Pilot
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1998
Pete has a change of heart about dumping Melissa, but she dumps him when Berg reveals Pete's original plan
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1998
Pete has a change of heart about dumping Melissa, but she dumps him when Berg reveals Pete's original plan
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1998
Before Pete gives a career-defining presentation, he gobbles down a sandwich...and a pitcher of juice that contains Berg's experimental powder.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Mar 24, 1998
Sharon gets a beau, but Pete and Berg plot to "extricate him from her life" because she's never home to do their wash or let them use her TV.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1998
Berg steals a Celtics championship banner for Pete, who's upset that he wasn't chosen to sit with the players during a game---but Berg was.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1998
As an anniversary gift to Pete, Melissa plans to move into his building, but her gesture doesn't match his gift for her---a toaster. Meanwhile, Berg tests a women's lotion.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1998
Pete and Berg run a softball team made up of strong female college players---and one awful pitcher. But Pete, who wants to date her, won't dump her.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Apr 22, 1998
To cure Pete from fear of rebounding, Berg sets him up with a patient who won't be in town for long.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1998
To spend time with a girl he secretly likes, Berg hosts a party for Pete. Pete agrees to the scheme on one condition: Berg must reveal his feelings.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: May 6, 1998
Pete begins dating the "perfect" woman after Berg answers her personal ad on his pal's behalf. But she goes nuts when Pete breaks a date with her to be with Berg.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: May 20, 1998
Pete gets upset when Berg plans to ask out his No. 1 patron: a lady who paints---with her naked body.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: May 26, 1998
In a flashback episode that recalls how Pete and Berg met Sharon, the men vie for her affections, despite their "friendship before females" rule.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jul 15, 1998
Philosophy major Berg lies to make his attorney dad happy and tells him he's a law student---unaware his dad's also lying: he's a sketch artist.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jul 22, 1998
When Pete fights with his landlord over a satellite dish, Berg stays out of it---until one of the landlord's retaliatory moves kills his fish.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1998
Berg's tries to "take down" the No. 1 student in his class, but she mistakes his subversive tactics as a plea for tutoring.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1998
When Sharon tries to quit her job, she's asked to reconsider...while staying at a company condo in Aruba with two friends. But the trio's career commitments jeopardize the trip.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1998
Berg realizes that he once spent the night with Pete's new love and she also may have his name tattooed on her derriere.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1998
Pete and Berg unwittingly buy fake tickets for luxury-box seats at the homecoming game when they try to one-up two former nerds who are now successful.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1998
Pete needs one more course to get his architecture degree, so Berg signs him up for sportscasting---which he winds up loving.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1998
A maniacal Berg impostor dons the med student's lab coat and uses an ax to perform elective surgery on Halloween.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1998
Berg scores Pete a job with Ashley's dad, but Pete risks it all by fooling around with a coworker who has ties to the boss (and an affinity for photocopiers).
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1998
While Pete's blue about the impending nuptials of an old mate, Berg borrows his own ex to try to make Ashley jealous.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1998
Berg gives Ashleya buss and then catches a plane to England after she takes off to Oxford to see her boyfriend; Pete gets a job as a limo driver and lets a lady hire him out for an evening.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1998
Sharon plans an intimate Thanksgiving meal, but winds up hosting a dinner party that includes Pete's grandfather and Ashley's beau.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1998
Just as Pete---with help from a TV host---enables Berg to get over Ashley, she shows up crying and Berg's heart melts. Meanwhile, Sharon learns that Johnny's friend, Shawn, is a woman.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1998
Pete falls for a traffic reporter and then finds out she has a son.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1999
Pete's not pleased after he leaves his girlfriend's son in the hands of Berg, who takes the youngster to the dog track to learn about ratios; and Sharon invites Johnny to move in with her.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1999
Pete feels left out after he helps Michael prepare for a dance, and then the boy chooses his dad as an escort instead of Pete.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1999
Sharon goes for a new job to impress her dad, but during a background check, her alma mater reports she never graduated due to tickets she thought the guys had paid.
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1999
Thinking Johnny's girl friend, Shawn, is after him, Sharon sets her up with Berg---who comes to realize Shawn does have her eye on Johnny.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1999
Berg braves a severe storm to meet a Spanish station's attractive reporter, who's covering the gale---at the end of a pier.
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1999
When Berg chooses Venita over Ashley---who plans to dump her boyfriend for him---she refuses his rejection.
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1999
While Berg steps into the ring as a cut man for a boxer, Ashley, Pete and Sharon fight out their differences. Former boxer Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini appears.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: May 12, 1999
Sharon cares for Johnny's unruly nephews; Berg fears his anatomy professor wants to get physical with Ashley.
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: May 19, 1999
Music group Barenaked Ladies narrates Pete's ill-fated job search; Berg falls apart after Ashley and Sharon bond over his embarrassing secrets.
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: May 26, 1999
Pete realizes his true feelings for Sharon---but refuses to act on them---after Johnny declares his plans to marry her. Meanwhile, Berg learns of Ashley's former marriage.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 22, 1999
Sharon scrambles to avoid answering Johnny's proposal, while Pete heads to Paris to avoid hearing her response. Meanwhile, Berg bristles at the changes Ashley has in store for him and his apartment.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1999
After Pete gives his Parisian fling the boot, Sharon throws caution to the wind and makes a choice about her future with Johnny. Meanwhile, Berg realizes that he's outgrown the pizza place after someone calls him "sir."
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1999
Berg's head is spinning during med-school rotations after the doctor he's assigned to follow puts him through the wringer. Meanwhile, Pete begins to fear that Johnny has it in for him after a series of near-miss tragedies at the hand of his competition for Sharon's heart.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1999
Ashley's ex beats her to the punch by telling Berg the tale of their painful past, while Pete scrambles to land Sharon a job in hopes of saving his own.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 20, 1999
Pete and the gang spend a rainy day in the apartment feuding over a missed football game and Sharon's wedding plans; and Ashley gives Berg the cold shoulder after he makes an offhanded comment about not wanting to "waste the whole day" with her.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1999
A mad scientist switches the gang's brains after they decide to take over his secret laboratory for their Halloween haunted house. But when Johnny discovers the dastardly deed, will he be able to match the right brain with the wrong body?
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1999
The guys try to oust Ashley from the apartment after they realize she's secretly moved in; and Sharon and Johnny try to set a wedding date, but fear they may be rushing into things when the minister quizzes them on their relationship.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1999
Berg and Ashley's romance hits a roadblock after they take a trip to see his pushy parents. Meanwhile, Pete goes too far when he tries to cure Sharon and Johnny's bedroom blues.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1999
A homeless man joins the gang for Thanksgiving and feeds them a steady diet of lies that turn the friends against each other. But by the time the truth comes out, Ashley has found a new place to live and Irene is pretty trigger happy.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1999
Berg is forced to break the bad news when he finds that Pete's grumpy grandpa is suffering from more than a nasty mood. Meanwhile, Johnny has a hard time adjusting to living with Sharon and Ashley in the same apartment.
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 8, 1999
As Johnny tries to talk Sharon into moving to the basement studio, Ashley and Berg duke it out over her hunky new roomie. Meanwhile, Pete's stalker keeps him guessing when she snatches a package meant for him.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 15, 1999
Robert Goulet stops by Ashley's boffo New Year's Eve party, where the Broadway king holds court with Pete's unstable date. Meanwhile, in the basement, Johnny puts Sharon off with his Goulet fixation as they prepare to greet the new millennium.
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2000
A musical trio narrates the tale of Sharon and Ashley's night of drunken bonding that lands Ash in Sharon's wedding party. Meanwhile, Pete fails to clean up with a woman he meets at a laundromat bar.
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 19, 2000
Sharon tries to reunite Berg and Ashley with the help of video monitors wired to watch the tenants in the building. But it looks like they may not be able to use the cool new tool to save Pete from Irene and her crazy scheme to enshrine him.
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2000
Sharon stoops to an all-time low when she eyes her dream dress at a wedding-gown sale. Meanwhile, Ashley tries to fix her own sink after insulting Johnny for his know-how in the "simpler" things in life.
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Feb 9, 2000
When Ashley starts dating Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra, Berg sets out to show up the guy at Sharon's charity bachelor auction. Meanwhile, Irene invests more than Pete's worth to snatch him off the auction block.
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Feb 16, 2000
Berg tries to win back his standing at work after the entire staff is felled by a case of food poisoning. Meanwhile, Pete scores himself a new job on the fire department.
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Mar 8, 2000
A series of coincidences helps Berg regain his med-student mojo, but robs Pete of his golf-tournament dreams and reunites Irene with her felonious father. Meanwhile, Sharon has a few choice words about Johnny's homespun wedding vows.
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Mar 22, 2000
Johnny does some renovations and knocks out the power. Berg lets the apartment to a doctor who uses it for a quickie and it gets a reputation as a party place. Pete leaves his make-up samples at the station and ends up a make-up artist.
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Mar 29, 2000
The guys bond over war stories about the women in their lives, including Pete's tale of a feisty firefighter; and Berg's week of living dangerously with a sexy thrill-seeker.
Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Apr 5, 2000
Sharon and the guys make a date to hang out together---until Johnny ditches his bachelor party for his bride-to-be.
Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Apr 12, 2000
Pete gets all hot and bothered when Berg starts dating Marti, his fiery nemesis from the station house. Meanwhile, Sharon has a cow when Johnny agrees to be a pregnant friend's lamaze partner.
Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Apr 19, 2000
The war between Pete and Berg heats up when Marti picks her man; Johnny and Sharon's engagement falls apart when her bossiness sends him packing.
Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: Apr 26, 2000
Johnny and Sharon's premarital squabbles come to a screeching halt when Irene throws them her version of a wedding. Elsewhere, Pete and Berg's battle ends with one of them leaving town and the other doing something far more disturbing.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Oct 6, 2000
Berg and Irene race to bury any proof of their fling, while Johnny gives Sharon a post-wedding shock and Pete realizes that, for a firefighter, Marti is a cold, cold girlfriend.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Oct 13, 2000
Berg lands in a very tight spot when Irene takes their little affair a tad too far; Sharon refuses to get dirty with Johnny until he cleans up the new brownstone; and Ash begins to fall apart after her breakup with Nomar.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 20, 2000
Boston turns against Ashley after Pete leaks her link to Nomar's rumored exit from the Red Sox; Berg begs Johnny to keep his secret fling with Irene under wraps when Sharon comes sniffing for the scoop.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Oct 27, 2000
Irene's deal with the Devil gets Pete a spare head, while Berg falls apart (literally) and Sharon one-ups Johnny in the "man" department. But when they try to reverse the curse, things go from bad to worse. And then to "The Twilight Zone."
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Nov 3, 2000
Germ feeds Sharon a batch of bad advice about how to get Johnny to fix the home in a more timely manner. Meanwhile, Pete has Marti burning mad when he bugs her about their romance during a rescue.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2000
In a dialogue-free show, a pregnant woman stalks Ash, a mystery lad stuns Pete and Johnny spoils Berg's shower time. Meanwhile (and also silently), Sharon seeks the stray dog who swallowed her wedding ring.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2000
Irene plots to get Pete back when she hears that he and Marti have split. The boys decide to go clubbing but it doesn't go well. Sharon, chasing Johnny, goes with Ashley to the night club and they become a hit with their dancing.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Nov 24, 2000
Berg decides to keep hiding his secret fling with Irene after she blows him off for a last-minute dinner date with Pete. And at the next table over, Johnny blows his lid because Sharon has been spending too much time with Ashley.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2000
Ashley's leaky plumbing has Berg in search of sleep, Pete in hot water with Irene, and Johnny in talks with Sharon to maybe have a baby.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Dec 15, 2000
The guys try to save someone's---anyone's---life after Johnny's tape of Sharon rescuing a choking man turns her into a local hero. Meanwhile, Ash finds some kind of salvation after she lands in jail for fighting with a cop at a sobriety checkpoint.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2001
Johnny and Sharon are overjoyed when their fire trap of a house goes up in flames, until Pete gets a hot tip that the place was torched. Meanwhile, Berg has a hard time watching his newly single mom have some truly single fun with Ashley.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Jan 12, 2001
Pete must face his feelings for Berg's mom after her fling with his fire captain goes up in flames. Meanwhile, a hot stock tip from Ashley has Johnny burning through his savings to strike it rich.
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Jan 19, 2001
Berg's fling with Irene and Pete's secret thing with Susan all come out during a party to honor one of their lusty ladies. Meanwhile, Johnny hides his money matters from Sharon.
Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Feb 2, 2001
Pete faces the music for his fling with Berg's mom, while Sharon's plan to go to law school has Johnny singing the low-budget blues.
Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Feb 9, 2001
A mishap has Berg racing Pete to the hospital to have his finger reattached---if they can get there without losing the damaged digit. Meanwhile, Sharon scores a spot in a shady law office; and Ashley uses Johnny for a psych experiment and comes up with some confusing conclusions.
Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Feb 16, 2001
Johnny's so fired up over his birthday present ---he gets to be an honorary fireman for a day---that he signs up for their training program. Also, around the hospital, it seems as though chivalry is dead...and Berg's the one who killed it.
Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Feb 23, 2001
Fate catches Berg unaware when he runs into a young woman who's not like the girl he knew in high school. Meanwhile, Sharon enlists Johnny to escort her to a business affair, and Ashley and Pete find themselves together---and enjoying each other's company.
Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Mar 9, 2001
A client's philandering hubby has Sharon fearing for her own man's fidelity; Berg faces temptation at the hands of a comic-book artist who has fond memories of him from high school.
Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: May 2, 2001
Irene sinks Berg's attempt to win her back by attending his work party on a yacht, where her dress gets more attention than he does. Meanwhile, Ashley ropes Pete into being her date in hopes of scoring a major fellowship she thinks Berg is going after.
Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: May 9, 2001
A near death experience with a runaway fire truck has Pete reevaluating his life---and his loopy love affair with Ashley. Meanwhile, Berg seeks out an old flame to help get over Irene, but finds that she's even crazier than his beloved "cat lady."
Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: May 16, 2001
Pete and Ashley are finally together and they go out on a date together. Berg is still after Irene but Roger is in opposition. Sharon is worried that she and Johnny are no longer doing things together.
Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: May 16, 2001
The ladies in the building all get unexpected health news.