Episode
Dharma & Greg: Thanksgiving Until It Hurts
Overview
In an attempt to make Thanksgiving more enjoyable than last year's debacle (which we see in flashbacks), Dharma and Greg devise a plan to entirely avoid their families. When it becomes clear how much this has hurt everyone, the pair wind up more stuffed than any turkey after eating four Thanksgiving dinners: their own, one cooked (barely) by Kitty, another with Abby and Larry, and a fourth with Celia's family -- who have a fight that top last year's.
Details
- Series
- Dharma & Greg
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1999-11-23
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Thanksgiving Until It Hurts is Episode 10 in Season 3 of Dharma & Greg. It aired on 1999-11-23. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 9: Law and Disorder
Constant interference makes Greg wish that his new law practice were a little more private, especially when Dharma keeps solving his client's problems without recourse to the law; Dharma reaches out to her landlady on behalf of the other tenants; Larry pursues an increasingly vindictive feud against his neighbor—who turns out to be his uncle.
Episode 11: Lawyers, Beer and Money
While his fledgling independent law practice struggles, Greg feels emasculated when Dharma hits the jackpot in a TV commercial whose producers caught her in a late-night promo for Greg's business.
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