Too Close for Comfort

Muriel's 42nd birthday yields an unexpected gift! She's pregnant.

Henry's free-spirited niece, April, comes to live with the Rushes while pursuing a songwriting career in as San Francisco.

Meek Monroe's assertiveness training course turns him into an unbearable macho man.

A family quarrel ensues when Henry makes out his will.

Sara agrees to stand in for Jackie on a date with her unattractive old boyfriend.

A photo assignment that requires a pregnant Muriel to fly in a helicopter also interferes with Henry's plan for a romantic anniversary trip.

Henry and Muriel must decide if they want to know the baby's sex before the birth.

Henry discourages Jackie's new romance with a policeman because of the danger of his profession.

The Rushes have to break the news of Rafkin's death to a bum who spent every Thanksgiving with him, but they can't bear to tell him that Rafkin was not a woman.

Henry is suspected of poisoning his estranged brother during what is supposed to be a reconciliation visit.

A "Cosmic Cow" fanatic steals the puppet from the apartment so Henry and Monroe plan a stakeout to apprehend him.

April's decision to move in with a rich, older man she has been dating creates an uproar at home.

An old friend of Henry's who has a fondness for playing practical jokes comes to visit and claims he has only a short time to live.

On a ski vacation, Sara and Jackie pick up two handsome brothers and leave Henry deserted until he meets the boys' glamorous mother.

In her seventh month, Muriel is feeling unattractive and the beautiful young artist studying with Henry does not help her condition.

Sara and April's booming homemade cookie business crumbles when they are fined for disregarding city business regulations.

Henry suspects the London couple with whom Sara and Jackie swapped apartments are terrorists.

The Rushes' new piano gets stuck in the stairway just as Muriel goes into labor, leaving Henry and Monroe to devise a way to get her out of the second floor and to the hospital.

Muriel's defense of Henry to her disapproving mother creates a rift which Henry has to heal.

Henry disowns Sara when she pursues a job on a talk show instead of her college degree.

Brad chooses a police street beat over a desk job, then calls off his wedding to spare Jackie the life of a cop's wife.