Episode
Empty Nest: Mom's the Word
Overview
Carol is afraid to tell a date that she is pregnant. Laverne and Maxine disagree when trying to plan a baby shower.
Details
- Series
- Empty Nest
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1993-10-23
Episode context
Mom's the Word is Episode 5 in Season 6 of Empty Nest. It aired on 1993-10-23.
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Episode 4: Mama Todd, the Sequel
Laverne's mother-in-law visits, unaware that Nick and Laverne are divorced. Charley tries to persuade Carol to make him godfather of the baby.
Episode 6: Diary of a Mad Housewife
Carol reads her mother's old diary and thinks she wasn't wanted. Maxine is annoyed by a mime and a hypochondriac at the clinic.
More episodes from this season
Episode 3: Bye-Bye, Baby ... Hello (2)
Carol can't decide how to tell Patrick about her pregnancy. Laverne refuses to tell Maxine a secret.
Episode 7: Mother Dearest
Maxine's mother visits and drives her crazy, but then finds out she may have glaucoma. Charley finds out the sex of Carol's baby, something she didn't want to know. Harry and Casey MacAfee try to make a date.
Episode 2: Bye-Bye, Baby ... Hello (1)
Carol throws Patrick out when she realizes that he'll never grow up, but later learns that she's pregnant. Laverne goes too far when trying to organize things at the clinic.
Episode 8: No Volunteers, Please
A shy woman volunteers at the clinic and starts sending Laverne flowers and cooking her dinner, which prompts Maxine to think the lady is a lesbian. Carol tries to get her unborn child enrolled in a posh preschool.
Episode 1: When the Rooster Dies
Harry sells his pediatrics practice to another doctor, who ends up firing Laverne. When the hospital sends Harry to check out an inner-city clinic, he ends up teaming up with the owner, Dr. Maxine Douglas, to keep the place open. Laverne joins them as nurse. Meanwhile, Sophia Petrillo moves back into nearby Shady Pines retirement home and drops by the Weston house.
Episode 9: Das Boob
Harry and Charley get stranded at sea. Maxine tries to overcome her fear of public speaking.
Episode 10: The Girl Who Cried Baby
Maxine and Harry compete to sell opera tickets. After a series of false alarms, Carol gives birth to son Scotty while at the opera.
Episode 11: Superbaby
When the baby starts ""singing Beethoven,"" Carol fears the hospital has given her the wrong child.
Episode 12: Read All About It
When Maxine has a dental emergency, Harry steps in and gives an interview in her place, but the journalist makes the article sound as though Harry deserves all the credit for the clinic's success. Meanwhile, Charley falls for Dreyfuss' vet.
Episode 13: Love a la Mode
Charley plans to marry a waitress from a pancake house. When she finds out they have the same birthday, Laverne thinks that explains why she and Maxine are so much alike, which Maxine thinks is ridiculous.