227

- Season 5

(1989)

Mary's church opera benefit is jeopardized by a diva who blames her for losing her voice and Sandra for losing her boyfriend.

The new landlord keeps avoiding the tenants of 227, while Dylan looks for a new roommate.

While Mary and the girls are getting pampered at a health spa, Lester and the boys are pampering an abandoned baby Travis found in his limo.

Mary and Lester have a fight that could end their marriage -- she made him miss a prizefight.

The Jenkins, Sandra, Pearl, Rose, and Dylan vacation at a ranch in Arizona. Mary convinces Sandra and Rose to participate in a treasure hunt, and Dylan has his sights set on a ranch girl.

When water rustlers take the women hostage, Lester creates a posse to find them.

Bobby Brown is shooting a video at Brenda's high school, so she plagiarizes an old essay of Mary's in order to be an extra.

On their way to Lester's birthday party, Mary and Sandra encounter gang members trying to claim them as their biker chicks.

Dylan's mother moves in with him after she leaves his father and starts dating Julian.

Sandra's boss at the ad agency steals her idea for a slogan promoting a new perfume.

Calvin wants to quit school and join the Army, so Lester puts him through a mock boot camp.

Mary decides to invite Julian to her Christmas Eve party in order to liven things up.

Mary dresses up as a clown to erase a nasty message she left on the answering machine of Lester's business partner -- an eccentric novelties magnate.

Brenda starts her own revolution when Mary and Lester force her to return a revealing dress.

As Lester sleeps in church, he dreams that he and Mary go to heaven, hell and a 227 where they wouldn't exist.

Lester gets a temporary gig as a DJ and when a woman calls him and is clearly hitting on him. When he talks to Mary about she says that if it ever really happens he'll run like a scared rabbit. And he says no. Later an attractive shows up and hits on him and he tells her no but she keeps on coming. Later he learns what's going on and decides to have some fun.

Dylan and Travis find some money and they want to keep it but Mary tells them to turn it in and after a certain period of time if no one claims it, it's theirs. And just as they are about to get the money, a guy shows up claiming the money is his. But they refuse to give it to him, but the guy turns out to be a mobster and he threatens them. And eventually everyone shows up and he holds them there. And it's on the day Mary and her family are suppose to go on vacation.

On a trip to Atlantic City, Mary is on a hot streak and Rose thinks Warren may be the one.

Mary's luck runs out in Atlantic City, while Rose catches Warren with another woman and Travis blows a comedy contest.

Mary unintentionally creates a pop-art sensation when she helps Eva straighten up the gallery and makes an appearance on "The Joan Rivers Show".

Julian is getting a divorce and he needs Mary to make sure his soon-to-be ex-wife doesn't get 227.

Mary is cast as a slasher in a movie, but she has an unplanned rehearsal with a dean from NYU.

As Brenda prepares for graduation, Mary receives a lesson in plastic surgery from her hospital roommate, and Lester gives his father's girlfriend low points.

Mary dreams about being homeless when she thinks a plea for help from a street person is a threat to her safety.