7.1/1025 votes#1 - Call Me Irresponsible
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1994
During the summer, P.J. (the principal) has been calling Mark's house and leaving messages. Geneva thinks he should call him back, but Mark refuses - he doesn't want to call his boss during the summer. When he comes to school, he tries to avoid P.J., but he fails. P.J. tells him that she had been calling him to offer him the job as head coach. Mark gets very happy and excited, until P.J. tells him that since he didn't return her phone calls, she had to offer the job to someone else. If he suck up to the new head coach, maybe he can become assistant coach. After Mark's history class, coach Corley comes into the classroom and asks him for advice and offers him the job as assistant coach, but Mark declines. Later coach Corley comes by the house and he and Mark decides that Mark is just going to come by the gym on Monday.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: Jeffrey Duteil
- 6.7/1021 votes
#2 - My Bodyguard
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1994
Mark discovers that Nicole is up in the middle of the night doing another kid's homework. His name is Scott Farcus. Nicole says that she should just say no to him. Nicole promises - she doesn't want Mark to tell her mother because she would just become like crazy aunt Eunetta. It didn't work very well. Nicole tells Mark that he took her lunch and sold it back to her. Therefore, Mark invites Tyler over. He tells Tyler about Scott Farcus and asks Tyler to stand up to Scott and tell him to leave Nicole alone. Tyler tries to get away, but Mark catches him. He shows Tyler how behave like a tough guy and give him his sun-glasses so he can be really tough. Tyler says he will do it. The next day, Tyler is rather angry with Mark. Scott broke the glasses and got Tyler to do his spelling homework. Nicole tell her mother about what Scott's been doing to her. In school, Geneva makes a big scene when she's angry with Mark because he didn't tell Nicole to come to her. She says she's going down to t
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
6.6/1021 votes#3 - Between Friends
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1994
Geneva has bought a desk for Nicole, which Mark is supposed to put together. But Mark's old friend from college, Steve, comes by to visit him. He's a sports columnist fot the Tribune. They go to Dirty Burgers to eat and talk about old memories. They both start to hit on the waitress. They are to go to the Warriors game that night, but when the waitress, Charlene, calls, they start to fight about old girlsfriends and Steve decides to going to the game with Charlene instead of Mark. But Mark phones and cancels Steve's tickets. Geneva tells Mark to call Steve and try to work things out. After some trouble and misunderstandings between Mark and Vanessa, Steve comes over to get his cellular phone, which he had forgot at Mark's. They appologize to each other. In this episode, Vanessa tried to get a job in a number of different ways. At last, she manages to get one, answering the phones, at a doctor's office. The desk was put together. Geneva lost her bet to Nicole that Mark wouldn't manage t
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1021 votes
#4 - He Said, She Said
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1994
Vanessa is upset to learn that Mark wants to date her friend from the office. Everytime he goes on a date with one of her friends, she loses the friend.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1019 votes
#5 - Matinee
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1994
Mark takes Nicole and a few of her friends to the matinee only to suffer through the pains of taking little kids to the movies.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1025 votes
#6 - Mo' Money
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1994
Mark decides to invest in the vending machine business.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1021 votes
#7 - Instant Replay
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1994
Mark finds out that his former basketball rival will be back in town to play at his high school's upcoming alumni basketball game. Fearing a repeat of an old high school humiliation with Reggie, who is now a NBA star, Mark fakes an injury.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: Gigi McCreery, Perry Rein
- 6.3/1024 votes
#8 - House Guest
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1994
Geneva invites P.J. to stay at their house...but Mark didn't anticipate P.J. moving in along with her new little dog, aptly named Monster.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1023 votes
#9 - My Achy Breaky Back
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1994
Mark finally gets a job interview with the head coach at San Francisco State, but he hurts his back before the interview.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: Dan Cross, David Hoge
- 6.1/1017 votes
#10 - True Romance
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1994
While Mark substitutes for a sportswriter friend by writing a sports column, he is continually interrupted when people ask his advice on their love lives.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1020 votes
#11 - Clothes Make the Man
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/2/1994
Mark goes to a men's clothing store to buy a new tie for a weekend banquet and ends up getting conned by a beautiful but cunning saleswoman.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 5.7/1018 votes
#12 - Christmas Show
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1994
It's Christmas. Mark accidentally leaves a window open. When they get back, they have been robbed.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1017 votes
#13 - Coach
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1995
Mark finally gets his dream job as the school's head basketball coach after Coach Corley leaves the position to coach college basketball.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: Jeffrey Duteil
- 6.3/1020 votes
#14 - One Is the Loneliest Number
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1995
Mark's friend, Steve, convinces Mark that his relationship with his girlfriend Denise is boring. Concluding that Denise is to blame, Mark makes plans to stop dating her, but Denise stops dating him first.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1018 votes
#15 - True Lies
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1995
Instead of keeping his promise to Nicole to bring her to the circus, Mark lies to her so he can go out with his girlfriend Denise.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1024 votes
#16 - The Ringer
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1995
Geneva convinces Mark to coach Nicole's all-girl basketball team, which hasn't won a game all season. Determined to help the girls win, Mark convinces Tyler to dress up like a girl and play on the team.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: Scott S. Gorden
- 6.1/1018 votes
#17 - Down in the Dumps
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1995
Mark and Vanessa are determined to win the lottery and enlist Geneva's help in obtaining her aunt's guaranteed winning formula.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: Dan Cross, David Hoge
- 6.3/1019 votes
#18 - Hero
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1995
While waiting to use the ATM, Mark witnesses a botched robbery attempt. A woman stops the thief but leaves the scene quickly. Everyone believes that Mark actually prevented the robbery and he doesn't deny it.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: Jeffrey Duteil
- 6.5/1019 votes
#19 - Here Comes the Groom
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1995
Mark advises Earvin to slow down his romance with his new girlfriend Lisa. However, Mark's good intentions prove ill advised when Earvin, after listening to Mark, decides to elope with Lisa.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1016 votes
#20 - The Matchmaker
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/28/1995
Mark and Geneva's crazy Aunt Eunetta comes to visit, and with her quirky technique of touching people's heads, determines that Mark and Vanessa would be the perfect couple.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: Dan Cross, David Hoge
- 5.7/1014 votes
#21 - Guys' Night Out
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/5/1995
After being pestered by Geneva, Mark reluctantly tries to help Geneva's boyfriend, Ken, become a part of Mark's group of male friends.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1020 votes
#22 - High Hopes
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/1995
It looks like roommates Mark, Geneva and Vanessa may all be leaving Oakland.
Director: Mark Linn-Baker
Writer: Barry O'Brien
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Call Me Irresponsible" is the best rated episode of "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper" season 3. It scored 7.1/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by Mark Linn-Baker and written by Jeffrey Duteil, it aired on 9/23/1994. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "My Bodyguard".