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No News Is Bad News
Carol & Company - S2 - E13
Christine Heyward, a respected journalist, arrives to discover that she's the only member of her news team retaining her job. The new head of the show, a game show creator, changes the format and the news becomes a game show with a ""MTV mentality."" Despite intial hesitation, Christine sells out but soon discovers she's been suckered.
Carol & Company: Season 2 - 24 Episode s
2x1 - Grandma Gets It On
September 22, 1990
Lillian Preskin's daughter arrives at the nursing home and threatens to send her mother off to a home run by nuns if she engages once more in sex with the residents. Their conversation, however, is interrupted by the arrival of a new war veteran... and Lillian has a penchant for veterans.
2x2 - Diary of a Really, Really Mad Housewife
September 29, 1990
It's a day in the life of an average American housewife, but for Dorothy Tibbit, it's ""one of those days."" When her garbage disposal conks out, Dorothy attempts to return home in time to meet the plumber but everything goes wrong. There are problems at the dry cleaners, the bank, the grocery store, the bus stop -- it's all enough to drive a housewife really, really mad...
2x3 - Goin' to the Chapel
October 6, 1990
This is two seperate episodes centering on Evelyn Sweets and her ""Chapel of Romance."" In ""Dummy Dearest,"" Evelyn is approached by a woman with a ventriloquist's dummy who pleads with Evelyn to marry them. Evelyn agrees, hoping to get the insane woman out of her chapel, but she soon comes to the realization that the dummy may be alive. In ""Being Out There,"" Evelyn is approached by Chester Neff, who assume's that her ad's tag, ""I'll marry anyone,"" means that she will become his wife.
2x4 - Guns and Rosie
October 13, 1990
2x5 - Stiff Competition
October 20, 1990
2x6 - Here's to You, Mrs. Baldwin
October 27, 1990
2x7 - Trisha Springs Eternal
November 3, 1990
Roz's college friend Trisha (guest star Betty White) comes to town and announces that she's taken the apartment next door to Roz... but Roz can't stand her. Quickly Roz finds that Trisha's destroying her life and driving her to the brink of madness.
2x8 - Mom and Dad Day Afternoon
November 10, 1990
2x9 - Driving Miss Crazy
November 17, 1990
2x10 - The Jingle Belles
November 24, 1990
Arlene Harvey and Kate Benton (guest star Bernadette Peters) are best friends and a commercial jingle songwriting team, but jealousy ensues when Kate is offered a record audition at Cosmic Records.
2x11 - Teacher, Teacher
December 1, 1990
This episode consists of two sketches about teachers. In the first, Carol plays Mrs. Cornfeld, a teacher who's pulled over by a former student during his first day on the job as a policeman. In the next skit, the whole company plays students (using their real first names) in a classroom on their teacher's final day.
2x12 - Spudnik
December 7, 1990
2x13 - No News Is Bad News
January 4, 1991
Christine Heyward, a respected journalist, arrives to discover that she's the only member of her news team retaining her job. The new head of the show, a game show creator, changes the format and the news becomes a game show with a ""MTV mentality."" Despite intial hesitation, Christine sells out but soon discovers she's been suckered.
2x14 - Turning Tables
January 18, 1991
2x15 - That Little Extra Something
January 25, 1991
The company attempts to put on a ""live show"" centering on an eccentric millionaire who's attempting to murder his wife. Complications ensue when Richard Kind's aunt Wanda (also played by Burnett) thinks that Carol has invited her to perform in the show.
2x16 - A Fall from Grace
February 1, 1991
Grace Fitchell is ""the bitch goddess of darkness."" While checking the dryer for a missing sock, she accidentally falls into the Land of Lost Stuff. In order to return home, she must find the last thing that she lost, but during her quest she encounters ghosts of her past that change her future (via Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol).
2x17 - Suture Self
February 8, 1991
2x18 - High on LIfe
February 15, 1991
2x19 - Momma Needs a New Pair of Shoes
March 1, 1991
2x20 - Jewel of Denial
March 9, 1991
2x21 - Intimate Behavior
March 15, 1991
2x22 - Noah's Place
April 12, 1991
2x23 - Overnight Male
April 27, 1991
2x24 - For Love or Money
May 4, 1991