Designing Women
"Designed to keep you laughing!"
Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.
Season 4 Episodes
E1
Mary Jo uses the mansion she's decorating to entertain, and Anthony suffers when his health insurance lapses and Suzanne…
E2
A terminally-ill high school classmate's last wish is to spend one night with the girl of his dreams -- Julia. The catch…
E3
While preparing for Charlene's baby shower, the Sugarbakers women are surprised by a visit from the Director of Pageants…
E4
The Sugerbaker women and their mates take a canoe trip in the Georgia backwoods -- which turns into a nightmare when the…
E5
Attempting to prove himself when Mary Jo hires him and some of his ex-convict friends to finish an incomplete remodeling…
E6
While she is helping the Sugarbakers women choreograph a Supremes lip-synch routine, Charlene's favorite cousin inadvert…
E7
The Sugarbaker women testify for Bernice when her niece Phyllis attempts to have her declared legally incompetent becaus…
While posing for a gag photo at the governor's mansion, Julia gets her head stuck in the banister just before the annual…
Julia and Suzanne's plans go awry when they travel to Japan to visit their mother: after discovering that she has gone t…
Desperately single Mary Jo, worried that her busy schedule will condemn her to a life alone, accepts coaching from Suzan…
Fat as a feminist issue surfaces when Suzanne endures cruel jokes about her weight at her high-school reunion; Anthony e…
Mary Jo takes a second job at a fast food place when Ted's child support payment is late.
Suzanne and Mary Jo rush Charlene to the hospital when she goes into labor on New Year's Eve and conceives a desire to d…
Suzanne and Mary Jo rush Charlene to the hospital when she goes into labor on New Year's Eve and conceives a desire to d…
The ladies are hired by wealthy stockbroker Ancel Pollard to decorate a house for a client's wife -- and a condo for his…
The fur flies at a fashion show, where Suzanne's after-dinner mink causes a riot among animal-rights activists. Meanwhil…
Julia and Suzanne negotiate for a new delivery van and drive a hard bargain with an overbearing salesman (Ross).
Hired for a temporary job at Sugarbakers, Anthony's needy friend Vanessa learns the tricks of the trade from Suzanne, th…
Julia is not pleased to learn that Payne is graduating early in order to marry his pregnant girlfriend. Upset at becomin…
A bizarre collection of characters is trapped inside Sugarbakers by a tornado warning, including hillbilly Daddy Jones w…
A redecorating job for a sports account is right down Sugarbakers' alley when it pits the women against a macho, over-co…
Julia intervenes when Bill's grief over the loss of his first wife threatens his relationship with Charlene -- and she b…
A lonely Suzanne digs through her old pageant connections for a best girlfriend, not realizing that her friend's "coming…
When her maid Consuela is threatened with deportation, Suzanne puts Anthony in a dress and pays him to impersonate the t…
When Mary Jo attends church with Julia and Suzanne, she ends up dating Gene Chapman, the minister, but feeling guilty ab…
An hour-long clip show of highlights from the previous seasons, including: razor-tongued Julia standing up for Suzanne a…
An extremely anxious Anthony makes it to his college graduation despite a series of mishaps and his nervousness about hi…
At a plush spa, the sparse diet, vigorous exercise program and thermal mud baths bring out the worst in Suzanne -- espec…
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