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Spin City Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1998 - 1999
Episode 1
Dead Dog Talking
Tue, Sep 22, 199830 mins
The gang decides to announce the mayor is running for a new term in the zoo, in the front of the recently renovated monkey house. Mike accidentally steals center stage by rollerskating after a runaway pram, although he landed in the sea-lions' pool, as the man who really caught the kid needs to hide. Paul outsmarts Sacey's attempts to expose his fake foot injury to steal sickies. Stuart objects to Carter bringing home his parent's old, sickly, girlish pooch Rags. The mayor was to star in the next press conference with super-model Klum, but the press shifts attention.
Episode 2
There's Something About Heidi
Tue, Sep 29, 199830 mins
To Mike's delighted surprise, Heidi Klum calls him cute and invites him for a dinner date. Alas, some silly misunderstanding makes him end up photographed for the newspaper apparently kissing her bottom, literally. Stacey jealously dreams of a naked Mike waiting for her, Stuart settles for a supermodel autograph on his bare belly. Mike has a confidence crisis, so the boys must cheer him up by confessing worse frustrations, such as James's aberrant numbers of toes on each foot.
Episode 3
Gone with the Wind
Tue, Oct 6, 199830 mins
New York suffers a scorching heath-wave. Paul 'spreads' Carter's cash for fans over a miniature toy for his colleagues and a giant ship model for his own office. On its top setting, it blows everyone away. Alas that fate also befalls the urn in which James received the cremated remains of 'aunt Bessy', his favorite cow back home. Mike enjoys good air-co but is so eager to show off his hot affair with supermodel Klum that he can't concentrate on her, which kills the relationship untimely.
Episode 4
The Deer Hunter
Tue, Oct 13, 199830 mins
Mike and Carter were looking forward to an exclusive golf club visit with major mayoral campaign contributor Peter Noland, but the fickle macho tycoon drags them instead to his hunting lodge. Trying to miss the stag, Mike accidentally hits a fawn, whose survival proves incompatible with a fat check. Meanwhile Stuart is filling in for Mike, hence Syacey must assist him, which proves beastly fun after a tip to think of him like a puppy. A raise for Paul is the stake of game between him, his wife, the mayor and shy James, who kindly fills in as mayoral spokesman.
Episode 5
It Happened One Night
Tue, Oct 20, 199830 mins
The mayor is so distracted he forgets to hand back a baby, which the mother fails to claim back. The girls fight to mind it, but it's Mike who goes unexpectedly totally fatherly and ends up seriously considering adopting it. Meanwhile James must 'impersonate' the mayor's embarrassing sexual trauma to get advise in psychiatric therapy for him, yielding erectile medication.
Episode 6
Three Men and a Little Lady
Tue, Oct 27, 199830 mins
Mike needs some therapy, frustrated by the mayor's endless blunders even during his reelection campaign. They and Paul get lost after dark in a derelict neighborhood. The three are mugged by a schoolgirl, and Mike's media damage containment is sabotaged by utter coward Paul. Carter and his dog feel abused by Stuart's latest, even worse-mannered lover, Deidre West, a self-confessed slut who offers sex for Stuart's blind support.
Episode 7
An Officer and a Gentleman
Tue, Nov 3, 199830 mins
Mike is back in therapy during a visit from his best childhood buddy Nate, a Navy officer on two weeks leave, who suddenly outs himself as gay and dates Carter. Paul 'teaches' broke Stacey diet and general stinginess. The mayor drives James crazy requiring rewrites due to endless 'prejudice' objections to his tolerance day speech.
Episode 8
Quest for Fire
Tue, Nov 10, 199830 mins
Mike takes his first vacation in years, telling his therapist that he is not a workaholic, although he spends it hanging around in the office 'suggesting' what his deputy Stuart should do. The crisis at hand is the disappearance of the Nigerian athlete who was to pass the Olympic torch for the Sydney Olympic games briefly to the Mayor. Stacey dreams of Mike as her Arthurian prince and needs a real one when Mike invites her to double-date due to her fibs. Frugal Paul has moved to Harlem and now pretends he loves the 'hood culture', which offends Carter and the others.
Episode 9
The Kidney's All Right
Tue, Nov 17, 199830 mins
The mayor's big mouth inadvertently 'promises' to donate kidney to a preteen patient while vying for media attention. He doesn't match medically, unlike Mike, who only took the test to appease's Randall's needle-phobia. Then Stacey's white knight Arthur offers his kidney, stirring Mike's jealousy. Paul hazes a new city reporter, only to discover it's his former school bully and panics all over. Stacey temporarily stays at Carter's, but her party rhythm proves murderous.
Episode 10
Gobble the Wonder Turkey Saves the Day
Tue, Nov 24, 199830 mins
After the Mayor's ex's vicious TV appearance in favor of the opposition, Mike commandeers his staff to attend a 'family' Thanksgiving dinner at the mayoral mansion. Stacey smuggles her hot date in as a waiter, but Stuart tricks her into kissing him, which calls for revenge. Impossible-to-please Randall Winston, Sr. turns up, being his most unlovable self and bringing out the worst in the childishly pouting mayor. Paul pays for his 'free outfit' with blatant publicity. Mike wrestles with the turkey as well as these problems. James and Carter fight while staging a puppet-show interlude.
Episode 11
Local Hero
Tue, Dec 8, 199830 mins
All staffers prepare for the mayor's annual costumed ball. However it's also quarterly budget vote time, so Mike has set up Stacey with swing vote councilman Pete, who proves mentally unstable enough to take literally mike's advice not to resign but become 'captain New York'. James's Danny-rendition easily out-stages Paul's lame act at the city hall auditions to perform with the mayor, yet he takes pity on his unfair and haughty competitor. Stuart lacks guts to dump Deirdre, who stills acts jealously possessive, so he fakes a affair with Nikki.
Episode 12
Monkey Business
Tue, Dec 15, 199830 mins
Mike and Randall bicker by secretarial proxy whose design will become city hall's Christmas card. Mike must gradually reconsider his cynic disdain concerning chimpanzee Bobo donated to the city zoo when he proves a worthy chess adversary. Meeting a couple of vagrant who turn out have become a guy couple gives Stuart nightmares about his future as Carter's house-mate.
Episode 13
Taxi Driver
Tue, Jan 5, 199930 mins
Miki is determined to win Niki back from Arthir after carter tells him they never 'did it' yet. So he orders Niki to work late on Arthur's last day in town. Thereto James is ordered to assist in negotiating with the taxi drivers, who take to him. The only non-Indian cabbie, physically irresistible simpleton Rick, rather dates Stacey, who can't discard his puppy charm. The taxi strike development has surprising consequences. Meawnhile Stuart tricked Paul, eager to negotiate with contractors, into a de facto affair with simpleton Mitsy, whom he must dump again before Claudia returns.
Episode 14
The Nutty Deputy Mayor
Tue, Jan 12, 199930 mins
City hall holds its annual charity bachelor staff auction. Ecouraged by the girls, James dares Mike. After protest from the League of Large New Yorkers against the size of new public lavatories, Mike is stuck wearing a fat-suit. Stuart's sob story about his wale-size sister prolongs that during the auction. The mayor enters himself and pays a hot new journalist to bid on him.
Episode 15
Not in the Line of Fire
Tue, Jan 26, 199930 mins
The whole entourage mistake an alarm pistil for an attempt at the mayor's life. Mike didn't jump to but from his boss. Randall now transfers his confidence to Paul, who soon learns providing continuous proof of 'unconditional devotion' only gets more painful, while Mike'w wrath looms ever grimmer. Now Stacey seems lost to Arthur, Mike maintains apparently desperate efforts to win her 'back'. Mistaken for Carter, Stuart advices Arthur to make a literally clownish proposal to Stacey.
Episode 16
Internal Affairs
Tue, Feb 9, 199930 mins
Mike and Nikki (who dumped Arthur for him) keep their brand-new hot affair secret, which requires hotel 'nooners.' When colleagues turn up just when a police detective suspects Nikki of 'soliciting,' Mike dares not contradict him, so she spends a few hours in jail. Meanwhile, Paul regularly calls a 'clairvoyant'--on the wrong number, so Stacey can impersonate her and play nasty pranks; and the Mayor takes Carter, James, and Stuart along to experience a new NYPD surveillance vehicle, but spectacularly messes up.
Episode 17
Dick Clark's Rockin' Make-Out Party '99
Tue, Feb 16, 199930 mins
Stuart finally dumps Deirdre, who immediately slaps him with a ludicrous sexual harassment charge. Mike finds putting up a defense near-hopeless, as all true testimonies from sympathetic colleagues still picture Stuart as a sexual predator. Innocent James feels like a sexual prey when Stacey's visiting aunt Marie Paterno, a country schoolteacher, openly calls him an irresistible puppy. Deirdre makes Mike an indecent proposal.
Episode 18
Back to the Future IV - Judgment Day
Tue, Feb 23, 199930 mins
Mike is delighted he managed to recruit his former political mentor, Owen Kingston, ti lead the mayor's Milennium project. Alas, Owen developed religious delusions and wants to recruit Mike to second the 'new messiah'. James accepts 'fixing' self-proclaimed virgin Marie Paterno, then consults Sruart, being truly 'unspoiled' himself. Carter pays Paul to mind smuggled-in ancient dog Rags, taking account of his countless ailments. Paul accidentally drops an apparently lethal paperweight on the the dog but stages it so that Carter believes himself the 'killer'.
Episode 19
Politically Incorrect
Tue, Mar 2, 199930 mins
Despite Mike's careful coaching, the mayor bumbles on TV about racism nd ends up making public his affair with his black secretary, a story even Mike can't control. Carter grudgingly plays along with his gay boxer-lover Bennett Jones, who promises to out himself once a champion but still poses as a womanizer. Stuart's big mouth lands him in the ring. Paul's cheapskate 'diet' disgusts Stacey, who lures him with free first ones to get addicted to her Italian grandmother's meatball sandwiches and chocolate cookies.
Episode 20
That's Entertainment
Tue, Mar 16, 199930 mins
Team Mike risks missing the Oscar ceremony on TV as they must work late to send 6,000 hand- and tongue-processed invitations for a mayoral event. Stuart and Paul share the blame for the while thing having to be repeated. Meanwhile they reminisce in flash-backs about their own experiences paralleling or rather parodying Hollywood-productions.
Episode 21
The Last Temptation of Mike
Tue, Apr 6, 199930 mins
Paul's semen has been diagnosed 'bad swimmers', so Claudia's child-wish must be met by a donor. In the heat of a yes-no-game, Mike unwittingly accepts the job. Unamused Nikki must mediate but finds out to late Paul is too stingy for a fertility clinic, so it's "all natural". James has got a shot a contributing an article to a major magazine, but can't find a quiet place to concentrate on his writing. The bored mayor's office proves a terrible choice. Doug, the city hall tour guide, systematically ignores the mayor, but makes a fuzz about Stacey. When her rude disdain gets too insulting, he switches his courtesy to far more appreciative Janelle, which renders competitive Stacey jealous, yet Doug turns away to a most surprising, unwilling third party.
Episode 22
Carter & Stuart & Bennett & Deirdre
Tue, Apr 13, 199930 mins
Stacey's haughty temp interim Gayle believes herself so sexy that Mike, who finally tried to semi-publicly display affection unwittingly, must be in love with her, not 'pale' Nikki. Editor James has no success trying to collect newsletter contributions firm his colleagues, so the mayor decides to give him assertiveness training, which rather backfires. Carter is finally ready to dump closet-gay boxer Bennett, but Stuart won't let him get away without scoring free tickets. As revenge, Carter brings in Deirder, which backfires.
Episode 23
The Mayor with Two Brains
Tue, May 4, 199930 mins
Blasé Mike gets viciously competitive when a magazine reporter who came interview him for a cover shows no less interest in former gay rights hero Carter. Stuart is charged with reconciling district three's rowing ethnic minorities, but his bigot attitude rather stirs animosity. Seeing how easily Stacey handles the Italian delegate, Stuart pays her to impersonate every minority. James gets so stressed, having to keep Mike and Nikki's affair secret, then he gets an ever worse rash, followed by a violent nose bleed, which proves just too much.
Episode 24
Wall Street
Tue, May 11, 199930 mins
Hearing James lost cash in the laundry, substitute big brother Mike advises him to invest properly and suggests his broker Parker. James insists to stake all on an unknown dot.com stock. Mike thinks it best to ignore that, but is rose sky-high. While still ignorant James spends his inexistent winnings, Mike's attempts to win $300,000 with Parker prove disastrous. Paul's dodgy methods result in the mayor's action figure having more then inadequate anatomical proportions. Nicky is bombarded with questions about sex with Mike, especially from Stuart and Carter.
Episode 25
Klumageddon: Part 1
Tue, May 18, 199930 mins
Paul's blind flattery encourages the mayor to insert inappropriate, often clumsy 'humor' in his press conferences, which James tries to make clear but hardly dares, while the press revels. Just when Mike nurses sickly Nikki, the mayor brings Heidi Klul back in his life as spokesperson of the city's campaign against cruelty to animals, and she openly intends to win Mike back, recalling their sexual past.
Episode 26
Klumageddon: Part 2
Tue, May 25, 199930 mins
Mike's well-meant discretion and Nikkis's jealous spying lead to her wrongly assuming he cheats on her with Heidi, hence she dumps him 'first' and everyone is miserable until the truth comes out. James outclasses Paul in giving Stacey innocent, yet erotic massages. Seeing Heidi reward kindness to animals, Stuart first pretends to be rags's owner, then offers the mutt to her, but Carter finds their trail.
