Episode
Just Shoot Me!: The Burning House
Overview
In a satire of "Project Greenlight," Finch makes a ten-minute semi-autobiographical movie for his film class, and convinces actor David Hasselhoff to play the father in the film. But when filming starts, trouble ensues when Nina, playing the mother, falls in love with the actor playing her son. Meanwhile, Jack demands an onscreen apology from Hasselhoff after the actor scratches Jack's car in the parking lot.
Details
- Series
- Just Shoot Me!
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 2002-04-18
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Burning House is Episode 20 in Season 6 of Just Shoot Me!. It aired on 2002-04-18. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 19: Blush Gets Some Therapy
After the staff embarasses themselves in front of designer Kate Spade, Jack hires a corporate therapist.
Episode 21: The Bad Grandma
Elliott becomes distraught when his grandmother becomes more interested in spending time with Finch than her own grandson. Meanwhile, Maya wants to bring a little patriotism to the Blush office with small American flags for everyone, but Jack decides to make a grander gesture, with disastrous results.
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Episode 18: The Book of Jack
Jack takes a vacation and uses the time to fulfill his dream of writing a novel. But when he gets frustrated, he pays an English professor to write the book for him. Meanwhile, Maya, Elliott and Nina are left to oversee the magazine and can't agree on even the smallest decisions.
Episode 22: The Boys in the Band
Nina is dating the lead guitar player of Finch and Kevin's new "air band" and convinces him to quit the group. Meanwhile, Jack's rivalry with Alan Thicke drives both of them to therapy with their daughters.
Episode 17: Educating Finch
Trying to find a photo for a show, Elliott chooses a nude photo of Maya he took when they were dating and she passed out drunk. Jack hires a tutor for Finch, although she turns out to be a massage therapist as well. When Finch confesses he got a massage instead of being tutored, Jack is happy because Finch is maturing.
Episode 16: A Beautiful Mind
Nina talks Maya into dating a handsome but dumb exterminator. Maya is tested when she meets a smart man at an art gallery and sleeps with him. Meanwhile, Jack tries to teach Elliott and Finch a lesson when they begin paying Kevin to eat weird things.
Episode 15: Blind Ambition
Nina dumps a blind man named Jay, whom Maya feels sympathetic for. Jay asks Maya out for a date at the movies, which she thinks at first to be a nice and interesting experience. But her opinion quickly changes when she discovers that Jay tends to lash out his anger publicly. She tries to dump him, but he convinces her that he'll behave. He comes over to her place to watch some more movies, but Jay brings porn and Maya kicks him out for good. Meanwhile, Jack encourages Finch to take some useful classes in college, so Dennis takes on TV Production. He starts his own show - "Finch Attack!" - and asks Elliot to be his first guest. Halfway through the interview, he literally attacks Elliot and tapes him to the chair. After apologizing, Dennis convinces Elliot to help him attack Jack, but instead they both attack Elliot again.
Episode 14: Friends and Neighbors
Maya's noisy neighbor moving out clears the way for Finch and Kevin to move in. But when Finch is given a space in the dorms on campus, he may leave Kevin out in the cold. Meanwhile, Elliott has trouble parting with his vintage car when he sells it to Jack.
Episode 13: About a Boy
Finch schemes to hire a sexy au pair to care for his nonexistent son. Elliott and Jack have trust issues after Jack gives Elliott a loyalty test.
Episode 12: Liotta? Liotta!
Ray Liotta appears on "The Tonight Show," pledging his love to Maya. She rejects him until he agrees to give up being in the public eye for her, although he finds it difficult to adjust to being a regular guy. Elliott and Finch play a joke on cocky Jack, who has bought a desk once owned by George Washington. And Nina creates a one-woman show based on her life.
Episode 11: Nina Van Grandma
Nina is trying so spend some quality time with her granddaughter Tess. Chloe asks Nina to keep Tess from bars, boys and clubs, but all Tess wants is to get wild. She throws herself at men at a bar and later at Finch, who pretends to be the magazine's editor. When Tess runs away, Chloe and Nina find her at Dennis's, and they all offer to sleep with him in order to keep Tess from doing so. Meanwhile, Jack insists on giving Maya a birthday present, but has no luck with his ideas or Elliot's. She gets mad not because of the meaningless gifts, but because it's really not her birthday and her father should know better. Still, they both feel like it's someone's birthday – and it is: Maya's mother!
Episode 10: Nina Van Mom
Jack challenges Elliott to a game of darts and hits him in the back when Elliott accuses him of being too competitive. Meanwhile, Nina reveals that she had a daughter 34 years ago that she gave up for adoption, and her daughter is trying to find her. Nina enlists Finch to pose as her "son" but when she tells her daughter the truth, she wants nothing to do with her. Trying to make amends, Nina discovers that she is a grandmother also.