Episode
The New Adventures of Old Christine: A Decent Proposal
Overview
Christine offers to marry Barb to help her stave off deportation. Meanwhile, Richard looks to pop the question to New Christine.
Details
- Series
- The New Adventures of Old Christine
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2008-09-24
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
A Decent Proposal is Episode 1 in Season 4 of The New Adventures of Old Christine. It aired on 2008-09-24. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 6: Tie Me Up, Don't Tie Me Down
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Episode 7: So You Think You Can Date
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Episode 8: Self Esteem Tempura
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Episode 9: Rage Against the Christine
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Episode 10: Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner?
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Episode 11: Unidentified Funk (1)
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Episode 12: Happy Endings (2)
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