The Best Episodes Written By Billy Van Zandt

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - The Night He Came Home

   S1:E1010/29/1992

   On Halloween, Martin and his friends gather at his apartment to share scary ghost stories. But they all get scared out of their wits after they perform a seance to communicate with the dead and call forth the spirit of old man Ackerman.

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #2 - Blackboard Jungle Fever

   S1:E171/21/1993

   Martin returns to his elementary school to participate in Career Day. He discovers his favorite 3rd grade teacher, Ms. Trinidad, is still teaching there. They decide to go out to eat and catch up on old times. They end up at his apartment where she begins making moves on him, just as Gina walks in. She tells Gina that Martin made the unwanted advance on her, and Gina runs out in anger. The next day, Martin returns to the school to confront his former teacher. She makes another move on him in the classroom, but this time Gina's watching and she's ready to defend her man!

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   9.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - The Break Up: Part 2

   S1:E192/11/1993

   With Martin & Gina now broken up, Pam sets a lonely Gina up with her cousin Leon, who is a minister struggling to keep his fleshly desires under control. Meanwhile, Cole and Tommy take a despondent Martin to a nightclub hoping to cheer him up. While there, he meets a beautiful woman named Nicole, and they begin dating. By coincidence, the 2 couples happen to meet at a restaurant during dinner. Martin is extremely jealous of the fact that Gina is out with another man, and decides to 'help' him out when he begins choking on his food.

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #4 - I Saw Gina Kissing Santa Claus

   S1:E1512/17/1992

   Martin shares a unique version of the Christmas story when he reluctantly steps in to play Santa for the kids in Tommy's mentoring program.

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   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #5 - The Break Up: Part 1

   S1:E182/11/1993

   Martin and Gina fight over Gina's unusual Valentine's Day gift, and escalates out of control until they finally break up. When they try and reconcile they discover that maybe they are just too different from each other.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - The Parents Are Coming, the Parents Are Coming

   S1:E710/8/1992

   Gina wants Martin to meet her conservative parents but Martin's feeling nervous. Wanting to make a good first impression, he takes advice from Tommy and Cole that causes him to act like an idiot.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - Variety Show

   S1:E254/29/1993

   Martin is chosen by his radio station manager to be the producer of a charity variety show for Aids. But in typical Martin Payne fashion, he lets the job go to his head, acts like a tyrant on the set, and alienates everyone around him, even Gina. In the end, Martin is left to do the whole show by himself, and bombs miserably.

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   7.3/10(3 votes)

   #8 - The Gift Rapper

   S1:E29/3/1992

   Martin forgets to get Gina a gift for their first anniversary. Gina is angry. So he runs out to a lingerie shop to get her some intimate apparel. But he ends up getting her a foot stool instead. In the end, Martin learns the importance of gift giving.

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