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Step by Step Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1994 - 1995
Episode 1
Karate Kid
Fri, Sep 23, 199430 mins
Feeling that he isn't getting enough respect, Mark takes up karate, and when he gets kicked out of class he turns to Cody, who has a black belt, for help training for the big tournament. On tournament day, Mark faces the best person; he falls behind in the beginning, but Cody sees his weaknesses and Mark comes back and ties the match. He ends up losing the match, but he has won the respect of everyone except the teacher who had kicked him out. He challenges Cody and is beaten badly. Meanwhile, Frank installs an intercom to deal with the constant fighting in the Lambert home, but he takes it down when it wakes everyone up in the middle of the night.
Episode 2
College Bound
Fri, Sep 30, 199430 mins
College freshman Dana hopes to impress a tough English professor with her usual "intellectual" attitude, but learns a humbling lesson when she gets a "D" on her first term paper. Cody also enrolls in college, while J.T. finds out the hard way about how credit cards work.
Episode 3
Animal House
Fri, Oct 7, 199430 mins
Cody hopes to expand his "coolness" when he joins a fraternity ... but then learns one of the dudes has tried to go a little too far with Karen.
Episode 4
Spoiled Sport
Fri, Oct 14, 199430 mins
Frank gives Carol the silent treatment when she beats him out for a coveted sports announcer position at the local radio station.
Episode 5
Revenge of the Nerd
Fri, Oct 21, 199430 mins
Cody is putting up an antenna on his van during a thunderstorm when he is hit by lightning for the second time. He develops amnesia and doesn't recognize his family. Determined to be Homecoming Queen, Karen decides to befriend the one undecided voter--a nerd--but he wants more than friendship: he wants a date.
Episode 6
Something Wild
Fri, Oct 28, 199430 mins
Cody grows a gigantic pumpkin for the Lamberts' Halloween party and decides to carve it with plastic explosives. Mark is interested in a girl at school and asks her to the party but she turns out to be trouble.
Episode 7
Growing Up Is Hard to Do
Fri, Nov 4, 199430 mins
Carol and Frank are shocked when she thinks she's pregnant, but she warms to the idea of a baby. Al has her first real date and asks her siblings for help, but gets lots of conflicting advice; could her first date be her last? Dana and her study group are shocked when they get a C for a philosophy test on which Cody managed to get an A.
Episode 8
Beyond Therapy
Fri, Nov 11, 199430 mins
Frank and Carol announce to the family that they're going to have a baby, and the kids are underwhelmed and are not happy. To improve their attitude, Carol insists that they all go to family therapy. The doctor examines each of the family individually and they are all against the baby mainly for selfish reasons. However, out of all of them, he only insists that Carol come back for more therapy.
Episode 9
The Ice Cream Man Cometh
Fri, Nov 18, 199430 mins
Cody's old friend has come to town; when Frank and Carol decide to build a new room for the baby, the children all want their own rooms.
Episode 10
Letting Go
Fri, Nov 25, 199430 mins
Al has a new boyfriend, Zack, who has just moved into the area. His anti-establishment views on life upset Frank and he stops her from going on a date with him. Suddenly, Dana finds out that she is allergic to Cody.
Episode 11
Make Room for Daddy
Fri, Dec 9, 199430 mins
Frank and Carol go away for a romantic weekend and leave Cody in charge. Frank is feeling neglected and worrying that Carol is going overboard about the baby. Mark, with his raging hormones, has a computer date. He hasn't yet seen her and is initially disappointed, but she is more than a match for him. The girls have a bonding session, answering magazine quizzes and describing their fantasy men.
Episode 12
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Fri, Dec 16, 199430 mins
It's Christmastime and JT feels that he can going skiing with his mates now that he is 18, but the trip doesn't go as expected; bad-tempered Aunt Edna visits, much to Frank's and the children's displeasure.
Episode 13
Can't Buy Me Love
Fri, Jan 6, 199530 mins
JT's job at the car dealership pays lousy, but he can drive sports cars and uses 'his' present Porsche to make Shelley, the quit daughter of Cody's favorite diner's owner, believe he's rich; when JT runs out of money, he finds an envelope he starts spending on a necklace for her, before he learns her dad lost the business's earnings in an envelope... Meanwhile Frank finds fathering a baby with Carol means not just providing the seed as in his first marriage, for starters he must join her at gynecology check-up. The kids consider their recording too boring to watch, so Frank gets a professional birth video...
Episode 14
Thirtysomething
Fri, Jan 20, 199530 mins
Cody is directing a movie 'Free Goldy' (a goldfish) with fancy titles or parts for everyone, but only Mark realized it first needs a script. The parents object to student Dana going out with 36 year-old Paul, and meeting his family and friends makes her and her sisters wonder if they're right, next she learns he has an ex and two kids who need a step-mother. Pregnant mother Carol has excessive eating compulsions, devouring anything and all on her own, while neglecting to cook for the family...
Episode 15
The Honeymoon Is Over
Fri, Feb 3, 199530 mins
Frank knows exactly what he wants for his birthday (a trout tracker), but Carol believes in shopping for a surprise gift and comes up with a "treat" he considers torture: "French bikini briefs." Meanwhile, Mark's girlfriend Gabrielle, another sexually-naive nerd, stays over, and the siblings form two camps: IDana preaches girl power, J.T. the man wearing the pants. Only Cody tells the lovebirds to follow their hearts and just enjoy making up.
Episode 16
One Truck, Al Dente
Fri, Feb 10, 199530 mins
Dana is over-sensitive to painkillers, but after a serious dentist job can't stand it, and gets stoned badly enough to get frisky with the Codemeister and try his ice-cream-headache. Carol drags Frank to nurse Decker's baby-care class, where he demonstrates easy ways to- kill any baby. Al has got her driver's license, but Frank won't let her drive 'while there may be other cars driving' without a responsible adult, so she convinces JT -who never thought of himself as either- and gets a king-size dent in Frank's firm truck driving one yard, against a bin on the driveway. Against Cody's advice to tell the truth, JT tries a fender-bender paste...
Episode 17
Head of the Class
Fri, Feb 17, 199530 mins
Dana is proud as a peacock to be selected as tutor for a remedial class - until she learns that her colleague is Cody. Nobody pays attention to Miss Foster's dry academic lecture on the Civil War, but the Codeman's reconstruction of Gettysburg is a big hit. The bunch of lifetime losers must be prepared in two weeks because Cody entered them in the TV quiz-show "It's Academic." Meanwhile, Frank gets the other kids to help with the chores, but obsessive perfectionist Carol can't accept anything they do until she sees that young Brendan got so worried that he started doing the work at night.
Episode 18
Back to School
Fri, Mar 3, 199530 mins
When J.T. hears that his pal Dave got into a management trainee program for a cushy job at General Motors, he's jealous enough to take up a college program, but Cody--whose enthusiasm helped persuade his lazy cousin--and ever nasty Barky soon notice that his study habits lack the study element. Indeed J.T. flunks his first test and intends to return to washing cars. Fortunately Cody pushes him to try again, and Mark notices that J.T. has symptoms of dyslexia. Meanwhile, Frank is a bit insulted when Carol insists they apply to get the baby into the Sutton Academy, not Daisy's where all his kids went. Sutton's selectors prove obnoxious snobs, hardly impressed by the Lambert kids, nor anything in the house, even scorn Carol's home-baked pie.
Episode 19
She Came in Through the Bedroom Window
Fri, Mar 17, 199530 mins
Cody is told by his professor he uses the word dude too much when giving a talk. He comes up with a plan to stop him using the word, with the control going to Dana. She zaps him with electricity every time he says the word and she is loving it. Frank is putting in a window for one his old girlfriends but he hasn't told Carol. This is happening just as Carol is feeling insecure over the size she has grown to and, when she finds out, she is very upset.
Episode 20
Indecent Proposal
Fri, Mar 31, 199530 mins
Dana can't believe that night-school student J.T., a marginal student at best, earned his first A-plus in class, then learns that the teacher wants to seduce him. J.T. refuses to believe Dana until he realizes the truth for himself. Meanwhile, Cody's sleepwalking and childlike behavior includes crawling into bed with Frank and Carol; and Frank buys a "macho barbecue" kit but has trouble assembling the complex monster-sized grill, because he won't read the instructions.
Episode 21
Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Fri, Apr 28, 199530 mins
When JT makes fun of Karen for wearing a fake pregnancy suit while Carol is expecting, Dana dares JT to wear one for a whole weekend to prove which is the weaker sex; meanwhile, Carol dares Frank to wear one. Their initial fun ceases when they must perform "women's work" in public while wearing the suits. Meanwhile, ever-kind Cody escorts Brendan to a baseball game to see his favorite player Kenny Barton (whom Carol thinks isn't the best role model) and distracts the guard so Brendan can asks his idol to autograph his only homerun ball, but the player's implacable greed destroys the boy's admiration. Fortunately Cody is still around and has made friends with the guard, so he tells the ugly truth to the press, live on air; they thus meet star sports-reporter Harmon Killebrew, an oldie in the Hall of Fame, who couldn't agree more and gracefully volunteers his free autograph.
Episode 22
Adventures in Babysitting
Fri, May 5, 199530 mins
Frank is pleased enough with Cody's construction work, actually bright compared to Dave, to promote his cool cousin to foreman, but Cody has the natural boss-authority of a doormat, and gets ordered to fire inept well-meaning newbie Dave, who doesn't stop at sob stories... When dad Frank refuses to finance Al's $500 Disneyland trip, J.T. decides to earn the money together by babysitting, over ten kids simultaneously. The cocky first boy is a challenge, the second- bus-load a nightmares subscription with demolition option... Meanwhile Karen demonstrates that spending money -on a prom dress- can be even slower and more tiring for pregnant ma Carol...
Episode 23
Big Girl on Campus
Fri, May 12, 199530 mins
Carol has decided to get rid of most of Frank's 'junk' (a matter of taste and memories) by holding a garage sale, so he overprices; she even wants to give in to a shameless shark who never bids more then a quarter. Cody tries to win a Port Washington song competition for the Chamber of Commerce in his melodically most monotonous blues-guitar tradition. Meanwhile Al successfully begs Dana to take not only man-eater Karen but also her along to a Kappa Alpha Sigma party. Slick frat-boy Jeremy frowns on Karen but accepts Al's blunt invitation to dance, then volunteers to show her the campus. The sisters overhear that he systematically takes girls to his room aka his 'petting zoo' for an elaborate seduction routine. They need only one word to chase him: fifteen. The seductress trio even takes shameless 'revenge' by theft and vandalism.
Episode 24
A Foster/Lambert Production
Fri, May 19, 199530 mins
Cody assures Carol that his 36 hours of video should last her entire adventure when she goes into labor. J.T. can't be bothered to drive the family to the hospital until Frank jump-starts him hard-handedly, then manages to forget the Foster children. So in the hospital waiting room Cody has little luck trying to make memories since how it all started, and the rare moments Lambert-Foster sibling help occurred lead to a true fraternization. Meanwhile Carol puts Frank in charge of guarding her foolish resolve to have a "natural" childbirth without anesthesia, pulling his hair atrociously as contractions come, then scolding everyone once help arrives. Lilly, the first-ever true mixed-blood Foster-Lambert, finally joins the clan.
