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21 Episodes 1995 - 1996
Episode 1
Tue, Sep 19, 199523 mins
Beth sends her boyfriend naked pictures of herself, making Lisa worry about not being sexually adventurous. Joe looks to catch the office gelato thief. Mr. James takes his vacation in the office.
Episode 2
Tue, Sep 26, 199523 mins
The staff play with a Goofy Ball, a toy made by one of Mr. James' companies. Joe tries to set Dave up with a fashion model. Bill thinks a stalker is trying to kill him.
Episode 3
Tue, Oct 10, 199523 mins
The office mascot, Mike the rat, is killed in a trap. Dave is seen as heartless for thinking of him as just a rodent.
Episode 4
Tue, Oct 31, 199523 mins
In the aftermath of a big fight, Dave and Lisa are tricked into revealing their affair to the staff. Catherine learns Bill's real first name.
Episode 5
Tue, Nov 7, 199523 mins
The stressed-out staff gets help from a psychiatrist. Dave is bothered that the doctor is Lisa's former lover.
Episode 6
Tue, Nov 14, 199523 mins
Dave hires a temp to help Beth, but it turns out the temp is someone Beth knows. Beth, claiming the woman has emulated her fashion sense and stolen her beaus, pretends to like Matthew to prove her second claim. Meanwhile Bill, constantly without his ID, is prevented from entering the building by the security guards.
Episode 7
Tue, Nov 21, 199523 mins
Bill is offered a book deal to write his autobiography.
Episode 8
Tue, Nov 28, 199523 mins
Matthew gets a title bump to "Coordinating Producer" and tries to boss the staff around. Mr. James announces his wife-candidate search and tries to negotiate a marriage. Lisa looks for a new job and tries her hand at MTV News.
Episode 9
Tue, Dec 19, 199523 mins
Bill's recent purchase of a cane aggravates Dave. Matthew is concerned that Joe hates him. Dave is not prepared for the annual staff retreat and is upset with Lisa for not informing him about it.
Episode 10
Tue, Dec 19, 199523 mins
No one believes Bill when he tells them that a bell-ringing Santa is threatening to kill him. The staff is disappointed by Mr James' cheap Christmas presents, so he gives new cars to everyone... except Matthew.
Episode 11
Sun, Jan 7, 199623 mins
Mr James frightens everyone with the news that he will be negotiating the sale of the station with a buyer who will probably fire most of the staff.
Episode 12
Sun, Jan 14, 199623 mins
Dave accidentally overhears the staff mocking him.
Episode 13
Sun, Feb 4, 199623 mins
Dave takes speech lessons from Bill before introducing him at a Broadcasting Society function. Matthew learns a lesson about gambling from Joe.
Episode 14
Sun, Feb 18, 199623 mins
Mr James decides to play April Fools' pranks in February, which really puts Bill on edge, because today is the day that a Wall Street Journal reporter has come to profile him.
Episode 15
Sun, Feb 25, 199623 mins
In this episode, Beth designs (what everyone mistakenly calls) a "Mush Mouth" hat of "Fat Albert" fame. Beth turns to Jimmy for help negotiating to sell her hats. Jimmy reveals that he knows "the secret art of negotiation" But refuses to tell Beth.
Episode 16
Sun, Mar 10, 199623 mins
When Catherine is out sick, Bill puts Joe on the air in her place, expecting him to do badly. At the same time, Beth is inexplicably fascinated by Mr. James' weird, nerdy nephew.
Episode 17
Sun, Mar 24, 199623 mins
Lisa is phoning and talking with her ex-boyfriend Stewart all day long. Dave, along with the rest of the staff, feels she's keeping him on the hook. He decides to arrange dinner for him, Lisa, and Stewart. Meanwhile, apparently for the fun of it, Joe makes Bill and Catherine play a few nasty practical jokes on each other.
Episode 18
Sun, Mar 31, 199623 mins
After some jokes by the staff, Dave and Lisa tell them they've split up. The whole staff is surprised and Matthew is even upset. He feels the whole atmosphere at the office is gone and that Dave and Lisa should reconcile. Dave and Lisa don't want to and Lisa doesn't even want to talk to Dave anymore. She lets him know that she'll only communicate with him via memos. Meanwhile, Mr. James desperately tries to find himself a woman by the end of the business day by cold calling prospective wife candidates.
Episode 19
Sun, Apr 14, 199623 mins
Once a year, Mr James plays poker with other station owners, and the stakes are pieces of their respective stations. Mr James loses the coffee machine, and then he loses Bill. Mr James realizes he's lost his magic, so Lisa plays as his proxy.
Episode 20
Sun, Apr 21, 199623 mins
Matthew nearly loses it when he tries to get the staff to rent a house in the Hamptons together. Bill and Dave can't agree on a baseball promo, and spend an exhausting day with Mr James and a sound editor.
Episode 21
Sun, Apr 28, 199623 mins
Joe is bothered by the building's new security cameras; Mr James thinks he's found the perfect wife candidate, though he just needs to find out what's wrong with her; and a fire in the building freaks Bill out, but makes Dave and Lisa hot under the collar.