Episode
Murphy Brown: It's Not Easy Being Brown
Overview
To improve upon her image, Murphy gets a publicist and makes an appearance on a children's puppet show.
Details
- Series
- Murphy Brown
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1993-11-29
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
It's Not Easy Being Brown is Episode 11 in Season 6 of Murphy Brown. It aired on 1993-11-29. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 10: Reaper Madness
Murphy is obsessed with the need to try to explain death to Avery and bothers everyone for their perspective.
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Miles comes under public scrutiny when he is misquoted in a magazine article that makes him out to be the biggest male chauvinist in Washington, DC.
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Marty Crane is there, and buys Murphy for 10 thousand dollars. Murphy doesn't accept it at first but then agrees, after all I can't be that bad.
But it is, Marty shows up at the bullpen with cameras and girls with costumes. At her office, they start talking and Marty says that by the end of the day, she'll start seing him differently. Murphy doens't think so.
At the restaurant Murphy doens't seem to want people to see her with Marty, which he notices. They have a honest talk, and Murphy starts to understand his point of view and they make plans to get together again.
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