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What's Happening Now!! : Season 2
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Air date: 22 Sep '86 - 22 episodesWhat's Happening Now!! is an American sequel series of What's Happening!! It ran in syndication from 1985 to 1988. Like the previous series, What's Happening Now!! is loosely based on the motion picture Cooley High.
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List of Episodes (22)
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What's Happening Now!! (1985)
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1. Nadine's Surprise
22 Sep '86While eavesdropping, Raj mistakenly believes he is soon to became a father, while Nadine has instead planned a different surprise for him -- dinner with his long-lost father (Thalmus Rasulala, ""What's Happening!!"") who has care to make amends with his estranged son.
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2. Picture Perfect
29 Sep '86A new management company is raising rents in her apartment building, so Shirley gathers her friends and fellow tenants together to confront the evil landlord -- who is in for the fight of his life.
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3. Shirley's Landlord
06 Oct '86Raj is elated when his agent informs him that he may have a movie deal for Raj's latest screenplay -- until it's discovered that it is really Nadine's case study on homeless women that the producer really wants to turn into a blockbuster feature film.
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4. Raj's Nightmare
13 Oct '86Raj is quickly exposed to modern art when he discovers that a nude painting Nadine posed for years earlier is now part of a prominent art exhibit.
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5. The Movie Deal
20 Oct '86Raj's dream of going on a fishing trip with Dwayne becomes a real life nightmare when his mother-in-law sinks her hooks into him.
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6. Thy Boss's Daughter
27 Oct '86Raj makes a spectacle of himself at Dwayne's party when he drinks too much, dances too much and wakes up with a strange woman.
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7. Shirley's Little Sister
03 Nov '86Shirley realizes that the buddy system works both ways when she volunteers to be a big sister to a teenage girl.
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8. Raj's Big Break
10 Nov '86Raj is misled by a psychiatric patient posing as a book publisher.
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9. Party Animal
17 Nov '86Dwayne finds out that business and pleasure don't mix when he dates the daughter of his boss.
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10. Dwayne's Amiga
24 Nov '86Nadine, Shirley and Dee are in a tight squeeze when their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a secluded mountain cabin while an escaped convict prowls outside.
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11. Cabin Fever
01 Dec '86In an effort to impress an old schoolmate, Shirley pretends to be Raj 's wife and the mother of two children whom they have ""rented"" to support the lie.
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12. Instant Family
08 Dec '86Dwayne's old army buddy comes to visit and challenges Raj to a poker game, which almost costs him his car and his half interest in the diner.
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13. I'll Be Homeless for Christmas
15 Dec '86Raj and Nadine plan a yard sale to clear their garage of cartons, but after Dee and Raj browse through several of the old boxes and relive moments from their earlier lives together, they have second thoughts and become sentimental about their old ""junk.""
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14. Sorority Sisters
05 Jan '87Dwayne falls in love with a nurse from El Salvador who, upon returning to her country, is killed when fighting erupts in her village.
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15. Mad Money
12 Jan '87Dee brings two of her sorority pledge sisters home for the weekend from college and one of their pranks costs Raj $500 first prize money in a poetry competition.
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16. Old Army Daze
19 Jan '87Raj convinces himself Nadine is having an affair when he uncovers secret plans for a cruise she has been saving up for to surprise him.
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17. Taking the Rap
26 Jan '87A lovesick pest follows Dee home from college and drives the Thomases crazy with his obnoxious attempts to win her affection.
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18. Raj on the Double
02 Feb '87Raj has a nightmare that he's homeless during Christmas and awakens to realize that it can happen to anyone.
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19. Opening Day
09 Feb '87When ""Jolly Cholly"" opens a restaurant down the street, Rob's Place starts losing customers until Raj and the gang persuade a hot rap group to record a radio commercial for their sinking business.
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20. The Yard Sale
16 Feb '87Raj and Shirley sponsor a little league baseball team, and no sooner does Raj became the coach than he learns that the opening game is against the team of his dreaded high school nemesis.
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21. The Housekeeper
23 Feb '87When Raj's criminal cousin, Willie (Ernest Thomas, in a dual role), a dead-ringer for Raj, escapes from prison, the Thomas household becomes a comedy of errors when Nadine, Shirley and Dwayne are victims of the mistaken identity.
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22. Dee's Suitor
02 Mar '87Nadine brings home Nanooka (Teresa Ganzel), a lovesick woman from the Arctic Circle, to work as a maid until Raj can rejoin her with her boyfriend for a bizarre ceremonial wedding in the Thomas living room.
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