Episode
Empty Nest: Dog Day Afternoon
Overview
A small investment in a mall makes Laverne especially bossy. Carol consults an animal psychologist for help when Dreyfuss ignores her after she yells at him.
Details
- Series
- Empty Nest
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1993-02-06
Episode context
Dog Day Afternoon is Episode 17 in Season 5 of Empty Nest. It aired on 1993-02-06.
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Episode 16: Pardon My Flashback
While gathered around the television for the Super Bowl, the Westons, Laverne, and Charley reflect on old times.
Episode 18: More to Love
Emily is dating Carol's old school friend Danny, who compulsively jokes about his weight problem; Laverne is spending all her spare time on the phone gossiping with other nurses, but is aghast when another nurse accidentally hears her and Harry together in the supply closet and alerts the grapevine.
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Episode 15: The Fracas in Vegas
Harry and Charley travel to Las Vegas to see a boxing match but the trip is plagued with problems. Meanwhile, Emily wonders when Carol stopped being her cool big sister when Carol won't let her visiting college friends crash on the living room floor. Emily later regrets her comments when Carol takes control and starts teaching the whole group to do 70's dances.
Episode 19: My Dad, My Doctor
Emily upsets Harry when she tears a ligament in her knee and needs surgery, but chooses instead to follow a therapy program recommended by another doctor. Meanwhile, Patrick goes camping and Charley tags along.
Episode 14: The Sting
The FBI wants Emily to help them nab her bookie boyfriend. Laverne teaches Charley CPR.
Episode 20: Love and Marriage
Carol is upset when cousin Little Carol visits and announces her wedding plans. Charley is sentenced to community service at the hospital and gets some helpful tips from Jack Trenton.
Episode 13: Emily
When Emily returns from college, Carol decides to take her little sister under her wing, so to speak, and sets her up on a blind date with Patrick's friend. Meanwhile, Emily's rich boyfriend, whom she doesn't want to see anymore, doesn't want their relationship to be over.
Episode 21: The All-American Boy - Not!
Harry befriends a young shoplifter while volunteering at a free clinic and brings him home. The boy, an uncontrolled diabetic, later runs away, taking the Westons furniture with him.
Episode 12: Overboard
A storm strands cruise passenger Charley adrift in a raft and he returns a different man. Carol and Patrick have a chance to work together, but she becomes jealous when he gets the job and she doesn't.
Episode 22: Two For the Road
Patrick and Emily drive back from New York together in his van. Meanwhile, Harry, who is home sick with the flu, must bear the brunt of Carol's certainty that something will happen between the two while on the road.
Episode 11: The Body Beautiful
Harry discovers that a patient is using steroids. Upset that Patrick is using a nude model in his work, Carol starts thinking she's not attractive enough and attempts an exercise regimen. Laverne is put in charge of fire drills.
Episode 23: Aunt Verne Knows Best
Laverne is too controlling on her nephew, who is in town to attend college. Carol is convinced her relationship with Patrick will be over before their nearing six month anniversary because no other relationship (except her doomed marriage) has lasted past six months.