Lloyd is enthusiastic about an impending rendezvous with his first love who has come to town for a visit. Meanwhile, Willie and Mark get into a competition of sorts over romance. This after, Willie and Brenda get into an argument over his lack of romance. However, things go awry for both Willie and Lloyd when they get locked in a storeroom.

A nervous Michael dives into the dating pool bu doesn't make much of a splash, while David will stop at nothing to avoid immersing himself in an English assignment.

The boys are all set for an evening of terror, watching a horror movie. However, when it's over each one of them is scared stiff and go on to experience their own version of ""Nightmare at Zombie High.""

Valerie discovers a mysterious love letter in David's pants pocket and questions him about it. She quickly learns that David is dating an ""older woman,"" a woman Valerie forbids David to see. Meanwhile, a broken refrigerator causes a repairman to invade the Hogan kitchen.

Mark longs to be like one of the guys (David and Willie) at least in the sporting arena and secretly goes behind Valerie's back and signs up for wrestling.

Michael experiences close encounters of the most embarrassing kind when his friends find out he saw a UFO. Meanwhile, the twins' refusal to give David an extra Springsteen ticket sends his high hopes plummeting to earth.

Valerie gets a call from school and learns Willie is failing science. She quickly discovers another problem, both Mark and Willie are taking the same class and brainiac Mark is constantly making him look bad.

David's on a roll at predicting football games and decides to bet some real money, but he could be wearing cement sneakers when he loses big.

Restaurant worker David smells trouble and it's coming from the kitchen as he tries to fend off the amorous advances of his boss's fiance. Meanwhile, Michael teaches Mark how to defend himself.

David has a crisis of conscience when he's attracted to the coed that best friend Burt has his eye on, but he's caught off guard when Burt throws down the gauntlet.

The private investigators catch up to Julia and whisk her away leaving David without an explanation or a goodbye. However, things turn around for the young couple as, Julia invites him and his family to a Parisian party fit for a princess.

The babysitting kids misplace Mrs. Poole's infant niece.

David plans revenge on Mark and Willie when he loses his latest girlfriend because the twins beat her to a new job at a shoe store. Meanwhile, Mrs. Poole finds herself in a bind when one of Sandy's friends gets her thinking about having an affair, something she is seriously considering.

Christmas stress hits the Hogan family as Sandy struggles to get a Christmas tree and Mark and Willie battle it out over the same gift that each one wants to give Cara and Brenda. Meanwhile, David becomes a department-store Santa Claus but soon finds he is a victim of a pick pocket when he finds his wallet stolen.

The family dog, 17-year-old Murray is ailing and the family engages in a dogfight over whether or not to put the dog to sleep, something Willie is dead set against. Meanwhile, a fallen tree has caused damage to the house, damage that Valerie and Michael can't afford to pay for at the moment.

Willie's fantasy date with the prettiest girl in the seventh grade could be realized if he can just persuade Mark to make it a double date with the girl's cousin.

Crushed by a girl's rejection, David's pal Burt falls hard for Sandy, while Sandy thinks her principal's the one with romance on his mind.

Sandy's ex-husband makes a move to get back in her life. Meanwhile, David moves into Michael's poker game.

College freshmen David, Rich and Burt have been feeling a little left out of the college social scene and decide to spark some attention by stealing a rival school's mascot, a wolverine, but when the fierce creature gets loose, it's every Hogan for himself. Meanwhile, Mark and Willie enroll Sandy in a computer dating service and she discovers this just as her date knocks on the front door.

It's a dream come true for psychology student David when Sandy, ""Queen of the All-Nighters,"" agrees to be the guinea pig for his sleep deprivation experiment.

Willie is stirred by first-hand accounts of apartheid from Sandy's South African professor, so he and Mark embark on an el-train ride to a candlelight vigil.

David puts himself in the penalty box over his guilt about injuring an opponent in a hockey game, and Mark threatens to body-check Willie for not paying a debt.

David is all excited about the Homecoming parade but is let down when he discovers that he will be sharing a camel costume with Burt. To make matters worse, during the parade, Burt causes a fall that lands the both of them in the hospital.

After a breakup, Sandy tries to cheer up man-hungry, Rita Traeger and quickly discovers that her new best friend isn't the best of friends when she strands her at a singles bar. Meanwhile, David is trying to sell his mountain bike in order to raise enough money for a ski trip.

Although she's sworn off community theater, Valerie finds herself directing Annie's play, placating overworked stagehands Michael, Willie and Mark and trying to replace a leading lady who's under the weather.