The Worst Episodes of Amen

Frye tries to erase Thelma's angry phone message.

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Certain he is dying, Deacon Frye begins to reminisce about the love he had for Thelma's mother, and how she used to take care of him. He begins to tell Thelma about her late mother, about the day Thelma was brought home from the hospital, and about the day he had to tell her that her mother had died.

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Writer: Peter Noah

Deacon Frye is the subject of an honorary roast.

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Frye pushes Thelma to give Reuben an ultimatum.

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Thelma joins the Army, intending to become one lean, mean fighting machine. (Part 1 of 2)

Director: Shelley Jensen

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At an auction, an insufferable woman wins a date with Frye.

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Director: Shelley Jensen

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Thelma gets her own TV cooking show.

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Judge Frye visits an old nemesis who tries to set him up in a sting operation. The judge is offered a large sum of money to alter the outcome of a certain case he presides over. And while everyone watches him on film, Judge Frye must make one of the toughest decisions of his life: whether to be honest and turn the money down, or enjoy the spice of life, with all that cash!

Director: Michael Dimich

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Aspiring magician Frye auditions for a children's show.

Director: Lee Shallat Chemel

Writer: David Lloyd

Thelma daydreams about a honeymoon with the Reverend, but the Deacon has his own vision of being with someone special, and where having the minister as a son-in-law creates lots of problems for him.

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Writer: Eric Cohen

Frye campaigns against an imprisoned state senator.

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The Reverend, Dea Frye, and Rollie try to talk a young man into going to college, and try to give him examples of what their lives would have been like had they not gone to college themselves.

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Newly appointed to the bench, power-drunk Judge Frye aims to throw the book at all who come before him.

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Rapper MC Hammer has a dual role as a flamboyant minister and as himself, busting a move to keep Clarence in school. Guard: Jacques Apollo Bolton. Clarence: Bumper Robinson. Rev. Gregory: Clifton Davis.

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The animals in the congregation's live Nativity scene include a goat that sends Rev. Gregory up a tree and an ailing donkey that finds a place in the Deacon's heart.

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Frye takes in a trouble-prone teen, a would-be rapper dubbed ""Clarence So Fine.""

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Writer: James R. Stein

Reuben's visiting niece reveals she's leaving seminary school to become a singer, and Frye enters her in a gospelfest.

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A forlorn woman comes to Deacon Frye's office seeking a divorce from her husband who she suspects is cheating on her. Frye sends his undercover detective to follow the man, and is informed that the husband is definitely cheating. However, after being misinformed, Frye tells the woman that her husband is unfaithful. Meanwhile, the church board votes in a new chairman to replace the deacon.

Director: Lee Shallat Chemel

Writer: David Lloyd

Frye and Ruben both try to intervene when the Deacon's pro basketball player client, wants to marry Amelia and move to Italy. Will Love intervene instead and short-circuit the deacon's plans?

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The Deacon can't keep his mind on church business when a comely legal assistant (Loretta Divine) is brought in by Rev Gregory to assist him on an insurance case. The church needs to win the court case against the insurance company in order to get a new boiler for heat in the church, during the coldest winter on record. The Deacon is so completely smitten by his new assistant that he may be in danger of losing the case.

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Rev. Gregory and the Deacon pay a visit to the Army base after a tough drill sergeant denies misguided private Thelma a weekend pass.

Director: Shelley Jensen

Writer: Eric Cohen

After a woman is car-jacked, with her baby still in the car with the theif, the thief drops the baby off on the doorsteps of the First Community Church. And since Thelma has no children of her own, whe makes plans to become the child's foster mother, against objections from the deacon and the Rev. Soon the child even begins to soften the deacon's stand. But in the end, Thelma is determined to hold onto the baby. . . until the child's mother shows up. Meanwhile, Deacon Frye is tax audited and owes Uncle Sam a large sum of money.

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Writer: Robin J. Stein