Square Pegs: Hardly Working

Square Pegs: Hardly Working
CBS
December 13, 1982
Sitcom
DVD
B-

This Borowitz & Hirsch story just has the basic cast of eight and much of it is set at the Grease, where Jennifer takes a job as a waitress and hopes that no one will find out.  (Yes. there's a semi-in-joke about the Waitresses.)  Jennifer's father is having a temporary setback with his car lot (he was formerly the richest man in town, suggesting the town isn't that large), and soon Muffy is putting her on the level of Rosarita, the Guatemalan little girl whose sponsorship Muffy has mentioned in many previous episodes.  Reaganomics and "trickling down" are mentioned, and I did laugh out loud in a kind of "ouch" way when Florence Henderson was referred to as a has-been.  Note that Lauren offers to go out with Marshall if he'll forget the telethon, but he'd rather do the telethon.  (So much for being in love.)