Episode
What's Happening!!: Bill Gets Married
Overview
Bill's become serious with his latest girlfriend and announces that they're getting married. Nearly everyone is happy for them, even Mama who even lets them have the ceremony in her house. But it's Dee who refuses to accept their marriage and refuses to be the flower girl.
Details
- Series
- What's Happening!!
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1977-11-17
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Bill Gets Married is Episode 9 in Season 2 of What's Happening!!. It aired on 1977-11-17. The runtime is 22 min.
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Dwayne is in a lucky streak with the system he uses to make bets, which leads Rerun to pass along Dwayne's tips to his brother-in-law, Ike, who bets $500 on a football game. It's only after he's made the bet that everyone discovers just what kind of system Dwayne uses.
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