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- Out of character, the surviving cast members of "Cosby" remember Madeline Kahn, who just died of ovarian cancer and had started chemotherapy shortly after the show started production.
- While searching for a rare part for his beloved turntable, Hilton bumps into Fred, an old friend from his bachelor days. When Hilton and Fred start reminiscing about how they double-dated sisters Mattie and Roberta Singleton, Hilton decides to play matchmaker and prompts Fred into learning about whatever became of Mattie.
- A strange woman comes to the Flower Café to shop and is under the impression that Hilton is her husband Charlie.
- Hilton is overjoyed when he meets new friends Chuck and Larry and joins their "Older and Out" team, since he's also older and "out" keeping busy. Ruth discovers that Chuck is gay and she mistakenly believes that her husband of more than thirty years may have feelings for a man.
- Hilton and Ruth recall their first date many years ago, and of course both of them have widely different versions of what happened.
- Hilton has a nightmare that he's been fired from the airline, and his wife Ruth reminds him that it already happened to him three weeks ago along with 10,000 others. Ruth tells her friend Pauline that it's tough having Hilton around the house all day - he's trying to fix things that aren't broken.
- The antique shop where Hilton works has a secret hiding behind a locked door, and the cops want him to help them in a raid of the premises.
- When Ruth teaches Erica how to play golf, a rivalry begins between the two women that even extends to cooking.
- Hilton's lie to avoid going to a stranger's wedding backfires on him.
- A foster child in Erica's class wants to move in with the Lucases.
- 1996–200021mTV-PG7.7 (13)TV EpisodeHilton discovers that a former high school buddy is now homeless.
- Darien's late arrival to an important family dinner causes a fight between Hilton and Ruth.
- When Griffin tries to prepare for Y2K by installing a generator, he causes a premature blackout for the entire neighborhood.
- A wealthy man Hilton once helped at the airport bequeaths him a boat. Despite Ruth's insistence that he doesn't have the stamina or the money to support a boating hobby, Hilton persists.
- Ruth surprises Hilton when she enrolls him in tap-dancing classes as a birthday gift. He skips the classes, but tells Ruth that he is making remarkable progress. When Ruth announces that she is going to attend the dance recital, Hilton must take a crash course in fancy footwork or risk having his deception exposed.
- Hilton passes his advice along to Erica and Darien as to how to keep the romance alive in marriage.
- Hilton finds himself in the midst of a bank heist.
- Hilton tries to help Pauline's financially irresponsible goddaughter but ends up the recipient of an overly generous ATM.
- Griffin, Erica and Darien try to convince a drug-addicted friend to enter rehab.
- Hilton tries to convince the Social Security Administration that he is not dead.
- When Ruth's snobbish sister-in-law Debra throws an engagement party for her daughter, Hilton and Ruth try to steal some of Debra's thunder by arranging for Erica to bring a handsome date to the party, but they get some unexpected results.
- Pauline tries her hand at playwriting for a course she's taking at the community center. Following Hilton's advice about writing something "real," she turns out a thinly-disguised comedy about the Lucas family.
- Ruth has some issues with Hilton that need to be resolved, so they go to a group therapy session that includes some of Hilton's former co-workers from the airline. At the end of the session, the group gathers at a nearby pub where Hilton advises Ron, who's having both work and marital problems, to demand a raise and stand up to his wife.
- Hilton fumes when a klutzy customer spills coffee on her dress, admits it was her fault and then sues the Flower Café for $3,000.
- Hilton volunteers as a reader for a retired, blind English literature professor (Anthony Quinn) and, upon realizing his gift for teaching, urges him to return to the classroom.
- Hilton is beyond frustrated when his newly purchased state-of-the-art refrigerator breaks down and he can't get any customer satisfaction.
- Del's new girlfriend agonizes over a secret she worries about sharing with him.
- When Griffin tries to back out of a lucrative out-of-state concert gig because of a flying phobia, Hilton vows that he will get Griffin on the plane no matter what it takes.
- Griffin struggles to teach a group of tough, unmotivated students. He wants to open their minds to the wonders of learning - something fellow teacher Mr. Fleming lost enthusiasm for a long time ago.
- It's Valentine's Day, and when Hilton realizes that he has bought Ruth a scarf that she already has, it's back to the drawing board. When she mentions that she'd love to see singer Jeffrey Osborne, who's appearing at the Steinway Club that night, a desperate Hilton says that he has tickets and was going to surprise her.
- By chance, Hilton brings Erica's freshly baked chocolate chip cookies to the struggling flower shop for Ruth and Pauline to enjoy when, just as he's setting out the coffee, strangers ask to buy the goodies. This gives Hilton an idea and he invests in a fancy espresso machine, forces Erica to wake-up in the middle of the night to bake cookies and turns the flower shop into the Flower Café.
- For a school paper, Keisha discovers surprising facts about Ruth's past.
- Hilton suffers insomnia, falling asleep during the day at inopportune moments, causing Erica and Ruth embarrassment. When Hilton refuses to attend a sleep clinic, Griffin offers to set up a video camera in his bedroom to record the night's activity to find the cause of Hilton's sleeplessness.
- Pauline's boyfriend leaves her for a 26-year-old aerobics instructor. She's so depressed that Ruth decides to set her up on a blind date with Richard, her Spanish instructor.
- Hilton's new responsibility - looking after eleven-year-old Jurnee while her dad is at work - becomes a little too hot to handle when she asks him a complicated question about the birds and the bees. Not wanting to interfere in Jurnee's upbringing, and looking for a way to avoid having to answer himself, Hilton suggests that the curious Jurnee ask her dad for an explanation.
- Ruth and Pauline try to help save a friend's failing bookstore by annexing it to the Flower Café.
- After Jurnee expresses her fondness for schoolmate Kevin, and he retaliates by shoving her on the school playground, amateur psychologist Hilton explains his theory of how "playground scarring" can affect a woman for life.
- A doctor places Hilton under strict quarantine after he catches the stomach flu. Griffin warns Hilton not to escape quarantine, but he doesn't listen and, one by one, everyone in the household drops, leaving Hilton to don his nurse's uniform.
- Hilton becomes nervous when, after a two-year silence, he hears from an old friend who only makes contact when he needs a handout.
- Jurnee is a sorry sight when Hilton makes her Thanksgiving Day Parade turkey costume from scratch. Imagine Hilton's joy when Martha Stewart shows up at the Flower Café bearing the most realistic-looking turkey outfit that anyone's ever seen - and leaves it behind by mistake.
- After Hilton encourages Erica and Griffin to "take risks and pursue their dreams," they do just that and the results become Hilton's nightmares. Erica quits her high-paying job at the law firm, and moves home to save money and study to become a chef. Griffin, on the other hand, moves into the Lucas attic after a business deal goes wrong.
- The nude model from Hilton's art class finds her clothes missing after class. It's Hilton to the rescue, not knowing her irate husband has the wrong impression and is hot on their trail.
- A major argument erupts when Ruth accidentally discovers that Erica has been hiding all the gifts she has been given over the years.
- While at work at the Coffee Shop, Hilton meets Rob Burnett and Paul Shaffer from the "Late Show with David Letterman". Hilton then inquires about being booked as a guest on the Late Show.
- Hilton and Ruth take a winter vacation in Florida and are so enchanted with the weather, the fresh oranges, the vegetation and the peace and quiet that they decide to put their house on the market immediately and move as soon as possible.
- Hilton goes to school to become a security guard, and when Pauline sees him with his graduating class, she swears she'll never feel safe again. She urges Ruth to stop Hilton before he hurts himself or someone else.
- Hilton finds that his life insurance is practically worthless, so he tries to shape up to pass a physical for a new policy.
- Hilton's eccentric and snobby brother George pays a visit to the Lucas household.
- Hilton is sentenced to a life without pork chops, barbecue ribs and bacon when a doctor's visit reveals a too-high cholesterol count.
- Ruth's high school friend, now a pop star, visits during a singing tour and gives Ruth the chance to sing with her old group.
- Hilton's cousin Earl has secretly checked himself into the hospital for a colonoscopy procedure, not telling his wife Lillian because he doesn't want her to worry. Hilton visits Earl, and he warns Ruth and Pauline to keep Earl's secret from Lillian, who's coming over to see him.
- Jurnee is aghast when she finds out that her dad intends to date the meanest teacher at her school. Del is so troubled by Jurnee's reaction to his interest in Ms. Malone that he's ready to call off their date.
- Hilton and Griffin go to a basketball game where Hilton learns that he has the winning ticket for a contest called "Shot of a Lifetime."
- Hilton notices one of Griffin's textbooks has several post-its sticking out of it. When Hilton asks about them, Griffin informs him that the slips of paper are all corrections. Since the copyright is 1968, he has to update the book himself or his students will get outdated information.
- Hilton hears that the airlines are hiring again, so he prepares his resume and schedules an interview to get his old job back.
- Hilton feels cheated that his company laid him off without even a goodbye party, but Ruth tells him he's being childish.
- After a home burglary, Hilton forms a neighborhood-watch program, but it turns out that he's causing more problems than he's solving.
- Ruth has been elected the first woman president of the Astoria Businessmen's Roundtable, which automatically makes Hilton the head of the women's auxiliary.
- Griffin and Erica work out a financial deal to move into Griffin's house on a landlord-tenant basis, thus giving Hilton and Ruth back their privacy. That is...until Griffin's house accidentally burns to the ground.
- It's April 15th and Hilton hasn't even started working on his taxes, a fact he wants to make sure Ruth doesn't discover.
- Griffin tries to encourage both his students and the Lucases to eat healthier foods.
- When Griffin accompanies Hilton to Grandparents' Day at Jurnee's school and adds his two cents to the science lesson, it quickly becomes apparent that he is a natural at teaching and holding the kids' interest.
- After Griffin and Erica attend their high school reunion, Griffin realizes that their relationship is going nowhere and decides to make a clean break from her.
- Pauline is absolutely thrilled that, after years of being the single friend, she has finally become a couple with her new boyfriend Gregory, a self-absorbed, self-proclaimed genius who disturbs Hilton. When she decides to dump him because he's too uptight, Ruth thinks that Hilton is really the one to blame and sends him off to remedy the situation.
- With Ruth's birthday coming up, Erica suggests that Hilton buy her something other than a sweater, which has been his gift every year for the past ten years. In an attempt to be more original, Hilton paints a plate for Ruth at a pottery store.
- Despite Ruth's insistence that family and friends should never work together, Hilton goes to work for Griffin, narrating children's stories. He just can't refuse the temptation for some creative rewriting, and Hilton puts his own spin on some classic kids' tales. Will he have his poetic license revoked?
- Hilton is stunned when eleven-year-old Jurnee, left in his care while her father is away, returns from a friend's birthday party drunk.
- Griffin's inability to deal with the return of his estranged father, who abandoned him fifteen years earlier, causes problems in his relationship with Rebecca.
- Hilton and Griffin get jobs as telemarketers, hoping to win a fabulous office prize - a weekend for two at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. Hilton is afraid to tell his wife, knowing she will disapprove of his new job. Instead, he lies and claims that he's now driving Danny Aiello's limo.
- Sparked over once again butting heads, Griffin and Hilton make a deal; Griffin cannot eat anything for 24 hours, and Hilton can not give his opinion for 24 hours, which becomes harder as temptations are suddenly thrown Hilton's way, including Pauline's new boyfriend, a Federally-funded "performance artist" known as "Donald".
- Griffin's trust in his new girlfriend Anita is put to the test when her job as a conference planner puts her smack in the middle of a young millionaires' convention.
- Erica visits a student's home to get his mother more involved in his education.
- Lucas butts in on Pauline and Ruth's night out by insisting on chauffeuring them to and from Carnegie Hall.
- Hilton tries to help save his friend Bradshaw's failing mattress and bedding business.
- When Hilton and Ruth hear that Erica is getting married, they can't be happier for her...or themselves, since this would mean one less person in the crowded house.
- 1996–200022mTV-PG6.9 (16)TV EpisodeErica and her girlfriends, unable to find "Mr. Right," take Ruth's advice about changing their dating habits and set out on "The Great American Manhunt."
- When Ruth and Hilton have a major fight, they assess the changes in their lives.
- Hilton has to pay the wedding organizers for their services as Erica's wedding nears, but Ruth is more concerned with why the bride isn't falling apart yet.
- Hilton reveals to Jurnee, who is studying Shakespeare, that he's never been able to figure out what the guy's talking about. Later that night, Hilton encounters the Bard's apparition in his kitchen.
- The Lucases play Cupid for smitten Griffin.
- Pauline and Erica want to take Ruth to a spa for a weekend of pampering while the café is closed for maintenance. While they are away, Hilton is in charge of the coffee shop. Carla, the chaperone of a Brazilian girls' choir, offers Hilton $500 to rent the café for a private party for the college seniors. Hilton hesitates, but the money is too enticing to resist.
- After the Lucas home is burglarized, Hilton invests in a security system only to discover that the thief is someone he knows.
- Griffin contemplates quitting teaching when his first day as a substitute is a disaster. The Lucases lend themselves out as mock students so that Griffin can practice his teaching techniques on them, but their misguided attempt to help might just turn him off teaching forever.
- Frank Barone has been telling his son about sinking the winning shot in the 1955 Queens basketball championship since the day he was born. When Frank pleads with Hilton to help him save face with his son by lying for him, Hilton reluctantly agrees.
- Erica brings Julius, her boyfriend of three months and star of a kids' TV program, home to meet Hilton and Ruth; Hilton is unimpressed and gives Julius a hard time. Hilton goes with Erica to watch Julius' program and inadvertently becomes part of the show.
- Getting through a typical day is hard enough, but it becomes an ordeal for Griffin when everyone demands his time on the day he's preparing for a date with a beautiful flight attendant.
- As a 30th anniversary gift, Hilton tries to give Ruth the wedding she always wanted.
- 1996–200022mTV-PG6.1 (19)TV EpisodeAfter calling in to a radio talk show, Hilton is chosen to dine with the president. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani makes a special appearance.
- Erica and her cat Sherman moves back in with Hilton and Ruth. Meanwhile, a discarded positive pregnancy test has everyone jumping to conclusions.
- Ruth must deal with a bunch of know-it-alls. Hilton firmly believes that his community center boys' basketball team could beat her girls' team. When Ruth challenges Hilton and his team, he has a lot to do to get his star players in shape. Meanwhile, Ruth must teach Nikki, one of her players, the importance of teamwork.