Ellen: Ellen's Improvement

Ellen: Ellen's Improvement
ABC
January 4, 1995
Sitcom
DVD
B

Tracy Newman and Jonathan Stark's first of eleven stories for the series took a situation that we've seen on other sitcoms, e.g. Three's Company, in a different direction than I expected.  Ellen's plan to self-educate leads her to date a British UCLA professor, but he ends up embracing the world of pop culture, especially television.  (He even takes her to a taping of Full House.)  Meanwhile Joe and Stephanie (Kate Hodge)'s whirlwind romance continues, with her moving in after two weeks, and him moving out (and into the bookstore) soon after that.

Peter Kim, who was Po on M*A*S*H, appears here with his wife, named, yes, Kim Kim.