The Best Episodes of What's Happening Now!!

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   8.0/10(13 votes)

   #1 - Members Only

   S3:E215/9/1988

   Nadine sets out to prove her suspicions that the exclusive club Raj is attempting to join discriminates against women, submitting her application and winning acceptance as a ""man"" after being rejected as herself.

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   7.9/10(19 votes)

   #2 - Mad Money

   S2:E151/12/1987

   Dee brings two of her sorority pledge sisters home for the weekend from college and one of their pranks costs Raj $500 first prize money in a poetry competition.

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   7.9/10(23 votes)

   #3 - Opening Day

   S2:E192/9/1987

   When ""Jolly Cholly"" opens a restaurant down the street, Rob's Place starts losing customers until Raj and the gang persuade a hot rap group to record a radio commercial for their sinking business.

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   7.8/10(23 votes)

   #4 - Dee and Dwayne

   S1:E181/13/1986

   When Dwayne takes Dee to a rock concert, a romance seems to flare up between them, much to the displeasure of protective brother Raj.

   Director:Gary Shimokawa

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   7.8/10(19 votes)

   #5 - Nadine's Surprise

   S2:E19/22/1986

   While eavesdropping, Raj mistakenly believes he is soon to became a father, while Nadine has instead planned a different surprise for him -- dinner with his long-lost father (Thalmus Rasulala, ""What's Happening!!"") who has care to make amends with his estranged son.

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   7.8/10(15 votes)

   #6 - I'll Be Homeless for Christmas

   S2:E1312/15/1986

   Raj and Nadine plan a yard sale to clear their garage of cartons, but after Dee and Raj browse through several of the old boxes and relive moments from their earlier lives together, they have second thoughts and become sentimental about their old ""junk.""

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7. 

   7.8/10(20 votes)

   #7 - Man in Motion

   S3:E205/2/1988

   Dee falls in love with a stand-up comic in a wheelchair and plans to quit school and go on the road with him.

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   Writer:David Braff

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   7.6/10(35 votes)

   #8 - Raj Returns

   S1:E19/2/1985

   Raj and Nadine return to Raj's old house.

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   7.6/10(20 votes)

   #9 - Raj's Nightmare

   S2:E410/13/1986

   Raj is quickly exposed to modern art when he discovers that a nude painting Nadine posed for years earlier is now part of a prominent art exhibit.

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    7.6/10(14 votes)

    #10 - Instant Family

    S2:E1212/8/1986

    Dwayne's old army buddy comes to visit and challenges Raj to a poker game, which almost costs him his car and his half interest in the diner.

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    7.6/10(13 votes)

    #11 - Shirley's Debt

    S3:E194/25/1988

    Shirley moonlights as a salesperson dressed as a clown in order to pay Raj the money she owes him and ends up winning a trip to Hawaii.

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    7.5/10(13 votes)

    #12 - Raj's Big Break

    S2:E811/10/1986

    Raj is misled by a psychiatric patient posing as a book publisher.

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    7.5/10(14 votes)

    #13 - Cabin Fever

    S2:E1112/1/1986

    In an effort to impress an old schoolmate, Shirley pretends to be Raj 's wife and the mother of two children whom they have ""rented"" to support the lie.

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    7.5/10(19 votes)

    #14 - The Older Woman

    S3:E162/8/1988

    Raj tells Dwayne that age is irrelevant until he sees him at a restaurant with his girlfriend's grandmother and jumps to the wrong conclusion.

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    Writer:Pam Veasey

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    7.4/10(14 votes)

    #15 - Thy Boss's Daughter

    S2:E610/27/1986

    Raj makes a spectacle of himself at Dwayne's party when he drinks too much, dances too much and wakes up with a strange woman.

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    Writers:Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman

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    7.4/10(16 votes)

    #16 - The Hat Comes Back

    S3:E410/12/1987

    Shirley uses her friendship with an old school friend to obtain an auction item for charity from a visiting singing star.

    Director:Gary Shimokawa

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    7.3/10(24 votes)

    #17 - Dee's Dilemma

    S1:E910/28/1985

    A tough gang menaces a party at the diner.

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    7.3/10(16 votes)

    #18 - Party Animal

    S2:E911/17/1986

    Dwayne finds out that business and pleasure don't mix when he dates the daughter of his boss.

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    7.3/10(15 votes)

    #19 - Girls' Night Out

    S3:E610/26/1987

    Raj and Dwayne literally get caught with their pants down when they try to rescue Dee from a police raid on a male strip club on Dee's 21st birthday.

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    7.3/10(17 votes)

    #20 - Teacher's Threat

    S3:E1212/7/1987

    Maurice gets more than he bargained for when he takes his teacher's daughter out dancing.

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    7.2/10(20 votes)

    #21 - The Improbable Dream

    S1:E1612/16/1985

    When Rerun's new investment manager makes him a wealthy man, his old friends find they are losing him to the fast life.

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    7.2/10(13 votes)

    #22 - Dwayne's Big Step

    S3:E510/19/1987

    After being fired from his job and failing at a series of attempts to try a new line of work, Dwayne decides to become his own boss and buys a magic shop.

    Director:Gary Shimokawa

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    7.2/10(17 votes)

    #23 - The Pad

    S3:E1111/30/1987

    Maurice and Daryl enjoy an evening in a swinging bachelor pad with two sisters from UCLA...until the girls' father shows up.

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    Writers:Stephen Sustarsic, Marley Clark

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    7.1/10(18 votes)

    #24 - Mr. First Nighter

    S1:E201/27/1986

    Romance blossoms for Shirley when the Navy seaman she has been writing to for years comes to town.

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    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #25 - Picture Perfect

    S2:E29/29/1986

    A new management company is raising rents in her apartment building, so Shirley gathers her friends and fellow tenants together to confront the evil landlord -- who is in for the fight of his life.

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