Episode
227: War is Heck
Overview
When Calvin wants to quit school and join the Army, Lester puts him through his paces at a mock boot camp.
Details
- Series
- 227
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1989-12-09
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
War is Heck is Episode 11 in Season 5 of 227. It aired on 1989-12-09. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 10: The Perfume Game
Sandra comes up with a slogan for a new perfume, but she thinks it stinks when her ad-agency boss steals her idea. (tvguide.com)
Episode 12: Guess Who's Not Coming to Christmas
Mary decides to invite her landlord Julian to her Christmas Eve bash in hopes of livening things up.
More episodes from this season
Episode 9: Reunion Blues
Dylan's mother moves in with him after leaving his father, and starts stepping out with Julian (Paul Winfield). (tvguide.com)
Episode 13: There Go the Clowns
Mary dons clown garb to erase a nasty message she left on the answering machine of Lester's business contact, an eccentric novelties magnate.
Episode 8: Flying Down to Leo's
En route to Lester's birthday party, Mary and Sandra run into gang members who want them as their biker chicks. (TVguide.com)
Episode 14: Come the Revolution
When Mary and Lester make Brenda return a revealing dress, she stages her own revolution.
Episode 7: Video Activity
Bobby Brown shoots a video at Brenda's high school, while Brenda plagiarizes an old essay of Mary's to win a part as an extra. Brenda kept putting off writing it by going to pep rallies, football games, and parties with Calvin at Morgan State, and on Sunday night, she still does not have her paper done. When Mary wrote it (25 years earlier), she received an A+, but Brenda gets a C and is not one the five chosen to appear in Bobby Brown's video.
Meanwhile, Julian bribes Travis into bringing Bobby Brown to his penthouse so he can discuss going into business ventures with each other.
Bobby Brown decides that he does not want only five students to appear in his video, but the whole class. Brenda is allowed to be in the video but she is stil grounded and has to write 3 more papers for Mary.
Episode 15: Where Do We Go From Here?
Lester falls asleep during church and dreams that he and Mary visit both Heaven and Hell. While in both places, they return to earth to see what has happened to their family and friends.
While in Heaven: Brenda inherits Lester's construction company and is a success when Calvin, her husband takes over. Pearl has moved in with them. Rose still hasn't come to terms with Mary's death.
While in hell: Calvin becomes a failure and sells the business to Julian for $500. Brenda is pregnant and the family is in poverty. Rose has married Julian and they have raised the rent of the building big time.
Episode 6: How the West Was Fun (2)
Conclusion. Lester puts together a posse to find the womenfolk when the water rustlers take them hostage.
Episode 16: Play Christy for Me
While working as a deejay, Lester gets suggestive requests from a caller who he thinks is Mary.
Episode 5: How the West Was Fun (1)
At a dude ranch, Mary lassos Rose and Sandra into a treasure hunt, and Dylan takes a likin' to a filly. Part 1 of two
Episode 17: Knock It Off
Travis finds $250,000 left in his limo, and is convinced by Mary & Lester to turn the money in. If the money isn't claimed within 30 days, Travis may keep it. The next day, a beautiful woman named Eartha Kitten comes to the door and claims the money belongs to her boss, and is furious when he learns he turned the money in. Meanwhile, Mary & Lester are heading to Hawaii and have a Bon Voyage party the night before, but the party is interrupted when Eartha's boss (a mob boss) holds everyone hostage. Warren saves the day when he returns disguised as a woman, and pretends to romance Mr Big. Before Travis can return with Mr Big's money, Warren turns the tables on Mr Big and has him arrested.