The series wrapped up with a final episode in which Jack finally made enough money to send Tiffany to Harvard University. The final season focused more on Tiffany, with her rival Barbara Caufield ( Wendy Benson) joining the cast. Nevertheless, Hodge decided to leave the show, and several episodes after Jennie's bizarre reappearance, she abandoned her family for a lesbian lover and was never seen again. The character was brought back to life in a deliberately bizarre sequence in which a network executive wandered onto the set and announced that she was no longer dead. In the fourth season, producers tried to kill off Jennie's increasingly unnecessary character and return her as a ghost negative audience reaction made them quickly reverse this action. Stories began focusing more on Tiffany and Ryan's escapades at high school, and later community college. By the show's third season, Tiffany had become a breakout character, and Cox became the de facto co-star of the show along with Pierson. However, the series soon turned its focus to Jack, a schizophrenic who had been kicked out of the house in the pilot episode and was living in an apartment with his only "friend": his son's talking toy rabbit, Mr. ![]() The series was initially written as a starring vehicle for Hodge, whose character Jennie was the focus of the first few episodes. In the first two seasons, storylines featured Jennie's pill-popping mother Maureen Slattery ( Joyce Van Patten). The series follows the Malloy family of Los Angeles, California: father Jack ( Geoff Pierson) mother Jennie ( Stephanie Hodge) dim-witted eldest son Ryan ( Kevin Connolly) daughter Tiffany ( Nikki Cox) and "forgotten" son Ross ( Justin Berfield). 5 Syndication and international airings.
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