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What'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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Season 1

22 episodes

S1 E1 · Raj Returns

Raj and Nadine return to Raj's old house.

S1 E2 · A Horse is Not a Home

An ad offers a house instead of a horse.

S1 E3 · The Houseguest

Dwayne falls for his dentist's wife.

S1 E4 · One Enchanted Evening

The Thomases take in feuding roommates.

S1 E5 · Dueling Menus

Raj tries to impress his mother-in-law.

S1 E6 · Dwayne's Crush

Carolyn feels unloved and tries to leave.

S1 E7 · The New Kid

A 10-year-old orphan is left at the diner.

S1 E8 · The Bully

Raj explains how he landed in jail.

S1 E9 · Dee's Dilemma

A tough gang menaces a party at the diner.

S1 E10 · Aunt Shirley

Raj and Shirley compete for diner profits.

S1 E11 · Raj on the Run

When Dee comes home from college for vacation and then decides to drop out of school in favor of a sales career, older brother Raj starts treating her like a child.

S1 E12 · That Old Gang of Mine

A series of misunderstandings, misadventures and mistaken identities combine to disguise Raj as a woman and sends him fleeing from two FBI agents.

S1 E13 · The Challenge

While taping a commercial, Raj accidentally accepts a wrestling match with the ferocious Mama's Boy Jones after he insulted the wrestler's mother.

S1 E14 · Rags to Riches

When Raj opts for a softball game over attending an art show with Nadine, who strongly objects, the couple begins to think each other selfish and split up.

S1 E15 · Married or Not

The entire gang became characters from The Wizard of Oz when Carolyn is accidentally knocked unconscious.

S1 E16 · The Improbable Dream

When Rerun's new investment manager makes him a wealthy man, his old friends find they are losing him to the fast life.

S1 E17 · Goodbye, Mr. Ripps

When the gang hears that their favorite teacher, and renown practical joker, is retiring, they plan the ultimate farewell party.

S1 E18 · Dee and Dwayne

When Dwayne takes Dee to a rock concert, a romance seems to flare up between them, much to the displeasure of protective brother Raj.

S1 E19 · Nadine's Boss

Raj writes a theater play, and to help him out in launching the project, his friends agree to take on the production's roles, where it appears they really begin to live out their parts with comical results.

S1 E20 · Mr. First Nighter

Romance blossoms for Shirley when the Navy seaman she has been writing to for years comes to town.

S1 E21 · Shirley's Pen Pal

An efficiency expert with the nickname ""Pink-Slip Patty"" gives Nadine and her fellow social workers a case of the jitters -- which eventually affects Raj the same way.

S1 E22 · The Wedding

When the legality of their first wedding is questioned, Raj and Nadine decide to get married all over again.

Season 2

22 episodes

S2 E1 · Nadine's Surprise

While 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.

S2 E2 · Picture Perfect

A 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.

S2 E3 · Shirley's Landlord

Raj 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.

S2 E4 · Raj's Nightmare

Raj 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.

S2 E5 · The Movie Deal

Raj'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.

S2 E6 · Thy Boss's Daughter

Raj makes a spectacle of himself at Dwayne's party when he drinks too much, dances too much and wakes up with a strange woman.

S2 E7 · Shirley's Little Sister

Shirley realizes that the buddy system works both ways when she volunteers to be a big sister to a teenage girl.

S2 E8 · Raj's Big Break

Raj is misled by a psychiatric patient posing as a book publisher.

S2 E9 · Party Animal

Dwayne finds out that business and pleasure don't mix when he dates the daughter of his boss.

S2 E10 · Dwayne's Amiga

Nadine, 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.

S2 E11 · Cabin Fever

In 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.

S2 E12 · Instant Family

Dwayne'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.

S2 E13 · I'll Be Homeless for Christmas

Raj 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.""

S2 E14 · Sorority Sisters

Dwayne falls in love with a nurse from El Salvador who, upon returning to her country, is killed when fighting erupts in her village.

S2 E15 · Mad Money

Dee 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.

S2 E16 · Old Army Daze

Raj convinces himself Nadine is having an affair when he uncovers secret plans for a cruise she has been saving up for to surprise him.

S2 E17 · Taking the Rap

A lovesick pest follows Dee home from college and drives the Thomases crazy with his obnoxious attempts to win her affection.

S2 E18 · Raj on the Double

Raj has a nightmare that he's homeless during Christmas and awakens to realize that it can happen to anyone.

S2 E19 · Opening Day

When ""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.

S2 E20 · The Yard Sale

Raj 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.

S2 E21 · The Housekeeper

When 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.

S2 E22 · Dee's Suitor

Nadine 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.

Season 3

22 episodes

S3 E1 · Ask Al

Shirley eats her words when she takes a job as an undercover advice columnist and inadvertently causes Dwayne and his new girlfriend to break up.

S3 E2 · The Boxer

Raj goes down for the count when Nadine discovers that he has invested in a professional boxer.

S3 E3 · The New Employee

Shirley's new employee Maurice turns the diner into a nighttime teen club to impress a girl.

S3 E4 · The Hat Comes Back

Shirley uses her friendship with an old school friend to obtain an auction item for charity from a visiting singing star.

S3 E5 · Dwayne's Big Step

After being fired from his job and failing at a series of attempts to try a new line of work, Dwayne decides to become his own boss and buys a magic shop.

S3 E6 · Girls' Night Out

Raj and Dwayne literally get caught with their pants down when they try to rescue Dee from a police raid on a male strip club on Dee's 21st birthday.

S3 E7 · The Candidate

When Maurice runs for class president, he risks his friendship with Daryl by becoming a political puppet to a manipulative campaign manager.

S3 E8 · Family Life

With her biological clock ticking, Shirley is desperate to find the perfect man and tries everything to find him.

S3 E9 · Runnin' Scared

A little friendly competition becomes survival of the fittest when Raj and Dwayne enter a 10K run for charity.

S3 E10 · Nadine's Wood-Be Father

Nadine feels like a real dummy when her mother brings home her ventriloquist fiancée and she kicks them out of her house.

S3 E11 · The Pad

Maurice and Daryl enjoy an evening in a swinging bachelor pad with two sisters from UCLA...until the girls' father shows up.

S3 E12 · Teacher's Threat

Maurice gets more than he bargained for when he takes his teacher's daughter out dancing.

S3 E13 · Daddy's Back

Shirley's truck driving father comes to town but is too busy to attend the banquet when Shirley is named ""Business Woman of the Year.""

S3 E14 · I Gotta Be Raj

When a bump on the head causes Dwayne to lose his memory, Nadine loses her mind because Dwayne now thinks he's her husband!

S3 E15 · Run, Shirley, Run

Thanks to Shirley, a councilman straightens up his act when he realizes that he had forgotten why he was elected to office in the first place.

S3 E16 · The Older Woman

Raj tells Dwayne that age is irrelevant until he sees him at a restaurant with his girlfriend's grandmother and jumps to the wrong conclusion.

S3 E17 · Happy Face

The diner is threatened when Shirley decides to deed over her half to a con man.

S3 E18 · The Fabulous Fortunes

Shirley teaches a young boy with ""two left feet"" how to dance.

S3 E19 · Shirley's Debt

Shirley moonlights as a salesperson dressed as a clown in order to pay Raj the money she owes him and ends up winning a trip to Hawaii.

S3 E20 · Man in Motion

Dee falls in love with a stand-up comic in a wheelchair and plans to quit school and go on the road with him.

S3 E21 · Members Only

Nadine sets out to prove her suspicions that the exclusive club Raj is attempting to join discriminates against women, submitting her application and winning acceptance as a ""man"" after being rejected as herself.

S3 E22 · Adventures of Kangaroo Kincaide

A plan to fake a bear attack on Raj while on a camping trip backfires when a real life bear invades the campsite.