Episode
Designing Women: You Got to Have Friends
Overview
Mary Jo takes a second job at a fast food place when Ted's child support payment is late.
Details
- Series
- Designing Women
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1989-12-18
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
You Got to Have Friends is Episode 12 in Season 4 of Designing Women. It aired on 1989-12-18. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 11: They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?
Fat as a feminist issue surfaces when Suzanne endures cruel jokes about her weight at her high-school reunion; Anthony enlists Julia and Mary Jo to join him in a two-day fast to focus attention on world hunger.
Episode 13: The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century (1)
Suzanne and Mary Jo rush Charlene to the hospital when she goes into labor on New Year's Eve and conceives a desire to deliver the first New Year's baby. Dolly Parton plays Charlene's ""guardian movie star,"" who comes to her in a dream with news of her baby's birth, and Bernice goes for an unexpected ambulance ride.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: Manhunt
Desperately single Mary Jo, worried that her busy schedule will condemn her to a life alone, accepts coaching from Suzanne as she plans a weekend manhunt.
Episode 14: The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century (2)
Suzanne and Mary Jo rush Charlene to the hospital when she goes into labor on New Year's Eve and conceives a desire to deliver the first New Year's baby. Dolly Parton plays Charlene's ""guardian movie star,"" who comes to her in a dream with news of her baby's birth, and Bernice goes for an unexpected ambulance ride.
Episode 9: Julia and Suzanne's Big Adventure
Julia and Suzanne's plans go awry when they travel to Japan to visit their mother: after discovering that she has gone to Paris to see a sick friend, they are robbed of their luggage and money. Meanwhile, Anthony and Mary Jo are stuck with an enormous telephone bill after calling in votes to a television poll.
Episode 15: The Mistress
The ladies are hired by wealthy stockbroker Ancel Pollard to decorate a house for a client's wife -- and a condo for his mistress. Suzanne is sure that straight laced Julia and Mary Jo will never go through with the assignment.
Episode 8: Julia Gets Her Head Stuck in a Fence
While posing for a gag photo at the governor's mansion, Julia gets her head stuck in the banister just before the annual ball.
Episode 16: The Fur Flies
The fur flies at a fashion show, where Suzanne's after-dinner mink causes a riot among animal-rights activists. Meanwhile, Charlene is forced to bring Olivia to Sugarbakers while she looks for a nanny.
Episode 7: Bernice's Sanity Hearing
The Sugarbaker women testify for Bernice when her niece Phyllis attempts to have her declared legally incompetent because she sings Bobbie Gentry songs to strangers on the street and introduces Anthony as her illegitimate son.
Episode 17: Oh, What a Feeling
Julia and Suzanne negotiate for a new delivery van and drive a hard bargain with an overbearing salesman (Ross).
Episode 6: The Rowdy Girls
While she is helping the Sugarbakers women choreograph a Supremes lip-synch routine, Charlene's favorite cousin inadvertently reveals that she is a victim of domestic violence.
Episode 18: Anthony and Vanessa
Hired for a temporary job at Sugarbakers, Anthony's needy friend Vanessa learns the tricks of the trade from Suzanne, then goes to work reeling in Anthony.