Similar Sitcom Plots/Themes

[Pavan]

I thought I'd ask people to help me fill my list and add other "themes." Maybe we can get TV Land or some channel to run a special mini-marathon (aka Box Sets) of these themed-programming. I'm not including the obvious Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or other holiday episodes. Even vacation episodes are obvious. But here are similar plot lines:

Sitcom Camping Episodes:
Brady Bunch
Sanford & Son
Three's Company
Hearts Afire
Valerie
Perfect Strangers

Computer Dating Episodes:
Three's Company - Jack & Janet
Diff'rent Strokes - Mr. D being set up by Arnold & Willis
Hogan Family - Sandy set up by Mark & Willy
Green Acres - Ralph and Oliver and Lisa
The Honeymooners - "The Match Game" episode

Fake "Guru" Episodes:
Three's Company - Chrissy gets conned
What's Happening!! - Rerun gets conned
Charles in Charge - Jamie gets conned
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - Richard Kline guest stars as the fake guru
The Ellen Show - John Ritter guests as a fake motivational speaker

School Mascot Stolen (Goat Usually) Episodes:
Brady Bunch - Greg steals the goat
Hogan Family - Willy & Mark I think bring the goat
8 Simple Rules - Rory I think brings the goat

Nude Modeling Episodes:
What's Happening Now!! - Raj models
Three's Company - Jack models
Charles in Charge - Young woman models, with little Adam watching
All in the Family - Gloria is the nude model

Running from the FBI:
Three's Company - Jack in drag running from them
What's Happening Now!! - Raj in drag running from them
Good Times - Cousin Cleatus

Baking Episodes:
Diff'rent Strokes - Willis & Arnold make brownies
Three's Company - Pie fight episode; Jack makes cookies as a grandma
Perfect Strangers - Bibibobkas!

Sitcoms on Game Shows (Fake or Real):
227 - various: Love Connection, WoF, Family Feud
Sanford & Son - Gong Show
What's Happening!! - Gong Show
Perfect Strangers - fake game show in "Games People Play" episode
Mama's Family
Golden Girls

Can anyone add on to these and add more categories?

[Ireneparalegal]

Running from the FBI - Cousin Cleatus episode from Good Times

Hawaiian trips -
The Jeffersons
The Brady Bunch
My Wife and Kids

Oops, I just realized you didn't want vacation episodes. sorry.

[Ireneparalegal]

Contest episodes:

The fake radio contest: Three's company
The dance contest: What's Happening
The baking contest: Three's Company
The celebrity look-a-like contest: Sanford & Son

[Ireneparalegal]

Look-a-likes:

A different world: Whitley and her cousin
Brady Bunch: Peter and his look-a-like at school

[Pavan]

Running from the FBI - Cousin Cleatus episode from Good Times

Hawaiian trips -
The Jeffersons
The Brady Bunch
My Wife and Kids

Oops, I just realized you didn't want vacation episodes. sorry.


Thanks! I forgot about that Good Times episode. Since you mentioned Hawaiian, Step by Step also went there.

[skees53]

Totaling a car that you aren't supposed to be driving:
Oedipus Wrecks episode of Hogan Family and that episode of Three's Company where Jack fakes getting amnesia after totaling Janet's car

and for Hawaiian trips, what about Mama's Family?

[TJ]

Game Shows:
Gimme A Break - Nell on Wheel of Fortune
Happy Days - Richie on "Big Money"

Camping:
Diff'rent Strokes - A Camping We Will Go
Leave it to Beaver - they go camping to a lake
Happy Days - Richie, Potsie, and Ralph Malph go camping

Computer Dating Episodes:
Silver Spoons
The Facts of Life - Love at First Byte

Baking Episodes:
The Facts of Life - A Slice of Life

Kid Pretends to Be Sick to See An Athlete Episodes:
The Brady Bunch - Bobby and Joe Namath
Diff'rent Strokes - Muhammad Ali

[Pavan]

Thought of another baking episode. The tarts episode of Family Matters. Where Carl makes lemon tarts.

[Ireneparalegal]

Thee most awesome baking episode ever:

I LOVE LUCY when she bakes bread like they did in the pioneer days. :rofl:

[Brian Damage]

Game Shows:
Gimme A Break - Nell on Wheel of Fortune
Happy Days - Richie on "Big Money"

Don't forget Cheers---Cliff Clavin on Jeopardy

What's Happening---Rerun on the Gong Show (not sure if that qualifies as a game show)

Sanford & Son---Fred on the Gong Show

The Honeymooners----Ralph on the 64,000 Answer

The Odd Couple---Felix and Oscar on Password

[Pavan]

Sitcom Fires:
Facts of Life - Edna's Edibles goes down
Family Matters - The old burger joint goes down and turns into Rachel's Place
Diff'rent Strokes - The building on fire
Happy Days - Chachi causes Arnold's to go down
Hogan Family - The attic on fire

Trapped in the freezer/basement/elevator:
Benson - Krause and Benson in the basement
Three's Company - Jack and Furley in the freezer at Angelino's
Brady Bunch - Greg in the freezer at Sam's Butcher Shop
All in the Family - Mike and Archie in the freezer
Family Ties - Skippy and Mallory in the basement
Diff'rent Strokes - Arnold & Willis in the basement
Charles in Charge - Charles and blind woman trapped in elevator
Perfect Strangers - trapped in the basement, flooded...two-part episode.

[Brian Damage]

Trapped in the freezer/basement:
Benson - Krause and Benson in the basement
Three's Company - Jack and Furley in the freezer
Brady Bunch - Greg & Peter in the freezer
All in the Family - Mike and Archie in the freezer

Arnold and Willis were stuck in the basement on Diff'rent Strokes

Arnold and Lisa were stuck in a dark room on DS as well

[Ireneparalegal]

I've thought of three more categories:

Wedding episodes
pregnancy & labor/birth episodes: "I think I am pregnant"...etc.
Flashback episodes

[EmoJoe]

Sitcom Fires:
Facts of Life - Edna's Edibles goes down
Family Matters - The old burger joint goes down and turns into Rachel's Place
Diff'rent Strokes - The building on fire
Happy Days - Chachi causes Arnold's to go down
Hogan Family - The attic on fire

Trapped in the freezer/basement/elevator:
Benson - Krause and Benson in the basement
Three's Company - Jack and Furley in the freezer at Angelino's
Brady Bunch - Greg in the freezer at Sam's Butcher Shop
All in the Family - Mike and Archie in the freezer
Family Ties - Skippy and Mallory in the basement
Diff'rent Strokes - Arnold & Willis in the basement
Charles in Charge - Charles and blind woman trapped in elevator
Perfect Strangers - trapped in the basement, flooded...two-part episode.


for the fire one:
Fresh Prince - Will burns down the kitchen

[Ireneparalegal]

Fires: Good Times: the couch catches fire.

[Pavan]

Sitcoms Doing Commercials:
What's Happening!! - Dee doing the burger commercial
I Love Lucy - you know..
Charles in Charge - the banana commercial
Step by Step - Al doing the sun tan commercial
Happy Days - Hank Aaron commercial
Brady Bunch - detergent commercial
Family Ties - Elyse doing a commercial

Winning the lottery...Almost:
Perfect Strangers - they thought they won...
The Flintstones - well, for them it was called the sweepstake ticket
Charles in Charge - Donny Most's character won the lottery, Charles stopped Mr. Powell in getting that ticket
Hangin' With Mr. Cooper - Lost the ticket
Full House - lottery prank
Fresh Prince - lottery prank
Golden Girls - lost the ticket

Flintstones also had a baking episode...the gravelberry pie!

[Brent88]

Sitcom Fires:
Facts of Life - Edna's Edibles goes down
Family Matters - The old burger joint goes down and turns into Rachel's Place
Diff'rent Strokes - The building on fire
Happy Days - Chachi causes Arnold's to go down
Hogan Family - The attic on fire.

There was also a fire at one of Jefferson Cleaners on The Jeffersons(Season 8).

Oh and there was a small one on All in the Family that Archie tried to make look worse for insurance. :lol:

Totaling a car that you aren't supposed to be driving:

Family Matters-Eddie crashed the car through the living room.

Camping:

The Jeffersons with George and Marcus
Family Matters with Carl, Eddie, and Steve

[Pavan]

UFO Episodes:
Brady Bunch
Charles in Charge
Soap
ALF - (I guess, lol)

Ghosts, haunted episodes:
Gilligan's Island - ghost on island
Brady Bunch - Bradys are the ghosts
Diff'rent Strokes - haunted house with ghosts with John Astin??
Perfect Strangers - ghosts in the new house
Soap - Baby possesed

Amnesia...fake and real:
Three's Company - Jack fakes amnesia
Charles in Charge - Charles bumps his head and turns into Chaz
Full House
Flintstones
Soap - Chester loses his memory

Lamaizze classes:
Night Court
Step by Step
Boy Meets World
The Jeffersons

[friendsfan77]

The Odd Couple---Felix and Oscar on Password
They were also on Let's Make A Deal.

There's an episode of My Wife and Kids that's EXACTLY like the Friends episode "The One Where No One Is Ready."

[Madame X]

Camping:Fresh Prince with Phillip, Will and Carlton

Freezer:I Love Lucy

[Janice]

I don't know if it qualifies as a category, but All In The Family and The Jeffersons had an identical plot. Archie and Edith and George and Louise entered their grandchild in a baby photo contest.

I know there are episodes in shows where in-laws compete. Maybe a dueling/competing grandparent's theme? Dueling in-laws?

Something along those lines.

[Pavan]

The Flintstones had a baby contest thing I think. I think they called it a beauty contest. Fred enters Pebbles.

As for wrecked cars...8 Simple Rules had that sort of as Bridget dented the mini-van slightly. I hate Full House but didn't they have a wrecked car episode, too?

[vashti1999]

Fake "Guru" Episodes:
Three's Company - Chrissy gets conned
What's Happening!! - Rerun gets conned
Charles in Charge - Jamie gets conned
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - Richard Kline guest stars as the fake guru
The Ellen Show - John Ritter guests as a fake motivational speaker


If you make it "fake religious cults," you could add Soap - Billy Tate

Don't know if this has been done many times, but "a pregnant woman giving birth awhile stuck in an elevator": saw it the other day on an episode of On Our Own and I know it's been done on Saved By The Bell

[Ireneparalegal]

If you make it "fake religious cults," you could add Soap - Billy Tate

Don't know if this has been done many times, but "a pregnant woman giving birth awhile stuck in an elevator": saw it the other day on an episode of On Our Own and I know it's been done on Saved By The Bell
Fresh Prince (aka Fresh Crap) where Vanessa Williams appears as a pregnant woman who goes into labor and Will has a hard time getting her to the hospital.

I Love Lucy - Lucy goes into labor and chaos ensues

The Jeffersons - Jenny goes into labor and George is the only one around

All in the Family - Gloria goes into labor but is stuck in a phone booth

[edoug]

Fake "Guru" Episodes:
Letterman on Mork & Mindy

Characters played by diffferent actors:
Vivian - Fresh Prince
Becky - Roseanne

Playing Sports:
The Softball game - WKRP
Basketball - Happy Days
Baseball - The Munsters and Beverly Hillbillies

Real life married couples:
Will and Jada Pinkett Smith - Fresh Prince
Jack Klugman and Brett Somers - Odd Couple
Rob Reiner and Penny Marshall - Odd Couple
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen - Becker
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall - Day by Day
Kelsey Grammer and Camille Grammer - Frasier

[Dr. Jazz]

One I'm surprised no one has mentioned yet:

two characters getting handcuffed to each other -

I Love Lucy - Lucy and Ricky

Sanford and Son - Fred and Esther

Three's Company - Jack and Chrissy

Laverne & Shirley - Laverne and Lenny or Squiggy (can't remember which one it was)


I'm sure there's more.

[Pavan]

This thread has gone global! It is linked on the blog now:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/2006/10/full-season-for-brothers-help-us-find.html

[Kristen]

Under Lamaze, you need to add Murphy Brown. "He, Ho, He Ho, it's off to Lamaze We Go" and Wings should be added to sitcom fires. First in "Burnin' Down the House," and then again in "Porno for Pyros."

Kristen

[Kevmath]

Camping Episodes - I know What's Happening Now!'s last episode had camping in it, as well as the fake/real bear.

Fire - Night Court had an episode where the courthouse was on fire and they all had to go down to the morgue.

Game Show - Night Court had an episode where Bull was trying to win money for a youth program.

Dance Contest - Included special guest Gary Owens as the MC.

Handcuffed to each other - Night Court Harry to Christine while one of Christine's inspirations was looking for her.


Being trapped - Night Court - Harry trapping himself in a safe.

Kevin...

[Ireneparalegal]

Celebs appearing as themselves:

Loretta Lynn: Roseanne
Sammy Davis Jr.: All in the family
Billy Dee Williams: The Jeffersons
Van Johnson: I love Lucy
Tallulah Bankhead: I love Lucy
Christopher Reeve: I Love Lucy
Eddie Money: King of Queens
Harpo Marx: I love Lucy
John Wayne: I Love Lucy

[Pavan]

Sammy Davis, Jr. was also on Archie Bunker's Place and The Jeffersons.
Billy Dee Williams was on 227 and The Jeffersons.
Carl Lewis was on Perfect Strangers.

[Ireneparalegal]

Sammy Davis, Jr. was also on Archie Bunker's Place and The Jeffersons.
Billy Dee Williams was on 227 and The Jeffersons.
Carl Lewis was on Perfect Strangers.
I did post The Jeffersons for Billy Dee, but I totally forgot 227.

[CM1124]

This is a fantastic thread guys!!

Here's a new category:

Three Part Episodes
The Brady Bunch-Hawaii and The Grand Canyon
Sanford and Son-Hawaii
Good Times-I believe Thelma's wedding, and the introduction of the character Penny, and possibly others.
Murphy Brown-The episodes when we find out Murphy is pregnant.

And a few additions to previously proposed categories...

Handcuffed
Step by Step

Famous People Appearing As Themselves
The Brady Bunch-Desi Arnaz, Jr., Davy Jones, Don Ho, General McDivitt (the astronaut), Deacon Jones, Joe Namath, Don Drysdale and Wes Parker
The Brady Brides-Bob Eubanks
What's Happenning!!-The Doobie Brothers
The Cosby Show-Stevie Wonder
Sanford and Son-Lena Horne
Full House-Suzanne Somers
Cheers-John Kerry, Kevin McHale, Bill Medley (from The Righteous Brothers), Tip O'Neill
Who's The Boss?-Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra

Game Shows
The Brady Bunch-When Bobby takes part in the ice cream eating contest on Kartoon King; Cindy on the stump the kids quiz show
The Brady Brides-Jan and Marcia and their significant others on The Newleywed Game

Amnesia
Sanford and Son-I'm pretty sure Fred fakes amnesia in one episode

Stuck in Elevator
Three's Company-Jack, Janet, Cindy, Ralph and Bart Furley

Playing Sports
The Brady Bunch-Many epsiodes, most famously in The Subject Was Noses (the broken nose) and Confessions, Confessions (the broken vase)

Baking Episodes
The Brady Bunch-Again, many, many episodes

Hawaiian Episodes
Sanford and Son

Contest Episodes
The Brady Bunch-Alice wins a contest in the episode where Cindy becomes a major Tattletale
Three's Company-Mr. Roper wants to enter a contest for a canned beans company slogan

[friendsfan77]

Also adding to the real life married couples list:
Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan - Family Ties

Episodes with tornadoes:
Mama's Family
That '70's Show
King of the Hill
Roseanne
Designing Women

[Ireneparalegal]

Episodes dealing with a death (real or fictional)

Cheers: Coach (Nicholas Colasanto died in real life)
Good Times: James Evans (actor dismissed from show)
M*A*S*H: Col. Blake (am I correct regarding this character?)
8 Simple Rules: John Ritter's death
Gimme a Break: Dolph Sweet's death

[David*P]

Sitcom Camping Episodes:
The Flintstones - Barney and Fred go camping by themselves saying it's no place for women. New neighbor Samantha (from Bewitched) insists that the women go camping too to show the men what they're made of.

Computer Dating Episodes:
Bewitched - Serena uses a computer dating service to find a mortal date in "Marriage Witches Style" (one of my all time fave BW episodes)
I Dream of Jeannie - Jeannie tries to set Roger up on a date that she found for him through a computer service in "Jeannie, the Matchmaker" from the Fifth Season.

Nude Modeling Episodes:
Mr. Belvedere - I believe it was the older son modeling....and I swear that any time this show came on in reruns I would only catch this episode.

Baking Episodes
I Dream of Jeannie - In "My Master, the Swinging Bachelor" Tony has a date come over to cook and jealous Jeannie adds extra ingredients to everything and finally blinks up a cake that makes everyone who tastes it revert to their child hood.
Another from IDOJ is "Jeannie and the Wild Pipchicks" where Jeannie's mother sends her favorite treat, pipchicks, which when eaten by a mortal give them extra strength not to mention makes them act out their fantasies.

Contest episodes:
Bewitched - Samantha wins a slogan writing contest in "Is It Magic or Imagination" for a company that happens to be the subsidary of a client of McMann and Tate's. Durwood thinks she used witchcraft to come up with the winning slogan.

Look-a-likes:
Bewitched - Any of the 24 episodes involving Serena. Before Serena showed up there was an episode where Endora doubles as Samantha for a dress fitting and becomes involved with one of Durwood's friends in "Which Witch is Which?"
I Dream of Jeannie - Any of the episodes involving her sister, Jeannie II.
The Munsters - "Knock Wood, Here Comes Charlie" shows Herman's twin brother Charlie. Another Munsters look-a-like is in "A Visit from Johann" when Dr. Victor Frankenstein IV shows up with a monster made from the same plans as Herman that he wants Herman to train.
The Addams Family - any of the episodes with Morticia's sister Ophelia.

Wedding episodes
I Dream of Jeannie - When Tony and Jeannie marry in "The Wedding' considered the point where the series jumped the shark.

pregnancy & labor/birth episodes:
Bewitched - "...And Something Makes Three": Louise Tate finds out she's pregnant but Larry thinks Samantha is the one expecting, "Alias Darrin Stephens": Samantha discoveres she is preganant, "A Very Special Delivery": Endora makes Durwood think he's pregnant, "And Then There Were Three": Tabatha is born, "Samantha's Good News": Samantha announces she is pregnant with her second child, "Samantha's Curious Cravings": a pregnant Samantha begins to pop in food any time she has a craving, "And Something Make Four": Samantha give birth to a baby boy.

Flashback episodes:
Bewitched - "A Vision of Sugarplums" (from Season 2): Samantha and Durwood receive a letter from Michael, the orphan who stayed with them last Christmas and they reminisce about that time via flashback to the episode with that original title.
"Samantha Meets the Folks" (from Season 2): Durwood's folks are coming to see the new baby and Samantha remembers when she first met them last season in flashbacks from the original episode with that name.
"Snob in the Grass": Samantha remembers when she first met Durwood's girlfriend Sheila in a clip shown from the pilot episode.
"Samantha's Better Halves": Samantha recalls when Endora split Durwood in two, though the flashback shown is new previously unseen footage.

I Dream of Jeannie - "There Goes the Best Genie I Ever Had": Tony remembers all the trouble Jeannie has got him into when he has the chance to get rid of her forever.
"Hurricane Jeannie": Tony shows Dr. Bellows, via a machine Jeannie blinked up, all the times Dr. Bellows was witnessing something Jeannie did after Dr. Bellows discovers the truth about the weird things surrounding Tony.

UFO Episodes:
Bewitched - "Samantha's Secret Saucer": Aunt Clara zaps a UFO from space containing aliens that look like dogs.
I Dream of Jeannie - "U.F.OHHHH Jeannie": Tony and Roger fly a prototype for a new NASA space vehicle that looks very much like a UFO. They end up crash landing on land owned by some hillbillies who mistake them for aliens.
The Munsters - "If a Martian Answers, Hang Up": while fooling around with a radio in Grandpa's lab, Herman thinks he's contacted some aliens and arranges a meeting with them.

Ghosts, haunted episodes:
Bewitched - "McTavish": Samantha helps Aunt Clara's boyfriend Ocky get rid of the terrible ghost McTavish who has been haunting Ocky's castle...McTavish decides he's going to haunt Samantha's house instead.
"Tabatha's Cranky Spell": Samantha impersonates a client's uncle's ghost in order to save an account, only the real ghost shows up.
"The Ghost Who Made a Spectre of Himself": while staying in an English castle Durwood gets possessed by a ghost who has fallen in love with Samantha.
I Dream of Jeannie - "My Master, the Ghostbreaker": Tony finds he has inherited an English manor which is supposedly haunted.

Amnesia...fake and real:
Bewitched - it's not really amnesia but in several of the time travel episodes of BW, Samantha loses her memory.
I Dream of Jeannie - "I'll Never Forget What's Her Name": Tony is hit on the head by a falling vase and forgets who and what Jeannie is.
"Who Are You Calling a Genie?": Jeannie gets amnesia when she is hit on the head at NASA.

Characters played by diffferent actors:
Durwood - Bewitched (I can't believe that one wasn't mentioned before!)
Gladys Kravitz - Bewitched
Louise Tate - Bewitched
Durwood's father, Frank Stephens - Bewitched
Aunt Hagatha - Bewitched
Jeannie's mother - I Dream of Jeannie

Celebs appearing as themselves:

Sammy Davis Jr. = I Dream of Jeannie

[JulieSomoski]

WE've gotten a lot so far.
Gameshows
*When Fran goes on Jeapardy! on The Nanny
*When Will goes on Double Trouble on Fresh Prince

There were a lot of shows that had weddings on them, and of course many shows ended that way.

[Ireneparalegal]

Episodes dealing with a death (real or fictional)

Cheers: Coach (Nicholas Colasanto died in real life)
Good Times: James Evans (actor dismissed from show)
M*A*S*H: Col. Blake (am I correct regarding this character?)
8 Simple Rules: John Ritter's death
Gimme a Break: Dolph Sweet's death

Let me add:

Newsradio: Phil Hartman (murdered)

[vashti1999]

Celebs appearing as themselves:


Christopher Reeve: I Love Lucy


George Reeves, not Christopher

Lena Horne on A Different World is another one

[Ireneparalegal]

George Reeves, not Christopher

Lena Horne on A Different World is another one
Thanx for catching that. I was seeing how long before anyone notices..:rofl: j/k

How many celebs appeared on Cosby...hmmmm so many

Stevie Wonder
Lena Horne

[71dude]

Fires:
Webster
Love, Sidney
One Day at a Time
The Ropers
Taxi

Car through the house:
Everybody Loves Raymond
Happy Days (Arnolds)
Family Matters
Full House

Pie/food throwing:
Three's Company
I Love Lucy
Growing Pains
My Three Sons
Full House
Family Matters
Boy Meets World
Mr. Belvedere
Bob Newhart Show
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Too Close for Comfort
Diff'rent Strokes
Honeymooners
Brady Bunch

[Br26]

Sitcom Camping Episodes:
Fresh Prince and a BUNCH of Family Matters episodes

Computer Dating Episodes:
Facts of Life and Fresh Prince both did them

Nude Modeling Episodes:
Grounded For Life did one, but I forget who was it

Baking Episodes:
I Love Lucy- Lucy and Ethel work at a candy factory

Sitcoms on Game Shows (Fake or Real):
Full House- the newlyweds type game
Fresh Prince of Bel Air- Double Trouble (fake)
Cheers- One of them was on Jeopardy
Boy Meets World- An acedemic bowl show

[Ireneparalegal]

Celebs appearing as themselves:

Fabian on Laverne & Shirley

[Michael72581]

Game Shows

The Honeymooners
The Odd Couple
Sanford And Son
Maude
Mama's Family

Hawaii

Sanford And Son
The Jeffersons
Mama's Family

Walt Disney World

Full House
Step By Step

Sammy Davis Jr. Guest Stars As Himself

All In The Family
The Jeffersons
Sanford

[treky]

Baking episodes-The Odd Couple-there was an episode where Felix was in a cooking contest
Sitcoms on Game shows-The Odd Couple did it twice. The time Oscar and Felix were on PASSWORD (which Jack Klugman and Tony Randall guest-stared on in real life after that episode aired) and the time they were on LET'S MAKE A DEAL.

Computer dating episodes-the episode of GOMER PYLE: U.S.M.C. where Gomer, Sgt. Carter, & Duke joined a computer dating service that turned out to be fake.

[eslonina]

Trapped episodes: I Love Lucy (freezer), All In The Family (Archie in basement and another episode in elevator)

WKRP in Cincinnati - Herb and Jennifer trapped in elevator during a fire (fits in two categories ;) )

New category - out on a ledge episodes - Frasier, All In The Family, I Love Lucy

[MacLeaper]

For the "on the ledge" episodes-
there actually is an episode of WKRP in Cincinnatti called "Les on the Ledge", I believe, which involves Les being on the ledge!;)
And a similar episode in Family Matters (where Steve gets drunk and gets trapped on a high ledge- I believe there's a later episode where Steve, Eddie and Waldo all get trapped on a fire escape)

And what about the giant alien cockroach coming and invading the household and attacking everyone and keeping everyone at bay until the live-in alien saves the day episode? Man, those just show up all the time!:)

...well, okay- so I guess maybe that was only on ALF!;)

[71dude]

Giving up vices:
All in the Family
Three's Company
Partridge Family
Mr. Belvedere
Alice

Zany funeral scenes:
Mary Tyler Moore
All in the Family
Everybody Loves Raymond
The Jeffersons
Cheers
Golden Girls
Happy Days
Family Ties

[vashti1999]

If you make it "fake religious cults," you could add Soap - Billy Tate (The Sunnies)

Another "religious cult" episode: Welcome Back Kotter: Deprogramming of Arnold Horshack

[Ireneparalegal]

Did we do braces already?

Brady Bunch
Partridge Family

[Kristen]

For the "out on a ledge" catergory, the "Mr. Terriffic" episode of The Golden Girls, where Mr. Terriffic threatened to jump off the ledge of his building.

[Jenya]

Thought of another baking episode. The tarts episode of Family Matters. Where Carl makes lemon tarts.

Another Good baking episode:

Trailer Park Boys: "Ricky and Julian bake Hashish Brownies"

Julian's neighbour Mrs. Peterson is going in for surgery so she leaves her dog Sparky with him for the day. However, he has to go to the DMV for an hour, so Julian leaves the dog temporarily with Ricky who is already busy babysitting his daughter and baking hashish brownies. While he is distracted, Sparky eats some of the hashish brownies so Ricky drops Trinity off with his father and calls Julian. They are sent to a veterinarian who asks them to steal a riding mower as payment for medical treatment. In the process, Ricky gets shot twice. :lol:

[BensonFan]

Handcuffed scenes:

Kramden and Norton on the Honeymooners
Jack and Chrissy on Three's Company
Lucy and Ricky on I Love Lucy
Fred and Esther on Sanford and Son

And I'm sure there are many more!! :D

[vashti1999]

Trapped in the freezer/basement/elevator:
Benson - Krause and Benson in the basement
Three's Company - Jack and Furley in the freezer at Angelino's
Brady Bunch - Greg in the freezer at Sam's Butcher Shop
All in the Family - Mike and Archie in the freezer
Family Ties - Skippy and Mallory in the basement
Diff'rent Strokes - Arnold & Willis in the basement
Charles in Charge - Charles and blind woman trapped in elevator
Perfect Strangers - trapped in the basement, flooded...two-part episode.

Another stuck in an elevator episode: "The Elevator Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" The Bill Cosby Show (1969)

[friendsfan77]

Another "religious cult" episode: Welcome Back Kotter: Deprogramming of Arnold Horshack
There's also an episode of Charles in Charge which had a religious cult. I cant think of the title though.