Episode
Murphy Brown: Send in the Clowns
Overview
Following her story on the personal spending habits of government officials, a Senate committee must decide whether to find her in contempt of Congress.
Details
- Series
- Murphy Brown
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 1992-02-24
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Send in the Clowns is Episode 18 in Season 4 of Murphy Brown. It aired on 1992-02-24. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 19: Murphy Buys the Farm
Murphy gets everyone to reluctantly join her, for an old fashioned weekend at the farm she is considering buying. The neighbors in the area aren't as old fashioned as Murphy would like.
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Episode 20: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
After Miles describes a, according to Frank's opinion, homoerotic dream of him and the new publicity guy, Rick 'frolicking', Miles panics. Frank says that's no big deal, and that he probably picked up from the fact that Rick was gay, Murphy does not think Rick is gay so they make a bet.
When Rick shows up at the bullpen the gang start to question him about many things about his life, to see if he says anything more revealing about his sexuality. Rick notices that and confirms he is gay, emberassing the whole gang.
Miles is totally freaked out, so he goes to one shrink after another, they all agree that there's a possibility that he is really gay. Without knowing what to do, Miles asks for advice Frank, but it doesn't really help, then he goes to Murphy, which doesn't help very much either.
Moments later Rick asks Miles to go to Phil's with him to show the new promos for the show, Miles reluctantly goes. At Phil's, Rick notices Miles is giving excuses to get away from their meeting.
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Episode 21: Rage Before Beauty
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Episode 14: Anchor Rancor
When the existing Sunday news anchor dies, the competition heats up between Jim and Murphy, when the network test both of them for the job.
Episode 22: Phil's Not So Silent Partner
Murphy loans Phil some money to keep his place from going under; however, Phil gets more than money and more than he can take with the deal.
Episode 13: Love is Blonde
Feeling neglected by her husband, Corky considers ""moving down the food chain,"" when she becomes involved with Miller Redfield.
Episode 23: He-Ho, He-Ho, It's Off to Lamaze We Go
Murphy's doctor advises her to take Lamaze classes, and even though Murphy thinks it's not really necessary, she agrees. The problem is that Murphy has to find a partner for that. Frank is her first choice, but he won't be able to make it, because he has to go on location for a story. Murphy then goes after Jim, but only the thought makes him very embarassed and uncomfortable. Miles can't do it either for the same reason. Corky offers to, but Murphy doesn't think it's a good idea.
The only one left is Eldin, who reluctantly agrees saying that ha can't make any promises, because he's a free spirit and he doesnt like to stick around at the same place for too long (yeah, right). And that's a big commitment for him.
They go to the first class and aparently Murphy and Eldin is not the only couple who doesn't know what they're doing. At the second class, one of the couples is absent, because they had thir baby. The other two seem to be getting better, but Murphy is still clueless. Th
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