Episode
Growing Pains: Nasty Habits
Overview
Maggie and Jason try to keep Mike in his room to complete an English paper, but Mike's mind is of course elsewhere.
Details
- Series
- Growing Pains
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1987-12-15
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Nasty Habits is Episode 13 in Season 3 of Growing Pains. It aired on 1987-12-15. The runtime is 30 min.
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A troubled student named Jill volunteers to work on a school project with Mike and Boner. This, however, is a subterfuge: Jill has been contemplating suicide due to some very serious problems at home, and she hopes to get some free counseling from Mike's psychiatrist dad Jason. But as it turns out, Jason is presently weighed down with a few self-pity issues of his own.
Episode 14: The Marrying Kind
Reason flies out the window when Bobby and his parents arrive at the Seavers' for dinner and a special announcement -- that Bobby and Carol are engaged.
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Episode 11: The Scarlet Letter
An unearned "A" makes Carol doubt her academic record.
Episode 15: State of the Union
Maggie fumes over the many irritants that seem to be driving her and Jason apart -- until unexpected news sheds light on the situation.
Episode 10: Broadway Bound
After their success in the school play, Mike and Monica set their sights on a Broadway audition for ""Our Town.""
Episode 16: The Mom Who Knew Too Much
Maggie and Carol share confidences at the beauty salon, but later Carol learns to her chagrin that a secret isn't safe with Maggie.
Episode 9: This is Your Life
During a tonsillectomy, Ben has an out-of-body experience, dreaming that he escapes with a friendly cabbie, only to find a new Ben has replaced him at home.
Episode 17: Great Expectations
A letter from the girl he met in Hawaii has Mike scheming to fly to Los Angeles to see her without his parents' knowing.
Episode 8: Who's Zoomin' Who?
Bobby's annoying habits make Carol look elsewhere for the man of her dreams -- just in time for her to notice a new student.
Episode 18: Dance Fever (1)
At the school dance, Mike gets a girl and Carol gets raked over the coals. Meanwhile, Ben's adventure goes awry.
Episode 7: Gone But Not Forgotten
Burglars hit the Seaver home.
Episode 19: Dance Fever (2)
Great expectations turn sour at the Dewey High dance after Mike hears Lydia's voice; and Ben and Stinky find themselves in a seedy diner eyeing a pinball machine that pays real money.