Goode Behavior: Season 1 (1996)

Episodes

1. 

   Episode 1 · August 26, 1996 · 30m

   Goode Book

   College professor Franklin Goode is living the good life: his long-awaited ""study"" is almost complete, and he's on the short list for the position of Dean of Humanities at his university. But when the delivery at his door turns out to be his newly-paroled father, Willie, instead of his new desk, things immediately take a comic turn. Willie conspires to win his son the coveted new title and become a permanent member of the household. Will previously estranged father and son grow to become a family?

2. 

   Episode 2 · September 2, 1996 · 30m

   Goode Together

   When Franklin finally realizes his dream of being included in Chancellor Willoughby's weekly card game, Willie seizes the opportunity to do the kind of father/son bonding he regrets not doing when Franklin was a child - he teaches his son to play poker

3. 

   Episode 3 · September 9, 1996 · 30m

   Goode Samaritan

   When Willie takes a job at the TV station where Barbara, his daughter-in-law, is an anchor, it's not long before his expertise as a con man puts him in front of the camera as the stations new consumer advocate. Franklin is thrilled that his father has found a way to use his ""talents"" for good, until the bribes start arriving. To keep the popular new consumer advocate off their backs, businesses will do just about anything - including installing a swimming pool in the Goode's backyard. But Willie's days as an on-air personality may be numbered.

4. 

   Episode 4 · September 16, 1996 · 30m

   Goode Sport

5. 

   Episode 5 · September 23, 1996 · 30m

   Goode Cause

6. 

   Episode 6 · September 30, 1996 · 30m

   Goode Feelings

   When Franklin convinces Willie to attend therapy sessions to help cure his need for running schemes, Willie devises a plan to run a pyramid scheme out of the therapy sessions and everybody joins in. When Franklin finds out about the plan, he is infuriated and tries to break up the sessions, but with surprising results.

7. 

   Episode 7 · October 14, 1996 · 30m

   Goode Hands

8. 

   Episode 8 · October 28, 1996 · 30m

   Goode and Scared

9. 

   Episode 9 · November 4, 1996 · 30m

   Goode and Fired

10. 

    Episode 10 · November 11, 1996 · 30m

    Goode Book

11. 

    Episode 11 · November 18, 1996 · 30m

    Goode Golly, Miss Molly

12. 

    Episode 12 · November 25, 1996 · 30m

    Goode Grades

    As a dodge to keep from getting sent back to prison, and to keep from having to get a job, Willie enrolls into school in his son's Anthropology class. Meanwhile, Bianca hatches a scheme to sell term papers.

13. 

    Episode 13 · December 2, 1996 · 30m

    Goode Sport

14. 

    Episode 14 · January 13, 1997 · 30m

    Goode Lord

15. 

    Episode 15 · January 20, 1997 · 30m

    Goode Stuff

16. 

    Episode 16 · February 3, 1997 · 30m

    Goode Will

17. 

    Episode 17 · February 10, 1997 · 30m

    Goode Lovin'

    Just before Valentine's Day, Willie develops a crush on a colleague of Franklin's, Dr. Pamela Fordham. Bianca (Bianca Lawson, left) and ""Moesha's"" Countess Vaughn (center) try to offer advice, but to no avail. When Franklin fixes the woman up with another academic, a lovesick Willie decides to pick-up his spirits at Mr. Bobo's Girlie Hut. While there, he asks one of the strippers to be his date at Franklin annd Barbara's Valentine's Day party, but the stripper mistakes Willie's invitation for a job offer.

18. 

    Episode 18 · February 17, 1997 · 30m

    The Goode, Bad and the Willie

    Willie's helpers at his restaurant all decide to leave, so Willie finally decides to hire someone. He hires the wise talking Raquel, just as he mistakes a food critic for a bum & throws him out. An old prison buddy, Jimmy the Brain, talks Willie into a scheme to sell hair growth tonic.

19. 

    Episode 19 · February 24, 1997 · 30m

    Goode Daddy

20. 

    Episode 20 · April 28, 1997 · 30m

    Goode Music

    Wild Orchid (Stefanie Ridel, Renee Sandstrom, & Stacy Ferguson) guest as a trio that Willie ""discovers"" when he decides to audition acts to perk up business as Willie's Chili. Tone Loc, appearing as himself, is the record executive Willie hopes will sign the act and propel them all to fame and fortune.

21. 

    Episode 21 · May 5, 1997 · 30m

    Goode Cop, Bad Cop

22. 

    Episode 22 · May 12, 1997 · 30m

    The Only Goode Indian

    Willie devises a plan to bring in extra revenue into his new restaurant by claiming to be an indian decendant, and using reservation status, bring in casino equipment with slots & gambling. Barbara gets bitten by the gambling bug.

23. 

    Episode 23 · May 19, 1997 · 30m

    Goode Angel

    In this final series episode, the bank threatens to foreclose on Willie's Chilli restaurant, so Willie cooks up a scheme to come up with some money so the bank won't foreclose.