the deal is sealed, the kitchen staff all quit, right before a Japanese tour group arrive to eat. They all hustle to try to serve them but it is a disaster, as Pearl cannot cook (or understand) Japanese food and the ladies are horrible waitresses. The chef returns and decides to buy the restaurant from Lester and Raymond at the same price they bought it for.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. 227 Season 4 Episode 8 - Looking Back
    5.8/10(18 votes)

    #2 - Looking Back

    S4:E8

    When Mary throws pictures of Sandra, Rose and Pearl away, they each find them and reminisce over the past 3 227 seasons.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. 227 Season 5 Episode 13 - There Go the Clowns
    6.0/10(18 votes)

    #3 - There Go the Clowns

    S5:E13

    Mary dons clown garb to erase a nasty message she left on the answering machine of Lester's business contact, an eccentric novelties magnate.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. 227 Season 3 Episode 2 - Low Noon
    6.5/10(24 votes)

    #4 - Low Noon

    S3:E2

    When Sandra is dating a man who wants to open a sleazy night club down the street, Mary starts a petition to keep it from opening. Meanwhile, Brenda is working on an assignment about black cowboys. While reading about he historical figures, Mary dreams that they all live in the old West. Mary is "2-Gun Mary," the fastest gun in the West. Lester is the Marshall and Brenda-Sue is his daughter. Rose is a school marm turned cocktail dancer, Pearl is a dancer, and Sandra owns the saloon. When bad-guy Jessie comes into town, the town bands together to defeat him (which is what Mary would like to do in reality).

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. 227 Season 4 Episode 9 - The Night They Arrested Santa Claus
    6.5/10(30 votes)

    #5 - The Night They Arrested Santa Claus

    S4:E9

    Alexandria doesn't celebrate Christmas so everyone tries to get her to feel the spirit of the holiday. Sandra meets a Santa on the street and brings him upstairs to meet Alexandria. But when everyone leaves the room, he steals all of their presents. Mary, Lester, Sandra, Rose and Pearl each decide seperately to dress up as Santa and bring gifts to make Alexandria think that Santa had a change of heart. However, since the police is looking for Santa thieves, they all end up in jail as suspects. Brenda, Calvin and Alexandria come to the precinct to get them all out and the real Santa is caught. He still has their presents. And Alexandria realizes how far everyone went to get her into the holiday spirit and she appreciates it.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. 227 Season 5 Episode 4 - The Fight of the Century
    6.5/10(24 votes)

    #6 - The Fight of the Century

    S5:E4

    When Mary causes Lester to miss a prizefight, they have a bout that could deliver a knockout punch to their marriage. Lester stays with swinging bachelors after a fight with Mary.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. 227 Season 5 Episode 15 - Where Do We Go From Here?
    6.5/10(26 votes)

    #7 - Where Do We Go From Here?

    S5:E15

    Lester falls asleep during church and dreams that he and Mary visit both Heaven and Hell. While in both places, they return to earth to see what has happened to their family and friends. While in Heaven: Brenda inherits Lester's construction company and is a success when Calvin, her husband takes over. Pearl has moved in with them. Rose still hasn't come to terms with Mary's death. While in hell: Calvin becomes a failure and sells the business to Julian for $500. Brenda is pregnant and the family is in poverty. Rose has married Julian and they have raised the rent of the building big time.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. 227 Season 1 Episode 5 - Do You Love Me?
    6.6/10(41 votes)

    #8 - Do You Love Me?

    S1:E5

    News of the breakup of her neighbors' marriage has Mary worried that the same thing could happen to her and Lester. Mary plans an evening of romance for her and Lester. Lester buys flowers (at Mary's suggestion) and they try to force romance by going out to eat, dimming the lights, and playing romantic music. But they realize that they only think that works is by letting it happen naturally and reminiscing about the past. Meanwhile, Sandra has to babysit her 6-year-old niece Susie while her sister Harriet and her husband visits his sick mother. She solicits Mary's advice on what to feed her and how to get her to fall asleep.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. 227 Season 3 Episode 10 - Rapture
    6.6/10(30 votes)

    #9 - Rapture

    S3:E10

    Calvin and his friend Eddie are in danger of failing history, so the Jenkins, Rose, and Pearl try to tutor them. After failing the test the first time, they get a second chance to take the test. After Brenda returns from a rap concert, Mary gets the idea that maybe they should study in rap form, since they seem to know so many rap lyrics. They do and they pass the test a second time.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. 227 Season 4 Episode 19 - Trial and Error
    6.6/10(26 votes)

    #10 - Trial and Error

    S4:E19

    Both Mary and Sandra get commissioned to the same murder trial. There are 11 votes guilty and 1 vote not-guilty, Sandra choosing not-guilty. After hours, she still has not changed her vote and Mary is annoyed because her anniversary is that night. They vote one last time, and this time the 1 not-guilty vote is from Mary. The judge sequesters them for the evening in a hotel and Mary is going to miss her anniversary dinner with Lester. Lester sneaks into the hotel room and brings Mary caviar and champagne. The next day, Mary presents her theory of what actually happened (pertaining to the ""murder"" on the boat) and the jury agrees and they all vote not-guilty. Their verdict was the right one, because later the ""murdered victim"" was found on the French Riviera with her husband's best friend, which was stated in a voice-over.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. 227 Season 5 Episode 2 - Tenants, Anyone?
    6.6/10(24 votes)

    #11 - Tenants, Anyone?

    S5:E2

    Mary and the gang try to draw a bead on new landlord Julian Barlow, who's been ducking them, while Dylan hunts for a new roommate.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. 227 Season 5 Episode 8 - Flying Down to Leo's
    6.6/10(24 votes)

    #12 - Flying Down to Leo's

    S5:E8

    En route to Lester's birthday party, Mary and Sandra run into gang members who want them as their biker chicks. (TVguide.com)

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. 227 Season 3 Episode 9 - The Honeymoon's Over
    6.7/10(32 votes)

    #13 - The Honeymoon's Over

    S3:E9

    When Lester's cousin and his wife come to visit the Jenkins, Mary brags about how they are the perfect couple who never argue and still begave like Honeymooners after five years of marriage. When they arrive, Sherry reveals to Mary that Ed is stiffling her and is too overprotective and she says that she is going to leave him that night. Once Ed finds out that she left, he becomes depressed and there is nothing that the Jenkins or residents of 227 can do to cheer him up. Sherry decides to come back and Mary coaches Ed on what to say, and tells him that he should change; he should be less overprotective. Sherry takes him back (or rather they take each other back).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. 227 Season 5 Episode 9 - Reunion Blues
    6.7/10(22 votes)

    #14 - Reunion Blues

    S5:E9

    Dylan's mother moves in with him after leaving his father, and starts stepping out with Julian (Paul Winfield). (tvguide.com)

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. 227 Season 1 Episode 15 - Brenda's Last Date
    6.8/10(30 votes)

    #15 - Brenda's Last Date

    S1:E15

    Pearl asks Mary if Lester would have a man-to-man talk with Calvin about sex and Brenda asks her parents if she could go to the dance Friday night. They believe that she is too young to date (14). From Mary's persuading, Lester talks to Calvin and ends his talk with, ""If you mess around with my daughter, I'll rip your head off."" Scared, Calvin breaks the date anyway. But Brenda still wants to go and comes up with a plan. Brenda tells her parents that she will go to the library Friday night, while Calvin tells his grandmom that he is going to see Haley's Comet. When Mary finds out, she goes to the dance and takes Brenda home. At home she and Brenda have a heart-to-heart talk, where Mary says she and Lester will relax the rules a little.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. 227 Season 2 Episode 4 - The Great Manhunt
    6.8/10(33 votes)

    #16 - The Great Manhunt

    S2:E4

    After Sandra sees her neighbors (a married couple) interact with each other and with their daughter, Sandra decides that she wants a husband and a child. She goes out on a series of dates which end in disaster becasue of Sandra's openness about wanting to be married and have a child. She finally decides that since she can't find a suitable husband that she'll just get artificially insiminated. Mary and Rose try talk her out of it. But nothing is more of a rude awakening than when Sandra witnesses Cathy going into labor and she sees how Jim was there for her every step of the way. Then Mary and Lester talk about the night Brenda was born and how they really needed each other then. Sandra changes her mind and decides that when she does have a baby she would like to be married so she can have a husband that loves her and loves their child.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writers:Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble

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  17. 227 Season 3 Episode 19 - The New Neighbors
    6.8/10(31 votes)

    #17 - The New Neighbors

    S3:E19

    When Rose is looking for a live-in superintendent, Manny suggests his father, knowing that the Super's family will live with a 50% decrease in rent. When his family moves in, they later find out that he is also the Superintendent, but Alfonso has no skills in that area. Instead, he would rather play concert violin in a symphony. When a try-out conflicts with his job as Super, he decides to complete his job as Super, but Rose allows him one more day to complete his job so he can try out for the Orchestra. He doesn't make it, but vows to put his all into being the Super.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. 227 Season 4 Episode 2 - Hide the Star
    6.8/10(29 votes)

    #18 - Hide the Star

    S4:E2

    Lester's business partner is Marvelous Marvin Hagler, but it must remain a secret. When Rose and Pearl see Mary acting so suspicious, ther decide to find out what is going on. They discover that Marvin is staying with the Jenkins and then the word gets out around town. Visitors swarm the Jenkins' apt for an autograph and eventually Marvin decides to leave, but there are no hard feelings between him and Lester.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. 227 Season 5 Episode 11 - War is Heck
    6.8/10(20 votes)

    #19 - War is Heck

    S5:E11

    When Calvin wants to quit school and join the Army, Lester puts him through his paces at a mock boot camp.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. 227 Season 1 Episode 3 - Family Hero
    6.9/10(50 votes)

    #20 - Family Hero

    S1:E3

    For an assignment that requires her to write about her "Most Interesting Relative", Brenda asks her parents for help. Lester suggests his aunt Lucy who was a woman brakeman. After Mary hears about Sandra's supposed relative who was a Moroccan prince, she searches through an old trunk to find information about an interesting relative of hers. What she finds is that she had an uncle, Corporal Mortecai Hurley, who was in the Civil War's 54th Infantry. She persuades Brenda to re-write her paper on Mortecai.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Richard Vaczy, Tracy Gamble

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  21. 227 Season 4 Episode 11 - Play it Again, Stan
    6.9/10(22 votes)

    #21 - Play it Again, Stan

    S4:E11

    When Mary and Lester are on their way to the airport their tickets are stolen by a pick pocket who is running from the cops. As Lester and the police officer go after the man Mary waits in the cab and imagines their lives as the movie Casablanca. In the end, Lester gets the tickets back and they go off to the airport.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Al Gordon

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  22. 227 Season 4 Episode 17 - For Richer, For Poorer
    6.9/10(27 votes)

    #22 - For Richer, For Poorer

    S4:E17

    Sandra's new boyfriend keeps showering her with gifts. When everyone meets him, they are surprised-- he is Pearl's age! He asks Sandra to marry him and gives her a day to think about it. She tells him no, and he has a heart attack. In the hospital, Mary and Sandra pose as doctor and nurse because the rude desk nurse will not let them see him. Sandra decides to tell him that she will marry him, since she thinks that he is on his death bed and it would make him happy. The next day when they return to the hospital, Abner has made a recovery. It turns out that his ""heart attack"" was gas, and he says he is ready to get married to the nurse that raised his spirits. He thinks that nurse was the rude desk RN, nurse Grubb, and Sandra doesn't object. Meanwhile, Brenda, Calvin and Alexandria are trying to raise ticket money for a Prince concert.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. 227 Season 4 Episode 22 - House Number
    6.9/10(27 votes)

    #23 - House Number

    S4:E22

    When Pearl, Mary, Rose and Sandra get locked into the laundry room, they all reminisce about how they each arrived at 227. Pearl moved in with her mother, Rose lived across the hall from a loud rock band, and Lester had just lost his job at a construction site, while Mary was pregnant with Brenda. Lester eventually finds them all in the laundry room and opens the door so they can leave. By that time Brenda and Calvin had joined the 4 ladies.

    Director:Gerren Keith
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. 227 Season 1 Episode 10 - Football Widow
    7.0/10(40 votes)

    #24 - Football Widow

    S1:E10

    Mary is upset that whenever Lester watches the football game, she doesn't get any attention. So she gets two tickets from Sandra for her and Lester to go to the game, with the hopes that he can teach her about the game and she'll get some attention. At the game, Mary insults the other fans and cheers for the wrong team. She and Lester end up having to leave early to avoid a fight.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. 227 Season 1 Episode 11 - A Daughter is a Precious Thing
    7.0/10(47 votes)

    #25 - A Daughter is a Precious Thing

    S1:E11

    Brenda desperately tries to get Calvin to notice her. When Mary doesn't seem to help Brenda out, she seeks romantic advice from Sandra. This ultimately upsets Mary when she finds out that Sandra alters Brenda's appearance.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"A Yen for Lester" is the worst rated episode of "227". It scored 5.3/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by Gerren Keith and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/26/1988. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Looking Back".