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12-29-2004, 04:03 PM
Title: Apartment 57
Genre: Dramady
Length: 30 mins.
Network: CBS
Timeslot: Wednsday (Wed) 900pm (after King Of Queens and Center Of The Universe)
2004-2005
Produced By: Nancy McKeon
Directed By: Nancy McKeon
Created By: David Kohen, Max Mutchnick and Nancy McKeon.
Head Writer: Susan Harris, Nancy McKeon
Cast:
Nancy McKeon as Nancy McKenna
Kelly Ripa as Kallie Mckenna-Lowman
Mark Whalberg as Kenneth "Kenny" Lowman
Edie McClerg as Cindy Thompson
Patrick Muldoon as Micheal Kellerman
Thomas Calabro as J.T. Kellerman
Peter Facinelli as Jake Fields
Nicolette Sheridan as Molli Peterson
Debra Messing as Andrea Carter
Paulo Costanzo as Trey McKenna
Leslie Bibb as Laurie Toledo
Joan Rivers as Clara Reddy
Tiffiane Amber Thissen as Joanne "Joanie" Meyers-Feilds
Amber Tamblyn as Trina Lowman
Premies: This series takes both a comedic and dramatic look at the lives of the residents of a upscale Chicago, Illionos apartment building. Nancy McKeon (The Division, Facts of Life) stars as Nancy McKenna a thirty-something, single Chicago department store manager who sick and tired of searching for love, in all the wrong place and even more is sick and tired of all the lousy men who have wronged her. She lives in Apartment 3-F with her her brother, Trey who is a Political science major at The University Of Illinos and is always there for her. He is dating Laurie Toledo a beautiful nursing major at U of Illinos (who also lives in the building, with some of her college sorority sisters). Nancy's best friend is her sister, Kallie McKenna-Lowman who is a little ditzy and is always getting Nancy into trouble. Her husban is Kenneth Lowman (Mark Whalberg, Fear, Boogy Nights), a serious and controlling dentist with a successful pracitice. together they have a beautiful and smart-alec daughter named Trina. Edie McClerg (The Hogan Family, Ferris Bullers Day Off) plays Cindy Thompson, the older, very nosey land-lady who is always trying to evict Nancy and Kallie because she thinks they are troublemakers. Former Melrose Place stars Thomas Calabro and Patrick Muldoon play Micheal and J.T. Kellerman, the buildings resident bachelors, they are 30 something faternal twins who have each never been married and spend all their time looking for women and going from one bar to another. J.T. works as a manager at a local fast food resturant, a job he hates with everything, but its all he can do because he dropped out of high school and never got his GED. And Micheal works as the Editor and Cheif of a local underground music magazine called "The Edge". He is growing tired of the single life, and especially of his brother and wants to find the right lady and move to a house of his own. Peter Facinelli (Fastlane) plays Jake Feilds, a recently divorced 20-something who all the single ladies in the building want to get with. he is charming, sexy and ready to break the hearts of any lady that dears go near him. Golden Globe nominee Nicolette Sheridan appears as Mollie Peterson the buidlings flighty, flirty, sexy bacholerette who wants nothing more than to get every man she can. She is especially fond of Kenny Lowman, which makes Kallie very jealous. Emmy-Winner Debra Messing (Will and Grace) co-stars as Andera Carter the buildings resident gossip, Andrea is an expierenced wedding planner who has never had the chance to plan the one wedding she really wants to plan, her own. She is fastly approaching her forties and desperate for a man, and a baby. She is best friends with Mollie, who the other tennants can't stand, and this puts her in the middle of a many battles. Ledgenary comic, Joan Rivers co-stars as Clara Reddy, the oldest tennant in the building, who is a former sociallite whose lost most of her money due to a stock crash and still thinks that she is better than everyone else in the building. She has a penchant for booze and loves to hit on the younger men, ecspecially J.T. who she thinks is just the cutest. Tiffiane Amber Thissaine (Beverly Hills, 90210, Good Morning, Miami and Saved By The Bell) co-stars as Joanne "Joanie" Meyers-Feilds (recurring character), Jakes ex-wife whom he still loves dearly but just can't seem to make things work with him. She lives in the building, but is seen only rarely and is friends with Nancy and Kallie.
EPISODES:
Episode 1: Lies, Lies, and Nose Rings...
Nancy is tired of being alone and decides to try something drastic.... go on a blind date... she asks her brother Trey to set her up with one of his friends, who is decidely younger than her. He picks his good friend Shane (Guest Star Ashton Kutcher) who is a total sleaz-bucket and likes to sleep with women and then never call them again. When her loving sister, Kallie gets word of this she goes out of her way to bribe Shane not to show and up hires a young very bad actor, played by Guest star Kirk Cameron to go on the date and pretend to be Shane. The date is a disater as the actor cracks up and admits hes not shane. Nancy is hurt and has words with Kallie, but they make up because Nancy knows Kallie was trying to spare her from pain. heads clash when Kenny and Kallie disagree on weather they should let Trina get a nose ring.
Episode 2: Lifes a Wash:
When both the buildings washing machines break down Nancy starts a building wide war when she demands that land-lady Cindy Thompson should be fired because of her constant neglect of the building. She nominates herself to be her replacement. Molli Peterson, her arch-enemy decides to run against her, just to make her mad and the whole building is divided. J.T. Kellerman tries very hard to impress a pretty new co-worker of his at the fast-food resturaunt (guest star Hillary Duff) and tires everything he can to get her attention, including wearing skin-tight clothes he wore in high school, only to find out that shes only 17. Meanwhile his Brother, Micheal thinks he may have found the one hes meant to be with when he meets, Stephaine (guest star Stephiane March, of Law and Order) who works at a bookstore he frequently visits. They go out on a date and hook-up and he is crushed when she views it as a one-time thing and gives him a fake number. Poltical agendas clash for Trey and Laurie when he is hit on by a gay guy, while in line for a movie and he is very insecure about it. He shocks Laurie with a anti-gay comment and Laurie goes out of her way to prove to him that theres nothing wrong with gay people and sets up a series of elaborate situations that gay people face so he can see how his prejduice affects people. Nancy looses the election after Cindy Thompson forks over the cash for three brand new machines that are much better than the previous ones.
Episode 3: Dried Out and Hung Up:
When Cindy Thompson falls and breaks her legs, she is bed ridden and gives Nancy the responsobilities of being land lady for a week. She falls flat on the job, literally, when she trips on a pair of sneakers that Trina left on the stairs and the job goes to Kallie who screws everything up, which leads Cindy to hiring a more qualified canidate. Jake Fields is the center of the attention of all the females in the buidling when he is named one of "Chicago's Most Eligable Bacholers", even his ex-wife Joanie gets in on the action as all the single ladies (Mollie, Andrea, Clara, Cindy, Laurie and even young Trina) try to win his affections and a permante place in his life.
Episode 4: Trina's Troubles:
Kenny and Kallie have a hard time dealing with Trina's behavior when she gets her first boyfriend, Tom (Cameo apperance by Tom Welling of Smallville.) and starts acting too sexual for their liking,(wearing short mini-skirts, haulter-tops, wearing too much make-up, equating being mature with having sex) and must explain to her what having sex too early can do to her life. To prove this point, Kallie brings her to an unwed mothers shelter so she can see what being a single mother as a teenage can do to her. But things go awry when Trina befriends some of the girls at the unwed mothers shelter and wants to have a baby of her own. So Kenny arranges for her to visit an STD clinic run by a friend of his. where she learns about all the different STD's there are, including Herpes, Chlymida, Gonereha and even HIV and AIDS. This changes Trina's mind about sex and decides that having sex and being mature are very different things, and that in fact its far more mature to not have sex. So she breaks up with Tom. When Nancy is up for a big promotion at work she must do everything she can to impress the controlling, bossy, stuck-up head of the promotions board who has always hated her (Special guest star Marla Sokolove).
Episode 5: Rare End Hostility.
A rear-end collision between Kenny and Andrea causes friction when they each sue each other and he starts taking out his frustration on Kallie and Trina. Andrea realizes that if she pretends to be hurt, since she's a single women, she can make him feel guilty. It backfires when Kallie and Andrea realize her plan and with Kenny hatches a plan of their own, to make her drop the lawsuite. They have Kenny spend every waking moment with her, trying to help her, not letting her do anything on her own. It works and she drops the lawsuite, and agrees to pay for everything and admits it was her fault they hit each other. After overhearing an insensitive remark about their weight from J.T. and Micheal, Mollie and Andrea go on an excersie binge. Thinking that if the two of them are excersising that much, Trina believes she must be in need of a very serious diet and stops eating. Clara goes on a date with a former flame of hers, who thinks that she still has money and is hurt when she is dumped by him after she tells him that she has no more money. Nancy and Trey each contemplate moving into their own place when they start getting on each others nerves. Nothing they do is right, She can't work because his music is too loud, he can't watch television because she wants to host a diner party and niether one can have sex because the other seems to always be in the apartment. And a midnight bed mix-up causes embarressment for Nancy's date as well as for Trey.
Episode 6: Just Divorce/I Love Laurie (Special 20 min episode, featuers two different 10 min stories).
The tenants take sides when Jake and Joanies divorce gets ugly, and its the men against the women, against Trina and Clara who could care less. The troubles between Jake and Joanie also take a toll on Kallie and Kenny when she starts to question his loyalty to her and trina. Then its "I Love Lucy" all over again when Cindy puts Kenny in charge of the building talent show and in an effort to be fair to everyone he won't let Kallie be in it because she failed to show up for the mandatory audition. So she hatches several schemes to try and get in the show to sing. Also, Trey and Laurie break-up when he questions her loyalty when she "forgets" his birthday... but what he doesn't know is that it was just a trick because she really was planning his surprise birthday party, which she planned to hold one-week after his birthday.
Episode 7: Clara The Dictator...
When Cindy goes on an extended vacation to visit her daughter she leaves her oldest friend in the world, Clara to take over her duties and all hell breaks loose when Clara turns the building into a dictatorship and makes a whole bunch of new rules, that really only benefit her. These rules include, no music at all (she hates music), no television sets on after 6pm (she hates anything othe than her soaps and talk shows). She also targets the girls when she makes a rule saying they can't sit on the front stoop and talk, because it is a "Saftey Hazard". She also attacks Kenny, J.T. and Micheal by passing a no-smoking rule so they can't smoke their favorite cigars.
Episode 8: Judgement Day Parts 1 and 2. (Special 2-hour episode):
PART 1:
Micheal gets a chance to reflect on his life and it is after he makes a mistake and sleeps with a women that may be infected with HIV. This special episode contains all flashbacks of what Micheal life has been and featuers the entire cast, playing people from his past... In the episode we see several key events from Micheal's life including:
His 15th birthday when his mother and father announced their divorce. (Nancy McKeon plays J.T. and Micheals mother, Pammy), (Mark Whalberg plays their dad, Joey).
His high school prom when he dumped his slightly overweight date for the most popular girl in school. (Amber Tamblyn plays the overweight girl), (Kelly Ripa plays the popular girl)
His first college relationship, in which the girl dumped him for a lesbian realtionship. (Leslie Bibb plays the Lesbian girl)
His first serious relationship, post-college, which ends sadly when she is killed by a drunk driver and sends him into a downward sprial. (Nicolette Sheridan plays the girlfriend, sally)
And lastly we see the most recent relationship in which he sleeps with a total stranger, who he only knows from the Gym and finds out that she may be infected with HIV or possibly worse, full blown AIDS. (Special Guest Star Laura Linney plays the girl that possibly could have HIV/AIDS, referred to in the show as only, Lisa). (Special guest star Reba McEntire plays the receptionist at the HIV clinic where Micheal is tested).
The episode ends with Micheal learning that he is HIV free, but that the girl is not.
PART 2:
Prejudices arise in the building when a gay couple, one of whom is HIV positive moves in and the tenant board (Andrea, Mollie, Kenny, Jake, Joanie and Clara) try to get them evicted, out of fear that they may too contract the virus. Micheal, Trina and Laurie are the only three that attempt to do anything to get the couple to stay. Kallie is insecure because she starts to realize that Trina is almost 16 and that she will start having sex within the next few years, and is afraid that Trina will contract HIV. She tries to ban Trina from seeing any of her Male friends, but doesn't tell her why. When the board goes to the building owner (Special Guest Star Sherman Hemsley) and successfully gets the couple evicted, Micheal gets very upest and calls a special building meeting in which everyone in the bulding is called out for behavior which is less than saintly, which is the grounds that the board used to get the couple evicted.
Kallie and Kenny's marriage gets rocky when they question how they've grown apart politically after so many years of marriage. She considers a divorce.
Trey and Laurie get a scare when she is pricked by a needle that possibly is infected with HIV, while candy striping at the local HIV shelter and they both must get tested. The episode ends with the couple being invited to move back into the building, but it is too late as the HIV infected partner (Special guest star Greg Louganis) has already died, and his partner (Speical guest star George Micheal) has decided to move back to England. And Trey and Laurie learn that niether one of them has HIV. Kenny and Kallie decided not to get a divorce, and agree that its okay to have different political feelings.
EPISODE 9: Judgement Day Part 3 (Special 1-hour episode):
When an Asian family, The Tren's takes the apartment next to the Lowmans, prejduice reaks havoc as Kenny won't allow Trina to date their son, Kin-Fo because he thinks that he will get her involved in an Asian Gang. Kallie tries to smooth things over with the family by having them over for dinner, but ends up offending them when she serves what she thinks is a traditional Asian meal, but is really something that is just a stereotype. Trina is horrified and stops speaking to both, Kallie and Kenny. The Tren's ban Kin-Fo from seeing Trina, thinking that the Lowman's are racists.
Jake, Micheal and J.T. accidently wander into a gay bar and are each hit on. This doesn't phase them until the girls, Andrea, Mollie, Kallie and Clara get wind of it and make fun of them, they even tell J.T. that "It wouldn't surprise me if you were gay, afterall you aren't exactly the most masculin guy in the world" and they tell Jake "Well you do know how to dress well". Each of the guys reacts differently to the situation... Jake starts to act ultra masculine, by wearing nothing but baggy jeans, dirty, greasy t-shirts and backwards baseball caps and hitting on the girls and calling them "Honey Pie" and "Sweet Cakes". Micheal starts to get rid of any item in his apartment which he thinks could make him look gay and tries to avoid any manurisum or charactristic that might make people suspect that he's gay. and J.T. starts to suspcect that maybe, he, just might be gay and even begins to explore these feelings by going back to the gay bar and dancing with a handsome, single gay guy. After dancing, J.T. is having such a good time that he goes out for drinks with the guy, Eddie (Special Guest Star Hal Sparks), and before he knows it they are kissing, passionatley. J.T. invites, Eddie back to his place, and before they know it, things have esculated and they are on the bed, shirtless and kissing, Eddie's hands moving down J.T.'s body, further and further... J.T. freaks out and pushes Eddie off of him, screaming "you, fruit, get off me.." Eddie is confused and asks "Why", then J.T. says "I'm not gay, you ***, now get out before i beat you in the head with a hammer and make you bleed". Eddie leaves, sad and scared. And J.T. shows his softer side when he breaks down and starts crying, "Yes, i'm gay, i'm gay, it's true, i'm gay". The Words "To Be Continued..." appear across the screen and the episode fades to black.
Episode 10: Judgment Day Part 4 (Special 1-hour episode):
After acknowleding the fact that he is gay, and that he actually did like, Eddie, J.T. decides to tell all of his friends and family, including Micheal that he is gay. Telling Micheal is the easy part, he says he kind of figured that out a long time ago. but telling his family is not so easy, his mother and father have a much more negative reaction, the mother (Special guest star Ellen Byrstyn) falls to the floor screaming "My Baby, Not my baby, my baby is not a ******". and his father (Special guest star Tom Skerrit) punches him and says "You are not gay.. My son is NOT gay." J.T. continues to tell them that he is gay and that there is nothing they can do to change his mind or make his apologize". Back at the building J.T. tells the rest of his friends (Kallie, Kenny, Nancy, Mollie, Nancy, Jake, and Joanie) and each one of them reacts by saying "Oh yeah?" "We kind of knew that". Which provides great relife for him.. Aftewards, back at their place, Kenny tells Kallie he doesn't want to be friends with J.T. anymore, because he doesn't want to be gay himself. Kallie and Kenny fight as she tries to convince him that being friends with J.T. will not turn him gay. Trina overhears the discussion and is upest that her father would think such things and reminds him that he's been friends with J.T. for the last ten years and that J.T. even saved his life one time, by saving him from drowning in the river. But Kenny won't budge and actually bans Trina from seeing J.T. ever again, because he doesn't want the gay agenda rubbing off on her, and also feels that all gay people are phedophiles. When Andrea accidently spills this to J.T. he is extremely hurt and barges up to the Lowmans aparment and bangs on the door. Kallie answers and is about to let him him, when Kenny stops him from enterting the apartment and tells him not to go there ever again, or he'll call the police. J.T. leaves hurt and saddened and goes downstairs where he collapases in the hallway. Laurie finds him there and asks whats the matter, they start talking and Laurie goes up to the Lowmans apartment and starts to yell at Kenny, saying that he's ignorant and a jerk and that she thinks he should be ashamed of himself. Kenny tells her to butt-out because shes just "A ignorant, uneducated liberal who supports the gay agenda", This statement shockes Kallie who tells Kenny to shut-up and asks Laurie to leave. After Laurie leaves, Kallie and Kenny get into a huge fight and Kenny slaps Kallie across the face. Kallie is totally shocked and tells Kenny to get out. "To Be Continued..." appears across the screen and the screen goes black. (Police Sirens and Trina's screams of "MOM, MOM, MOM WHAT HAPPENED" can be heard as the screen goes black and the credits roll).
Episode 11: The Aftermath.
When the police show up, Kenny is arressted and Kallie says that she is not going to press charges, because he did not mean to hit her. Meanwhile, at Trina's school, word has spread that Trina's dad is in prison and she becomes the victim of nasty rumors and many viscous comments as the students think that its really funny. Cindy decides that J.T.'s presence in the building is causing too much tension and asks him to move out, so that he doesn't cause anymore problems. J.T. refuses too, saying that it is a violation of his civil rights to be forced out of his apartment for his sexuality. Cindy says she'll do anything to get him out and barges off to see her lawyer.
Trina cuts the rest of school and sneaks off home, where she runs into J.T. outside waiting for a cab, and she asks where he's going, and he tells her that he going to stay at a hotel for awhile, until things "cool down". She realizes that he means things with her dad, and this does it for her, she grabs J.T. by the arm and forces him upstairs and into their apartment. Kenny and Kallie are already there and are sipping tea and crying, Kallie and Kenny are both shocked to see Trina home from school, but before they can get a word out, Trina is in the middle of a huge speech and is bereting Kenny about his behavior. Halfway through the speech Kenny gets up and goes towards J.T., and thinking that Kenny isgoing to hit him, so not surprisingly J.T. is forever shocked when Kenny hugs him and gives him a kiss on the forhead, "I'm Sorry" Kenny says to J.T. and J.T. says "I Know". Trina is totally shocked, and thinks her speech is what caused this and says out-loud "Wow, i have to join the debate team!" and she tries to sneak off into her room, but Kallie grabs her and says "You're not going anywhere but back to school". Kallie leaves to take Trina to school. After they leave, Kenny and J.T. talk about how Cindy wants him to move out and this is when Kenny realizes how bad his behavior really was and once again apologizes to J.T. "I'm really sorry, i acted like an idiot". J.T. says that its okay, and then Kenny offers to help J.T. and takes him to see a friend of his whose a lawyer that specializes in Civil rights cases. The lawyer (Special Guest star Candace Bergin; Murphy Brown)is totally mortified that Cindy would even suggest his moving out "this is still happening in the year 2005, you have just got to be kidding me". Cindy is served with papers ordering her to appear in court and she knows that she's in trouble.
Episode 12: Tying Up All The loose ends...
Cindy and J.T. appear and court and the judge is horrofied that Cindy would dare ask J.T. to move out even if his sexuality is causing tension in the building. After hearing Kenny testify that he and J.T. have patched things up, the judge rules that J.T. should be allowed to stay in the building, but does ask him to see a therapist which he gladly agrees to do.
After the hearing, Kenny returns home to see Kallie at the kitchen table crying. He asks her what is the matter and she says that it has just dawned on her that Kenny hit her and that she just realized how serious a problem it is. Kenny grows angry and says "Can't you understand that it was a one-time situation and it will never happen again." Kallie cannot fathom this response and says "No, it is much more serious than a one-time problem. I think that we need to see a marriage consouler." Kenny balks at this idea and says that he will never see a therapist." Kallie grows irratated and says that if he doesn't see the consoluer with her that she will "Take trin and leave the apartment, until you've sought help". Kenny says that "If thats what she wants then, be out of the apartment by the end of the day." Kallie is shocked that he would say this and starts crying even harder. "Why don't you want to get help? don't you love me?" Kenny says "I love you, but i am not going to some head-shrinker to tell them all the problems in our marriage." Kallie won't listen to this crap anymore and goes to the bedroom to pack her and Trina's things.
Meanwhile at work, Nancy is trying her best to cope with the stress of being the only manager on during a big sale. This was a deliberate move on the part of her supervising manager to see if Nancy can cut it and if she deserves a promotion. Nancy is doing okay until one old lady (Special Cameo Apperance by former Facts Of Life star Charolett Rea) tries to return a pair of pants that shes had for a year and also has a hole in the butt. "You cannot return clothing after 30 days and its been a year, according to your recipt." "But i have the tags" says that old lady. Nancy snaps and yells at the lady telling her to get a clue and get out of the store. Nancy realizes what a bad thing she just did and apologizes profusley to the old lady but it is too late as her supervisior tells Nancy to pack up and leave for the rest of the day. Nancy knows that shes probally going to get fired and goes home to have a drink, but is mad when she discovers that Trey and Laurie have just drank the last of the wine. Nancy gets fed up and starts yelling at both Trey and Laurie, something she's never done before, she even calls them "Stupid Jerks" and calls Laurie "A two-bit hussy". They are shocked at her behavior but chalk it up to her being overstressed "After-all its almost the holiday season and i'm sure that the store is extra busy".
Nancy is in a frenzied state and runs feverishly out of the apartment and straight to a nearby bar. She orders a double vodka with no ice and takes it down without hesitation, and then orders three more, drinking them one right after the other. (A graphic appears on the screen that says 3 hours later...) and we see Nancy dancing in a very sexual manner with her blouse open and revealing her lace bra. She is making a lot of noise and trying to get some guys to hit on her. She is groping them and grabbing their butts. She is saying sexual things like "Give me some of that..." and "ohhh ohhh baby i want you". When they walk away she tries to catch up to them but stumbles and falls down, taking with her a table with ten shot glasses and a bottle of wine. The glass shatters everywhere, causing a gash in Nancy's head and all over her hands and face.. The bartender calls 911 and Nancy is arressted and brought to a hospital.
Meanwhile back at the apartment building things are getting tense for Trey and Laurie as she desperately tries to teach Trey the principles of college calculus. They are in the middle of arguging when the phone rings and Trey picks it up... "Nancy's in the hospital" he says and Laurie jumps up and they head for the door. "I hope she's okay" says Laurie, "Me too" responds Trey.
Episode 13: Desperate Measuers
Trey and Laurie arrive at the hospital to find out that Nancy is being arressted for "Drunken Disorderly" as well as "Destruction Of Private Property" and that she faces a harsh sentence, including possible jail time. Trey is totally shocked and has no idea what to say to her. Nancy is extremely embarrassed and explains to Trey that she didn't mean to cause problems for anyone and that she cannot go to jail, she begs him to get a good lawyer for her, so that she won't have to go to jail. Trey calls their Cousin Tim (guest star Scott Foley) and he says that Nancy will be lucky if she gets off with "a three thousand dollar fine and community service."
Andrea's life turns upside down when she must plan a wedding for her former high school boyfriend, Jake (Guest Star Tim Dayl) and his Fiancee, Stacie (Guest appearance by Shannen Dorethy) who was Andrea's worst enemy in high school. It quickly becomes apparent that Stacie has no interest in the ceremony or planning it and that she just wants to marry Jake. When Andrea and Jake are left to do all the planning and spend a lot of time together old sparks start to flicker once again, and one night after a long session of picking out flowers and table-cloth colors, Jake and Andrea go to get Chinese food and have drinks and they kiss, and then one thing leads to another and they wake up in bed together the next morning. Andrea begins to think that this means that Jake wants to get back with her, but when she asks when they'll see each other next he says "Well, Today when we pick out the catering selections". Andrea is crushed and says "But, i thought we were together again." Jake smiles his crushing smile and says "Sorry but as good as it was, it was what it was, a one-time thing."
Clara has her hands full when her six year old granddaughter comes to visit for the weekend and she must put her own needs aside and take care of the six year old. She is exhausted after a day-long trip to the Zoo, which results in her granddaughter wandering off at the Zoo and her trying to find the granddaughter.
Episode 14: What Comes Up, Must Come Down (SEASON FINALE)
Nancy appears in court where she is sentenced to three hundred hours of community service and a three thousand dollar fine. She is also asked to enroll in A.A. and she is ordered not to go back to that bar ever again. Tim tells her that she is very lucky and that if she is ever arressted again for this crime that she will likely face jail time, he urges her to go to rehab. She balks at the idea and refuses to do this. She tells him to butt out of her life and Trey and Laurie take her back to the apartment. While at the apartment Nancy looks for alcohol but there is none in the apartment, because Trey has thrown all of it out. Nancy yells at Trey and tells him to stop messing with her life, which causes Laurie to get upset and say "He's just trying to help you." This enrages Nancy who calls Laurie a B**** and then slaps her across the face. Trey is shocked and tells Nancy that he is moving out of the apartment. He and Laurie leave and go to her apartment.
Trina is having a hard time adjusting to living in a cramped hotel room with just her mother and she is realizing that she really misses her father. Kallie and Kenny go out to lunch to see if they can work out some of their differences and it seems to work as Kenny agrees to go with Kallie to seek therapy.
Andrea grins and bears trying to get through wedding planning sessions with Jake and Stacie, even though it is becoming crystal clear that Stacie has no interest in Jake and vice versa as Stacie spends all her time reading her romance novel called "Fruit Of My Lyons" and he keeps hitting on Andrea. After three hours, Andrea can't take it anymore and freaks out and says "What the heck is going on here?" Jake and Stacie are shocked at Andreas boldness and ask her what she means. When Andrea points out that neither one seems interested in the wedding they realize that shes correct and they explain to her that they aren't really in love with one another and are getting married for only the purpose of Stacie getting her green-card. This makes Andrea realize that Jake is just a sleaze-bucket. (episode ends, credits roll)
Genre: Dramady
Length: 30 mins.
Network: CBS
Timeslot: Wednsday (Wed) 900pm (after King Of Queens and Center Of The Universe)
2004-2005
Produced By: Nancy McKeon
Directed By: Nancy McKeon
Created By: David Kohen, Max Mutchnick and Nancy McKeon.
Head Writer: Susan Harris, Nancy McKeon
Cast:
Nancy McKeon as Nancy McKenna
Kelly Ripa as Kallie Mckenna-Lowman
Mark Whalberg as Kenneth "Kenny" Lowman
Edie McClerg as Cindy Thompson
Patrick Muldoon as Micheal Kellerman
Thomas Calabro as J.T. Kellerman
Peter Facinelli as Jake Fields
Nicolette Sheridan as Molli Peterson
Debra Messing as Andrea Carter
Paulo Costanzo as Trey McKenna
Leslie Bibb as Laurie Toledo
Joan Rivers as Clara Reddy
Tiffiane Amber Thissen as Joanne "Joanie" Meyers-Feilds
Amber Tamblyn as Trina Lowman
Premies: This series takes both a comedic and dramatic look at the lives of the residents of a upscale Chicago, Illionos apartment building. Nancy McKeon (The Division, Facts of Life) stars as Nancy McKenna a thirty-something, single Chicago department store manager who sick and tired of searching for love, in all the wrong place and even more is sick and tired of all the lousy men who have wronged her. She lives in Apartment 3-F with her her brother, Trey who is a Political science major at The University Of Illinos and is always there for her. He is dating Laurie Toledo a beautiful nursing major at U of Illinos (who also lives in the building, with some of her college sorority sisters). Nancy's best friend is her sister, Kallie McKenna-Lowman who is a little ditzy and is always getting Nancy into trouble. Her husban is Kenneth Lowman (Mark Whalberg, Fear, Boogy Nights), a serious and controlling dentist with a successful pracitice. together they have a beautiful and smart-alec daughter named Trina. Edie McClerg (The Hogan Family, Ferris Bullers Day Off) plays Cindy Thompson, the older, very nosey land-lady who is always trying to evict Nancy and Kallie because she thinks they are troublemakers. Former Melrose Place stars Thomas Calabro and Patrick Muldoon play Micheal and J.T. Kellerman, the buildings resident bachelors, they are 30 something faternal twins who have each never been married and spend all their time looking for women and going from one bar to another. J.T. works as a manager at a local fast food resturant, a job he hates with everything, but its all he can do because he dropped out of high school and never got his GED. And Micheal works as the Editor and Cheif of a local underground music magazine called "The Edge". He is growing tired of the single life, and especially of his brother and wants to find the right lady and move to a house of his own. Peter Facinelli (Fastlane) plays Jake Feilds, a recently divorced 20-something who all the single ladies in the building want to get with. he is charming, sexy and ready to break the hearts of any lady that dears go near him. Golden Globe nominee Nicolette Sheridan appears as Mollie Peterson the buidlings flighty, flirty, sexy bacholerette who wants nothing more than to get every man she can. She is especially fond of Kenny Lowman, which makes Kallie very jealous. Emmy-Winner Debra Messing (Will and Grace) co-stars as Andera Carter the buildings resident gossip, Andrea is an expierenced wedding planner who has never had the chance to plan the one wedding she really wants to plan, her own. She is fastly approaching her forties and desperate for a man, and a baby. She is best friends with Mollie, who the other tennants can't stand, and this puts her in the middle of a many battles. Ledgenary comic, Joan Rivers co-stars as Clara Reddy, the oldest tennant in the building, who is a former sociallite whose lost most of her money due to a stock crash and still thinks that she is better than everyone else in the building. She has a penchant for booze and loves to hit on the younger men, ecspecially J.T. who she thinks is just the cutest. Tiffiane Amber Thissaine (Beverly Hills, 90210, Good Morning, Miami and Saved By The Bell) co-stars as Joanne "Joanie" Meyers-Feilds (recurring character), Jakes ex-wife whom he still loves dearly but just can't seem to make things work with him. She lives in the building, but is seen only rarely and is friends with Nancy and Kallie.
EPISODES:
Episode 1: Lies, Lies, and Nose Rings...
Nancy is tired of being alone and decides to try something drastic.... go on a blind date... she asks her brother Trey to set her up with one of his friends, who is decidely younger than her. He picks his good friend Shane (Guest Star Ashton Kutcher) who is a total sleaz-bucket and likes to sleep with women and then never call them again. When her loving sister, Kallie gets word of this she goes out of her way to bribe Shane not to show and up hires a young very bad actor, played by Guest star Kirk Cameron to go on the date and pretend to be Shane. The date is a disater as the actor cracks up and admits hes not shane. Nancy is hurt and has words with Kallie, but they make up because Nancy knows Kallie was trying to spare her from pain. heads clash when Kenny and Kallie disagree on weather they should let Trina get a nose ring.
Episode 2: Lifes a Wash:
When both the buildings washing machines break down Nancy starts a building wide war when she demands that land-lady Cindy Thompson should be fired because of her constant neglect of the building. She nominates herself to be her replacement. Molli Peterson, her arch-enemy decides to run against her, just to make her mad and the whole building is divided. J.T. Kellerman tries very hard to impress a pretty new co-worker of his at the fast-food resturaunt (guest star Hillary Duff) and tires everything he can to get her attention, including wearing skin-tight clothes he wore in high school, only to find out that shes only 17. Meanwhile his Brother, Micheal thinks he may have found the one hes meant to be with when he meets, Stephaine (guest star Stephiane March, of Law and Order) who works at a bookstore he frequently visits. They go out on a date and hook-up and he is crushed when she views it as a one-time thing and gives him a fake number. Poltical agendas clash for Trey and Laurie when he is hit on by a gay guy, while in line for a movie and he is very insecure about it. He shocks Laurie with a anti-gay comment and Laurie goes out of her way to prove to him that theres nothing wrong with gay people and sets up a series of elaborate situations that gay people face so he can see how his prejduice affects people. Nancy looses the election after Cindy Thompson forks over the cash for three brand new machines that are much better than the previous ones.
Episode 3: Dried Out and Hung Up:
When Cindy Thompson falls and breaks her legs, she is bed ridden and gives Nancy the responsobilities of being land lady for a week. She falls flat on the job, literally, when she trips on a pair of sneakers that Trina left on the stairs and the job goes to Kallie who screws everything up, which leads Cindy to hiring a more qualified canidate. Jake Fields is the center of the attention of all the females in the buidling when he is named one of "Chicago's Most Eligable Bacholers", even his ex-wife Joanie gets in on the action as all the single ladies (Mollie, Andrea, Clara, Cindy, Laurie and even young Trina) try to win his affections and a permante place in his life.
Episode 4: Trina's Troubles:
Kenny and Kallie have a hard time dealing with Trina's behavior when she gets her first boyfriend, Tom (Cameo apperance by Tom Welling of Smallville.) and starts acting too sexual for their liking,(wearing short mini-skirts, haulter-tops, wearing too much make-up, equating being mature with having sex) and must explain to her what having sex too early can do to her life. To prove this point, Kallie brings her to an unwed mothers shelter so she can see what being a single mother as a teenage can do to her. But things go awry when Trina befriends some of the girls at the unwed mothers shelter and wants to have a baby of her own. So Kenny arranges for her to visit an STD clinic run by a friend of his. where she learns about all the different STD's there are, including Herpes, Chlymida, Gonereha and even HIV and AIDS. This changes Trina's mind about sex and decides that having sex and being mature are very different things, and that in fact its far more mature to not have sex. So she breaks up with Tom. When Nancy is up for a big promotion at work she must do everything she can to impress the controlling, bossy, stuck-up head of the promotions board who has always hated her (Special guest star Marla Sokolove).
Episode 5: Rare End Hostility.
A rear-end collision between Kenny and Andrea causes friction when they each sue each other and he starts taking out his frustration on Kallie and Trina. Andrea realizes that if she pretends to be hurt, since she's a single women, she can make him feel guilty. It backfires when Kallie and Andrea realize her plan and with Kenny hatches a plan of their own, to make her drop the lawsuite. They have Kenny spend every waking moment with her, trying to help her, not letting her do anything on her own. It works and she drops the lawsuite, and agrees to pay for everything and admits it was her fault they hit each other. After overhearing an insensitive remark about their weight from J.T. and Micheal, Mollie and Andrea go on an excersie binge. Thinking that if the two of them are excersising that much, Trina believes she must be in need of a very serious diet and stops eating. Clara goes on a date with a former flame of hers, who thinks that she still has money and is hurt when she is dumped by him after she tells him that she has no more money. Nancy and Trey each contemplate moving into their own place when they start getting on each others nerves. Nothing they do is right, She can't work because his music is too loud, he can't watch television because she wants to host a diner party and niether one can have sex because the other seems to always be in the apartment. And a midnight bed mix-up causes embarressment for Nancy's date as well as for Trey.
Episode 6: Just Divorce/I Love Laurie (Special 20 min episode, featuers two different 10 min stories).
The tenants take sides when Jake and Joanies divorce gets ugly, and its the men against the women, against Trina and Clara who could care less. The troubles between Jake and Joanie also take a toll on Kallie and Kenny when she starts to question his loyalty to her and trina. Then its "I Love Lucy" all over again when Cindy puts Kenny in charge of the building talent show and in an effort to be fair to everyone he won't let Kallie be in it because she failed to show up for the mandatory audition. So she hatches several schemes to try and get in the show to sing. Also, Trey and Laurie break-up when he questions her loyalty when she "forgets" his birthday... but what he doesn't know is that it was just a trick because she really was planning his surprise birthday party, which she planned to hold one-week after his birthday.
Episode 7: Clara The Dictator...
When Cindy goes on an extended vacation to visit her daughter she leaves her oldest friend in the world, Clara to take over her duties and all hell breaks loose when Clara turns the building into a dictatorship and makes a whole bunch of new rules, that really only benefit her. These rules include, no music at all (she hates music), no television sets on after 6pm (she hates anything othe than her soaps and talk shows). She also targets the girls when she makes a rule saying they can't sit on the front stoop and talk, because it is a "Saftey Hazard". She also attacks Kenny, J.T. and Micheal by passing a no-smoking rule so they can't smoke their favorite cigars.
Episode 8: Judgement Day Parts 1 and 2. (Special 2-hour episode):
PART 1:
Micheal gets a chance to reflect on his life and it is after he makes a mistake and sleeps with a women that may be infected with HIV. This special episode contains all flashbacks of what Micheal life has been and featuers the entire cast, playing people from his past... In the episode we see several key events from Micheal's life including:
His 15th birthday when his mother and father announced their divorce. (Nancy McKeon plays J.T. and Micheals mother, Pammy), (Mark Whalberg plays their dad, Joey).
His high school prom when he dumped his slightly overweight date for the most popular girl in school. (Amber Tamblyn plays the overweight girl), (Kelly Ripa plays the popular girl)
His first college relationship, in which the girl dumped him for a lesbian realtionship. (Leslie Bibb plays the Lesbian girl)
His first serious relationship, post-college, which ends sadly when she is killed by a drunk driver and sends him into a downward sprial. (Nicolette Sheridan plays the girlfriend, sally)
And lastly we see the most recent relationship in which he sleeps with a total stranger, who he only knows from the Gym and finds out that she may be infected with HIV or possibly worse, full blown AIDS. (Special Guest Star Laura Linney plays the girl that possibly could have HIV/AIDS, referred to in the show as only, Lisa). (Special guest star Reba McEntire plays the receptionist at the HIV clinic where Micheal is tested).
The episode ends with Micheal learning that he is HIV free, but that the girl is not.
PART 2:
Prejudices arise in the building when a gay couple, one of whom is HIV positive moves in and the tenant board (Andrea, Mollie, Kenny, Jake, Joanie and Clara) try to get them evicted, out of fear that they may too contract the virus. Micheal, Trina and Laurie are the only three that attempt to do anything to get the couple to stay. Kallie is insecure because she starts to realize that Trina is almost 16 and that she will start having sex within the next few years, and is afraid that Trina will contract HIV. She tries to ban Trina from seeing any of her Male friends, but doesn't tell her why. When the board goes to the building owner (Special Guest Star Sherman Hemsley) and successfully gets the couple evicted, Micheal gets very upest and calls a special building meeting in which everyone in the bulding is called out for behavior which is less than saintly, which is the grounds that the board used to get the couple evicted.
Kallie and Kenny's marriage gets rocky when they question how they've grown apart politically after so many years of marriage. She considers a divorce.
Trey and Laurie get a scare when she is pricked by a needle that possibly is infected with HIV, while candy striping at the local HIV shelter and they both must get tested. The episode ends with the couple being invited to move back into the building, but it is too late as the HIV infected partner (Special guest star Greg Louganis) has already died, and his partner (Speical guest star George Micheal) has decided to move back to England. And Trey and Laurie learn that niether one of them has HIV. Kenny and Kallie decided not to get a divorce, and agree that its okay to have different political feelings.
EPISODE 9: Judgement Day Part 3 (Special 1-hour episode):
When an Asian family, The Tren's takes the apartment next to the Lowmans, prejduice reaks havoc as Kenny won't allow Trina to date their son, Kin-Fo because he thinks that he will get her involved in an Asian Gang. Kallie tries to smooth things over with the family by having them over for dinner, but ends up offending them when she serves what she thinks is a traditional Asian meal, but is really something that is just a stereotype. Trina is horrified and stops speaking to both, Kallie and Kenny. The Tren's ban Kin-Fo from seeing Trina, thinking that the Lowman's are racists.
Jake, Micheal and J.T. accidently wander into a gay bar and are each hit on. This doesn't phase them until the girls, Andrea, Mollie, Kallie and Clara get wind of it and make fun of them, they even tell J.T. that "It wouldn't surprise me if you were gay, afterall you aren't exactly the most masculin guy in the world" and they tell Jake "Well you do know how to dress well". Each of the guys reacts differently to the situation... Jake starts to act ultra masculine, by wearing nothing but baggy jeans, dirty, greasy t-shirts and backwards baseball caps and hitting on the girls and calling them "Honey Pie" and "Sweet Cakes". Micheal starts to get rid of any item in his apartment which he thinks could make him look gay and tries to avoid any manurisum or charactristic that might make people suspect that he's gay. and J.T. starts to suspcect that maybe, he, just might be gay and even begins to explore these feelings by going back to the gay bar and dancing with a handsome, single gay guy. After dancing, J.T. is having such a good time that he goes out for drinks with the guy, Eddie (Special Guest Star Hal Sparks), and before he knows it they are kissing, passionatley. J.T. invites, Eddie back to his place, and before they know it, things have esculated and they are on the bed, shirtless and kissing, Eddie's hands moving down J.T.'s body, further and further... J.T. freaks out and pushes Eddie off of him, screaming "you, fruit, get off me.." Eddie is confused and asks "Why", then J.T. says "I'm not gay, you ***, now get out before i beat you in the head with a hammer and make you bleed". Eddie leaves, sad and scared. And J.T. shows his softer side when he breaks down and starts crying, "Yes, i'm gay, i'm gay, it's true, i'm gay". The Words "To Be Continued..." appear across the screen and the episode fades to black.
Episode 10: Judgment Day Part 4 (Special 1-hour episode):
After acknowleding the fact that he is gay, and that he actually did like, Eddie, J.T. decides to tell all of his friends and family, including Micheal that he is gay. Telling Micheal is the easy part, he says he kind of figured that out a long time ago. but telling his family is not so easy, his mother and father have a much more negative reaction, the mother (Special guest star Ellen Byrstyn) falls to the floor screaming "My Baby, Not my baby, my baby is not a ******". and his father (Special guest star Tom Skerrit) punches him and says "You are not gay.. My son is NOT gay." J.T. continues to tell them that he is gay and that there is nothing they can do to change his mind or make his apologize". Back at the building J.T. tells the rest of his friends (Kallie, Kenny, Nancy, Mollie, Nancy, Jake, and Joanie) and each one of them reacts by saying "Oh yeah?" "We kind of knew that". Which provides great relife for him.. Aftewards, back at their place, Kenny tells Kallie he doesn't want to be friends with J.T. anymore, because he doesn't want to be gay himself. Kallie and Kenny fight as she tries to convince him that being friends with J.T. will not turn him gay. Trina overhears the discussion and is upest that her father would think such things and reminds him that he's been friends with J.T. for the last ten years and that J.T. even saved his life one time, by saving him from drowning in the river. But Kenny won't budge and actually bans Trina from seeing J.T. ever again, because he doesn't want the gay agenda rubbing off on her, and also feels that all gay people are phedophiles. When Andrea accidently spills this to J.T. he is extremely hurt and barges up to the Lowmans aparment and bangs on the door. Kallie answers and is about to let him him, when Kenny stops him from enterting the apartment and tells him not to go there ever again, or he'll call the police. J.T. leaves hurt and saddened and goes downstairs where he collapases in the hallway. Laurie finds him there and asks whats the matter, they start talking and Laurie goes up to the Lowmans apartment and starts to yell at Kenny, saying that he's ignorant and a jerk and that she thinks he should be ashamed of himself. Kenny tells her to butt-out because shes just "A ignorant, uneducated liberal who supports the gay agenda", This statement shockes Kallie who tells Kenny to shut-up and asks Laurie to leave. After Laurie leaves, Kallie and Kenny get into a huge fight and Kenny slaps Kallie across the face. Kallie is totally shocked and tells Kenny to get out. "To Be Continued..." appears across the screen and the screen goes black. (Police Sirens and Trina's screams of "MOM, MOM, MOM WHAT HAPPENED" can be heard as the screen goes black and the credits roll).
Episode 11: The Aftermath.
When the police show up, Kenny is arressted and Kallie says that she is not going to press charges, because he did not mean to hit her. Meanwhile, at Trina's school, word has spread that Trina's dad is in prison and she becomes the victim of nasty rumors and many viscous comments as the students think that its really funny. Cindy decides that J.T.'s presence in the building is causing too much tension and asks him to move out, so that he doesn't cause anymore problems. J.T. refuses too, saying that it is a violation of his civil rights to be forced out of his apartment for his sexuality. Cindy says she'll do anything to get him out and barges off to see her lawyer.
Trina cuts the rest of school and sneaks off home, where she runs into J.T. outside waiting for a cab, and she asks where he's going, and he tells her that he going to stay at a hotel for awhile, until things "cool down". She realizes that he means things with her dad, and this does it for her, she grabs J.T. by the arm and forces him upstairs and into their apartment. Kenny and Kallie are already there and are sipping tea and crying, Kallie and Kenny are both shocked to see Trina home from school, but before they can get a word out, Trina is in the middle of a huge speech and is bereting Kenny about his behavior. Halfway through the speech Kenny gets up and goes towards J.T., and thinking that Kenny isgoing to hit him, so not surprisingly J.T. is forever shocked when Kenny hugs him and gives him a kiss on the forhead, "I'm Sorry" Kenny says to J.T. and J.T. says "I Know". Trina is totally shocked, and thinks her speech is what caused this and says out-loud "Wow, i have to join the debate team!" and she tries to sneak off into her room, but Kallie grabs her and says "You're not going anywhere but back to school". Kallie leaves to take Trina to school. After they leave, Kenny and J.T. talk about how Cindy wants him to move out and this is when Kenny realizes how bad his behavior really was and once again apologizes to J.T. "I'm really sorry, i acted like an idiot". J.T. says that its okay, and then Kenny offers to help J.T. and takes him to see a friend of his whose a lawyer that specializes in Civil rights cases. The lawyer (Special Guest star Candace Bergin; Murphy Brown)is totally mortified that Cindy would even suggest his moving out "this is still happening in the year 2005, you have just got to be kidding me". Cindy is served with papers ordering her to appear in court and she knows that she's in trouble.
Episode 12: Tying Up All The loose ends...
Cindy and J.T. appear and court and the judge is horrofied that Cindy would dare ask J.T. to move out even if his sexuality is causing tension in the building. After hearing Kenny testify that he and J.T. have patched things up, the judge rules that J.T. should be allowed to stay in the building, but does ask him to see a therapist which he gladly agrees to do.
After the hearing, Kenny returns home to see Kallie at the kitchen table crying. He asks her what is the matter and she says that it has just dawned on her that Kenny hit her and that she just realized how serious a problem it is. Kenny grows angry and says "Can't you understand that it was a one-time situation and it will never happen again." Kallie cannot fathom this response and says "No, it is much more serious than a one-time problem. I think that we need to see a marriage consouler." Kenny balks at this idea and says that he will never see a therapist." Kallie grows irratated and says that if he doesn't see the consoluer with her that she will "Take trin and leave the apartment, until you've sought help". Kenny says that "If thats what she wants then, be out of the apartment by the end of the day." Kallie is shocked that he would say this and starts crying even harder. "Why don't you want to get help? don't you love me?" Kenny says "I love you, but i am not going to some head-shrinker to tell them all the problems in our marriage." Kallie won't listen to this crap anymore and goes to the bedroom to pack her and Trina's things.
Meanwhile at work, Nancy is trying her best to cope with the stress of being the only manager on during a big sale. This was a deliberate move on the part of her supervising manager to see if Nancy can cut it and if she deserves a promotion. Nancy is doing okay until one old lady (Special Cameo Apperance by former Facts Of Life star Charolett Rea) tries to return a pair of pants that shes had for a year and also has a hole in the butt. "You cannot return clothing after 30 days and its been a year, according to your recipt." "But i have the tags" says that old lady. Nancy snaps and yells at the lady telling her to get a clue and get out of the store. Nancy realizes what a bad thing she just did and apologizes profusley to the old lady but it is too late as her supervisior tells Nancy to pack up and leave for the rest of the day. Nancy knows that shes probally going to get fired and goes home to have a drink, but is mad when she discovers that Trey and Laurie have just drank the last of the wine. Nancy gets fed up and starts yelling at both Trey and Laurie, something she's never done before, she even calls them "Stupid Jerks" and calls Laurie "A two-bit hussy". They are shocked at her behavior but chalk it up to her being overstressed "After-all its almost the holiday season and i'm sure that the store is extra busy".
Nancy is in a frenzied state and runs feverishly out of the apartment and straight to a nearby bar. She orders a double vodka with no ice and takes it down without hesitation, and then orders three more, drinking them one right after the other. (A graphic appears on the screen that says 3 hours later...) and we see Nancy dancing in a very sexual manner with her blouse open and revealing her lace bra. She is making a lot of noise and trying to get some guys to hit on her. She is groping them and grabbing their butts. She is saying sexual things like "Give me some of that..." and "ohhh ohhh baby i want you". When they walk away she tries to catch up to them but stumbles and falls down, taking with her a table with ten shot glasses and a bottle of wine. The glass shatters everywhere, causing a gash in Nancy's head and all over her hands and face.. The bartender calls 911 and Nancy is arressted and brought to a hospital.
Meanwhile back at the apartment building things are getting tense for Trey and Laurie as she desperately tries to teach Trey the principles of college calculus. They are in the middle of arguging when the phone rings and Trey picks it up... "Nancy's in the hospital" he says and Laurie jumps up and they head for the door. "I hope she's okay" says Laurie, "Me too" responds Trey.
Episode 13: Desperate Measuers
Trey and Laurie arrive at the hospital to find out that Nancy is being arressted for "Drunken Disorderly" as well as "Destruction Of Private Property" and that she faces a harsh sentence, including possible jail time. Trey is totally shocked and has no idea what to say to her. Nancy is extremely embarrassed and explains to Trey that she didn't mean to cause problems for anyone and that she cannot go to jail, she begs him to get a good lawyer for her, so that she won't have to go to jail. Trey calls their Cousin Tim (guest star Scott Foley) and he says that Nancy will be lucky if she gets off with "a three thousand dollar fine and community service."
Andrea's life turns upside down when she must plan a wedding for her former high school boyfriend, Jake (Guest Star Tim Dayl) and his Fiancee, Stacie (Guest appearance by Shannen Dorethy) who was Andrea's worst enemy in high school. It quickly becomes apparent that Stacie has no interest in the ceremony or planning it and that she just wants to marry Jake. When Andrea and Jake are left to do all the planning and spend a lot of time together old sparks start to flicker once again, and one night after a long session of picking out flowers and table-cloth colors, Jake and Andrea go to get Chinese food and have drinks and they kiss, and then one thing leads to another and they wake up in bed together the next morning. Andrea begins to think that this means that Jake wants to get back with her, but when she asks when they'll see each other next he says "Well, Today when we pick out the catering selections". Andrea is crushed and says "But, i thought we were together again." Jake smiles his crushing smile and says "Sorry but as good as it was, it was what it was, a one-time thing."
Clara has her hands full when her six year old granddaughter comes to visit for the weekend and she must put her own needs aside and take care of the six year old. She is exhausted after a day-long trip to the Zoo, which results in her granddaughter wandering off at the Zoo and her trying to find the granddaughter.
Episode 14: What Comes Up, Must Come Down (SEASON FINALE)
Nancy appears in court where she is sentenced to three hundred hours of community service and a three thousand dollar fine. She is also asked to enroll in A.A. and she is ordered not to go back to that bar ever again. Tim tells her that she is very lucky and that if she is ever arressted again for this crime that she will likely face jail time, he urges her to go to rehab. She balks at the idea and refuses to do this. She tells him to butt out of her life and Trey and Laurie take her back to the apartment. While at the apartment Nancy looks for alcohol but there is none in the apartment, because Trey has thrown all of it out. Nancy yells at Trey and tells him to stop messing with her life, which causes Laurie to get upset and say "He's just trying to help you." This enrages Nancy who calls Laurie a B**** and then slaps her across the face. Trey is shocked and tells Nancy that he is moving out of the apartment. He and Laurie leave and go to her apartment.
Trina is having a hard time adjusting to living in a cramped hotel room with just her mother and she is realizing that she really misses her father. Kallie and Kenny go out to lunch to see if they can work out some of their differences and it seems to work as Kenny agrees to go with Kallie to seek therapy.
Andrea grins and bears trying to get through wedding planning sessions with Jake and Stacie, even though it is becoming crystal clear that Stacie has no interest in Jake and vice versa as Stacie spends all her time reading her romance novel called "Fruit Of My Lyons" and he keeps hitting on Andrea. After three hours, Andrea can't take it anymore and freaks out and says "What the heck is going on here?" Jake and Stacie are shocked at Andreas boldness and ask her what she means. When Andrea points out that neither one seems interested in the wedding they realize that shes correct and they explain to her that they aren't really in love with one another and are getting married for only the purpose of Stacie getting her green-card. This makes Andrea realize that Jake is just a sleaze-bucket. (episode ends, credits roll)