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"Lifeboat":
Stranded at sea aboard a lifeboat after Joe ditched
his airplane,the gang spend restless hours at each other's
throats, awaiting rescue.Joe watches his plane sink,and
Helen loses her cello.Just as things are at there worst,and
the lifeboat is losing air,they are rescued by the Coast
Guard. |
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"The
Fortune Cookie": Angry at the nearly non-existent
aid from his insurance company, Joe lets Brian convince
him to fake an injury to get more money out of his insurers.Despite
Helen's loud objections,they get a shady doctor's letter
and wait for the insurers to come and inspect Joe.But
Joe gets cold feet at the last minute,forcing the two
brothers to have to switch roles. |
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"Noses
Off": Sandpiper is finally back in business,but
Joe's nose is broken by a man who mistakes him for Brian.At
the surgeon's office,the doctor's observation of a bump
on Brian's nose has him obsessing about getting a nose
job. |
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"Blackout
Biggins": After watching a rap rendition of the
National Anthem during a Red Sox game,Roy declares that
he could sing it better.Brian takes him up on his statement,by
setting things up with the Red Sox Front Office.Roy earns
only ridicule when he faints during his performance,and
it's replayed endlessly on the local Sports channels,so
to save face he schedules another appearance. |
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"Mathers
of the Heart": Kissed by Helen after he fixes
her stove,Lowell decides to ask for a date.She laughs
in his face,but concedes to a date while apologizing to
him.The next day,the brothers discover that Helen had
wonderful time,while Lowell was bored out of his mind.It
takes a while, but on their next date,Lowell finally gets
up the nerve to dump Helen. |
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"Two
Jerks and a Jill": The arrival of the beautiful
Alex Lambert to Natucket soon has the brothers chasing
after her,despite her non-interest. Meanwhile, Antonio
gets invited to the Tuesday night rat shoot with Lowell
and his buddies Tom and Tucker,where he upstages Lowell
by shooting more rats. |
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"It's
So Nice to Have a Mather Around the House": When
Alex agrees to go on a date with him on a boat to see
the Parade of Tall ships,Brian borrows Lowell's boat.But
on a dry run Brian sinks Lowell's it.Joe and Brian invite
Lowell to stay with them for a while,and are surprised
at how well Lowell cooks and how eager he is to do the
household chores. |
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"Just
Say No": Joe and Helen watch with trepidation
as Shannon Moss arrives,and their fears are soon realized
when Brian falls under her spell again.Despite the fact
that she is just using him to boost her own fragile ego,Brian
doesn't wake up to the truth until goaded, By Joe and
Helen into a final confrontation with Shannon in the airport. |
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"It
May Have Happened One Night": Rumors abound at
the airport when Antonio reveals he saw Joe's car parked
outside of Alex's apartment late the night before.Soon
the airport is buzzing and it's driving Brian and Helen
crazy.But thanks to Alex's intoxication, Joe is the only
one who knows the real truth and he won't tell. |
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"The
Customer's Usually Right": Joe's irration at
getting charged a rewind fee for a returned videotape
which he believes was rewound,ends up costing the nice
old lady at the Video Store her job.His chagrin deepens
when he finds out that the tape hadn't been rewound, and
more guilt is heaped upon his shoulders when he finds
out the lady suffered a stroke following her firing. |
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"Exit
Laughing": Helen ignores Joe's advice and decides
to go out with one of Joe's old college friends,but she
soon comes to regret that decision when she realizes she
can't bare his annoying laugh. Finally she decides to
dump him,but she's the one in for a big surprise;he dumps
her because he can't stand her southern accent. |
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"What
the Cabbie Saw": Antonio performs his civic duty
when he helps bring to court a suspected robber and then
testifies against him.But then the suspect gets released
on a technicality and Antonio starts to fear for his life. |
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"Labor
Pains": After a trip to see a friend in Boston
at Logan Airport,and finding out how much more he gets
payed,Lowell decides to ask Roy and Joe for a raise.Following
Antonio's advice,Lowell threatens to leave for a job in
Boston if his demands aren't met.Joe can't afford the
raise,and Roy refuses to cough anymore money. |
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"I've
Got a Secret": Loose talk at Helen's house one
night between Antonio,Helen and Alex reveals Alex once
posed for Playboy.Helen and Antonio promise to keep it
a secret,but at the airport the following Monday,Joe and
Brian quickly find out about it. |
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"The
Gift (1)": When Helen hears about auditions for
the Nantucket String Quartet,it revives her aspirations
of being a cellist. Unfortunately,she has no cello,thanks
to the plane ditched at sea.Urged on by Brian,she takes
on a second job at the fish packing plant to earn money
for a new cello,but her happiness soon turns sour when
she gets laid off. |
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"The
Gift (2)": Helen is unhappy that the brothers
are "coming to her rescue" with their gift,but
they finally convince her to except the gift and go after
the job in the Nantucket String Quartet.When the first
choices of the String Quartet decline,she wins a place
in the group.Helen's happiness is soon tempered by the
strange quirks of her fellow musicians,but for the sake
of the job Brian and Joe helped her get,she doesn't quit. |
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"I
Love Brian": To impress Alex,Brian tells her
he is a good friend of Clint Black and that he can get
ticket's to Black's sold-out Boston show.Helen works her
way into the mix,knowing Brian is up to his old tricks.Brian
finally talks Lowell into dumping his three friends and
going along with him,so he can have Lowell's tickets for
him,Alex and Helen. |
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"The
Key to Alex": In their pursuit of Alex,Joe and
Brian take some indirect tips from Helena as she describes
her own reactions to another's man advances.But Alex sees
through all their ploys,until Joe and Brian finally resort
to honest conversation over dinner to settle their relationship
with Alex. |
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"The
Houseguest": To cheer up Carlton Blanchard on
a lonely birthday,Helen invites him to her house for a
party.But after Carlton falls down her stairs and threatens
a lawsuit from his lawyer son,Helen's hospitality is stretched
to the limit as he settles in her living room to recover
from her injuries. |
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"Goodbye,
Old Friend": Weeb Gilroy's death has Lowell searching
for the right words to write for a eulogy for his long
time friend.Words fail him at the end;all he can think
of is to finish working on the plane that they used to
work on.With Joe's help they finally get it into the air.
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"Another
Wedding": At Walter's wedding,Lowell's hopes
of getting back together with Bunny are dashed when she
introduces him to her date.Trying to save face, Lowell
tells her about his own date,Yvette,and is saved from
telling the truth when a late arriving Alex shows up to
support his bluff. |
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"Date
Package Number Seven": Alex's weekend with Brian
is spoiled when the wonderful spontaneity of the event
revealed by Joe and Helen to be one of Brian's many prepared
date packages.But instead of taking advantage of Brian's
failure,Joe pleads his brothers case to Alex,and she Brian
decide to start dating. |
