All-American Girl - Season 1

First aired: 9/14/1994 19 episodes

Episodes

1. Mom, Dad, This is Kyle

Aired: 9/14/1994

Margaret's mother disapproves of her new non-Korean boyfriend Kyle, prompting a furious Margaret to announce that they are going to move in together.

2. Submission: Impossible

Aired: 9/21/1994

Margaret dates a Korean who wants her to be a traditional Korean woman.

3. Who's the Boss?

Aired: 9/28/1994

Ruthie tries to take advantage of new manager Margaret; meanwhile, Margaret's grandmother becomes convinced that the family's run of back luck is due to bad feng shui in the house.

4. Yung At Heart

Aired: 10/5/1994

Grandma disappears at the mall, only to return home with a Korean businessman who begins to date her, then propos es. Grandma accepts, then must face moving away from her family to join his family in Florida. Meanwhile, a reluctant Casey learns the bookselling business for a school project.

5. Redesigning Women

Aired: 10/12/1994

Stuart's demure fiancÃ©e breaks the engagement after Margaret throws her a bachelorette party.

6. Booktopus

Aired: 10/19/1994

A book chain makes an attractive offer to buy out the Kims' shop; when the family decides to refuse, the chain opens a store across the street.

7. Mommie Nearest

Aired: 10/26/1994

When Margaret needs a reliable temp to work with her at the cosmetics counter, Ruthie and Gloria recruit her mother.

8. Take My Family, Please

Aired: 11/2/1994

Margaret does a standup routine about her family in a karaoke bar -- unaware that her parents are in the audience.

9. Exile On Market Street

Aired: 11/16/1994

Margaret has plenty of time to ponder her future when she's jailed the night before she's scheduled to take a law school entrance exam.

10. Ratting On Ruthie

Aired: 11/23/1994

Some expensive perfume vanishes while Ruthie is away from the counter she's supposed to be watching, and Margaret must decide what to tell management -- and she's aghast when for the first time in her life her mother refuses to tell her what to do.

11. Educating Margaret

Aired: 11/30/1994

Margaret dates a British film professor who, despite his passionate work, turns out to be a real bore.

12. Loveless in San Francisco

Aired: 12/7/1994

Margaret is horrified to find she is going through a ""dating slump"" when she can't attract a man; so Stuart suggests that she volunteer for work at his hospital in order to meet guys.

13. Malpractice Makes Perfect

Aired: 12/14/1994

Her brother's misfortune pleases Margaret -- until he decides to quit medicine and she must help him regain his perspective.

14. The Apartment

Aired: 1/11/1995

Hoping to find more privacy away from home, Margaret moves into an apartment with Ruthie and Gloria -- then discovers that Gloria likes to spend her time at home nude.

15. Notes from the Underground

Aired: 1/18/1995

Handyman Cody fixes himself up with Margaret after he works on her new basement living quarters, but her family constantly interrupts their encounters. Meanwhile, Grandmother gets a viewer-tracking device (""I get paid to watch TV? God bless America!"") but finds the responsibility too much for her.

16. Venus de Margaret

Aired: 1/25/1995

Margaret poses in the nude for her sculptor ex-boyfriend Leon; then chills on the idea when the statue is unveiled in front of her family.

17. A Night at the Oprah

Aired: 2/14/1995

Oprah Winfrey attempts to persuade Margaret to stay in college after she announces on live TV that she's dropping out of school to manage a rock band.

18. Pulp Sitcom

Aired: 2/22/1995

Margaret is plunged into a world of intrigue when her dad sets her up with a video distributor who's living a secret criminal life.

19. Young Americans

Aired: 3/15/1995

Margaret awaits a call from a potential employer, but her career aspirations are put on hold when she discovers that her new roommates haven't paid the phone bill.