Parker Lewis: Season 3

Summer has arrived and Parker is ready for it. With a new hairstyle he checks off Step 1 of his 3-step plan towards maximum coolness... That is until his prank (Step 2) winds up with the wrong person taking the blame for the crime. This is when the character Brad Penny is introduced, as he takes the heat for the prank gone bad. Now Parker's summer might not be as bright as he planned, with the fear of Brad looming as he seeks vengeance.

In a strange turn of events, Brad Penny starts to treat Parker as a friend. Knowing that something must be lurking below the surface, Parker falls back in with his friends for support. Like a plague, the once-menacing Brad Penny is one step ahead and has befriended seemingly everybody in town. Now Parker faces the possibility that he's going crazy as everyone is under Brad's spell. For once Parker isn't the cool and collected guy from years past as paranoia haunts him throughout the episode.

Whenever Shelly can exploit weakness in Parker, she does. Being an older, buff, and bad boy, Brad Penny is also the sworn enemy of Parker Lewis. Consequently, Shelly makes a goal of getting a kiss from him against Parker's wishes. As an added bonus, she knows that Parker is powerless against Brad with his track record of 0-2 against him. In other love news, Coach Kohler steps up his game of trying to win Grace Musso's heart. Either Valentine's Day came early this year or a few people will wind up crushed.

Annie is out of town, so Parker must resist Mikey's idea to be with a pretty college girl until she's back. Michael Dorn (Worf on "Star Trek") cameos as a skeptic who questions whether Jerry's replica of the U.S.S. Enterprise is exact.

Love is definitely in the air and everyone wants a piece. Musso's found a suave piano player, Mikey's found a good looker but has yet to talk to her, and Kubiac thinks he found a match for Kohler. However, things aren't what they seem, and everyone who thinks they've found love learns that "Love is Hell."

Whenever girls are involved with the buds, it's either with Parker or with Mikey. Now when both guys are going on a double date Jerry is completely left behind. Wanting to break out and do something different before summer is over, Jerry bumps into Brad Penny and his group. Jerry proceeds to experience life from a different vantage point in Brad's group instead of with Mikey and Parker. Now Jerry gets to see what being a bad boy is all about.

Annie sees something in Kube that no one else has seen before. She notices that the gentle giant is really good with kids and even goes so far as to have him help her watch over the daycare kids. Parker watches his Annie-time get gobbled up with busy schedules until Larry is spending more time with Annie than he is. Parker grows paranoid and Larry starts to think that maybe he'd be a better match for Annie than Parker.

In the diner things start slipping when Kohler finds love and puts his uptight friend in charge of managing the diner. Now Mikey is on edge with the no-holds manager who runs things by the book. Meanwhile, Parker must intervene when Hank jumps into marrying a girl he's just met. All the while Grace seeks a chance to finally rid herself of Hank by making sure Hank and Carol's marriage goes off without a hitch.

The very real threat to small-business owners is when a mega-corporation takes up shop and shuts down their competition. Mondo Video's existence is potentially in ruin as "Powder Keg Video" has opened up one of their franchises in Santo Domingo. Mr. Lewis finds that no matter what he does, Powder Keg is slowly running him out of business. He is posed with the option of shutting down Mondo Video and managing the new Powder Keg Video, but can he swallow his pride and work as a corporate slave?

Coach Hank Kohler's back-story has until now been a mystery. Out of the blue Hank's dad appears and gives him his share of inheritance from his mother's death. Kohler is his own worst enemy and, as his dad anticipated, spends the money in the blink of an eye as he buys Atlas Diner. Knowing nothing about running a restaurant, he's bitten off more than he can chew (no pun intended) as he runs the restaurant into the ground. The only person who can get through to him is his mother and as her estate allowed him to buy the restaurant, it looks like Hank's belittling father was right and Hank is about to lose it all.

Parker's at the age when he deals with the responsibility of purchasing his first car. Against his dad's wishes for a safe and reliable Volvo, Parker decides on a convertible sports car instead. Parker's dad feels as if he's losing his son as he grows older and more independent, and this decision weighs heavily on both of them.

The constant search Grace Musso has been on to find her significant other might have come to an end. Parker's single Uncle Bill has come across Ms. Musso and fallen in love. Though finding Ms. Musso love with Bill entails special treatment from Musso, the threat of Grace becoming their aunt is a hard pill to swallow. Parker and Shelly need to decide whether they should intervene and break the two up or ride the wave of fringe benefits.

Brad Penny joins the same class that Parker's in to impress a girl he likes. Soon, Brad draws all of the attention away from Parker, who becomes jealous. Kohler hires Jerry to work at his diner.

Annie starts to avoid Parker. Fearing that this is a lead-up to her breaking up with him, he asks his mom for relationship advice.

Mikey's about to flunk Creative Writing, so his friends pitch in with story ideas for his assignment, including plot outlines from season 1 and 2 episodes of this show, a "Beverly Hills 90210" parody, and a tribute to Stephen J. Cannell.

Mikey has a new girlfriend--the same girl who once broke Parker's heart. Jerry helps Kohler make a commercial for the diner, but Kohler hates all of Jerry's ideas.

Grace meets her old rich flame, who's been through a divorce. They hook up again and get married. Then he suddenly dies.

In this spoof of Carrie set on the junior prom night, Parker must keep an eye on his little sister during the prom, but he fails.

Parker and Mikey want to help Jerry become a man, so they take him to a strip club. The two are taken away in a police raid and Jerry is left there alone. Grace is afraid of spiders and asks Kohler for help.

Jerry was always at the top of his class, receiving A+ on each and every test, so he gets to skip a year and join a senior class. However, he then gets a B+ and has a nervous breakdown. Meanwhile, Grace dreams about "The Scarlet Letter."

Kube and Kohler's friendship becomes rocky when a movie night goes wrong and Kohler realizes that Kube is having trouble with his own peers because of him. Meanwhile, Jerry tries to teach Grace how to use a computer.

A bottle episode and clip show. The Atlas Diner is closing down, so all of the show's regulars are there to mark this end of an era. Each one plays his or her favorite (stock) tune on the diner's jukebox and reminisces.