1x3 - Episode 3

May 7, 2003

GUCCI gabs KAM’s hand and pushes him down before he can reach his gun. All pile up on KAM and get hurt in the process of what turns out to be a misunderstanding. Displeasure with KAM fills the heart of all. KAM proves to be an out-and-out destructive force in the family: he mistakes SARAH’s ginseng for rubbish and throws it away and messes up with MARCO’s DVD player.

1x4 - Episode 4

May 8, 2003

KAM claims he works as an extra in the television station, but in fact, he plays a corpse. TODAY tells him that she is a promising talent of the TV station’s actors’ training school, but KAM holds her up to ridicule, calling her a professional extra. An over-the-hill movie star GEORGE MAN, affectionately known as Brother Eleven, is cast in a minor role but manages to steal the limelight from the lead actor. His arrogance angers the director and the cast, who decide to get back at him. KAM misses his bus home, and hatches a plan when he sees GEORGE. KAM sings out GEORGE’s famous tune “Brother Eleven” loud and makes a compliment on his car. His sweet-talking indeed works. GEORGE lets KAM sit behind the wheel. Agonizing on an empty stomach, GEORGE sees KAM preparing noodles next door and decides to pay him a visit. The KIMs frown at the uninvited visitor……

1x5 - Episode 5

May 9, 2003

CHRIS helps out at Honey Cave as both HELENA and AH WONG are taking a day off. CHRIS chances on ATHENA during an errand. ATHENA mocks him for working as a humble delivery boy, but he is not prepared to stomach her insult. Back at Ka Yan Company, ATHENA treats everyone to tea after receiving a call. The person at the other end has just brought her the news of the closing down of CHRIS’s ballet company. Eavesdropping on CHRIS’s telephone conversations, GUCCI mistakes that he is willing to take up a job that offers a meager ,000 monthly salary. ATHENA returns to the office but her colleagues act strangely. Dumbfounded, she learns that CHRIS is to join Ka Yan.

1x6 - Episode 6

May 12, 2003

On his first day at work, CHRIS treats everyone to Honey Cave egg tarts. SUGAR embarrasses MARCO by asking why he never offers his co-workers the sweet treat. KELLY comes to his defense, to his comfort. The KIMs gather around the dining table, awaiting CHRIS’s return from the mainland. KELLY questions ATHENA’s real intention of posting CHRIS to the mainland, accusing her of depriving him from contacts with his clients. ROGER inquires about CHRIS’s performance and asks ATHENA to offer more chances to the newcomer. But ATHENA has a tough task installed for CHRIS…

1x7 - Episode 7

May 13, 2003

GEORGE unwittingly learns of HELENA’s doubts over FRANCIS’s sexual orientation. HELENA even harbors the suspicion that GEORGE has been raising his son as a girl. Troubled, GEORGE turns to TAI TSUN for advise. TAI TSUN believes FRANCIS might have adopted an alternative lifestyle during his studies in England. FRANCIS meets KELLY when she is trying on some clothes. His hands are roaming freely on KELLY’s body. TODAY accuses him of taking liberties with KELLY under the phony license of homosexuality. But the three women present are unconvinced. KITTY walks past a bridal shop and fantasizes about her future husband…KITTY and KAM walk side by side on the street. KITTY cries out loud at KAM and accuses him of theft.

1x8 - Episode 8

May 14, 2003

TODAY is displeased with KELLY that she goes on a shopping spree and spends a fortune with her credit card but bars MARCO from owing one. Angered by the comment, KELLY throws away the shoebox that keeps MARCO’s favorite robot. The shoebox turns out to the one that houses SARAH’s dearest possession — a puppet given to her by her late brother KAM WAH!

1x9 - Episode 9

May 15, 2003

TODAY reveals that KELLY is the person who threw away SARAH’s shoebox. KELLY pleads for pardon but SARAH is unforgiving. She dashes to the kitchen to grab a kitchen knife. When things cool down, they learn the secret held between GUCCI and the shoebox.

1x10 - Episode 10

May 16, 2003

SARAH and GUCCI are busy preparing their diet meals. But GUCCI’s determination is shaken by TSUN and HELENA’s sumptuous feast. She pours her tasteless porridge away. TODAY is drilling on her two-line dialogue, while GUCCI is happy announcing a five-pound weight loss. To help TODAY with her rehearsal, GUCCI volunteers to play a gunshot victim. Everyone praises her fine performance but she fails to get up…. In front of the women, KITTY expresses her eagerness to get married, even if it means becoming a stepmother. GUCCI asks KAM why he doesn’t have a girlfriend. He believes that women are born to control men and the consequences of approaching one are disastrous. KITTY and KAM meet again in a department store. The encounter costs KAM a fortune!

1x11 - Episode 11

May 19, 2003

ROGER urges his daughter YEE to return to England and finish her studies in fashion design. YEE refuses as she has landed a job at V&C as a fashion designer, but ROGER opposes vehemently as he knows that her boss is a lascivious man. He talks her into working at Ka Yan and promises that he will keep their relationship a secret.

1x12 - Episode 12

May 20, 2003

MARCO has received several wedding invitations. KELLY suggests that he wraps credit card gifts nicely and gives them as presents to the newly-weds. MARCO feels it is not right. TODAY says sarcastically that MARCO will leave an impression so deep that the couples will remember his stinginess till the day of their divorce. GUCCI suspects that a cheery SARAH is dating someone, but others are not so convinced. Outside a bank, GUCCI sees to her horror that SARAH, holding a passbook in her hands, is getting on a taxi with a man heading to a “love motel” in Kowloon Tong. GUCCI tells her three children and KELLY of her shocking encounter. News on the television tells of a swindler who targets housewives as his victims. The suspect is none other than the man in SARAH’s company. Just now, SARAH returns home with tears filling her eyes.

1x13 - Episode 13

May 21, 2003

TODAY attributes her new radiant look to a certain whitening cream she bought from a non-authorized dealer sale. She tells a disappointed KELLY that the store is now closed down. KELLY gets wind that a certain whitening cream is sold at a cut-rate price and takes MAY along. TODAY joins the bargain hunt. KELLY jeers at TODAY and tugs with her for the face cream. The two women make a scene. YEE is folding paper planes of her design sketches on the rooftop. CHRIS unfolds the planes and praises her sketches. But a dejected YEE thinks otherwise.

1x14 - Episode 14

May 22, 2003

Without wearing any makeup, KITTY takes the trash out. She bumps against KAM and loses her keys. KAM thinks she is an old lady and apologizes like mad to a not-so-amused KITTY. She confesses to a chance encounter with her ex-boyfriend. The KIMs can hardly believe their eyes when a handsome and rich ALEX drives a flashy car to pick her up.

1x15 - Episode 15

May 23, 2003

KELLY finds out that ALEX is in fact a married man. She cannot bear to hide it from KITTY. But KITTY acknowledges the news matter-of-factually and says that she already knows it. Saddened by her desolation, KELLY and the other two women seek to settle scores with ALEX and threaten to make his life miserable if he ever cheats KITTY of money and love. Just then, KITTY shows up. ALEX takes out a ring and gives it to KITTY. She is overjoyed while the two women are shocked. KELLY scolds her for taking the insult but KITTY explains that ALEX’s wife has passed away. SEVENTH SISTER learns of an office assistant opening at her boss ROGER’s company and recommends KAM to him.

1x16 - Episode 16

May 26, 2003

On his first day of work, KAM munches on his colleagues’ snacks, breaks down the copier and air-conditioner, covers up his negligence and shows no shame. Upon learning that the company upstairs has laid off almost half of their staff and finding that KAM has been looking over their belongings, they suspect that KAM is in fact spying for the boss.

1x17 - 劉錦是欽差大臣

May 27, 2003

1x18 - 陳嬌是富家女

May 28, 2003

1x19 - 玉露、隔美反目

May 29, 2003

1x20 - 阿日跟阿美鬥氣

May 30, 2003

1x21 - 陳嬌逼阿美釣金龜婿

June 2, 2003

1x22 - Episode 22

June 3, 2003

GUCCI chances on YUEN YING and finding her the ideal daughter-in-law candidate, she uses every trick in her bag to match her up with CHRIS. ROGER dispatches CHRIS to Yuen’s Company to negotiate new deals and promises to take everyone on a trip when the deal comes through. CHRIS pays a visit to Yuen’s and is shocked by YING’s highhanded management style.

1x23 - Episode 23

June 4, 2003

CHRIS and KELLY are about to present their proposal at Yuen’s but YING suggests they do it some other day as CHRIS keeps coughing. Fresh fruit baskets keep flooding in at the news of his falling ill. CHRIS is appalled to learn that his colleagues’ only concern is their promised trip. GUCCI arranges a cycling trip to the countryside for YING and CHRIS, but the trip ends with discord as YING falls down the bike under CHRIS’s supervision. CHRIS pays another visit to Yuen’s, and this time round, YING agrees to take their proposal into consideration. The staff at Ka Yan jumps for joy.

1x24 - Episode 24

June 5, 2003

Yee learns unwittingly that CHRIS has administered the “beauty ruse” to trick Ying into signing the deal and frowns at CHRIS’s tactic. Dressed in his best suit, CHRIS attends Yuen’s annual dinner. FRANCIS volunteers to style CHRIS’s hair but rather carelessly sprays hairspray onto his face. Within seconds, his face goes bright red with rashes.

1x25 - Episode 25

June 6, 2003

CHRIS returns home and finds the house decorated with round objects that symbolize marital bliss. Though embarrassed, he is appreciative of GUCCI’s gesture. GUCCI asks MARCO and TODAY to spy on CHRIS in the office. To decline YING’s affections for him, CHRIS asks YEE to pose as his girlfriend. He also offers to treat everyone to dinner as compensation. YING shows up at the KIMs and reveals her plan to leave Hong Kong. She asks to talk with CHRIS alone on the rooftop. Everyone is concerned with CHRIS’s safety.

1x26 - Episode 26

June 9, 2003

KAM is a lazy, do-nothing at work but he serves KITTY like a slave. KITTY spends her days aimlessly as she waits for Alex’s news. Just as she is about to give up hope, Alex appears and proposes to her. She cannot make up her mind and seeks the counsel of MAY, KELLY and TODAY. The three women put Alex through tough tests but their union is ultimately destiny’s will.

1x27 - Episode 27

June 10, 2003

KITTY gets back to KAM for ruining her marriage by stealing the toilets rolls from the gent’s toilet. SARAH gives GEORGE a hard time when he buys steamed rolls from Honey Cave. An over-the-hill actor WU YING visits GEORGE at Honey Cave and invites him to Hollywood to make a film. Overjoyed, GEORGE arranges for journalists to come for a photo session just as WU YING’s son takes his father back to the mental asylum. GEORGE is embarrassed, but SARAH is laughing hard.

1x28 - Episode 28

June 11, 2003

The following day, GEORGE goes to work with a swollen face. He loses his role and starts acting strangely, even barking like a dog. The KIMs and SHEKs are concerned, believing that SARAH has a role to play in his weird behavior. KAM volunteers to investigate into the matter and learns his lesson the hard way.

1x29 - Episode 29

June 12, 2003

GEORGE tries to organize his own fan club, and designates KAM as the president. KAM seizes the chance to swindle GEOGRE. The entire SHEK family is mobilized to track down a JOE, a longtime GEORGE fan, to replace KAM, and finds out that JOE is none other than SARAH.

1x30 - Episode 30

June 13, 2003

While SARAH points her finger at someone’s irresponsible acts, GUCCI suspects that she had been dumped. One day, GUCCI chances on SARAH at the airport and deduces that PANG is the illegitimate son of SARAH and GEORGE. FRANCIS finds the possibility of having a new mother and brother very disturbing. FRANCIS meets SARAH and addresses her “mother”. This puzzles her deeply. She finally yields to their plead and offers her side of the story. Everyone laughs at the “humiliation” she suffered back then.

1x31 - Episode 31

June 16, 2003

MARCO falls ill. KELLY tries to help by offering him a secret concoction, which further worsens his condition. The KIMs are displeased with MARCO’s subservience but he doesn’t seem to mind. He accompanies KELLY to KITTY’s home and labors for her with no complaints. The KIMs decide to boycott him.

1x32 - Episode 32

June 17, 2003

KELLY makes a vow in front of her colleagues that she and MARCO will marry in three days. MARCO, however, is evasive and even avoids seeing her. Sensing something wrong, KELLY turns to a fortune-teller, who tells her that this is a bad year to marry and anyone who does so will lose everything to bad luck. Her colleagues plead that she takes her vow back but she is reluctant and unwilling to. KELLY overhears something that MARCO seeks to conceal from his family and her. KELLY fears that he suffers from an incurable disease.

1x33 - Episode 33

June 18, 2003

KELLY finds out that ,000 has gone missing from a joint account with MARCO and goes to the KIMs to seek the truth. MARCO confesses that he has lent the money to an old school friend SHING KWAN for his wedding. KELLY launches her secret investigation of KWAN, and thus instigates KWAN, who fumes at MARCO and threatens to ease their friendship. MARCO goes all the way to gain KWAN’s forgiveness of KELLY. They go to withdraw money from the bank but finds only is left in the account.

1x34 - Episode 34

June 19, 2003

The following day, MARCO asks KELLY the whereabouts of the money and KELLY tells him that she has lent it to a friend. Ignoring MARCO’s hostile look, KELLY suggests they break up. KELLY loses her life’s bearing without MARCO by her side but her ego prevents her from making up with him. MARCO’s melancholy also makes life miserable for the KIMs.

1x35 - Episode 35

June 20, 2003

Complaining that she has no dates after work, KELLY forcibly takes YEE and KITTY as her mahjong mates. MARCO is mad at KELLY’s phony dates. CHRIS, FRANCIS and others take MARCO to a bar to drink his sorrows away, but everyone gets drunk except MARCO. KELLY lashes out at MARCO in her nightmare and is called by others a “vicious woman.” KELLY asks for MARCO’s forgiveness the next day but he appears not hearing her apologies and shoves her away.

1x36 - Episode 36

June 23, 2003

YEE wears big fashion labels every day and arouses much attention among her colleagues. But YEE claims that her clothes are forgeries. KITTY and others want to purchase clothes through YEE, and ROGER senses troubles. CHRIS is displeased with the feeble explanations YEE offers for being late for work and forgetting to bring design sketches to an important meeting. CHRIS decides to fire her. She faints at the scene.

1x37 - Episode 37

June 24, 2003

CHRIS realizes that he has wrongly blamed YEE when a nurse sends back the sketches and is overwhelmed by a feeling of guilt. YEE complains to ROGER, but ROGER thinks that the company is too small an arena for two capable persons and asks her to return to England. YEE’s lousy mood results in a loss of an order amounting to millions of dollars. ATHENA badmouths her in front of ROGER, who asks CHRIS to sack YEE. CHRIS listens to YEE’s explanation, and he can’t bring himself to fire her after learning that she is the breadwinner of the family.

1x38 - Episode 38

June 25, 2003

CHRIS and YEE join hands to win the bid, thus sparing YEE from her ill fate. To draw inspirations for her work, YEE stays temporarily with the KIMs. GUCCI revamps her appearance and assumes the air of an educated person. Ever since YEE’s stay at the household, KAM feels awkward about every move he makes. One day, he wakes up and finds himself on the roof, believing it to be some supernatural forces at work.

1x39 - Episode 39

June 26, 2003

Nobody at the KIMs believes in KAM’s encounter with ghosts. One night, while heading to the bathroom, TODAY sees to her horror a woman with long hair walking past her. Her screaming wakes KAM up, but KAM finds himself tied up in his bed. The KIMs cannot be more relieved when KAM asks to move out. CHRIS probes into the matter by recording events at night on a camera but meets YEE’s fists and kicks. It is then known to all that YEE sleepwalks.

1x40 - Episode 40

June 27, 2003

KELLY returns from her business trip and brings the KIMs souvenirs. YEE grabs the presents for herself and infuriates KELLY. Fearing that her place will be usurped by YEE, KELLY makes life difficult for her by snatching the crystal plate a client gave her and showing it off to the KIMs. YEE breaks a glass tumbler. KELLY mistakes it to be the crystal plate and engages YEE in a fight. MARCO is pushed down and lands on the broken glass amid the chaos.

1x41 - Episode 41

June 30, 2003

KELLY realizes that she has wrongly blamed YEE when CHRIS discerns the broken pieces are just glassware. ROGER reminds CHRIS of the importance of securing the order from A&B. FRANCIS overhears their conversations and learns that CHRIS has pledged to see the deal come through as condition to save YEE from getting the axe though YEE has no knowledge of it. FRANCIS asks if CHRIS likes YEE, but he denies it. YEE drags CHRIS to the rooftop in the small hours and talks enthusiastically about her latest inspiration — swapping of clothes among family members. CHRIS praises her originality. CHRIS and YEE go and sign a contract with A&B. The company staffs make life difficult for CHRIS, asking him to try on the clothes himself. CHRIS quietly bears the humiliation but YEE glowers at him. FRANCIS asks again if CHRIS fancies YEE, but CHRIS only says that YEE has a huge burden to shoulder, and asks him to keep the truth from her……

1x42 - Episode 42

July 1, 2003

TODAY works as a part-time model at Ka Yan and makes sharp criticisms on FRANCIS’s tonal designs. FRANCIS rebuts her and derogates her work as amateurish. The two are at odds. TODAY announces her rights to decide, dispute, and be independent. The KIMs take it as her momentary tantrum and abide it. The family pool their money to buy lottery tickets but TODAY decides to act alone, claiming that she will buy a manuscript of the famous playwright FIFTEENTH SON OF EAST SEA if she hits the jackpot. Having won the third prize, GUCCI splits the money among the family. Each member buys a present and neglects TODAY. Dejected, TODAY is at once surprised and overjoyed when GUCCI gives her the much sought-after manuscript. She flips through the script and is stunned to see that the contents are repetitions of the first scene. GUCCI has bought her a counterfeit!

1x43 - Episode 43

July 2, 2003

GUCCI comes upon a picture of TSUI, TODAY’s producer, and photos in which TODAY strikes sexy pose. KAM mentions that TSUI has a liking for taking nudity. Dumbfounded, GUCCI storms the studio and puts the session to a halt. CHRIS beats up TSUI in a fit of anger. But things turn out to be a big misunderstanding.

1x44 - Episode 44

July 3, 2003

TODAY criticizes FRANCIS’s frog T-shirt pattern as banal. But MARCO and CHRIS point out that the frog T-shirts are massive hit in a Southeast Asian country because frog is seen as a lucky charm. The king even writes FRANCIS a letter to offer his compliments. TODAY receives a call from TSUI, who offers her the leading role in his new movie. TODAY is elated and treats everyone to seafood. MARCO hurries to the banquet with the ominous news that the king is furious at the red color FRANCIS used for the fog, which turns a blessing into a curse. The king not only cancels the order but also prohibits TODAY from shooting her new film on location.

1x45 - Episode 45

July 4, 2003

TODAY and the three women work out at the gym and chance on FRANCIS. The old feuds play tricks on each other. KELLY suggests that they find TODAY and FRANCIS a common enemy so that they can turn feud into alliance. KAM is the unanimous choice. TODAY returns home one day and sees MICHAEL waiting downstairs with a bouquet of flowers. Her joy is cut short when FRANCIS returns and MICHAEL declares his love for him, forcing his lips on his. TODAY demands MICHAEL’s explanation. His words infuriate both TODAY and FRANCIS so much that they punch him on his face.

1x46 - Episode 46

July 7, 2003

MARCO and KELLY visit the “Love Bell” and find TODAY and FRANCIS paying obeisance before it. The news reaches a worrying GUCCI. But the truth is finally revealed — she only gets close to FRANCIS to prepare for her homosexual part in her next film.

1x47 - Episode 47

July 8, 2003

CHRIS introduces KITTY to his client ELTON, but ELTON takes MAY fancy and invites her to a cruise trip. MAY makes it clear that she doesn’t like ELTON and will not go to the date. The KIMs wonder what type of guys MAY falls for. MAY hurdles the railing in the middle of the road to retrieve a seemingly worthless plastic watch. TODAY witnesses the incident and believes the watch is a love keepsake. TODAY returns home and finds out that the watch once belonged to CHRIS and arrives at the conclusion that MAY has a crush on CHRIS.

1x48 - Episode 48

July 9, 2003

KAM is running an errand when he meets an elderly woman begging on her wheelchair and decides to give her a hand. GUCCI happens to walk past the place. She brands KAM an unfilial son as neighbors scorn KAM for pressing his mother into begging. KAM’s kind act towards the old lady ironically earns him a good beating. GUCCI suggests the family have an outing to the Hong Kong Botanic Garden. But her eagerness is not matched by her three children. CHRIS and MARCO tempt TODAY with money so that she will company the mother to the outing. TODAY flops at her last scene. To help her immerse in the role, the director and the assistant do a clever trick but get TODAY very drunk on set.

1x49 - Episode 49

July 10, 2003

CHRIS and MARCO return home and realize that TODAY has failed to show up at the outing. The four hear laughter coming out from GUCCI’s room and are stunned when GUCCI and KAM walk out together. The siblings plan to take GUCCI out but GUCCI has set a date with KAM for having Big Bowl Feast in Yuen Long. The siblings are stunned.

1x50 - Episode 50

July 11, 2003

Alarmed by KAM’s lipsalving GUCCI on the phone and learning from SARAH that GUCCI is on the way to the bank to close her time deposit account, the siblings follow KAM hot on his heels to the ferry pier. There, GUCCI hands over to KAM a huge envelope filled with notes. The siblings snatch the envelope and rip it open. The mystery is solved as they see for themselves that the envelope is filled with nothing other than paper money offerings.

1x51 - Episode 51

July 14, 2003

CHRIS, MARCO, and TODAY feel ill at ease as SARAH suspects that she is plagued with a series of illnesses. GEORGE mistakes her for a fat woman and makes her flush in embarrassment. He also boosts about nurturing and giving the first break to TSE SAU MAN, who now makes it to Hollywood. SARAH takes some medicine stealthily at night, thus confirming the siblings’ belief that she suffers an illness she intends to keep dark.

1x52 - Episode 52

July 15, 2003

Prior to the visit of NG MEI LAI, CHRIS’s major client, the staffs at Ka Yan put away little ornaments of love to avoid offending the single woman. While discussing the design sketches with CHRIS, LAI is upset by YEE’s courteous manners toward FRANCIS and storms out. In order to secure LAI’s contract, FRANCIS is forced to either adopt an alias or resign from his job

1x54 - Episode 54

July 17, 2003

ROGER plans to purchase a yacht for his staff’s recreations but is indecisive over naming her as “CHRIS” or “ATHENA”. ATHENA urges her colleagues to work overtime so as to impress the boss. While everyone is working frantically, CHRIS makes a reservation for a candlelight dinner and orders a lovely bouquet. He is in fact taking a client from Africa to dinner in order to expand their market to the continent. The proposals submitted by ATHENA and CHRIS bear some striking similarities. ATHENA angrily points her finger at MARCO for spying for CHRIS…

1x55 - Episode 55

July 18, 2003

CHRIS is convinced that a spy has leaked out information to ATHENA. LILY emerges as the prime suspect after rounds of accusations and heated arguments. But they realize that they blame an otherwise innocent person as ATHENA heaps reproaches upon LILY for making only a minor mistake. GUCCI points out the three distinguished features of a spy. A new search has been launched, and this time, YEE, who winks at ATHENA, becomes the prime suspect.

1x56 - Episode 56

July 21, 2003

Employees at Ka Yan all call in sick and shift their workload onto KAM. Running a fever himself, KAM laments his ill luck with romance when he sees KELLY nursing MARCO meticulously. The idea of marriage also strikes him. KAM evaluates the women of the company and concludes that YEE is the real gem. CHRIS is shocked to see YEE holding KAM in her arms outside a theater.

1x57 - Episode 57

July 22, 2003

YEE seeks CHRIS’s advice on some clothes samples, but for a moment, he mistakes her for seeking counsel on going out with KAM. He advises her against acting compulsively. GUCCI returns home and sees KAM refurnishing his room. Fearing that he might stay for good, she dispatches CHRIS to act as a negotiator. KAM takes YEE to a roadside food stall for dinner. YEE cannot hold back her anger as some rascals refuse to pay their bill. KAM ends up being beaten up for her daring remarks.

1x58 - Episode 58

July 23, 2003

Back at the KIMs household, the siblings discover that KAM has laid his hand on every single possession of theirs. KAM vows to seek out the ‘real culprit’ who has used his shaver to shave leg hair. Acnes scar KAM’s skin around the lips. He visits the clinic and chances on Kelly. KAM is convinced that he gets the acnes from her but the doctor’s diagnosis suggests otherwise.

1x59 - Episode 59

July 24, 2003

KELLY fancies an expensive glass tumbler. She claims that it is flawed and thus presses the shop assistant to sell it at half-price. A robber snatches MAY’s handbag. KELLY gives chase bravely and retrieves the bag. All agree that KELLY has a guilty conscience. MAY gives a rare White Tiger phone card to MARCO. TODAY reminiscences on happenings in their childhood, and before long, it becomes obvious to her that MAY has a crush on MARCO.

1x60 - Episode 60

July 25, 2003

TODAY seeks to verify her assumption with MAY, while encouraging her to show her true feelings. Solemnly, MAY makes her seal her lips. MARCO carelessly steps on MAY’s lunchbox. MAY’s mind travels way back to three years ago, when KELLY first entered Ka Yan. KELLY presents her well-mannered and gentle demeanor in front of MARCO.

1x61 - Episode 61

July 28, 2003

TODAY and KELLY fight for a taxi. TODAY reminds MAY to be on her guard against KELLY, whom she believes has a crush on MARCO. MAY is skeptical. KELLY pretends to engage in a telephone conservation in which she mentions about a rare robot model and misleads MARCO to think that she is an ardent robot collector like himself. KELLY seizes the chance to take him along to collect the goods. Meanwhile, she gives MAY a free ticket to the cinema.

1x62 - Episode 62

July 29, 2003

MAY’s thought travels three years back to the day of MARCO’s birthday: GUCCI had drawn a lucky divination stick for him, which suggested that the new year would be an auspicious year for romance. With her new straight hair look, MAY went to the KIMS. She was shocked to see that KELLY showed up with a curly hairstyle just like her former self. She had brought with her a birthday cake for MARCO and even kissed the birthday boy in front of everyone…. UNCLE SZE has picked up a latest robot model in the samples room. KELLY thinks that MARCO has bought the robot without her knowledge and breaks its head in a fit of rage. MARCO is horrified. MARCO meets a client on Cheung Chau with MAY pursuing all the way to the island bringing the documents he has left behind. But the two miss the last ferry back and have no choice but to stay in an apparently haunted villa. The chilling gusts of wind and the sudden telephone ring leave them in a cold sweat…

1x63 - Episode 63

July 30, 2003

KELLY brings some souvenirs over to the KIMs. TODAY makes a startling statement about the night MARCO and MAY stayed over on Cheung Chau. She is also displeased that MAY didn’t seize the chance to declare her love. MAY explains that KELLY has treated her like a sister and she doesn’t have the heart to break them up. LAM SIN meets TODAY dressed in her rather common makeup and clothes and mistakes her to be a prostitute. TODAY is outraged by his comment. CHRIS and SARAH are hustling against each other. LAM YUK KONG thinks that CHRIS is a bully and punches him with his fist. It turns out that CHRIS is only trying to stop SARAH from munching on the moldy chocolate. SARAH is not pleased with KONG’s addressing her as an old woman. Inside the supermarket, GUCCI meets FA KEI SUM, a glutinous woman goes beyond her imagination.

1x64 - Episode 64

July 31, 2003

SUM sees GUCCI and UNCLE SIU walking side by side affectionately, and thinking that she is an old prostitute, she reports GUCCI to the police who happen to be thrashing prostitution rings in the neighborhood. SIN, SUM and KONG are KELLY’s father, mother and brother respectively. By an odd coincidence, the two families go to the same restaurant. KELLY hastens her family’s exist to avoid their meeting and causing further conflicts. KELLY walks out of the kitchen just as SUM and others enter Honey Cave. GUCCI is stunned when she hears KELLY calling SUM mum.

1x65 - Episode 65

August 1, 2003

TODAY claims that KELLY must break up with MARCO since her family has offended GUCCI. MARCO smells trouble after learning that the oven for baking Honey Cave egg tarts is out of order. At Honey Cave, GUCCI and others gather around the television set and watch the news of contaminated egg tarts with keen attention. The Honey Cave staffs criticize other restaurants for their poor hygiene and jump to their own defense.

1x66 - Episode 66

August 4, 2003

GUCCI explains that because the oven has broken down, the shop didn’t make their own egg tarts on that day. MARCO confesses that he has bought the egg tarts from different shops for sale at Honey Cave. In a moment of impulse, SUM asks KELLY to break up with MARCO, an idea that finds accord with GUCCI. The parents take away their child respectively. KELLY is barred from meeting MARCO, but MARCO rushes to the LAMs against all odds. The lovers catch a glimpse of each other just seconds before the lift door closes. KELLY finds herself trapped inside the lift. When the door finally opens, the lovers embrace each other. SUM charges Honey Cave, believing that KELLY is pregnant.

1x67 - Episode 67

August 5, 2003

KELLY admits being pregnant. GUCCI can do nothing but gives her blessings to the couple. CHRIS offers to furnish for their wedding expenses. MARCO is guilt-stricken. The KIMs discuss dowry matters with the LAMs. As presents for the bride, SUM demands a sumptuous banquet for 600 guests, one million dollars and half of the Honey Cave shares. Meanwhile, KELLY pretends that she miscarries. The doctor advises her to take a three-month leave, but she simply quits her job. KELLY tells SIN to sell his taxi and SUM to work as a domestic helper to support the mother and child.

1x68 - Episode 68

August 6, 2003

KELLY stuffs herself with nourishing food prepared by GUCCI. As a result, she has put on massive weight and acnes grow all over her face. MAY wins a free trip to Japan in a lucky draw. TODAY urges her to go on the trip instead of being the bridesmaid. But KELLY mistakes the coupon for her wedding gift. KELLY takes MARCO to a new flat and expresses wishes for having a home of their own. MARCO worries that it will upset GUCCI. To declare their intention without hurting GUCCI’s feelings, they make an allusion to a pair of butterflies. GUCCI happily offers them financial support to make their dream come true.

1x69 - Episode 69

August 7, 2003

SARAH takes out two jewelry boxes. KELLY is given the smaller one. She hears GUCCI mentioning about a dowry and believes hers is less precious than the bigger one. Much to her delight, the box contains a golden pig pendant. KELLY is so choosy about her wedding gown that none of the many gowns she has tried on seems to please her. But when it comes to selecting the bridesmaid’s dress, she hastily picks MAY a dress that resembles a nun’s gown. At last, the couple finds out that GUCCI is only paying for the refurbishing expenses of the newly-weds room, and not a new flat. KELLY wants to move to Tseung Kwan O, while MARCO fancies a new place in the Yau Tsim Wong district. KELLY hurries to the Housing Authority office where her parents are heading to sell their flat bought under the Home Ownership Scheme. When she sees them walking out of the office, her panic turns into disappointment.

1x70 - Episode 70

August 8, 2003

MARCO summons the nerve to tell GUCCI their plan to move out. To MARCO’s relief, GUCCI is supportive of their decision. Rather unexpectedly, SARAH is very reluctant to see them go. She is so upset that she breaks into tears and cry and goes on to announce her intention to move out with the couple. KELLY and MARCO are jolted.

1x71 - Episode 71

August 11, 2003

KELLY blames herself for engrossing SARAH and decides to give up her ideal marriage life and moves back to the KIMs. The four guys are having their groom and groomsmen talk while they meet BOON YAT SIN. BOON teaches MARCO the trick to make his woman a subservient wife — sitting the bride on a chair under which a spring tied to a pincer is placed. KELLY holds the belief that honesty matters most in a marriage, so she reveals to MARCO her first lover and MARCO to her his.

1x72 - Episode 72

August 12, 2003

On their wedding day, the bridesmaids get a big red packet from the anxious groom. They also demand that MARCO sing KELLY a love song. KELLY rushes out of the room to put the action to a halt. The couple offers tea to GUCCI and other elders. GUCCI asks them to offer tea symbolically to her missing brother. KAM drinks it up advertently. At the marriage registry, the family witnesses a hilarious scene where the bridesmaid declares her love for the groom and thus ruins the day for the two families. When KELLY and MARCO make their vows, MAY storms in.

1x73 - Episode 73

August 13, 2003

KELLY tries concealing some contraceptive pills but has dropped them on the floor instead. MARCO picks them up and tries slipping them back to his trousers but the pills land in a pocket of TODAY’s jacket. The suicide of a lovesick teenage girl makes the news headline. GUCCI is startled by the tragedy. When the family realizes that TODAY heads straight to the roof after returning home after work, they rush to her rescue…. GUCCI and the family gather for a hotpot dinner before the couple leaves for their honeymoon. A guilt-stricken KELLY finally reveals to all her lie about being pregnant. But all along, the family knows the truth even though they keep it to themselves to save her from embarrassment.

1x74 - Episode 74

August 14, 2003

TODAY is displeased that KELLY shirks the housework and treats GUCCI and SARAH like maids. KELLY gets wind that the wooden box is an heirloom bequeathed by GUCCI’s great grandmother and will be passed on to a dutiful and diligent daughter-in-law. KELLY thus offers to do the housework, even prepares desserts and hangs up the laundry. GUCCI decides to bestow the box on KELLY. She opens it excitedly but the content shatters any fantasy she may have.

1x75 - Episode 75

August 15, 2003

KELLY complains about KAM’s idleness and bad habits. She uses his racing papers to wrap mango peels and throws away his stinky socks. But her efforts do not pay off. KAM still leads her by the nose. TAI TSUN and others are trying hard to read the fading words and photo of an old identity card. SARAH comments on the person’s unsightly features. KAM joins in the guessing game. Only later do they realize that the I.D. card actually belongs to KAM. YEE suggests holding a birthday party for KAM. KITTY refuses to pay her share of money. While KAM is getting his round of birthday kisses, he is tripped over by a wine bottle and plunges straight to KITTY….

1x76 - Episode 76

August 18, 2003

ROGER is proposing a wage cut of twenty per cent. FRANCIS gets wind of the news and breaks it to his colleagues. Kitty unwittingly reveals that she is the highest earning staff, though both she and KAM have claimed to receive only a meager salary. Maddened, ATHENA passes out. ROGER summons his staff. All read their letter with sorrow, except KITTY and KAM who are lucky enough to keep their present salaries. MAY opens hers and screams out loud…

1x77 - Episode 77

August 19, 2003

Luck has not been on KAM’s side lately. But SARAH treats him exceptionally kindly. KAM blames KITTY for bringing him ill luck. He gets a fright finding that his peace charm has gone missing. CHRIS advises that KAM takes a few days off. KAM decides to spend his holiday on Cheung Chau where he will also attend a wedding banquet. A dejected KITTY also goes to the island for a break. A drunken KITTY enters KAM’s room. Thinking it is ALEX that is lying on the bed, she throws her arms around KAM.

1x78 - Episode 78

August 20, 2003

The next morning, the naked KITTY and KAM scream and shout at the sight of each other. KITTY feels a sharp pain in her stomach. CHRIS suspects it to be a case of appendicitis. Words just escape KAM’s lips, saying that she already had her appendix removed. Holding a bright red brief in her hand, SISTER OI inquires about its owner. Again without hesitation, KITTY is able to tell that it is KAM’s belonging. It is only when KELLY notices a jade Buddha pendant on KITTY’s neck that KITTY and KAM find out they are wearing each other’s pendant.

1x79 - Episode 79

August 21, 2003

KITTY intrudes the gent’s toilet to retrieve her butterfly pendant. She gets stuck as CHRIS and the other two guys walk in and gossip about the affair between the secretary and the office boy of their neighboring company. KITTY loses her spirit and appetite as she suspects that she is pregnant. Leaving the office, KAM, KITTY and LILY take the same lift. Without any warning, LILY is going into labor with the two assisting her.

1x80 - Episode 80

August 22, 2003

KELLY and MARCO return to the office from hospital. They switch on the video recorder to play the message LILY has recorded for KAM. On the screen, LILY is cursing KAM for bringing her bad luck. During her pregnancy, she has always expected to give birth to a baby boy, which turns out to be a girl. KAM visits KITTY at her home. The two jump for joy when learning that KITTY is after all not pregnant. KAM chances on his ex-girlfriend AH HAN. HAN makes a mockery of KAM at the presence of her current boyfriend SIMON. KITTY shows up posing as KAM’s girlfriend and kisses and hugs him in front of everyone.

1x81 - Episode 81

August 25, 2003

KAM is thankful for KITTY’s passionate kisses that heal his ego wound. But the gesture costs Ka Yan a five million dollar deal. KAM is filled with guilt. The two meet again in a crab specialty restaurant. Though their friendship grows by leaps and bounds, KAM goes shilly-shally at the reminder of an old man. This puzzles KITTY a great deal. The following day, KAM musters up his courage to declare his love to KITTY. But the two still play the odd couple in public. The colleagues eavesdrop on their heart-to-heart talk in the patterns room. The couple covers up their romance by shaking their fist and legs at each other.

1x82 - Episode 82

August 26, 2003

To save face, KAM spends a fortune on a lavish night out with KITTY. Though KITTY’s lifestyle and social circle bear no resemblance to KAM’s, she tries her best to accommodate their differences. She splashes out on expensive clothes for KAM, claiming those to be counterfeits. KAM gives her bargain-basement dresses as gifts. Their swapping of styles takes their colleagues by surprise. Believing that KAM is extorting money from KITTY with pictures of nudity, they follow hot at his heels and find out the truth…

1x83 - Episode 83

August 27, 2003

The KITTY and KAM romance doesn’t look too promising in most people’s mind, but KITTY refuses to dump KAM despite their persuasion. FRANCIS demands to know from GEORGE the identity of his mother but to no avail. To infuriate him further, GEORGE actually believes it is perfectly all right to bear a son out of wedlock. FRANCIS finds out that a Cantonese film star PO LAM used to be GEORGE’s best screen partner. He digs up some old newspaper clippings and a pocket watch and learns that the two had gone missing for twenty-four hours during a trip to Malaysia years ago. Disguising himself as a journalist, he interviews PO LAM. Spotting the same watch she carries, he is convinced that she is his natural mother.

1x84 - Episode 84

August 28, 2003

CHRIS tries to sound GEORGE out but fails. TODAY takes him to PO LAM’s when the two witness her chasing off some swindlers pretending to be relatives of hers. FRANCIS becomes hesitant. GUCCI thinks that a sincere apology is the solution to reconciliation. TODAY hatches a plan in which she asks GEORGE to recite lines of apologies for an assumed audition tape, which will be played to PO LAM. But the lines are turned into chiding by GEORGE, who shows up unexpectedly. FRANCIS’ screaming for mother silences PO LAM and stuns GEORGE as the two engage in fisticuffs.

1x85 - Episode 85

August 29, 2003

The truth about the enmity between the old screen partners is at last revealed. FRANCIS is distressed to learn that his birth mother was a pornography starlet. Though YEE and CHRIS are constantly at odds, they make a perfect couple on the catwalk. YEE is unhappy with CHRIS’ currying favor with their client MR NG. She would rather walk home than sitting in the same car with him. NG wants to ask YEE out. He even attempts to lure her over to his company with big money. CHRIS is alarmed. Thankfully, YEE fends off his advances with wits. Still, YEE’s hostility towards CHRIS has not diminished. She seizes every opportunity to poke fun at him.

1x86 - Episode 86

September 1, 2003

YEE accompanies MAY to deliver a book to a friend of CHRIS’. During MAY’s visit to the bathroom, YEE has an encounter with the friend SAM. Meanwhile, MAY saves SAM JR. in another bathroom incident. SAM takes YEE fancy. But misconceiving that he is courting MAY, CHRIS pledges him his full support. SAM takes YEE to dinner at a curry restaurant. Despite CHRIS’ bribing the waiter, things don’t work out smoothly. SAM’s face turns chilli red from consuming the curries. MAY chances on SAM JR. again. Turns out this SAM is also not a fan of spicy food…

1x87 - Episode 87

September 2, 2003

SAM JR. gets involved in another accident when seeing MAY home. During their wait for help, MAY loses her bracelet. While combing the streets nearby for her bracelet, they have found a handful of golden bracelets and necklaces. Back home, everyone believes that MAY has a wealthy suitor. TAI CHUEN forces her to dress up for her dates. YEE will only agree to work overtime if CHRIS buys her disserts, but CHRIS gets a bruise on his head in the process. CHRIS has gone through much trouble to redeem a cute chicken radio for SAM, only to realize that YEE is SAM’s object of affections….

1x88 - Episode 88

September 3, 2003

The colleagues exclaim what a perfect couple YEE and SAM make. Their compliments earn them a seafood barbecue. FRANCIS eggs CHRIS on to compete with SAM. CHRIS loses three rounds in a row and almost gets drowned. FRANCIS cannot but blame CHRIS’ ill luck. While YEE is hunting for an out-of-print pictorial, she learns that CHRIS has been giving SAM a hand in his courtship. She believes it to be another of his business tactics to sell her out. She gives CHRIS a smack on the face and joins SAM to a trip to France. CHRIS looks dispirited. YEE returns to the office out of the blue, because…

1x89 - Episode 89

September 4, 2003

Not able to enjoy a convenient lift as he used to, MARCO shows up late for a meeting and loses his client. ATHENA chastises him with harsh words, while his colleagues call him a loser. KELLY vows to buy a new car to address the injustice done to MARCO, by saving on dining out and going to work on foot. KELLY’s food in her lunchbox has turned bad. She insists to attend a meeting on her empty stomach and passes out on the street.

1x90 - Episode 90

September 5, 2003

No sooner she strikes lucky and wins a car in a lucky draw, but she cautiously asks MARCO to keep it from his family and colleagues in case they all scramble for a ride. MARCO is filled with guilt. MARCO has left his car key in the house. KAM’s nonsensical utterances on the key almost expose their lie. One day, MARCO gets stuck in a traffic jam and has to crouch down the driver’s seat when his family walks past him. MARCO drives the LAMs to Sai Kung to have seafood and is shocked at the sight of GUCCI and others.

1x91 - Episode 91

September 8, 2003

MARCO rakes his brain to conceal his ownership of a new car from GUCCI. But a clash later costs him a fortune to repair the vehicle. A ferocious-looking KONG is mistaken to be a pickpocket. Doubling KELLY’s embarrassment, ATHENA believes she has subdued a molester. Taking SHEUNG for a cleaner, KONG recites to him a list of Ka Yan’s top ten shortcomings. SHEUNG is outraged. KELLY loses no time to chase KONG out. KONG and MAY get trapped inside a lift. While the two try to find a way to escape, MAY gets hurt as KONG stumbles on her….

1x92 - Episode 92

September 9, 2003

KONG is sacked for making irredeemable mistakes and injuring his co-worker. He idles away his leisure time by wrecking all the home appliances. SHUM hints at KELLY to find him a job at Honey Cave but the idea is tactfully turned down by GUCCI. KELLY finds it hard to get a job for KONG at Honey Cave: there is no way to get rid of the influential and high incoming earning TAI CHUEN and HELENA, nor can she find flaws in AH WONG’s work. Just then, AH WONG is held under the suspicion that he has stolen money for paying a friend’s debt. Angry at the unfounded accusation, AH WONG resigns. KELLY breaks the good news to KONG, but he rejects the offer…

1x93 - Episode 93

September 10, 2003

KAM is on the verge of exposing KELLY’s conspiracy of posting fake recruitment ads for SARAH. She misleads KONG to believe that TAI CHUEN has been maltreating her in order to convince him to take up the job at Honey Cave to keep an eye on him. KONG’s thunderous voice gives the customers a flight. GUCCI and SARAH are victims, too. KONG purchases a set of advanced equipment to keep close surveillance on TAI CHUEN and gather evidence of his bullying acts. His silly acts make KELLY boil with anger. TAI CHUEN and wife attempt to get KONG sacked by adding laxatives to his food but their plan backfires….

1x94 - Episode 94

September 11, 2003

TODAY is displeased with KELLY for taking advantage of the family. KELLY lines her own pocket by taking small changes from purchases she does for her colleagues, though she won’t admit it. KONG’s parents drop by at Honey Cave and entrusts some abalones to their custody. A hospitable KONG treats them to a big meal. TAI CHUEN comes seeking revenge and demands that KONG’s parents pay for their food. The situation soon turns into a farce. A furious GUCCI orders that no one should give away free meals from then on. KELLY’s colleagues teach her a hard lesson for taking advantages of them. The abalones have gone missing. KONG tells the police that TAI CHUEN is the real culprit, but the truth is…

1x95 - Episode 95

September 12, 2003

The alumni decide to present the ‘Old Virgin’ golden plague to SARAH now that KITTY has a boyfriend. Frustrated, SARAH tosses the plague down a wishing well and curses that KITTY gets beaten up by KAM. When SARAH sees bruises on KITTY’s body, a fear for her curse and swear sends a shiver down her spine. She goes down the well to retrieve the plague and gets injured. She meets KITTY in hospital and at once rebukes KAM. Meanwhile, the plague slips out of the pocket….

1x96 - Episode 96

September 15, 2003

GUCCI insists that SARAH take a few days off; SARAH enters a TV game show and beats GEORGE to become the champion. But because she has resorted to violence at one point, she is disqualified. KELLY teaches SARAH the invincible ‘Laugh, Fawn and Fake’ discipline of dealing with people but she proves to be a bad student. BOON YAT SIN prophesizes that SARAH’s man is an oddball, but SARAH takes it to mean its homophone ‘American’, and reassures herself that it is where her future holds when CHRIS introduces her to an American returnee. Gradually SARAH begins to realize that the man has…

1x97 - Episode 97

September 16, 2003

SARAH avenges her insults on the KIMs one by one. KAM becomes the scapegoat of her misfortune. SARAH seeks a ‘bachelor women’ house but her unrefined speech repels the residents, who turn down her application. Ignoring the gossips rampant in the press, GEORGE coaches a newcomer PING PING on an intimate scene. This incurs SARAH’s displeasure. Later, she and GEORGE are wired up and lifted to mid-air and cannot get down. SARAH recalls her dream and is stunned to realize how similar it is to her predicament now. As a media hype, PING PING falsely accuses GEORGE of taking liberty with her.

1x98 - Episode 98

September 17, 2003

GEORGE cannot prove his innocence and comes under fire when trying to save a little girl. SARAH learns of PING’s scheme and seeks to expose it, but her action only makes things worse. GUCCI and others cannot think of a solution. SARAH takes a page from an old Cantonese classic and prepares a casserole for GEORGE. It gives him diarrhea, but also because of this short break from filming, PING cannot apply her old trick on him. PING’s lie is exposed. But rather strangely, GEORGE only shows his gratitude to HELENA.

1x99 - Episode 99

September 18, 2003

SARAH is torn between her dream and the reality. GEORGE emerges in her dream as her life-saving hero, but in reality, he never stops heaping criticisms on her. To get even with KAM who has inflicted injury on LILY’s daughter, CHRIS seeks to expose KAM’s phoniness in assuming the air of a highflyer in front of his mother SISTER SEVEN. But again, KAM turns the tables on CHRIS. GUCCI mentions something that arouses KAM’s suspicion of the real identity of his father. He follows SISTER SEVEN to her meeting with SHEUNG. SHEUNG gives her his promise to take care of KAM. KAM can’t help but think that the man is….

1x100 - Episode 100

September 19, 2003

KAM tries to justify the secret held between his mother and SHEUNG, and convinces himself that SHEUNG gives him the book as a gesture to show concerns for his staff’s future. KAM has got a split headache. Remembering that SHEUNG has kneeled to pick up a book in front of him, he fears that it is the jinx for having the father to kneel down before the son. KAM closely observes their small gestures and is even more convinced that they are related in blood. KAM takes SHEUNG to Temple Street and teaches him to resort to the fist under difficult circumstances. Getting caught between two rivalry gangs, SHEUNG puts on a bold front. KAM shivers, as a massive fight is about to break out…

1x101 - Episode 101

September 22, 2003

SHEUNG is worry about the head injury that KAM receives. KAM unexpectedly gets a pay raise and a promotion. At Ka Yan, he supervises everyone’s work as if he is the boss’ son. KITTY is perturbed about bringing KAM into trouble as she has the same clothes as ATHENA. KAM eases her of anxiety by revealing his identity as the boss’ son. LILY happens to overhear it. Believing that SHEUNG is going to buy him a big house, KAM threatens to move out the KIMs. CHRIS makes him sign a lease termination paper as confirmation. SHEUNG meets a traffic accident. Thinking he is critically injured, KAM rushes to his bedside.

1x102 - Episode 102

September 23, 2003

SISTER SEVEN can hardly bear to hear KAM calling SHEUNG dad. She faints at the scene. Regaining her consciousness, she explains to KAM that he is only an adopted son and is not in any way related to SHEUNG. SARAH tidies up KAM’s room and declares the rebirth of the place. The KIMs amuse themselves by addressing KAM as the boss’ son while waiting for the most opportune moment to play trick upon him.

1x103 - Episode 103

September 24, 2003

KAM consumes food of the entire KIM family in one single night and wakes up the next morning sick with a tummy ache. The KIMS pay no attention to his complaint and continue their countdown to his departure. KAM raises his arms and screams out. Everyone shouts out ‘Uncle’. A hair-removing cream has revealed a distinguished birthmark on his arm, from which they learn of his real identity as FU, GUCCI’s brother.